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Discover the innovative power of your community.

At the innoclub, family businesses, SMEs, and large corporations meet a selection of handpicked startups.With our innovation network, we want to empower established companies from Dortmund and the Westphalian Ruhr area to initiate their own transformation processes and openly exchange ideas about current technologies in the start-up scene.

Corporates & SMEs in our innovation network

"Wir wollen dazu beitragen, Wachstum potentialorientierter und noch kontinuierlicher zu fördern." sagt Nico Hemmann, CEO, VORNvc Management GmbH

"im innoclub treffen wir auf Gleichgesinnte und erhalten Zugang zu einer kuratierten Auswahl exzellenter Start-ups" sagt Achim Dries, Chief Executive Officer der VAHLE Group

"Innovative Start-ups finden bei uns seit vielen Jahren ihr Zuhause. Die Verortung des innoclubs im TechnologieZentrumDortmund passt deshalb perfekt!" sagt Dirk Stürmer, Geschäftsführer des TechnologieZentrumDortmund

Small Contribution.
Big Impact.

The offers of the innoclub are exclusively for partner companies. This ensures the high quality of our various formats and contributes to the development of trusting relationships.

The annual contribution of our member companies is invested in selected start-ups to accelerate their development to scale-up. The annual contribution amount varies depending on the size of the company.

Beneftis for
partner companies

As club member, you can actively shape the development of innoclub and benefit from many advantages:

Always Up-to-Date.

Our partner companies promote innovation. They learn about new technologies and trends from various industries early on, allowing them to apply this knowledge within their own operations.

Exclusivity.

Our partner companies get to know a curated selection of local, regional, and national startups, all of which are operating in future-oriented industries with high scaling potential.

Entrepreneurial Spirit.

Interaction and collaboration with founders opens up new possibilities for our partner companies and their employees to foster their own innovation processes.

Local Hero.

Through their commitment to the innoclub, our partner companies commit themselves to Dortmund as a location for innovation and position themselves as promoters of the start-up ecosystem in the Westphalian Ruhr region. Their partnership contribution fees provide participating startups in the innoclub fellowship with free personalized services and infrastructure packages to accelerate their growth in Dortmund.

Im Rahmen des innoclub Openings am 24.01.2025 werden die Unternehmen Murtfeldt, GREEN IT, Die Techniker, Conciso, VAHLE Group, audalis, Diagramm Halbach, Sparkasse Dortmund und TechnologieZentrumDortmund als erste Partnerunternehmen des innoclubs vorgestellt.

Achim Dries, Chief Executive Officer der VAHLE Group, ist im innoclub dabei

Dirk Stürmer, Geschäftsführer des TechnologieZentrumDortmund, ist im innoclub dabei.

Unter den Unternehmenspartnern des innoclubs befinden sich neben der Sparkasse Dortmund, der VAHLE Group und dem TechnologieZentrumDortmund zahlreiche weitere Unternehmen aus Dortmund und dem Westfälischen Ruhrgebiet.

Jan Schriewer, Co-Founder und Chief Sales Officer von Green IT Das Systemhaus GmbH, ist im innoclub dabei.

Contact

Are you the managing director or innovation officer of an established company and always on the lookout for innovative technologies or novel business models? Are you interested in networking with promising start-ups?

Then please feel free to contact us and we will discuss in a personal meeting how our innovation network can help you move forward.