Bosch Startup Harbour becomes part of Bosch Business Innovations effective 2025
Scouting external technologies and start-ups in global ecosystems is essential to stay at the forefront of business building and to adapt to rapidly changing markets. Effective January 2025, grow platform GmbH will be transformed into Bosch Business Innovations GmbH, thereby expanding its strategic scope to external start-up engagements as well. As part of this expansion, the newly designed unit will consolidate the ecosystem competences of the Bosch Startup Harbour.
Gateway to external ecosystems
The Bosch Startup Harbour team with its external ecosystem expertise and network will therefore increasingly contribute to future business growth for the Group.
Veronika Brandt, head of Startup Harbour and future head of the ecosystem engagement team at Bosch Business Innovations says: "We connect Bosch and external stakeholders to gain new insights and to build strong partnerships. Thus, we accelerate the development of sustainable business for Bosch.”
Startups particularly benefit from a moderated matchmaking and collaboration with the corporate, access to a large network of experts and ecosystem partners, individual mentoring providing valuable feedback and from the possibility to validate their solutions and business models in pilot projects.
About the Startup Harbour program
At the intersection of corporate research & development and external startup networks, the Bosch Startup Harbour program creates innovation ecosystems supporting engineers, business developers, and founders to foster growth opportunities. The program aims to enable collaboration between early-stage startups and Bosch. This leads to an early validation of new technologies and business models and significantly accelerates new ventures – both on the corporate and startup side.
In the past, the Startup Harbour program nurtured several promising collaborations, learnings, and connections with external early-stage tech startups in the field of software-defined manufacturing, generative AI & synthetic data, or IT and digitization. The program also fostered close relations with the Berlin startup scholarship program.
