AI STARTUP RISING

AI Startup Rising is a project of the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI) and the universities involved in the center, TU Darmstadt (TUDa), University of Kassel (UK) and Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM), with special reference to the respective incubators or startup-promoting departments. With AI Startup Rising, a startup and scaling platform for high- and deep-AI startups from science is created in Hesse. The common goal of the partners is to build an internationally visible, AI innovation ecosystem that understands the region’s top AI research as a source of sustainably successful high- and deep-tech startups, produces successful startups and acts as a point of attraction for talent, investors and companies.

A special focus of the offers and measures is on accelerating and promoting the process of transferring AI-based research potentials into startups and accompanying these with targeted inclusion of (regional) expertise in the establishment and further scaling. Cooperative and in-depth networking of AI research with application disciplines and users from business and society helps to identify start-up projects that have particular growth potential because they develop solutions for the major economic and social challenges of our time.

Selected startup projects and startups receive intensive, cross-phase support tailored to their individual needs, so that their likelihood of success increases and connectivity to scaling programs is ensured. Close relationships with (regionally based) companies as potential customers and partners, but also with accelerators, incubators and investors, which promote the successful establishment and growth of the startups, contribute to the achievement of the objectives.