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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13. 01. 2026
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...

12. 01. 2026
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...

17. 12. 2025
Four founders of the start-up A/D-Evolution, standing next to each other on Jungfernstieg, with the Binnenalster in the background

A/D-Evolution GmbH has reached an important milestone on its start-up journey. Since December 2025, the team led by founders Finn Wellershaus, Colja Vorhoff, Alexander Becker, Daniel Osterholz and Daniel Pieper has received the EXIST start-up grant from the Federal Ministry...