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  • Hamburg-Kredit (IFB) - Gründung und Nachfolge

    If you want to become self-employed in Hamburg, set up a company or take over a business, you have the best prerequisites with our support.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Public
    • monetary
  • Hamburg-Kredit (IFB) - Wachstum

    To enable companies in Hamburg to achieve healthy growth, we grant loans for long-term investments and working capital financing on favourable terms.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Public
    • monetary
  • Hamburg-Kredit Mikro (IFB)

    With the Hamburg-Kredit Mikro programme, IFB Hamburg, in advisory cooperation with other partners, promotes a loan for investments and working capital for small companies, the self-employed and members of the liberal professions. The aim is to support eligible companies by quickly providing loan funds at attractive subsidised interest rates, thereby facilitating investment and working capital financing for Hamburg as a business location.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Public
    • monetary
  • Incubators, Accelerators & Company Builder

    Hamburg Prototype Funding

    Provided by: Gamecity Hamburg
    Funding of up to €120,000 for the development of a prototype in digital game development.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Non-monetary
  • Incubators, Accelerators & Company Builder

    Hanse Ventures

    Provide close support through joint founding and mentoring from the start of the idea, to development, through operational implementation, to external and own investments.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Hybrid
  • Incubators, Accelerators & Company Builder

    Haspa Next

    Provided by: Haspa Next GmbH
    The innovation lab of the HASPA group develops new digital products and services with a regional focus beyond the banking business.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Non-monetary
  • Startup Consultancy

    GründungsService - HAW Hamburg

    HAW Hamburg's startup service helps those interested in starting a business by offering free startup advice, workshops and bookable co-working spaces.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Non-monetary
  • Incubators, Accelerators & Company Builder

    Health Innovation Port (HIP)

    As a meeting point for the health industry and health startups, the HIP bundles competencies and provides services such as coaching and infrastructure.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Non-monetary
  • Startup Consultancy

    hei.scheckheft

    Together with hei., the City of Hamburg offers the hei.scheckheft – a special seminar programme which is supported by a EUR 500 grant in the form of vouchers.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Hybrid
  • Incubators, Accelerators & Company Builder

    High Tech Gründerfonds

    High Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a venture capital and seed investor for innovative technologies and business models. It supports founders whose high tech ideas can revolutionise entire industries and improve people's lives.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • monetary
  • Incubators, Accelerators & Company Builder

    Holistic Impact Incubator

    Provided by: Startup Port
    The four-month incubator program is designed for impact business ideas that add value to society. Experts accompany the program through workshops and mentoring.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Non-monetary
  • Startup Consultancy

    Idea consultation for startups

    We offer startup companies the opportunity to clarify questions on intellectual property, such as questions regaring trademarks, designs or patents.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Non-monetary
  • Incubators, Accelerators & Company Builder

    Ideenwerkstatt Handwerk

    In the Ideenwerkstatt of the Hamburg Chamber of Crafts, structured contacts between startups, craft businesses, universities and other innovative partners are mediated in order to then work together in innovation teams professionally accompanied on new products and services: from prototypes to functioning business models.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Non-monetary
  • Startup Consultancy

    Free initial consultation by Hamburg patent attorneys

    The IPC Innovation and Patent Centre of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce organises the free and confidential initial consultation together with patent attorney firms in Hamburg. Prior registration is required under ipc@hk24.de! The consultations take place on Thursday afternoons.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Non-monetary
  • InnoFinTech

    With InnoFinTech, we support Hamburg startups from the FinTech and InsurTech sectors as well as related segments (e.g. LegalTech and PropTech) with grants in order to strengthen the local startup scene and Hamburg as a financial centre and contribute to the development of promising companies.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Public
    • monetary
  • InnoFounder

    With the InnoFounder funding programme, we support ambitious founders and startup teams in the pre-startup and startup phase with a lump-sum personal grant to finance living expenses and costs associated with the startup project. The programme supports innovative startups from all sectors.

    Provider Types & Support Types

    • Public
    • monetary

* Michel Clement und Sarah Klaubauf (2021): Die Förderlandschaft für Startups in der Metropolregion Hamburg. Research Report des Management Transfer Labs der Universität Hamburg. https://www.bwl.uni-hamburg.de/transfer/mtl.html