69 Best Startups in Germany to Watch in 2025

BigchainDB is a scalable blockchain database that enables developers and enterprise to deploy blockchain proof-of-concepts, platforms and apps with a scalable blockchain database.

Contentful's platform helps teams deliver digital experiences faster with an API-first approach.

N26 is a is a mobile banking company headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Cognigy is a developer of conversational AI services and products for enterprise customer contact centers.

Planet A Foods is a cocoa-free chocolate maker founded in 2021 by Sara Marquart.

Hugo Boss is a major German luxury fashion company.

An aerospace company that designs electric air taxis. It was founded in 2011 and is located in Bruchsal, Germany.

Payhawk is a provider of a financial system that combines credit cards, payments, and expenses into one experience.

CrossLend is a FinTech company whose mission is to make the private debt space more efficient, transparent, and profitable by providing technology & infrastructure solutions for debt asset transactions.

WayRay is a Moscow-based developer of holographic augmented reality technologies for the automotive industry.

Developer and manufacturer of systems for renewable industrial gas and fuel production.

Everphone is a provider of telecommunications equipment to businesses, including mobile phones and tablets.

SAT4m2m develops a forefront IoT platform at the convergence of Space IoT and LPWA devices for disruptive and interoperable services for Industrial IoT.

CryptoTax is helping individuals and companies in meeting their legal obligations arising from dealing with blockchain-based assets. We offer web-based tax reporting application for individuals and CryptoTax API solution for businesses.

AI solutions provider for enterprises and governments.

Omio, formerly GoEuro.com, is a travel metasearch engine which allows users to compare the price and journey time of air, rail and bus travel options in a single search. It is operated by the GoEuro Corporation of New York City, USA.

Rasa is a company that offers a conversational AI platform for customized conversations at scale.

DeepL is a company that develops technology for language translation purposes.

Personio is a software company in Munich, Germany founded in 2015.

Raisin is a Berlin-based company offering a savings and investment marketplace to connect retail customers with banks looking to expand their deposit reach.

Kontron is a company developing embedded computing technologies (ECT) with a portfolio of solutions for secure hardware, middleware, and services for IoT and Industry 4.0 applications.

Web search engine that uses profits to plant trees

Salience Labs is a hybrid photonic-electronic chips maker for AI founded in 2021 by Wolfram Pernice, Vaysh Kewada, Johannes Feldmann and Harish Bhaskaran.

Presentation software for fast-moving teams.

SoundCloud is an entertainment company providing an online audio distribution platform for listening to music and podcasts.

A data-powered spreadsheet company for businesses. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Berlin, Germany.

A company with an e-commerce website for renting digital devices instead of buying them. It was founded by Michael Cassau in 2015 and is located in Berlin, Germany.

Wunderlist is a company that looks to provide a cloud-based task management application

Holidu is building the search engine for vacation rentals. The startup also offers a software and service solution for vacation rental owners under the brand Bookiply.

A company offering a software platform for managing insurance.

Twenty Billion Neurons (TwentyBN) is an AI startup that builds intelligent avatars.

German Autolabs is a Berlin, Deutschland-based automotive company founded by Patrick Weissert and Holger G. Weiss in 2016.

Teraki provides a qualitative data platform for scaling insurance, maintenance, and autonomous driving applications.

Jedox provides users with a platform for EPM to accelerate planning, forecasting and reporting through automation and predictive analytics.

Infarm is a developer of vertical farms designed for indoor growing.

Deepset is a natural language processing software company.

Inkitt is a digital publishing platform that uses a computer algorithm to predict book success based on reader behavior.

Buddy Media is a social media marketing platform.

Neuroflash is a GPT-3 powered artificial intelligence assistant for creating marketing copy.

Rethink Robotics developed and patented Sawyer, a robot that can replace human labor where danger is likely or difficult.

Mambu is a Berlin-based software-as-a-service banking company offering lending and deposit software.

Gorillas is an on-demand grocery deliver platform founded in 2020 by Kağan Sümer.

ITM Isotopen Technologien Munchen is a Munich-based developer of personalized cancer diagnostic solutions.

TravelPerk is a business travel platform founded in 2015 by Avi Meir.

InfiniQuant is a research team hosted in Christoph Marquardt’s Quantum Information Processing group at the Max Planck Institute for Science and Light.

Focused on transforming lives of patients with immune dysfunctions and cancer

A company developing cryogenic cooling solutions for research, material science, quantum computing, high-performance electronics, and detector applications.

Celonis is company designing an intelligent big data technology analyzing and visualizing company processes.

MatchX is a Berlin-based company manufacturing LPWAN hardware and software.

Provider of secure and governed access to data for AI and analytics.

UXcam is a mobile app analytics platform for developers.

Konux provides operation automation solutions based on machine learning and IoT for the railway industry.

Doctolib is an online booking platform for doctors. Trouvez rapidement un spécialiste près de chez vous et prenez rendez-vous gratuitement en ligne en quelques clics.

Flip provides a communications app for frontline workers who don't work at a desktop.

Zeotap is a Customer Intelligence platform that helps brands better understand their customers and predict behaviors.

Instana is a SaaS-based application performance management (APM) platform based in Chicago, Illinois and in the Ohligs borough of Solingen, Germany.

Clue is a software company offering an application for tracking ovulation cycles.

Lilium is a Munich-based startup developing an on-demand, all-electric, vertical take-off and landing air taxi service.

Fineway is company focused on the idea of artificial Intelligence guided travel, and was founded by Markus Feigelbinder and Markus Bohl in 2015.

Aazzur is a Berlin-based financial technology company founded by Philipp Buschmann.

Here is a web mapping platform founded in 1985.

Modag is a Wendelsheim-based company developing molecular diagnostics and treatments for neurodegenerative diseases founded in 2013.

solarisBank is a banking platform empowering finance pioneers. We've built an API-accesible platform to provide companies with modular building blocks to innovate in finance. As a tech company with a banking license, our business model is strictly B2B2C - we're focused exclusively on enabling our partners to offer their end customers world class financial products.

Monedo, formerly known as Kreditech, is a financial platform that allows users to better understand their credit.

Brighter AI Technologies is a German artificial intelligence startup with a facial burring product used to protect consumer identities.

A startup that offers an integration and automation platform for businesses.

Green City Solutions is a Berlin-based company working to address the problem of air pollution with an installed moss culture and IoT technology.

Developer of an ingredient ordering application designed to connect restaurants and suppliers from all over the world.

WorKist is a company that offers digital support which enables sales team.