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Start-up BW Pre-Seed

Status

Status not published

Rolling; applications run through accredited Betreuungspartner rather than directly to the state.

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Amount
Not published

Pre-seed financing provided largely as a public tranche alongside a co-investor tranche from an accredited Betreuungspartner (incubator, accelerator or business angel). Structured as convertible/repayable financing rather than a pure grant.

Funder

Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Tourismus Baden-Württemberg / L-Bank

public · regional

Deadline: Open all year — Rolling; applications run through accredited Betreuungspartner rather than directly to the state.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
moderate

Moderate — a form and supporting documents.

Who can apply

Innovative, technology-oriented teams with a planned or very recently founded company in Baden-Württemberg; a co-investing accredited partner is mandatory.

How to apply

  1. Approach an accredited Start-up BW Pre-Seed Betreuungspartner. — link
  2. The partner assesses the venture and commits its own co-investment share.
  3. Joint application for the public tranche.

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · The EU SME definition (Recommendation 2003/361)

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.startupbw.de/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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