17 New Startups Everyone Should Know

Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, and the Ruhr area are not the only places with a lively startup scene — in recent years an exciting digital founder scene has also emerged in Stuttgart. “Stuttgart is one of the most underrated startup hubs in Germany,” wrote Benedikt Ilg, founder of Flip, recently on LinkedIn. In recent days, weeks, and months we have once again come across a number of young, fresh, new Stuttgart startups that everyone should know.

Hyfindr
Behind the Stuttgart-based company Hyfindr is a B2B marketplace for the booming hydrogen segment. The team around founders Steven Oji and Björn Lüssow describes the concept: “More than 70 known brands are already presenting their products globally. Engineers and purchasing professionals can find fitting components and systems with ease.”

gyde
The startup gyde, founded by Lukas Heinzmann and Omar Sanchez, sets out to develop executives further. The team describes the concept: “gyde empowers your executives through digital micro-learning and cross-company coaching with other executives.”

Million Steps
Million Steps relies on “digital, transparent proof of pasture-based farming for beef and dairy products”. Using GPS trackers, the company founded by Paula Ebert, Rico Noël, and Stefan Grimm ensures that “at least one million steps of the animals on the pasture” are documented.

metergrid
The young company metergrid wants to make tenant electricity — power generated decentrally in the immediate vicinity of residential buildings — scalable. In addition, the company founded by Martin Lowinski and Julian Schulz aims to “simplify the management of invoices, contracts, receivables, advance payments, tenant changes, and much more”.

Vispa
Vispa, founded by Sebastian Goebel, Christian von Bock, and Simon Walk, relies on “virtual 3D spaces for project management, workshop facilitation, and agile meetings”. The startup promises: “The 3D software enables genuine collaboration that is both fun and efficient.”

Detagto
The company Detagto tackles counterfeiting. “Instead of applying a marking, we use the natural surface structures on the components. Our software turns these into a digital fingerprint that identifies every part in a tamper-proof way,” writes the team around founders Benedikt Wigger, Christoph Gielisch, and Martin Ludwig.

PartsCloud
PartsCloud, founded by Benjamin Reichenecker and Fabian Gemmecke, focuses on spare-parts logistics. Here is what it is about: “Manage fulfillment and warehouse logistics digitally on a central platform, scale your capacities flexibly, and optimize your spare-parts processes efficiently.”

Kunveno
The startup Kunveno, formerly known as Kukudos, based in Stuttgart and founded by Tim Taraba, Yannick Dickel, and Dennis Knotz, positions itself as an appreciation platform. On the concept: “The focus is on measuring and improving employee engagement, employee experience, culture, and diversity & inclusion. The effect is measurable, and the impact is huge!”

Variolytics
Variolytics, founded by Matthias Stier, Johann Barlach, and Steffen Goerner, focuses on climate-neutral wastewater treatment plants. “AI-based control dynamically manages the wastewater process, reducing not only greenhouse gases but also energy and chemical consumption,” the startup states.

Blockbrain
The young company Blockbrain fights criminals and fraudsters. “Our platform analyzes millions of transactions on the blockchain to proactively detect threats and opportunities for your digital assets and crypto wallets. Blockbrain is your personal web3 guardian”, the concept states.

Qrago
The young company Qrago, founded by Christian Ruff and Alexander Kunze, has set out to establish itself as a “comprehensive solution for digitizing patient transport”. Specifically, this means “brokerage and planning software for logistics tasks in healthcare”. The startup “brokers, plans, and optimizes” its customers’ journeys.

Eve
Behind the startup Eve, founded by Dennis Herr, Philippe Orner, and Nicola Bürck, is a “digital best friend”. It is designed to make users feel “safe all evening long”. “Whether at the bar, in the club, on a date, or on the way home,” the team writes.

SmartflowAI
SmartflowAI focuses on “AI-generated market research and consulting slides”. The website of the company, founded by Christian Holzer and Gabriel Senftle, states: “Do your market research and slide-building in one click. Never spend a minute on market research and building fancy slides anymore. Let the AI do that.”

sat:io
The NewSpace startup sat:io, founded by Kai Leidig, Florian Schilli, and Sebastian Wenzel, develops “cloud-based tools within a holistic tool suite for planning and operating satellite missions”. The motto is: “Satellite Usage Made Simple”.

teamup
teamup focuses on tandem teams — people who want to share their job with someone else. “So that there is still enough time for the important things in life alongside your job, teamup finds you a suitable job-sharing match,” states the concept of the startup founded by Florian Maulick and Julia Grässel.

Vreed
The company Vreed, founded in 2022 by Thomas Wolter-Roessler and Jan Witkovsky, offers banks “a digital tool for analyzing and planning property renovations”. Its target group includes banks, building societies, and financing brokers.

linetrack
linetrack, founded by Michael Sindlinger, Thomas Sindlinger, Dominik Ratzel, and Marius Walz, focuses on “cross-company project tracking”. The cloud-based process-tracking platform aims to connect “all players in the value creation network”, so that everyone can track “all process progress across departments and companies”.

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