Meet Europe's next generation of founders at YFC 2026
At the Young Founders Conference in Berlin, prototype.club hosts its own area. This is where companies meet 1,500 young founders, talents and startups, and where real industry topics meet fresh ideas. Join us as a partner and bring your innovation topics to the place where the next generation of builders gets together.
What partners get out of YFC
YFC is the meeting point for young people who want more than a conventional career path. For companies, it's a direct line to the people who will build the solutions of tomorrow.
Young talent
Meet ambitious founders and talents under 25 in person, long before they show up on any job market.
Early-stage startups
Discover startups and ideas at a very early stage and see which teams fit your innovation topics.
Visibility
Position your company as an innovation partner in front of the next generation of founders.
The whole ecosystem
Investors, universities, corporates and funding programmes come together in one place, on one day in Berlin.
Innovation you can touch and test
The prototype.club area is our space at YFC, where innovation becomes tangible. Visitors can see, touch and test prototypes and technologies, and together with our partners we bring real industry problems to young founders and talents and turn first conversations into concrete collaboration.
Present your topic
Show which challenges your company wants to solve, from energy and mobility to logistics, agriculture and manufacturing.
Meet founders in person
Talk directly to young founders, startups and talents who are looking for real problems and their first industry customers.
Keep the momentum
After YFC, we can take the best contacts further, for example in a challenge, a hackathon or a pitch day with your company.
prototype.club in a nutshell
prototype.club is an innovation network with open innovation formats. We connect the challenges of established companies with startups, talents, experts and research partners, and we accompany the whole process from defining the problem to building a prototype, running a pilot and starting a real collaboration.
Join the prototype.club area at YFC 2026
Bring your company to the Young Founders Conference on 7 November 2026 at NLND Berlin. Book a short call with us and we'll show you how you can take part as a partner.