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🚀 XPLORE Market Pioneer Batch 8 Startup Teams 🚀 🌐 After a highly competitive application process, we are thrilled to welcome 16 ambitious startups to the XPLORE Market Pioneer Batch 8! Over the next six weeks, these teams will take on the crucial challenge of preparing their ventures for market entry and growth. 🔍 With the support of our expert coaches and UnternehmerTUM network, the startups will: - Define a clear go-to-market strategy - Sharpen their product positioning - Prepare to attract funding and strategic partners - Strengthen their leadership and team dynamics for long-term scalability Through structured sessions, hands-on workshops, and mentoring, they will transform their early traction into a clear roadmap toward incubation and beyond. 🌟 Meet the startups of Batch 8: Aegis Blue | Arctory | Claid Legal | Cloudexplain | Confido | clyr AI | Excavation Pit Solutions | Fairoo | Flexpower | Litigo-Solutions | Lynkt | NutriSen | Occurrence Technologies | Shifted - Energy Storage | Shortcats | Tender-AI 👏 Let’s give a round of applause to these brilliant teams! 👏 💙 A big thank you to TUM Venture Labs, and especially the Built Environment lab, and TUM Startup Consultancy for their support in shaping the next generation of startups. Also, we want to show our appreciation to Ivana Hecimovic and Joanna Whyte for the TUM Incubator area, where we will be kicking off the batch, so stay tuned for next week! #XPLORE #Startups #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #deeptech

🎉 Huge News! Verdira Biotech Joins XPLORE Batch 2/2025! 🎉 We're beyond excited to share that Verdira Biotech has been selected as one of the teams to participate in the XPLORE Venture Creator—Batch 2, 2025, offered by UnternehmerTUM! What a fantastic opportunity to validate our problem–solution fit, sharpen our value proposition, and accelerate our go-to-market strategy—all while staying rooted in the dynamic support ecosystem of Europe’s premier deep-tech incubator. A massive thank you to UnternehmerTUM for this boost—this program will supercharge Verdira’s mission to degrade harmful airborne VOCs with next-gen filtration. We’re eager to dive in, learn aggressively, and scale smarter as we push clean-air innovation forward. Let’s go! 🚀 #VerdiraBiotech #XPLORE2025 #DeepTech #AirFiltration #StartupJourney #TUMInnovation

We are excited to be part of the XPLORE Venture Creator program batch 2/2025 by XPLORE and UnternehmerTUM 🤗 What is up for the next 10 weeks ✅ Customers first to sharpen our value proposition and product-market fit ✅ Ship our product to first customers #XPLORE #UnternehmerTUM #StartUpJourney #DeepTech #Entrepreneurship #Innovation Thank you for this amazing support and speeding up our venture 🔋🚀 Gunda Opitz Florian Becke Lisa Schebitz Claudia Riemann Manu Geitner Jenny Rathgeber Bianca Zwiebler-Schmalz Natascha Brunner Simin K. Fard Adrian Ng Gonzalez Anastasia Semesch Alexandra Bethke Paula Henao Julian Heine Susanne Traugott Doris Schönbeck Melike Memis Corinna Main

🚀 We are excited to share that asetreat has been accepted into the XPLORE Venture Creator program Technische Universität München! This milestone marks the next step on our journey to revolutionize wound care with ecure®, our bioelectric wound dressing that activates the body’s natural healing processes. We look forward to working with the Xplore community, mentors, and partners to accelerate our mission: 👉 Because every wound deserves to heal. #bioelectric #woundhealing #medtech #startup #asetreat

We’re thrilled to celebrate HappyRobot on raising an impressive $44M Series B, led by Base10 Partners with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Array Ventures, avra, Samsara, Tokio Marine Group, WaVe-X, WiL (World Innovation Lab), Y Combinator, and other strategic investors. This round, raised just 10 months after their Series A, brings HappyRobot’s total funding to $62M and fuels their mission to build the AI-native operating system for the real economy. It was just three years ago that they were at XPLORE, and now HappyRobot is serving over 70 enterprise customers worldwide! We couldn’t be prouder to see their journey from early validation to the global stage. 🌍 👏 Huge congratulations to the HappyRobot team. UnternehmerTUM #Funding #Startups #Logistics #ArtificialIntelligence

🌟 Introducing the XPLORE Venture Creator Batch 2/2025! 🌟 After many rounds of applications and pitches at the Entry Gate, we are thrilled to welcome 18 start-ups into our program! 💡 Over the next ten weeks, these visionary teams will: ✨ Validate their solutions and business models ✨ Define their beachhead market ✨ Build the foundations for future customers, partnerships, and funding 🚀 Meet the start-ups shaping the future: AccelionTech | aproxymade | asetreat - active smart electrical treatment | AutarkiTech | CircularFabrics | CyFract | Dahlia Biotech | funneldoc | KlaroCare | KIBauDi | MÜNOS | NeuraGrip | Pareo.ai | QMunicate | StepCo | tier0 | transload | VERDIRA BIOTECH Alongside them, 42 motivated Future Entrepreneurs will join the journey, taking part in a unique matchmaking process to become key members of these ventures. We can’t wait to see how these start-ups challenge industries, pioneer technologies, and shape the future of entrepreneurship! A big thank you to TUM Venture Labs, TUM Start-up Consultancy, and AI+MUNICH MUNICH INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM for their continued support in empowering the next generation of founders. 💙 👉 Stay tuned as we go through the entrepreneurial journey together with the start-ups. UnternehmerTUM #XPLORE #earlystagestartups #entrepreneurship #innovation #tech

MANUGY has successfully participated in the XPLORE program by UnternehmerTUM! 🚀 Over the past months, XPLORE has been an incredible journey for us. The program gave us access to inspiring mentors, valuable resources, and a strong network that helped us sharpen our business model, validate our strategy, and prepare for the next growth steps. A big thank you to the XPLORE team and mentors for their guidance and support, and to the amazing community of founders we met along the way. For MANUGY, this milestone is another step forward in our mission to build flexible, modular, and energy-efficient production solutions that enable the industrialization of next-generation battery technologies. And the journey doesn’t stop here - we have very exciting news coming up soon. Stay tuned! #entrepreneurship #startupjourney #unternehmertum #batteryproduction #innovation

Joining XPLORE at UnternehmerTUM as a mentor — proud to be part of 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲’𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗵𝘂𝗯 (ranked #1 in 2024 & 2025 by the Financial Times) and to work with founders on de-risking their ventures and accelerating growth. 🚀 XPLORE is the Pre-incubation & Early-Stage Start-up hub by UnternehmerTUM, that helps early-stage founders validate opportunities, refine value propositions, and de-risk their journey to market entry. A heartfelt thank you to Alexandra Bethke and Simin K. Fard for the warm welcome into this vibrant ecosystem 🙌 Looking forward to learning and contributing alongside this amazing community of founders, experts, and fellow coaches in München. 🇩🇪

🚀 Celebrating Münchener Businessplan Wettbewerb 2025 Winners! 🚀 We’re proud to see two of our XPLORE alumni among the winners of this year’s Münchener Businessplan Wettbewerb 2025, showing the strength and impact of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Bavaria. 🌟 🥇 BIOEXOTEC – 1st Place The MedTech start-up, a spin-off from TUM Klinikum rechts der Isar, is revolutionizing early cancer detection with a fast, non-invasive, and cost-efficient blood and saliva test powered by molecular diagnostics. 🥈 Peak Quantum – 2nd Place As a spin-off from the Walther-Meißner-Institut, Peak Quantum is building robust Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) with a novel, error-protected architecture, paving the way for reliable quantum computing in industry. 👏 Huge congratulations on this win! UnternehmerTUM Gründerland Bayern 📸 : BayStartUP/Andreas Gebert #startupsuccess #medtech #quantumcomputing #munichstartups #businessplanwettbewerb