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Grants

EXIST Startup Factories

Status

Status not published

Competitive selection of regional hubs; individual founders cannot apply directly.

Check with the funder

Amount

Not published

Funding goes to regional startup-factory consortia (university/ecosystem hubs), not directly to individual startups; founders benefit indirectly through the hub's services.

Funder

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWE)

public · national

Deadline: One call a year — Competitive selection of regional hubs; individual founders cannot apply directly.

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

quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Sectors: deeptech, any
Stage: idea stage, pre-seed and seed
Locally registered entity required

Successor initiative to EXIST-Potentiale. Beneficiaries are regional ecosystem hubs; startups access support via the selected factories.

How to apply

Regional consortium (university plus ecosystem partners) forms and submits a concept. — link
Jury selection of the hubs to be funded.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://exist.de/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

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