Are you an international founder and want to startup your business in Aachen? Whether you want to expand out of Germany or move to Germany from abroad, we support you!

We offer Legal Office Hours with Orrick, in which your startup can clarify questions around regulatory/legal issues with experienced lawyers free of charge.

Is your startup journey challenging you? Starting in the ideation phase, leading into the implementation and later on, the successful launch of your market-ready product, our coaches and experts at Gründungszentrum FH Aachen will provide you with individualised advice and support in every phase of your startup journey. In these sessions, we will discuss the starting point as well as which steps should be taken next to bring your project to the next level.

"Transforming Academic in Entrepreneurial Minds" In cooperation with the RWTH Aachen, the TRACE program teaches students from both universities skills and insights into the working methods and challenges of founders. In two semesters they will learn how to think and act like an entrepreneur within corporate and organisational structures - parallel to their studies. By the end, they will receive a certificate confirming their successful participation.

In our sales training, you as a young entrepreneur will learn how to successfully sell your products by creating a sales plan for each of the sales phases and preparing and conducting convincing presentations and acquisition meetings.

You want to find employees, welcome them to Aachen and support them continuously? We would like to support you with numerous measures! On the collaeb plattform you will find our offers sorted by topic.

Startup members of the digitalHUB Aachen can receive up to 4h per month of individual and tailor-made coachings.

Business start-ups based on technological innovations require professional preparation. At the beginning there is the idea, but how does it continue? - Is your technical business idea also profitable in business terms? - How can you optimize your idea and adapt it to market requirements? - What is the path from idea to product? Does the idea need to be patented, and how? - Who will help you to create a prototype and realize a pre-series? - Is your marketing concept well thought-out and viable? How can you finance the project? - If subsidies do not fit or are not sufficient, what alternative forms of financing are there? We support you in your start-up project - right from the beginning!

We provide comprehensive and professional advice on the subject of "innovation". Decades of experience with technology-oriented companies make us specialists in, among other things, the development and protection of your ideas, financing options and exploitation. With our decades of experience, we can advise and support you on the following topics: Idea development and protection, financing and exploitation, early stage financing and post start-up support.