Global Entrepreneurship Centre

TUM Venture Labs are new entrepreneurial innovation hubs re-enforcing in a unique way tech-based business creation at the interfaces of engineering, natural, life and data sciences and medicine. The joint initiative of TUM and UnternehmerTUM supports entrepreneurial talents in tech-based business translation from science, offering an entire ecosystem with the necessary development environments. Our offers range from technical and social infrastructure to entrepreneurship training and support through our top-class industry and investor networks. Discover and strengthen your entrepreneurial qualities and develop a business idea into a successful enterprise at TUM Venture Labs! Our offerings for talents and founders Whether you are a student, a scientist or a well-established team, the TUM Venture Labs offer tailored support within your technological domain. Various formats along our four pillars are available to you -- from initial inspiration to founding your company. Training formats to deepen specialized knowledge in an application-oriented way, to develop start-up ideas or to grow personally. Domain-specific startup support on your journey from initial idea or technology to starting your venture. Our network of top-class entrepreneurs, mentors, industry partners, scientific/domain experts and investors. Access to spaces and infrastructure in the form of workstations, labs or technical infrastructure (e.g. MakerSpace), individually tailored in each Venture Lab. Discover and strengthen your entrepreneurial skills and develop your business idea into a successful company at the TUM Venture Labs! 11 Venture Labs with entrepreneurial know-how in your tech-domain In order to bring high-tech start-up projects to success, teams need deep knowledge of technology, management know-how as well as specific industry and market understanding. The TUM Venture Labs can support you in enriching your tech know-how with management expertise and deep understanding of your industry and market. To this end, the TUM Venture Labs focus on 11 technology domains and thus create a support offering that specifically addresses the needs of founders and founding teams in the respective technology fields. Discover the Venture Lab that's right for you! Aerospace ChemSPACE Built Environment Robotics/AI Food/Agro/Biotech Software/AI Healthcare Quantum Additive Manufacturing Sustainability & Circular Economy Legal Tech Colab Additional venture lab "mobility" is currently being planned.

Singapore-headquartered global investor. We are a venture capital firm focused on decarbonization investments. Decarbonization is the name of the game. We maximize efforts on 5 decarbonization verticals namely Food and Agriculture, Mobility, Buildings, Industries and Energy. We look at decarbonization technologies, focusing on the reduction, prevention or sequestration of greenhouse gas emissions. We believe in the future. Forward-thinking, we invest into exceptional founders and companies through proprietary networks. Entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand the challenges of innovation and power of diverse perspectives. The world is our oyster. We invest globally, unincumbered by borders or limits, capitalizing on our deep and wide roots in the ecosystem. Our eyes and ears are based in Singapore, making us a natural bridge between the East and West. Creating history. We boast 20 exciting portfolio companies across two pools of capital and have celebrated 3 of ours becoming unicorns. Our success is our own inspiration, we are resolute and will do even better.

“Spero” is Latin for hope. We help founders build a hopeful future. We’re a team of former startup founders, operators, and investors from landmark companies including eBay and Tesla. We invest in determined founders building mission-driven technology companies in three focus areas: wellbeing; sustainability; learning, work, and play. We prefer to lead or co-lead a $3-$10M round (late seed or Series A). Our typical check is $2-$4M, and we reserve capital for follow-on. We are conviction-based investors who play the long game. How We Work With YouWe have the conviction to lead and price your round. We participate in follow-on funding and help with subsequent fundraising. Our concentrated portfolio approach allows us to engage deeply with our founders. We’re supportive throughout the life of a company. Every one of our founders has full access to the entire Spero Ventures team. We know some ideas take time to catch on, so we offer patient capital. We are calm and steady partners in uncertain times. We help companies scale to serve billions of customers. We’ve done this as operators and founders, and as advisors and board members. We connect our companies to a network of founders, advisors, coaches, domain experts, and executive talent. We build community by bringing founders and leaders together through our CEO Summits, Product Leader Summits, founder breakfasts, workshops and thought-provoking events. We offer expert-led workshops that help founders with brand/storytelling, sales/go-to-market, consumer growth, and fundraising. Our focus Wellbeing Agency over physical and mental health People deserve to be in control of their own physical and mental health. For that, they need new kinds of information and access to care. What devices, apps, tools and services will help people live longer, healthier, more vibrant lives? How can genomics help us better understand our world and ourselves, and contribute to new solutions? Companies that answer these questions will make life worth living. Sustainability Protecting and preserving our planet Life is worth living on a healthy planet. But many of the largest systems we rely on - water, food, energy, transportation, product production and waste - were designed in a way that’s unsustainable and detrimental to our personal and planetary health. The economic, social, and health impacts of climate change and industrial pollution are growing too large to ignore: unprecedented droughts, fires and floods have disrupted millions of lives and result in billions of dollars of loss each year. How can we develop safer, more efficient systems? What can we do to improve power grids, recycling, environmental monitoring and disaster analytics? We invest in sustainability with conviction. Learning, Work, and Play Freedom in work and life Savoring relationships, art, joy, and laughter makes life worth living. Today, the way we do these things is changing. We can now learn, work, and play in hybrid ways that suit individual needs. This means self-directed learners need access to education and job preparation. Likewise, self-directed workforces need freedom, flexibility, and the ability to manage their goals. How can we provide better access to rewarding, satisfying work? What tools and support systems do people need to thrive? We invest in powerful visions for the future of learning, work, and play.

Our mission is to our generation’s biggest challenge, climate change, we have to rethink the way we do business entirely. We invest in early-stage companies that develop innovative technologies and business models to mitigate climate change and embrace this challenge as an enormous business opportunity. Our investment focusSustainable Agri & Food Tech Clean Energy & Power Green Transportation & Mobility Advanced Manufacturing & Resource Efficiency Carbon Capture, Storage & Utilization We focus on double-impact We created Übermorgen Ventures with double-impact in mind and without time pressure. We deploy patient capital to allow our ventures to maximise business success and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Financial returns: We look for businesses that embrace climate change mitigation as an opportunity to create above-market financial returns. Greenhouse gas reduction: We only invest in ventures that have the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The impact of our portfolio will be measured and reported frequently. Our previous track record as business angels shows that we know how to invest early-stage40+ direct investments in early-stage startups collectively 57% combined net IRR over the past 10 years 30+ years of combined experience in entrepreneurship, early-stage investing and sustainability

At Sustainable Ventures we believe in the power of commercial innovation to address the twin challenges of climate change and resource scarcity. We are on a mission to develop 1000 sustainable start-ups by 2025. Since 2011, we have founded 10 companies, invested in 30 and supported the development of over 250 more. Our team includes some of the country’s most talented sector specialist venture development and investment professionals, all dedicated to creating value for our community whilst making the world a better place. Through Sustainable Workspaces, we create inspiring and collaborative hubs to support sustainable businesses. We are currently located in County Hall, the first phase of our flagship HQ. The Sustainable Accelerator invests in and provides targeted support to the best early stage ventures ready for rapid growth – our focus verticals are Food & Agritech, Building Technology, Mobility, Future Energy and the Circular Economy. Our Venture Services and Programmes teams provide start-ups in this sector with the tools they need to succeed. From finance to design, project management to business development – we’re on hand to support climate tech entrepreneurs when they need it most. At heart though we remain entrepreneurs ourselves, and continue to take our own ideas from concept to exit through our Venture Development function. Here to support your growth - from beer mat to exitInvestment: Our accelerator is designed to empower you through investment and hands-on support. Workspaces: Unique, collaborative coworking spaces, curated exclusively for climate tech businesses. Business support: Delivering advice, expertise and direct grant support to climate tech startups and entrepreneurs. Grant Writing: Helping you secure much-needed non-dilutive funding to accelerate venture development. Design: Take your innovation from idea to market with impact-led product, brand and experience design. R&D Tax Credits: Claim back your R&D costs so that you can continue to develop and grow your business. Our values are what we live and breathe, and reflect our entrepreneurial spiritSustainable: Everything we do has an enduring and positive impact on society, our economy and the environment. Commercial: Every solution, product or technology we develop needs to be on a path to becoming financially sustainable. Creative: We are passionate about our work and finding new ways to overcome the challenges of developing and growing new businesses. Pragmatic: We measure our impact on what is actually done - so our solutions and advice need to be deliverable using the available resources. Supportive: We understand delivering growth companies is hard; we empathise with entrepreneurs, investors and team members and help them achieve their goals. Collaborative: We recognise that we deliver greater value to our clients and stakeholders by working together.

We look for startups to address global climate and UN Sustainable Development goals in the following areas: Low carbon mobility solutions Sustainable Energy & Resource Optimization: We're looking for companies that can help power our societies with cleaner energy and optimize our resource utilization to hand over our beautiful earth to the next generations. Sustainable Food & Agriculture: We look at solutions that enable a regenerative and carbon-negative economy, such as alternative protein, ag innovation, carbon sequestration, and blue economy. Sustainable production and heavy industry: We support innovative technologies and solutions eliminating carbon from society in industry, such as alternative plastics, sustainable materials, and processing Decarbonized built environment: We support innovations that contribute to energy efficiency, low carbon construction, and end-use. Integrated Solutions: Further holistic decarbonization efforts such as carbon capture, circular economy, climate risk, insurance tech, green finance, behavioral change, consumer B2B+B2C solutions including carbon accounting, reporting, and more Vectors Impact Pledge We are dedicated to supporting companies that can create a positive impact in solving global challenges. We encourage our portfolio companies to sign the Vectors Impact Pledge, which they quantify their current positive impacts and their long term impact goals