High-Tech and Deep-Tech Ventures
Accelerated

Become part of our Venture Accelerator and a unique platform for the exchange
and networking between startups, industry, investors and science

The venture accelerator for high-tech and deep-tech startups as well as startup projects from science with a focus on:

  • New Materials
  • Nanotechnologies
  • Microsystems Technology
  • Nano and Microelectronics
  • Optical technology
  • Quantum Technologies
  • Industrial Technologies
  • Clean Technologies
  • Health Technologies

Purpose

High-tech start-ups face very special challenges and at the same time play a key role in the sustainable development of the NRW economic region and entire industries. We help founders on the journey to the innovations of the future in capital-intensive and highly complex high- and deep-tech fields.

The three pillars for the success of early-stage technology developments

HIGH-TECH.NRW is a venture platform and offers a customized 12-week accelerator program for high-tech and deep-tech startups. The program ensures networking with investors, industry and politics as well as active further development from a technology to a sustainable business model.

Validation of the business case

Technologies are not an end in themselves. They are designed to help us solve problems and make our lives easier. Therefore, the identification of a resilient business concept is particularly important.

Investment & Technology Readiness

In addition to the actual application of the technologies, factors relevant to risk management play a decisive role in the future due diligence of investors and partners.

Positioning &
Scaling

Especially in highly complex developments, the right positioning and communication is the foundation for technological and entrepreneurial success.

Network Effects for Rhine-Ruhr Area

Startups as well as entrepreneurial spirit in key industrial technologies are the basis for a strong, climate-friendly, and resource-efficient industry and thus a central and strategic factor for our innovation and business location.

Wir suchen die besten High-Tech und Deep-Tech Teams aus NRW

Das Programm wird individuell auf die Bedürfnisse der GründerInnen zugeschnitten:
Wir coachen und vernetzen für eine starke Sichtbarkeit und helfen so bei der Suche nach ersten Kunden und Investoren.

Besonders Teams mit folgenden Eigenschaften sind gefragt:

  • Hardware-basierte Geschäftsideen in den oben genannten Bereichen
  • Hochtechnologische Gründungen mit disruptiven Potenzialen
  • Technologien mit starken B2B-Verticals und/oder positiven SDG-Effekten

Female Founder Teams sind höchst willkommen!

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Keine Equity. Keine Gebühr. Keine Anwesenheit vor Ort erforderlich. Nur die richtigen Kontakte zur richtigen Zeit.

Das sagen Start-ups über HIGH-TECH.NRW

Netzwerkpartner in Wirtschaft und Industrie

HIGH-TECH.NRW vernetzt technologie- und branchenübergreifend mittelständische Unternehmen, Hidden Champions und spezialisierte Technologieunternehmen mit Start-ups und Innovationstreibern.

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and technological future!