By bringing startups, developers, ecosystem partners and leading digital telco together, hubraum sparks innovation transfer and creates business opportunities for all sides.
Our initiatives
Security Co-Creation Program
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Welcome to our Security Co-Creation Program — an initiative designed to empower startups at the forefront of (AI-driven) security solutions. Our program seeks visionary technologies to strengthen cybersecurity & network security defenses through advanced solutions in prevention, detection, and response.
If you’re building the future of intelligent cybersecurity & network security, we want to help you bring your innovations to market. Join us to create a safer digital world.
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Digital Innovation Program
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The program fosters innovation by providing participants with an access to Deutsche Telekom’s powerful infrastructure, expert mentoring, and a collaborative environment. By working closely with a wide network of industry experts and innovators, you'll have the opportunity to test, refine, and showcase your ideas in a real-world setting.
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First Mover API Program
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Welcome to the API world of Deutsche Telekom! MagentaBusiness APIs are all about empowering businesses and developers with enhanced communication capabilities. Our network APIs grant users access to dedicated quality of service for the network, device location services, and real-time device status checks, and more.
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Looking for testing or prototyping options?
With a focus on products, services, and enablers strategically connected to Deutsche Telekom’s network and data assets, hubraum has opened up cutting-edge innovation labs in Berlin and Krakow. They welcome innovators from various tech industries, as the labs are equipped with unique telco assets by Telekom, including 5G tech and connectivity APIs, alongside future-proof technologies like Wi-Fi Sensing.
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Looking for a space to work?
We have two state-of-the-art campuses in Berlin and Krakow. Visitors can access a 5G test bed, a makers’ space and 3D printers at each location. They can also tap into the tech expertise of our engineers, who are based onsite. Also available: office spaces, conference rooms, free coffee and drinks for guests and a buzzy atmosphere.
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Key facts
hubraum isn’t just a startup incubator owned by Deutsche Telekom — we’re a force to be reckoned with. Don’t believe us? Check out our stats so far. We collected these numbers and we couldn't be prouder of the picture they paint: even after a decade, we're still growing and striking upon infinite ways to innovate.
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Founder stories
MATSUKO's mission is to imbue remote communication with a sense of physical presence and in doing so, to create the closest alternative to face-to-face meetings. Our partnership with hubraum and other leading telcos is crucial for enhancing our user experience and the quality of service. Together with these telcos, we are preparing the service to be interoperable and integrated with several devices and services. More specifically, the 5G network APIs we've had access to at hubraum have improved our user experience. Real-time streaming requires a high resolution, which in turn demands stable bandwidth — even when we have heavy traffic, we needed to guarantee a high frame rate to be able to see the facial expressions of the hologram clearly, and a low latency in order to interact in real time and thus supply a feeling of presence.
Working with hubraum has been an incredibly transformative and elevating journey for our startup and technology!
Collaborating with a global telco leader like Deutsche Telekom is both inspiring and rewarding, while hubraum's meticulous organization ensures every aspect of the Wi-Fi Sensing Program, which we took part in, is seamlessly managed. This enabled us to focus on what we do best: innovation.
We had exclusive access to cutting-edge technologies like Wi-Fi Sensing and proudly showcased our advancements with it at DigitalX – an absolutely outstanding opportunity, with more to come at our next stop with hubraum - MWC ’25 in Barcelona!
hubraum is a great partner — they champion us relentlessly, something which leads to us working smoothly with Deutsche Telekom. Whenever you have an idea of how they can be helpful they will go to great lengths to make it happen. They’re a 10/10 founder-friendly team.
Our journey with hubraum has been nothing short of amazing! hubraum truly cares about its startups’ success. Its commitment to supporting innovative ideas and businesses is what sets them apart as a valuable partner in the startup community. We had so much fun during the AR scavenger hunt at the hubraum campus during the 10th anniversary. Besides this, we also had the opportunity to demonstrate our products in Bonn. These events have been so helpful for us for collecting leads, meeting investors, and networking with fellow entrepreneurs.
Our collaboration with hubraum of Deutsche Telekom has proven to be a crucial factor in our success. Thanks to the dedicated support of the hubraum team, we were able to establish valuable connections with key individuals within Telekom, enabling POCs, user tests, and laying the groundwork for future collaborations. The provision of office space and invitations to high-profile events such as the Startupnight in Berlin and the MWC in Barcelona, where we are privileged to showcase family.cards at the hubraum booth, has significantly enhanced our reach and visibility. This partnership has not only propelled our product development forward but also positioned us uniquely to introduce family.cards to a global audience.
MATSUKO's mission is to imbue remote communication with a sense of physical presence and in doing so, to create the closest alternative to face-to-face meetings. Our partnership with hubraum and other leading telcos is crucial for enhancing our user experience and the quality of service. Together with these telcos, we are preparing the service to be interoperable and integrated with several devices and services. More specifically, the 5G network APIs we've had access to at hubraum have improved our user experience. Real-time streaming requires a high resolution, which in turn demands stable bandwidth — even when we have heavy traffic, we needed to guarantee a high frame rate to be able to see the facial expressions of the hologram clearly, and a low latency in order to interact in real time and thus supply a feeling of presence.
Working with hubraum has been an incredibly transformative and elevating journey for our startup and technology!
Collaborating with a global telco leader like Deutsche Telekom is both inspiring and rewarding, while hubraum's meticulous organization ensures every aspect of the Wi-Fi Sensing Program, which we took part in, is seamlessly managed. This enabled us to focus on what we do best: innovation.
We had exclusive access to cutting-edge technologies like Wi-Fi Sensing and proudly showcased our advancements with it at DigitalX – an absolutely outstanding opportunity, with more to come at our next stop with hubraum - MWC ’25 in Barcelona!
hubraum is a great partner — they champion us relentlessly, something which leads to us working smoothly with Deutsche Telekom. Whenever you have an idea of how they can be helpful they will go to great lengths to make it happen. They’re a 10/10 founder-friendly team.
Our journey with hubraum has been nothing short of amazing! hubraum truly cares about its startups’ success. Its commitment to supporting innovative ideas and businesses is what sets them apart as a valuable partner in the startup community. We had so much fun during the AR scavenger hunt at the hubraum campus during the 10th anniversary. Besides this, we also had the opportunity to demonstrate our products in Bonn. These events have been so helpful for us for collecting leads, meeting investors, and networking with fellow entrepreneurs.
Our collaboration with hubraum of Deutsche Telekom has proven to be a crucial factor in our success. Thanks to the dedicated support of the hubraum team, we were able to establish valuable connections with key individuals within Telekom, enabling POCs, user tests, and laying the groundwork for future collaborations. The provision of office space and invitations to high-profile events such as the Startupnight in Berlin and the MWC in Barcelona, where we are privileged to showcase family.cards at the hubraum booth, has significantly enhanced our reach and visibility. This partnership has not only propelled our product development forward but also positioned us uniquely to introduce family.cards to a global audience.
Startups we´re currently working with
AISight
AISight automates machine diagnostics for the manufacturing industry with a scalable and easy-to-use AI sensor solution.
Arktikus
Arktikus is an IoT system enabling users to monitor professional refrigeration equipment remotely.
fire finder
fire finder uses a dense network of sensors analyzing the air (FF) along with artificial intelligence which recognizes fire and smoke in the image from observation cameras (SF) to create a system which detects wildfires early.
GAS360
GAS360 is an AI cleantech startup whose vision is to use technology to drive the adoption of clean cooking methods in emerging markets.
Green City Solutions
Green City Solutions provides solutions which combine nature with technology to ameliorate air pollution in cities.
mTAP smart city
mTap Smart City produces AI-driven street lamp controllers and system management.
nota AI
Nota is a compressed AI solutions and software optimization platform with a focus on B2B and B2G markets.
pebblebee
Pebblebee provides an umbrella of patented tracking solutions which aim to provide peace of mind.
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#legal #startups #sales | hubraum
Our partners from Velsa are hosting an insightful (and important!) online workshop on legally securing your first sales-customer contracts. 📝 Learn what to look out for and how to ensure you're on the safe side with Leon Wisskirchen and Axel von Goldbeck on September 10th! #Legal #Startups #Sales
Our #VisionXperience event series with ZAUBAR is back! We’re teaming up once again to bring an edition that promises something special - a deep dive into how XR and AI are already shaping cultural events.💡 On September 25th at our Berlin campus, we’ll explore the future of museums and tours in the Metaverse with 3 experts: - Jeff Mannes, Cultural Historian & Professional Tour Guide - Steffen Jost, Head of Digital & Publishing at the Jewish Museum Berlin - Andreas Engwert, Historian & Educator at the Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen 👉 Expect insights on everything from queer history with AR overlays to sensitive memorial experiences enriched by digital layers! As always, our VisionXperience event goes beyond discussing - it’s about community. Join us for fresh ideas, stay for the networking and leave with new connections and knowledge! 🗓 Date & time: September 25th from 17:00 📍 Location: hubraum Berlin, Winterfeldtstraße 21 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eaxaYpcz #AI #XR #BerlinEvents #Innovation Stefan Marx | Anne-Sophie Panzer | Verena Dillenburg
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#startups #innovation #tech | hubraum
Two weeks, two program announcements... Introducing the Tangible Tomorrow Program. ⚡️ Pairing promising innovators with hubraum mentors and Deutsche Telekom experts, our brand new Tangible Tomorrow Program will run tight sprints focused on joint research, co-development and tapping into global opportunities. We're beyond excited to announce that the pitching phase is already in full swing! 🤝 What’s in it for the teams? - Access to Telekom's infrasfuture technology and testing labs - The chance to develop use cases and accelerate them - Joint research and co-development with Telekom and our academic partners - Co-working spaces in Berlin and Kraków - Tapping into our vast network of partners, VCs and innovators The first big update is also here: We've already given the green light to the first wave of teams! 📍 Together, we’ll explore 3 key innovation areas: - Next-gen connectivity Think: Free-Space Optical Communication (FSO) or Li-Fi - Human-machine interaction Think: new materials and sensors powering medicine, mobility, robotics and beyond - Telco tech inspiration Think: fresh network use cases redefining how we experience communication tomorrow Stay tuned - more details are coming soon! #Startups #Innovation #Tech T-Labs
Here's why being a hubraum resident isn’t just about office space: Welcome to our garage and Maker's Space! This is where ideas turn into prototypes and prototypes into products. ⚡ Our Maker's Space in Berlin is accessible for all hubraum startups and residents, enabling: - 3D printing - Light metalwork - Electronics diagnostics - Laser cutting - Pre-series production The space is fully equipped for our teams to build, test and iterate on their innovation! Our resident startup enamentis GmbH is a great example: Ole and his team frequent the garage, as having access to these facilities means their team can experiment and stay flexible - exactly what early-stage innovation requires. 🤝 What’s one tool or resource you wish your startup had access to while your team was building its first prototype? Let us know in the comments below. 👇 #Innovation #Prototyping #Startups #Berlin Verena Dillenburg | Jana Eisfeld
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#innovation #startups #education | hubraum
Cheers to the MBA students from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore! Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming 30 of them on our campus in Berlin - a return visit coordinated by our friends at ESCP Business School. 🤝 Our Incubation Lead Tim Akgül kicked things off with an introduction to hubraum, T-Labs and our programs & activities, setting up the stage for a lively Q&A session. The students then had the opportunity to delve into a real startup story with founder Johannes Ottmann from Doings, whose pitch sparked curious questions and insightful reflections about AI-driven productivity and the future of work. The MBA group was engaged, ready to ask challenging questions and explored deep tech topics in detail with us! Thank you for the curiosity and forward-thinking discussions. 🎯 We continued the exchange with a guided tour of our campus and some great networking. For our team, moments like this highlight the importance of staying close to academia: sharing our learnings from startup incubation while being inspired by the fresh perspectives of tomorrow’s founders and leaders is invaluable for everyone involved! Exchanges like this strengthen the bridge between research, education and applied innovation, and we look forward to the next one.💡 #Innovation #Startups #Education Jana Eisfeld
We're thrilled to be a Stage Two strategic partner for another year! Stage Two is where some of Europe’s most exciting university-born startups first step onto a bigger stage. For us, it’s a place to spot bold ideas early on and get acquainted with emerging founders coming straight out of research and ready to tackle global challenges. 🤝 Take FloodWaive, for example. We first met them through Stage Two last year. Their AI-powered flood prediction technology left a mark on our team and today, they’re exploring cooperation with Deutsche Telekom and hubraum. This is the kind of journey we want to fuel: taking promising solutions out of the research lab and into the real world! 💡 As our Marketing & Communication Manager Verena Dillenburg put it: "Seeing so many professional startups emerge directly from European universities, offering tech and business solutions to some of the world's biggest challenges, is the strongest motivation for a corporation like Deutsche Telekom to support Stage Two. Only by joining forces can we close the gap between research and go-to-market." Thank you to the Stage Two team and all the founders who make this ecosystem so vibrant! #StageTwo #PartnershipsForTheFuture #Startups
Yesterday, we kicked off our 25th innovation program. Big milestones often make us look back at where it all began... One of the very first chapters of our story? 👉 Blinkist. Back in 2012, hubraum’s investment team became the first (and only) investor in Blinkist’s pre-seed round. At that point, it was a little more than a bold idea, a small team and a lot of ambition. As Blinkist's Founder Holger Seim reminded us yesterday, their very first “launch” was more like a non-launch: a stealthy landing page (featuring the photo below), a cryptic manifesto and a waitlist meant to tease rather than tell. Looking back, he admits it didn’t have much business impact but it taught the team some of their earliest lessons about clarity, storytelling and focus! Those are lessons that would ultimately shape Blinkist into the global product it is today. Fast-forward more than a decade since our (and Blinkist's) beginnings, they have grown into a global leader in microlearning, turned profitable in 2020, and celebrated a remarkable exit in 2023. A shared success story that still inspires us, showing how far the right mix of vision, timing, and support can go. 🎯 To Holger, Tobias, Niklas, and the whole Blinkist team: thank you for the amazing journey! And here’s to the next 25 programs, where we hope to spark many more stories like this. 🚀 #Innovation #Startups #Scaleups #Learning
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#cybersecurity #ai #innovation | hubraum
Our Security Co-Creation Program is in full swing! Today marks the official kick-off on our campus in Berlin - a day packed with pitches, deep dives, mentoring and most importantly, fresh ideas to make the digital world safer. 🔐 We're thrilled to introduce the 5 promising startups joining us: 🇫🇷 Whispeak (France) Secure, voiceprint-based authentication that makes logging in seamless and safe for all industries, from healthcare to e-learning. 🇳🇱 Syntho (Netherlands) AI-generated synthetic data that unlocks data use while guaranteeing privacy, recognized by NVIDIA and UNESCO. 🇩🇪 QuantiCor Security GmbH (Germany) Quantum-resistant cryptography building a shield against the cyber threats of the future. 🇮🇱 DeepKeep (Israel) AI-native security ensuring trustworthy, bias-free and explainable machine learning pipelines. 🇺🇸 Virtue AI (USA) Rigorous AI safety and security assessments that help enterprises deploy AI responsibly and confidently. The day started with our Program Managers Laurita Mora and Tim Akgül setting the stage for all 5 teams to pitch their solutions and get acquainted with their mentors and our mentoring concept, ensuring every founder knows who’s in their corner for the months ahead. 🤝 In the afternoon, the focus shifted to 1:1 deep-dive sessions: Each startup sat down with our experts from Deutsche Telekom for tailored feedback, industry insights, and concrete discussions on how to shapen their solutions to ensure they are enterprise-scale ready. We wrapped up with planning for our Demo Day, already giving a glimpse of the milestones to come! And that's just day 1... Stay tuned as we delve deeper into the solutions, highlight how our mentoring framework connects founders with the right expertise, and showcase the cooperation between Telekom teams and the startups. We’ll also be sharing more about how these technologies address real-world security challenges and how they’re shaping the journey towards the Demo Day later this year! Our team looks forward to co-creating with Virtue AI, DeepKeep, QuantiCor Security, Syntho and Whispeak in the months to come - welcome on board. 🚀 #Cybersecurity #AI #Innovation
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#cybersecurity #ai #innovation | hubraum
Tomorrow, we officially kick off our brand-new Security Co-Creation Program! Cyber threats aren’t slowing down and neither are the people building solutions to fight them. 🔐 This initiative is all about detecting, preventing and responding to cyberattacks using AI, automation, and ideas that go beyond what's available today. 💡 What exactly will we work on? Think device compromise detection, phishing defense, anomaly tracking, secure infrastructure and more! But also: brand new approaches to compliance, automation and AI-driven resilience. 🎯 How will the program work? Led by Program Managers Tim Akgül and Laurita Mora, we'll bring startups, Deutsche Telekom experts and industry partners together to tackle some of the hardest questions in cybersecurity... and we couldn’t be more excited! 🤝 Who are the teams joining us? Stay tuned - as we kick off the program TOMORROW, we'll also officially announce the program participants, what they're working on, and more exciting program details. The journey is about to start! Are you ready? #Cybersecurity #AI #Innovation
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#berlintech #startups #innovation | hubraum
Mark your calendars - on September 24th, our friends from REAKTOR BERLIN are hosting Family Day for Batch 8! It'll be an afternoon full of startup pitches, success stories and bold conversations about what drives innovation today. 🤝 Expect two heavyweight panels with top investors, founders and policymakers on: - Exits & IPOs - Ecosystem Dynamics 🌟 The event's spotlight? REAKTOR's Batch 8 startups (plus teams from Reaktor Wildau), who will pitch their ideas in sharp 5-minute slots that will inspire and impress! As residents on our campus, REAKTOR is a vital part of our community and we’re proud to see their startups take the stage and share their innovations with Berlin’s ecosystem. 🗓 When? September 24th from 2pm 📍 Where? Schinkelplatz 5, Berlin 🎟️ Tickets? Get them here: https://lnkd.in/eVuh3EGn #BerlinTech #Startups #Innovation Dr. Anna Maria Loffredo | Jana Eisfeld | wempyre | Aury | ComplyDo | OGIMA | GOGIA
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FAQ
Programs
What kind of support do you provide the participants of the IoT Space Challenge with?
You'll be able to work with Deutsche Telekom IoT connectivity tech like NB-IoT/LT-M and business mentors from Deutsche Telekom; get insights about the European Earth Observation data from ESA experts and access expert support from T-Systems in using the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem. Plus, last but not least, also access hubraum’s campuses in Berlin and Krakow and get support from our diverse team (who have expertise in everything from engineering to investment).
What you can expect when working at our Berlin campus?
You'll get access to our events, training sessions and conferences; you'll be able to use our tech equipment to test out products; attend community lunches; and of course, to use our kitchen. Pets are welcome!
What kind of activities do you offer in Developer Relations?
We provide infrastructure and APIs to allow you to test products and services in real-life environments. We also promote knowledge sharing, with our 5G Early Access Program, hackathons, Meetups, Slack community and more.