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With our newsletter we would like to inform you every month about exciting topics around Startup Cooperation & Innovation. If you want your colleagues to stay up to date as well, please forward the newsletter. If you have been forwarded the newsletter, you can subscribe here.

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

Reuse of building materials: Karstadt relies on startup Concular
#cooperation #construction #recycling #Berlin

“Buy now, pay later”- payment solution for e-commerce and digital marketplaces: Credi2 cooperates with Deutsche Bank
#cooperation #finance #FrankfurtamMain #Vienna

Cooperation with Mailo: Insurtech Element takes over commercial insurance portfolio
#cooperation #insurance #Cologne #Berlin

They wanted to build an electric hippie bus: E-vehicle startup Canoo cooperates with US military
#cooperation #mobility #Bentonville #ArlingtonCounty

4 current Startup Challenges

CEMEX Ventures u. a.: Construction Startup Competition 2022

ABB, SynerLeap, Microsoft: EcoCounter: ABB Energy Efficiency Startup Challenge 2022

ABB, SynerLeap, Microsoft: B2B gamification:  ABB Energy Efficiency Startup Challenge 2022

DB Mindbox: Regional Traffic 2022

 

4 News on startups, spin-offs and innovation labs

Start-up roadmap: Cabinet adopts first comprehensive start-up strategy (Federal Ministry of Finance)

19 million euros for Live EO (Startbase)

Bill Gates invests in air conditioning startup Blue Frontier (Incubator)

More than a quarter of tech startups in the Asian region work with NFTs or DeFis (Finance)

4 Events for exchange and cooperation

The Founder Summit
August 27 – 28, 2022, Wiesbaden, 2 days

IFA Next Start-up Days
September 2 – 6, 2022,  Berlin, 5 days

Bits & Pretzels
September 25 – 27, 2022, Munich, 3 days

Smau Milano
October 11 – 12, 2022, Milano, 2 days

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.