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4 Cooperation examples of companies & startups
from Ambivation’s cooperation database. You can report more collaborations here.

Circular Economy: JT Energy Systems cooperates with NOVUM on battery recycling
#cooperation #emobility #Dresden #BobritzschHilbersdorf

Obi cooperates with Kurts Toolbox
#cooperation #retail #wermelskirchen #goettingen

Continental develops fully automatic charging robot together with Volterio
#cooperation #electromobility #Hanover #Graz

VfL Wolfsburg starts cooperation with Climatech startup Yook
#cooperation #sustainability #Wolfsburg #Hamburg

4 Events for exchange and cooperation

4YFN auf dem Mobile World Kongress
February 28 – March 3, 2022, Barcelona, 4 days

ifh INTHERM
April 26-29, 2022, Nuremberg, 4 days

Founders Congress
May 17 – 19, 2022, online, 3 days

Hinterland of Things
June 1, 2022, online, 1 day

4 News on startups, spin-offs and innovation labs

Podcast: This founder turned Personio into a $6 billion startup (OMR)

Biontech and Deutsche Bahn invest $100 million in AI startup Instadeep (t3n)

“There’s a lot of money in the market” – German startups experience funding boom (Business Insider)

Unicorns: These are the most valuable startups in Germany, Europe and the world (Handelsblatt)

+++NEW: 4 current Startup Challenge +++

Snowflake Startup Challenge
The Snowflake Startup Challenge brings together early-stage startups to develop innovative applications and products based on Snowflake’s Data Cloud.

WĂĽrth Elektronik MWC Open Innovation Challenge 2022
WĂĽrth Elektroniks is looking for innovations in electronic and electromechanical components, new mobility, wireless power transmission, energy harvesting, IoT and more.

Girbau MWC Open Innovation Challenge 2022
Girbau LAB is looking for new technologies, materials or business models for the laundry sector.

Dai Nippon Printing MWC Open Innovation Challenge 2022
DNP is looking for innovative solutions from EU countries and opportunities to jointly develop new fintech service models for the Japanese market.

About Ambivation

Ambivation connects innovative companies and startups for cooperation and innovation partnerships. As an innovation consultancy and matchmaker, Ambivation promotes cooperation between established companies and startups within the framework of concrete customer, supplier and research partnerships. We support companies in the identification of needs, startup identification, startup evaluation and cooperation initiation with startups. Formats such as research on relevant startups, startup monitoring, strategic cooperation consulting or event formats such as startup tours serve this purpose. Our monthly newsletter also provides information on current examples of cooperation and events.