Start-up services

A year of support for your business start-up: advice, contacts and a grant of 1000 euros per month for a maximum of one year.

North Rhine-Westphalia is helping craft start-ups in a variety of ways. A proven funding instrument, newly established in 2021, is the Master Craftswoman/Craftsman Start-up Bonus, known as the MGP.

The NRW business consulting program offers specific advice and support for your start-up.

Startercenter NRW offers start-up help to ensure that your first steps on the path to self-employment are successful: advice and information on business formations and company development are available at over 70 locations statewide.

The scaling up programme helps fast-growing start-ups address the particular requirements for rapid and international scaling.

Der Accelerator unterstützt hochtechnologische Start-ups und Spin-offs aus der Wissenschaft, sogenannte Deep-Techs, bei der Vernetzung mit Partnern, Industrie und Investoren in einem maßgeschneiderten und praxisorientierten Programm.

North Rhine-Westphalia wants to create even more enthusiasm around digital start-ups in the future. The NRW state government is aiming to increase the appeal of digital start-ups and spin-offs. This is designed to help build a start-up scene that tops the rankings both nationally and internationally.

Excellent research should also lead to excellent start-ups. To make sure it does, the state has set up the Exzellenz Start-up Centers.NRW, which are based in outstanding research locations in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Run commercial advertisements around the clock and from anywhere: carry out your administrative procedures completely digitally with the Wirtschafts-Service-Portal NRW.

The portal startups.nrw brings together more than 1,600 start-ups in North Rhine-Westphalia in a central database. Its purpose is to provide a clearer overview of the North Rhine-Westphalia start-up ecosystem and to improve networking between start-ups, businesses, investors and digital hubs.