Encourage Ventures is Germany’s largest network for female founders and investors. Their core mission is to increase gender diversity in venture capital by making more capital, mentorship, and networks available to women-led startups. 

Mission: To create more diversity in the startup and investor landscape, especially by supporting and amplifying female founders.

As a Baden-Württemberg’s innovation platform, NXTGN brings together startups, universities, and medium-sized industries. They support entrepreneurial talent, accelerate B2B startups via corporate matchmaking, and facilitate applied research exchanges.
Mission: Empower the “Next Generation Mittelstand” through cross-sector innovation.
Coorperation mit CF: CF is a part of the Startup Factory

Rise Europe is a pan-European alliance of leading university entrepreneurship centers and startup hubs—including names like UnternehmerTUM (Germany), Imperial College London, École Polytechnique, ETH Zurich, Campus Founders, EnSpire Oxford, IE University, and many others—spanning 14 countries .
Mission: Unite Europe’s top innovation hubs to boost European startups’ global competitiveness and sustainable impact.
Coorperation with CF: Coorperation with Slush'D HN Event

Viadrina - ERLab is a research community at European University Viadrina focusing on creativity, communication, and community within entrepreneurship. ERLab organizes events like ERLab Days, linking researchers, startups, and students in the dynamic Heilbronn-Franconia and Berlin–Brandenburg regions.
Mission: To explore and strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems by combining academic research with real-world practice

The TUM Venture Labs are a network of deep‑tech innovation hubs launched by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and UnternehmerTUM.
Mission: To accelerate the transformation of cutting‑edge research into impactful, scalable businesses, especially in fields like AI, quantum, robotics, healthcare, aerospace, biotech, sustainability, and more.
Cooperation with CF: Content partnership in Workshops

Future Labs operate as a non-profit innovation hub, actively partnering with government, defense, academia, and schools to incubate and pilot meaningful technology solutions in areas like STEM education, maritime security, and emergency response.

Mission: Scale tech-for-good innovation through public- and private-sector collaboration.

The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a global nonprofit program for science- and technology-based startups that helps early-stage ventures commercialize cutting-edge innovations. It connects founders with a curated group of successful entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, and mentors to help them build massively scalable, high-impact companies.

Mission: Help science- and tech-based startups scale through goal-driven mentorship and global investor networks.

IPAI is an AI innovation hub, based in Heilbronn, that brings together research, industry, startups, and the public sector to develop ethical, application-driven artificial intelligence. With an innovation campus under development, it provides infrastructure, co‑creation projects, matchmaking, and community support for over 60 members.
Mission: Establish a trusted, ethically responsible European hub for applied artificial intelligence—driving regional innovation and economic value.

Startup BW is the official startup campaign of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Launched by the state government, it aims to support startups, scale-ups, and the startup ecosystem by providing funding, resources, and networking opportunities.

Mission: Foster a vibrant, state‑wide startup ecosystem across Baden‑Württemberg, propelling growth, innovation, and regional equity.

KSG (Karl Schelcht Stiftung) is a non-profit foundation focused on promoting “Good Leadership”—inspiring leadership in business, society, and politics through humanistic values like ethics, responsibility, and integrity.
Mission: Promote “Good Leadership” through education, entrepreneurship, and social engagement.

The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) is a multidisciplinary research and teaching department at the University of Oxford.
Mission: OII's mission is to understand the transformation of society through the Internet by integrating social and computational sciences.
Coorperation with CF: Research partner