Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Project Study
📌 Key facts
Contents
- 💡 Background
- 🦾Who We Are
- 🎯 Goals
- 🧠 Topics of Interest
- 🎓 Profile
- 📚 Further Reading
- 📄 Requirements to any Work
- 📬 How to Apply
💡 Background
London, Paris, Berlin - and Munich. Anyone who talks about the European startup landscape can no longer ignore the Bavarian capital. Munich's startup scene is flourishing and a large ecosystem has formed. Numerous Investors (VCs, CVCs and Business Angels) are an important part of this ecosystem. So are the various Accelerators and Incubators. But which of these institutions are the top players in their field? Which ones have the best track record? These questions should be dealt with in your thesis, in detail you should determine the top ten institutions in their respective fields based on self-generated criteria.
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership, and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies, and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals
- Do extensive desk and internet research analyzing Munich's startup landscape
- Define criteria to measure the success of the different players
- Classify the protagonists according to their activities and approaches
- Create an outline with the 10 best players from the areas of VC / CVC / Business Angels / Accelerators and Incubators
- Provide a brief overview for each of the top players (USP, affiliated startups, size, contact, ...)
- Visualize your results: Create a map of Munich on which the top players are marked
- You could further display your results in a mind map / organizational chart / Treemap (showing the market shares) / ...
- You might also determine best practices in each field
🧠 Topics of Interest
- Munichs's startup ecosystem
- Venture Capital
- Characteristics and best practices of leading enterprises
- Entrepreneurial activities and innovations
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for entrepreneurship / accelerators / incubators / venture capital
- Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
- Passionate to learn more about the future and do research with impact
📚 Further Reading
Die 9 wichtigsten VC's in München
München und Berlin ziehen die meisten der Investition im Venture Capital Bereich in Deutschland an. Das ist kein Zufall: nach dem globalen Talent-Wettbewerbsfähigkeitsindex (Global Talent Competitiveness Index, auch GTCI) bietet München die besten Voraussetzungen für Startups. Und Startups ziehen auch Venture Capital Investoren an.
medium.com
Technologie: Silicon Valley an der Isar: Wie München Start-ups und Tech-Giganten anzieht
Apple und Google investieren Millionen, Start-ups breiten sich aus: München wird immer mehr zur Deeptech-Metropole. Was funktioniert hier, was woanders nicht klappt? München Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv oder München? Vor dieser Frage stand Tim Cook. Wo sollte der Chef des Techgiganten Apple rund eine Milliarde Euro bis 2024 für ein erweitertes Entwicklungszentrum ausgeben?
www.handelsblatt.com
7 Top Startup Accelerators and Incubators in Munich | Appstronauts
Appstronauts has been named one of the top AngularJS developers by Techreviewer.co. The list of leaders was compiled based on expertise, experience, quality of services, and reliability of the development companies.
appstronauts.co
Wie tickt die Münchner Investoren-Szene? - Munich Startup
2018 war ein Rekordjahr für VC-Investments in deutsche Startups, und auch Münchner Startups haben ein großes Stück vom Kuchen abbekommen. Höchste Zeit also, die Münchner Investoren-Szene mit ihren VCs und Business Angels näher zu beleuchten. Gründer, die am Anfang stehen oder neu in München sind, erhalten hier einen Überblick.
www.munich-startup.de
Das deutsche Stanford: Wie die TU München zur Schmiede für Millionen-Unternehmen wurde
BI/ Hannah Schwär In der Werkstatt riecht es nach heißem Metall, die Maschinen brummen, ab und zu piept ein Warnsignal. Durch die Fensterfront fällt das Licht auf einen Plexiglas-Kasten, unter dem sich - gehütet wie eine kostbare Skulptur - ein Teststand aus Aluminiumschienen befindet.
www.businessinsider.de
Diving into Germany's Venture Capital landscape in 2020
We are pleased to publish the second edition of our German Venture Capital report and hope you will enjoy reading it. 2019 was a year where Germany has really played to its strengths and cemented its position as one of the European leaders in tech venture capital, and we are more excited than ever about the development of this ecosystem.
medium.com
Münchner Startup-Schmiede: Nachgefragt beim... CDTM! - Munich Startup
Das CDTM ist eine der erfolgreichsten Münchner Startup-Schmieden - zahlreiche vielversprechende Jungunternehmen wurden hier schon aus der Taufe gehoben! Aus dem ‚Center for Digital Technology and Management' sind insgesamt 160 Gründungen hervorgegangen, darunter viele sehr erfolgreiche Startups.
www.munich-startup.de
Venture Capital Funds in Germany
Last Updated: June 25, 2021 There are 764 Venture Capital Funds in Germany. Here is a list of the 10 most exciting ones Liberty Global provides video, voice and broadband Internet services mainly through its cable network. Offers video (cable and DTH satellite), broadband Internet access and telephony (VoIP and circuit-switched services).
tracxn.com
Which are the best Germany seed funds/VCs?
Answer (1 of 3): Please find below a list of Seed venture capital firms in Germany. The list includes German Seed VCs and foreign venture capital firms with an office in Germany. The list also contains dome of the corporate venture capital firms. 1. 42CAP 2. A/O PropTech 3.
www.quora.com
www.isaraerospace.com
www.isaraerospace.com
Celonis Raises $1 Billion At $11 Billion Valuation, Making It New York's -And Germany's - Most Valuable Startup
Celonis has raised $1 billion from investors led by Durable Capital Partners and T. Rowe Price, valuing the maker of process mining software at $11 billion, ahead of any other private tech startups in its headquarters locations of Germany and New York.
www.forbes.com
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside the university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!
👉 welpe@tum.de
https://www.notion.so/tum-cso/Munich-s-top-ten-VCs-CVCs-Business-Angels-Accelerators-and-Incubators-in-Munich-fc202a939233419dba303de70a85e3d8