Empowering Europe's Ecosystem Leaders
Empowering Europe's Ecosystem Leaders
Your founders deserve the strongest ecosystem support Europe has to offer.
That’s why we created Rise & Scale, the European conference for ecosystem builders.
Prof. Matthias Notz
Global CEO, Start2 Group
Why Rise & Scale
Strenghtening your Verticals
Map the key actors shaping your industry verticals and align networks and resources to build stronger startup offerings. Co-create the critical mass needed for impactful industry collaboration.
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Crafting Sustainable Business Models
Move your hub beyond public funding. Join a conversation with peers who successfully created lasting financial models through equity, infrastructure, consulting, and partnership approaches.
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Sharing Unforgettable Memories
Conclude the day with a memorable shared Berlin moment (our surprise!) that celebrates collaboration and reinforces the spirit of Rise & Scale.
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Building a European Community
Expand your European network and position your institution on the European stage. Exchange best practices in nurturing scaleup communities, co-create programs, and unlock consortium opportunities.
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Building a European Community
Expand your European network and position your institution on the European stage. Exchange best practices in nurturing scaleup communities, co-create programs, and unlock consortium opportunities.
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Ecosystem Leaders
Connect, learn, and gain visibility as a European leader.
Leave with actionable insights and partnerships that strengthen your ecosystem at home.
You Are Creating Europe’s Tech Future, so this is for you.
Who is it for?
Multiply your institutional impact.
Access peers, funding models, and collaboration opportunities across borders and verticals.
Organizations and Hubs
Founders Turned Enablers
Become the face of your ecosystem as you shape the next generation of founders.
Grow your impact by building bridges to ecosystem hubs.
Public Sector and Policy Makers
Bridge policy and practice.
Engage directly with the innovators shaping Europe’s next chapter of tech sovereignty.
Prof. Matthias Notz
CEO | Start2Group GmbH
Meet our
Speakers
Volker Hofmann
Managing Director | Humboldt-Innovation GmbH
CPO | Start2Group GmbH
Marius Rosenberg
Thomas Klem Andersen
Managing Director | Deep Tech Alliance
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Agenda
13:30 - 13:40
Opening & Welcome by Prof. Matthias Notz & Volker Hofmann
13:40 - 14:10
Ecosystem Community Bingo
Break the ice fast in freezing February with the most efficient way to expand your European network of peers.
Join a conversation with the people behind Europe’s most vibrant founder communities built bottom-up, university-led, and scaleup-centered.
Building Europe’s Startup Communities
14:10 - 15:10
15:10 - 15:50
Coffee Break and Networking
Vertical Breakouts
15:50 - 16:50
Expand your European network and ressources for your verticals Mobility, Climate Tech, Life Sciences, Computing, Industrial Tech, Cybersecurity & Dual Use, Infrastructure
Floating Dinner
19:00
13:00 - 13:30
Doors open
16:50 - 17:20
Followup Scheduling Break
17:20 - 18:20
Exchange with peers from innovation hubs who moved beyond public funding and built lasting financial resilience. Get inspired around equity models, infrastructure, consulting approaches and corporate partnership models.
Crafting Sustainable Business Models for Startup Hubs
18:20 - 19:00
Wrap-up & Transfer
We are not talking ecosystems.
We are powering them.
Join ecosystem leaders from across Europe to collaborate, co-create, and scale impact.
Marina Plietsch
Manager Special Growth Projects
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Aftermovie
Rise & Scale 2025
Agenda
13:00
Doors open
14:10
Building Europe’s Startup Communities
Join a conversation with the people behind Europe’s most vibrant founder communities built bottom-up, university-led, and scaleup-centered.
15:10
Coffee Break and Networking
15:50
Vertical Breakouts
Expand your European network and ressources for your verticals Mobility, Climate Tech, Life Sciences, Computing, Industrial Tech, Cybersecurity & Dual Use, Infrastructure
16:50
Followuo Scheduling Break
17:20
Crafting Sustainable Business Models for Startup Hubs
Exchange with peers from innovation hubs who moved beyond public funding and built lasting financial resilience. Get inspired around equity models, infrastructure, consulting approaches and corporate partnership models.
18:20
Wrap-Up & Transfer
19:00
Floating Dinner
13:30
Opening & Welcome by Prof. Matthias Notz & Volker Hofmann
13:40
Ecosystem Community Bingo
Break the ice fast in freezing February with the most efficient way to expand your European network of peers.