Federal Association of German Startups

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Federal Association of German Startups
(BVDS eV)
logo
legal form Registered association
purpose Association of German startup companies
Seat Berlin
founding 2012

place Berlin
president Christian Miele
Members 900
Website www.deutschestartups.org

The Federal Association of German Startups is a registered association based in Berlin and an interest group for the German startup industry . It was founded in 2012 as the representative and voice of startups in Germany . The association is committed to a founder-friendly Germany, promotes innovative entrepreneurship and wants to bring the startup mentality into society. As a network, the Federal Association of German Startups would like to connect founders, startups and their friends.

founding

The Federal Association of German Startups eV was founded in September 2012 by 18 startup entrepreneurs with the aim of establishing an association as the political mouthpiece for startups in Germany. The specific reason for the establishment were plans by the Federal Council for an anti-angel law that would tax free float dividends. In 2015 the association had grown to over 500 members. Today the association has more than 900 member companies. The Federal Association of German Startups also includes 36 student start-up initiatives. 20 full-time employees work in the Berlin headquarters.

structure

The association is organized nationwide and is divided into 15 regional groups. In July 2018, the association opened its first regional office - with responsibility for North Rhine-Westphalia - in Düsseldorf . The regional groups are supplemented by 24 specialist groups on various focuses such as HR, FinTech or Future Mobility. Since 2013, Gründermagnet eV, the mouthpiece of the student start-up initiatives in Germany, has been part of the Federal Association of German Startups.

Association work

Every year the association organizes numerous events aimed at startups in different phases of life. For example the StartupCamp Berlin, with more than 1,000 participants and more than 150 speakers, the largest early stage conference in Germany. Other regular events are ExitCon and the Growth Company Forum. In addition, the association organizes various delegation trips in which federal ministers regularly take part, such as the German Valley Week and the German Tel Aviv Week.

The association publishes its political goals in its startup agenda, which was last updated in June 2017. More than 100 startups were involved in creating the program. The BVDS is the only German digital association to be in favor of net neutrality .

German Israeli Startup Exchange Program (GISEP)

With the aim of networking the startup ecosystems of Germany and Israel , the federal association initiated the German Israeli Startup Exchange Program (GISEP) in September 2016. The program is intended to facilitate access to the other market and its networks for Israeli and German startups and investors. The program is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and has been part of the innovation policy cornerstones of the ministry since April 2017.

German Indian Startup Exchange Program (GINSEP)

The German Indian Startup Exchange Program (GINSEP) is a platform initiated by the German Startups Association and supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) to strengthen and promote German-Indian business relations in the start-up sector. The main goal of GINSEP is to promote the exchange between the two startup ecosystems. Within GINSEP, the Federal Association of German Startups is to act as a neutral mediator supporting the flow of information between the Indian and German startup ecosystems. GINSEP wants to support both German and Indian founders in understanding the ecosystem of the other country and making it accessible.

German Startup Monitor (DSM)

The Federal Association of German Startups publishes an annual study on the startup ecosystem in Germany with the German Startup Monitor (DSM). The DSM is considered to be the most important study on young companies in Germany, as it picks up on current developments in the start-up industry, such as the trend towards more employees with a migration background, and stores them with data. For the German Startup Monitor 2017, 1,837 startups with 4,245 founders, who represent more than 19,913 employees from the startup ecosystem, were surveyed.

In recent years, a European Startup Monitor (ESM) on the European ecosystem has also been published several times. The Female Founders Monitor (FFM) appeared for the first time in 2018 and takes a look at the growing number of female founders. In addition, the association regularly publishes various regional studies that are devoted to the startup ecosystem in individual federal states - such as Berlin.

Both DSM and ESM are listed in the German Central Library for Economics at the Leibnitz Information Center for Economics.

successes

The Federal Association of German Startups sees the end of the planned anti-angel legislation, i.e. securing the holding privilege for angel investments, as a political success, as does the introduction of the new scale market segment for startups at Deutsche Börse . In addition, the association refers to its role in expanding the venture capital investment subsidy and in evaluating the Small Investor Protection Act .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  16. ↑ Quo vadis, net neutrality? Bundesverband Deutsche Startups eV, accessed on March 23, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Zypries meets Israeli ambassador Hadas-Handelsman. Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy , accessed on July 13, 2017 .
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  30. ↑ Female Founders Monitor: What moves female founders. Wirtschaftswoche , accessed on July 5, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Berlin founders hardly find any employees in Germany. Start-up scene, accessed on July 5, 2018 .
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