Anyone can start a company!

Get the knowledge and expertise of an entire region for your start-up! At Startup Port, you get everything from a single source. Regardless of whether you already have a concrete start-up idea or simply feel the entrepreneurial spirit within you – we will support, coach and network you.

The Startup Port bundles the support services of ten universities and research institutions from the Hamburg metropolitan region for students, researchers and graduates in preparing their technology and knowledge-oriented start-ups.

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Qualify, network, promote – our offers are aimed at students and researchers with an interest in start-ups, young start-ups, but also established companies and start-up consultancies. For us, the focus is always on the question of how startups can be planned and organized as purposefully and successfully as possible.

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Symbolic image with coins and a plant shoot emerging from them on the subject of funding, sustainability, foundations
Der aktuelle Green Startup Report 2026 zeigt deutlich: Nachhaltige Startups sind ein zentraler Treiber für Klimaschutz und Emissionsreduktion in Deutschland. Laut Report verursachen Green Startups über 70 % weniger CO₂-Emissionen als herkömmliche Lösungen – ein wesentlicher Beitrag auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität bis 2045. [...] Die Ergebnisse zeigen auch, dass Stiftungen wie bspw. die Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) ein zunehmend wichtiger Bestandteil des Förderökosystems werden - neben klassischen Programmen von Bund, Land und EU, zu denen wir im Startup Port bereits beraten.
The team at amsight GmbH, specialist for data-based quality management in industrial 3D printing production

Major success for amsight: the specialist for data-based quality management in industrial 3D printing production has gained Butterfly & Elephant Beteiligungsgesellschaft (GS1 Germany) as a strategic partner. The investment, which amsight GmbH raised as part of a pre-seed II financing...

Illustration for the Next Generation 2025 report, S tartup Association, startupdetector

The startup scene experienced record momentum with 3,568 new startups in 2025. This is an increase of 29% compared to 2024 and significantly more than in the record year 2021, when 3,196 new companies were founded. Hamburg was also able...

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