{"id":57296,"date":"2026-01-12T13:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/strong-year-almost-30-more-start-ups-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:36:06","slug":"strong-year-almost-30-more-start-ups-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/en\/strong-year-almost-30-more-start-ups-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong year: almost 30% more start-ups in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"57296\" class=\"elementor elementor-57296 elementor-57282\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-402a555 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"402a555\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cdf2d04 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cdf2d04\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p> <\/p><p>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 to significantly increase the number of start-ups with a rise of 26% compared to 2024, but has stagnated over time since 2019. These results come from the new &#8220;Next Generation&#8221; report published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/startupverband.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German Startup Association<\/a> together with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startupdetector.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">startupdetector<\/a>.   <\/p><p>Start-up activity is growing in almost all federal states. In the ranking, the city states of Hamburg with 10.9 and Berlin with 16.8 start-ups per 100,000 inhabitants show the greatest start-up activity, with Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony recording the largest increases in start-ups. <\/p><p>The software sector remains the driving force behind start-up development: with 853 new start-ups in 2025, it recorded the strongest absolute growth, up 38% on 2024. The medical sector followed with 428 new start-ups, an increase of 46%. <\/p><p>Artificial intelligence is a clear key driver: 27% of start-ups in 2025 will incorporate AI as an important component of their business models &#8211; a cross-industry dynamic that is particularly evident in advertising (55.6% share) and LegalTech (50.9% share). The AI dynamic is also particularly evident in real estate and finance, which are benefiting from the positive AI development in the FinTech sector. The number of start-ups increased to a strong 124 after 97 in 2024.  <\/p><p>It is encouraging that the number of insolvencies has fallen slightly compared to the previous year &#8211; down 11% &#8211; and that the B2C sector is continuing to recover. The number of start-ups in the food sector increased by 80%. <\/p><p>The entire &#8220;Next Generation&#8221; report can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/startupverband.de\/fileadmin\/startupverband\/mediaarchiv\/research\/Next_Generation_Report\/Next_Generation_Startup-Neugruendungen_in_Deutschland_Jan_25_-_Dez_25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.  <\/p><p> <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 to significantly increase the number of start-ups with a rise of 26% compared to 2024, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":57297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jet_sm_ready_style":"","_jet_sm_style":"","_jet_sm_controls_values":"","_jet_sm_fonts_collection":"","_jet_sm_fonts_links":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57298,"href":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57296\/revisions\/57298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startupport.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}