We support innovative deep tech start-ups in closing their first funding gap before potential equity financing rounds.
Start-up benefits
Network & Relationship:
the strong UnternehmerTUM network
close relationships to seed investors
Founder friendly best-in-class terms:
No valuation cap
No discount
No interest
A Most Favoured Nation Clause (MFNC)
A Most Favoured Nation (MFN) clause applies. This means that — should you agree to more investor-friendly clauses with a successor investor — these apply retroactively for Funding for Innovators, too.
Structural Conversion of the Loan
A structural conversion of the loan takes place at the first equity round or the loan’s four-year anniversary.
Funding Focus
Funding Criteria
your founding team includes Master’s- or Ph.D.-level students or graduates
you're active in one of UnternehmerTUM’s programs, the TUM Venture Labs, or the TUM Incubator or TUM Gründungsberatung
your company has been formed
you've built an initial prototype
you've identified your target customers
Funding Phases
Your next steps
- 1.1.
- 2.2.
Fill out the application form
- 3.3.
Our investment team will contact you
- 4.4.
Funding decision