The next generation doesn’t wait.
Meet the
cracked &
the curious
People make it happen.
Dryft
Mutagent
Your way in
Big ambitions.
The right partnership.
Tell us what you have in mind. We’ll find your place in the ecosystem.
What matters most to you right now?
Your next advantage
is already here.
Exceptional talent. Tomorrow’s decision makers. A community moving AI forward.
Talent
Hire the cracked 2%.
Curated talent profiles in your dedicated Partner Dashboard, plus access to the TUM.ai Jobboard. Find your next senior engineer or technical co-founder before anyone else.
Decision Makers
Direct access to future founders & leaders.
Host exclusive company visits, workshops and co-organized events. Get in front of the people who'll be deciding tool budgets in three years in the fastest-growing industries in Europe.
Network & Exposure
Your brand, inside the room where AI is built.
Your brand in front of a 20k+ LinkedIn audience, our newsletter and the major events we run. Consistent visibility across the community where Europe's next AI companies are being built.
Let’s talk.
Small acceptance rate. Outsized potential.
- Started applications per batch
- 2,100+
- Acceptance rate per batch
- 2.3%
- Official members
- 1,000+
- LinkedIn impressions (last 12 months)
- 1.2M+
Three pillars.
One ecosystem.
From the first research question to the next venture. Find your place at every stage.
Research
5+Publications
At top-tier conferences (ICML, ECCV, NeurIPS, and ICLR). Collabs with frontier AI labs (MIT, Cambridge, Harvard, IBM Research); partners shape the research agenda directly.
Venture (ELAB)
€8M+Raised
Raised by alumni and counting (YC, EWOR, Spherecast, Mercura, dryft). 15–20 teams each incubator iteration, alumni backed by YC, EWOR and top VCs, partners join exclusive demo days early.
Hackathons
2,500+Participants
Over all our hackathons (OpenAI, AWS, Anthropic, Google). 500+ participants at our signature Makeathon, European Hackathon League across 3 cities (Munich, Paris and Zurich), partners host challenges, booths and company pitches.
The cracked 2%.
Meet the people who turn
“what if” into what’s next.
Leonie Freisinger
Mohamed Elrefaie
Jasmin El-Wafi
top tier individuals
20+ majors
30+ universities
Where they go afterwards
The company
we keep.
Meet the partners helping
the next generation build.
Gold partners
Silver partners
Bronze partners
Supporters of the vision
Real partnerships.
Real outcomes.
Good conversations are a start.
Here’s what comes after.
QuantCo
75%
From collaboration to colleagues
From one joint project, 3 out of 4 members joined QuantCo full-time. A 75% conversion from collaboration to permanent hires.
BMW
48h
Real challenges. Tangible results.
"40 of Munich's best AI engineers. Some really tangible results. In just 48 hours."
Manuel, Head of Innovation, BMW Group
Osapiens
20+
Applications into the hiring pipeline
One hackathon. 40 competing teams. 20+ applications straight into the hiring pipeline.
Get the same results: book a call.
Let's build
something big!
The next chapter of AI starts with the right people.
Let’s bring yours and ours together.