Startup and Co-innovation Hub in Heilbronn
Startup and Co-innovation Hub in Heilbronn
Our Vision is to become an international center of gravity for entrepreneurship and co-innovation. Everybody engaging with us will remember it as being the decisive moment in their growth journey.
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Our Programs
Start
Get to know the tools and frameworks that help you develop your idea or concept.
Build
Learn how to reach problem-solution fit with your product or prototype.
Launch
Prove product-market-fit and gain traction through POCs or first customers.
Scale
Be ready to sustainably scale your venture and face investors.
Start
Get to know the tools and frameworks that help you develop your idea or concept.
Corporate Campus Challenge
We bring like-minded thinkers together with innovative companies to create an impact on real challenges.
AI Start
Where aspiring entrepreneurs merge cutting-edge AI with strategic business insights to catalyze transformative startups.
Build
Learn how to reach problem-solution fit with your product or prototype.
Incubator
Learn how to build products, validate business ideas to gain clarity. Get accelerator ready!
Founder Scholarship
Imagine if you could fully focus on what´s important to you becoming a founder.
Launch
Prove product-market-fit and gain traction through POCs or first customers.
Accelerator
Acquire the tools to validate your business model, gain traction, and achieve investor-readiness within 12 weeks.
AI Founders
Welcome to Europe’s only B2B Startup accelerator, where 100% of your peers build in AI
Scale
Be ready to sustainably scale your venture and face investors.
Leadership Talent Academy
The Leadership Talent Academy (LTA) empowers startup founders with mindset, skills and network to drive meaningful change.
AI Scale
Where entrepreneurs merge cutting-edge AI with strategic business insights to advance their transformative startups.
Venture Studio
The pre-seed investor for the Heilbronn ecosystem. Allowing ambitious founders to leverage the Campus Founders platform, including its network, expert support, and the resources needed to launch with confidence. If you want to grow with the Heilbronn ecosystem, this is your fast-track.
About campus founders
Campus Founders is the startup and co-innovation hub in Heilbronn.
The programs combine practical experience, advanced methods, financial support as well as a pool of mentors and an international network.
As a platform, Campus Founders brings together students, founders, investors and companies to promotes collaboration, peer-learning and co-innovation.
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1000+
Participants in programs to date
45+
Team Members
1300+
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Announcement: Campus Founders is taking the next step
upcoming event
IP Roadshow Heilbronn: Schutz für deine Innovationen
Hast du dich bereits mit Schutzrechten und geistigem Eigentum auseinandergesetzt? Wie gut ist deine Innovation aus IP-Sicht abgesichert?
Das Patent- & Markenzentrum Baden-Württemberg geht quer durch THE LÄND auf Tour - nächster Stopp Heilbronn!
Nutze diese einzigartige Chance mit Expert:innen, Vertreter:innen und Startups in den Austausch zu kommen und mehr zum Thema Intellectual Property zu erfahren.
Was dich erwartet:
- "Schützt eure Ideen – wie wir euch dabei unterstützen" mit Verena Djuric | Patent und Markenzentrum BW
- "IT-Vorsprung sichern mit Software- & KI-Patenten - wie geht das?" mit Peter Bittner, European Patent Attorney | Fleuchaus & Gallo Partnerschaft mbB
- "Geheimhaltungsvereinbarungen : Fallstricke erkennen & typische Fehler vermeiden" mit Prof. Dr. Sabine Boos | Hochschule Heilbronn | Institut für Recht der innovativen Technologien (IRiT)
- "Erprobte Strategien, um Schutzrechte in China durchzusetzen" mit Ralf Duckeck, Vice President Intellectual Property | ebm-papst Group
Den inhaltsreichen Nachmittag lassen wir bei einem gemeinsamen Networking ausklingen.
📅 Dienstag, 5. Mai 2026 ab 16:30 Uhr
📍 Level 5 in GRAVITY, Heilbronn
🗨️ Die Sessions werden auf Deutsch gehalten. Die Präsentationsfolien sind überwiegend auf Englisch, und sowohl die Q&A nach den Sessions als auch das Networking können bei Bedarf auf Englisch stattfinden.
🗨️The sessions will be held in German. The presentation slides are mainly in English, and both the Q&A after the sessions and the networking can take place in English.
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