Accelerate your innovation process with startup solutions that are validated, ready to use, and tailored to your needs. Reduce costs, minimize risk, and bring new technologies into your business faster than ever before.
Innovation needs continuity. With Venture Clienting as a Service, we are your long-term partner who continuously identifies startups and integrates relevant solutions into your company. Instead of one-off innovation projects, you receive ongoing access to market-ready technologies that strengthen your competitiveness – quickly, flexibly and without high risks.
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IAA Mobility | IAA Transportation
E-World energy & water
HANNOVER MESSE
Agritechnica | Eurotier | Anuga Food Tec
prototype.club designs a customized event that facilitates the search for individual solutions to your company’s specific challenges. Let’s work together to develop an event that is perfectly aligned with your goals and fosters the creativity needed for sustainable results.
Selected startups will have the opportunity to present their solutions to specifically address the needs of your business. We are focused on creating an inspiring environment in which effective connections can be made and breakthrough solutions can be developed.
At prototype.club, we tailor hackathons to:
Perfect for companies seeking internal innovation and dynamic collaboration, hackathons offer a fast, fun way to explore new solutions.
Innovation needs continuity. With Venture Clienting as a Service, we are your long-term partner who continuously identifies startups and integrates relevant solutions into your company. Instead of one-off innovation projects, you receive ongoing access to market-ready technologies that strengthen your competitiveness – quickly, flexibly and without high risks.
Let ’s talk! Arrange an initial meeting and discover your innovation potential.
IAA Mobility | IAA Transportation
E-World energy & water
HANNOVER MESSE
Agritechnica | Eurotier | Anuga Food Tec
prototype.club designs a customized event that facilitates the search for individual solutions to your company’s specific challenges. Let’s work together to develop an event that is perfectly aligned with your goals and fosters the creativity needed for sustainable results.
Selected startups will have the opportunity to present their solutions to specifically address the needs of your business. We are focused on creating an inspiring environment in which effective connections can be made and breakthrough solutions can be developed.
At prototype.club, we tailor hackathons to:
Perfect for companies seeking internal innovation and dynamic collaboration, hackathons offer a fast, fun way to explore new solutions.
Nuverse – The New Language of Health was a finalist of the Daimler Truck „Driver’s Vital & Mood Detection“ Challenge at IAA Transportation. With its innovative approach to monitoring drivers‘ health and emotions in real time, Nuverse was commissioned to implement its concept and help set new standards in road safety.
NEXALTA took part in the Daimler Truck challenge and provided valuable insights in the connection between AI and our health.
Max Brüggemann won the powercloud speed hackathon 2022 and made second place in the Elia Group hackathon.
Lumos convinced Claas at the DLG.prototype.club 23 with their unique UX Design and developed a tractor cab as the future farm control center.
KOINNO supports public institutions and companies with innovative procurement methods, such as innovation competitions by prototype.club.
Together with Innoagentur RLP, we launched the Smart Farming Hackathon to drive agricultural innovation and connect startups, companies, and researchers.
Infinite Foundry is the winning team of the HM.prototype.club 2023, which won by convincing Siemens Energy with its digital 3D twin.
Leading international platform for logistics and transport
One of the largest and internationally most important automotive trade fairs
Together with hannoverimpuls, we connected innovative startups with industry leaders to foster new collaborations and drive impactful solutions.
The most important international platform for all technologies related to industrial transformation
Together with Google Cloud, we designed an innovative hackathon where developers used Gemini and NotebookLM to solve a live criminal case – GenAI in action.
GEA’s ambitious sustainability goals were pushed by an open innovation challenge from prototype.club with incredible savings potential after one year.
As part of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Fraunhofer IGD is developing software solutions in visual computing. They gave a challenge for DLG.prototype.club at EuroTier/ Energy Decentral.
We partner with Tokenize.it to enable fast capital raising through modern fundraising technologies and bring innovation to market faster.
Challenge partner EnBW posed a challenge regarding autonomous drone inspections for solar parks for E-world energy & water 2023.
The prototype.club supported one of the top 5 leading European transmission system operators with the organization of their hackathon in Berlin, home to their German subsidiary 50Hertz.
E-world as Europe’s largest energy and water trade fair hosts the E-world.prototype.club as a partner every year.
Securing a special second place in the TÜV NORD challenge at the IAA.prototype.club 2023, DriveX only entered the competition one day before the result presentation at the IAA MOBILITY 2023 and impressed the entire jury.
At the IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022, ANavS solved an almost impossible image recognition challenge of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
With them being responsible for the German highway network of 13.000 km, they pave the way for innovative mobility solutions and sponsored one mobilitython challenge at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022.
DHBW Engineering Stuttgart e.V. is a student organisation dedicated to the construction of an electric racing car. Its aim is to develop innovative and lightweight vehicles with high performance.
Decarbon1ze won the TransnetBW quest at the E-world 2023. Now they’re working together on electric vehicle charging in roaming-free settings.
Driving Road Safety Innovation through “Driver’s Vital & Mood Detection
CoVerified won the Enerthon challenge by TransnetBW and the E-world.prototype.club with a huge success following.
prototype.club and Coup join forces: we connect startups with real projects and unlock funding through the German Forschungszulage. Interested in collaborating?
Clean Energy Global transforms energy concepts into scalable solutions by enabling seamless, modular energy storage and empowering a sustainable future.
At Agritechnica 2023, Claas introduced a challenge looking for concepts for the driver cabin of the future with DLG.prototype.club. The teams developed innovative ideas to integrate the technology and complexity of today’s farming into their solutions.
The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture took over the patronage for the DLG.prototype.club at EuroTier/ Energy Decentral 2022.
The Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport assumed patronage for the mobilitython at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022.
Learn how BOTfriends and prototype.club are partnering to revolutionize customer experiences and automate processes with innovative chatbot solutions!
From sensor integration challenges to agentic AI hackathons and industrial-grade additive prototyping: our projects with Bosch show how fast ideas turn into working results when real needs meet strong execution.
In partnership with Blockbrain, we empower companies to work faster and smarter by leveraging AI-driven digital knowledge twins.
If you haven’t been there yet, you should definitely pay a visit. The Autostadt in Wolfsburg is the Volkswagen Group’s experience centre where there is a lot to discover.
prototype.club acts as APCOAs decentralized development arm and supports by matching them up with suitable start-ups for their mission.
ANavS surprised the DLR at the IAA 2022 with its solutions. Together they revolutionize the accuracy of vehicle detection with camera data.
AI Robotic is a German robotics and AI company specialised in hardware, software and inspection robotics. At E-world.prototype.club 2026, the team won the SPARX Challenge with their robotic solution for Amprion, developed in just weeks with support from Bosch and Sprint Robotics.
AGENTS.inc is a AI startup building reliable AI Agents for market intelligence, trend detection, and process automation. At E-world.prototype.club 2026, the team won the SONAR.AI challenge with its solution for AI-driven trend detection in the energy sector.
At Agritechnica 2023, AGCO introduced a tricky challenge around multi-route optimization for in-field farming. The results presented at the AGCO and Fendt booth during DLG.prototype.club convinced with complex algorithms.
5GAPS (5G Access to Public Spaces), partner at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022, digitally captures the public space in the three spatial dimensions in (almost) arbitrary fineness.
Deutsche Messe, partner at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022, offers a highly innovative 5G multifunction campus on a site of 1.5 million m2.
Siemens Energy and Infinite Foundry cooperated successful on the challenging task of remote offline asset localization and tracking for ground robots.
BANULA and decarbon1ze revolutionize EV charging. Discover the role prototype.club plays in this collaboration.
The TÜV NORD Challenge at the IAA 2023 demonstrated how strong partnerships can support the development of mobility.
The Autostadt went on an exciting journey with prototype.club and made it a success story – learn more about open innovation in business.
OmegaLambdaTec is not only the two-times winner of the DLG.prototype.club but also a pioneer in Data Science and AI.