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HubSpotQontoJYSKDie TechnikerGründerFinanzKölnBusinessinterstuhlWifö DüsseldorfBESTGRUPPEHubSpotWhether your team wants to adopt AI, find the right startup, sponsor an event or become a partner of the largest startup hub in NRW: with us you have one point of contact for everything – backed by an ecosystem of 1,500+ startups, AI experts and 250+ events a year.
QontoJYSKDie TechnikerGründerFinanzKölnBusinessinterstuhlWifö DüsseldorfBESTGRUPPEHubSpotQontoJYSKDie TechnikerGründerFinanzKölnBusinessinterstuhlWifö DüsseldorfBESTGRUPPEHubSpotTwo equal paths to us: concrete products with a clear outcome – or a lasting partnership within NRW’s largest startup ecosystem. Many of our clients combine both.
Break down reservations, experience hands-on demos, identify and prioritize your own use cases. Prepared with a kick-off & pre-survey, followed up with clear next steps.
To the AI Experience Day →A systematic search across the entire market, validated by 13 years of hub and accelerator experience – for venture clienting, M&A or technology partners. From a scored shortlist to the first qualified conversation.
To Startup Scouting →Our core business for over a decade: hundreds of companies have a lasting presence at STARTPLATZ – with visibility among 1,500+ startups, access to dealflow and presence at 250+ events a year.
Discover partnerships & sponsoring →Visibility & connections in NRW’s largest startup community.
NRW’s biggest pitch stage – including a jury seat in the final.
Direct access to dealflow – across three partner tiers.
Your own challenge at the STARTPLATZ AI Hackathons – prototypes & talent included.
Premium placement at NRW’s liveliest startup & AI events.
Not a product, not an add-on, but our promise: whether AI Experience Day, scouting, partnership or sponsoring – as a client you get lasting access to our network. Need expertise beyond our own offering? We connect you with vetted experts and partners.
How the program works →No months-long consulting mandate, no slide battles: we open up a network grown over more than 13 years – and turn it into concrete, bookable formats.
Our recommendations don’t come from databases, but from an active network: 1,500+ funded startups, 10 new AI startups per accelerator batch, daily contact with the scene.
With our state-funded AI accelerator and the STARTPLATZ AI Hub we work every day with the tools, startups and experts others only talk about – and bring exactly that into your company.
Every format is a beginning, not an end: through the Trusted Advisor Program we remain your line into the ecosystem – from the first AI experience to a long-term innovation partnership.
Since 2012, STARTPLATZ has connected founders, companies and investors — with locations in Cologne’s Mediapark and Düsseldorf’s Medienhafen, right where NRW works. What began as a coworking space is today NRW’s largest startup ecosystem — and, with the STARTPLATZ AI Hub, is becoming the state’s AI hub and meeting point.
Since 2012, the first address for founders in NRW: coworking and offices, accelerator programs, an investor and mentor network — over 1,500 startups have grown up here.
With the STARTPLATZ AI Hub, the state-funded AI accelerator, AI hackathons, AI meetups and the STARTPLATZ AI Academy we are becoming NRW’s AI location and meeting point.
250+ events a year — from Rheinland Pitch, Germany’s largest pitch stage, to the Female Founders Summit. This is where the people who move NRW’s innovation scene meet.
Two locations in the heart of the ecosystem — and infrastructure you can use directly.
Professional meeting and conference rooms for business appointments, workshops and presentations.
Private offices for teams and project units of any size — in Cologne’s Mediapark or Düsseldorf’s Medienhafen.
Flexible workspaces for your teams — in the middle of the startup atmosphere, with the ecosystem right outside the door.
Hands-on AI training for your team — from fundamentals to role-specific programs from the STARTPLATZ AI Academy.
Tell us what you have in mind – and we’ll tell you honestly which format fits. No obligation, and as equals.