Overview
The matchmaking event where people with ideas and people with skills come together to get off the ground as a startup team. Individual founders or founding teams and people interested in founding a company from different universities and research institutions come together to exchange ideas across disciplines, network, share ideas, think them through further together – and in the process grow together to form ideal founding teams.
Photos © Anne Gaertner
Description
Cast off! You have an idea and want to found a startup, but the right crew is still missing? Or you don’t have a start-up idea at all, but want to get hired somewhere and bring some knowledge and qualifications with you? Then “Meet&Match” offers you the opportunity to network and share! Our matchmaking event aims to build successful startup teams. In a guided process lasting several weeks, you go through various phases of getting to know each other and see if you fit together as a team. How does that work? Very simple!
- Phase 1: “Meet&Match” starts with a kick-off event where founders (teams) pitch their startup ideas. Afterwards, there will be a kind of “speed dating” in which founders (teams) and people interested in founding a company will have a first short exchange.
- Phase 2: Following the kick-off event, the aim is to get to know each other better on a personal level. This is about getting to know each other even better and seeing if the sympathy is right.
- Phase 3: If the chemistry between you is right, then it goes into the working phase. Here you can now check how you function as future colleagues in the team. To do this, you work on existing or fictitious problems and test what your collaboration would look like.
- Phase 4: Finally, you will address more sensitive topics, e.g., responsibilities, foundation shares, etc.
The team behind “Meet&Match” accompanies you during each phase, provides you with working and communication guidelines and mediates if it turns out during a phase that it is not a hundred percent fit after all. However, if you pass through all the stages successfully, then we talk about a match. With this, you are ready to put your idea into action as a founding team. And if you notice in the course of the phases that there is something wrong, no problem! You can go through the phases with several people at the same time or simply register for the next round of “Meet&Match”.
Field report
Oliver and Lars were there for the first run of “Meet&Match” and report on their experiences in our news. Just click:
Compact info
Target group:
- Groups and/or individuals with startup idea
- Individuals with desire/interest to found, but without concrete idea
This offer is primarily aimed at members of the affiliated institutions. We are also happy to allocate free places to other interested start-ups from the Hamburg metropolitan region or beyond.
Format:
Matchmaking
Start:
3-4x a year
Duration:
Individual process of several weeks per matchmaking round (depends on the respective get-to-know team)
Cost:
Free of charge
Registration
Are you interested in “Meet&Match” and would like to meet your future founding team? In several phases, we accompany the teams that emerge from this process with advice and support right up to their founding. Registrations are possible at any time.
The next rounds of Meet&Match will start on 12.12.2023 and 28.03.2024. On March 28, we will host a special edition of Meet&Match with a focus on social entrepreneurship. So you have an idea that can contribute to positive change in society? Or would you like to support one? Then come and register for the event!
A kick-off event will be held at the beginning of each round. There you will have the opportunity to get to know each other and exchange ideas. Potential founders will pitch their ideas. Afterwards, we get to know each other and sound out which idea might be interesting for which co-founder. Please indicate in the registration form which event you would like to attend.
At the moment, we are particularly looking for people who are interested in founding a company but do not have their own start-up idea, but who could well imagine supporting a start-up project with their skills. Other exciting start-up ideas are, of course, still welcome!
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