Partners of STARTUP AUTOBAHN at EXPO Day

Our Partners
Industry leaders building what comes next.

Founding partners

The four founders of the platform

Mercedes-Benz AG

As a founding partner of the innovation platform STARTUP AUTOBAHN, we want to mediate between startups and large corporations bringing together specific tech know-how with comprehensive automotive competence. We are convinced that we will benefit from the open innovation approach. Therefore, we are constantly looking for innovative startups to combine the best of both worlds to shape the future of mobility and production.

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Plug and Play

Plug and Play is the ultimate innovation platform, bringing together the best startups, investors, and the world’s largest corporations. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we have built accelerator programs, corporate innovation services, and an inhouse VC to make technological advancement progress faster than ever before – now active in 28 locations globally.

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ARENA2036

ARENA2036 is one of the founding partners of STARTUP AUTOBAHN. The research campus is a platform where science and industry meet in order to cooperatively work on the “flexible production for the next generation of automobiles”. Within such a creative and synergistic environment, the startups of STARTUP AUTOBAHN receive coworking space as well as state of the art hardware to implement their ideas.

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University of Stuttgart

The University of Stuttgart inspires its students in the field of science by means of research-led teaching and learning. The University believes that STARTUP AUTOBAHN plays an important role in this process, as it brings the spirit of entrepreneurship to campus. Research, innovation and entrepreneurship have found an ideal home at the ARENA2036 research facility on campus.

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The network

29 active partners

Pilot projects

Proof in practice

Joint projects between our startups and partners.

“Ottopia Technologies develops and provides a platform that enables remote humans to guide vehicles in a way that is safe, reliable, scalable, and cyber-secure.”
Ottopia's technology can be applied in a wide range of use-cases, to remotely control vehicles and machines in shipping ports, airports, factories, and more. It improves services like remote valet parking, driverless end-of-line logistics, and driverless taxis. Ottopia and T-Systems showed a first product demonstration at EXPO Day, remotely driving a car in Tel Aviv all the way from Stuttgart.
Ottopia x T-Systems
— Pilot project
“ClimaCell extends Porsche Roads app to include real-time air quality”
Climacell offers a software solution that enables its customers to get the most accurate weather information, generate invaluable business insights and drive actions. Porsche and Climacell are working on a POC on the prediction of the weather conditions that the cars will not only be able to determine what the weather is like, but also how it will be behind the next bend and advises drivers to adjust their driving style and vehicle set-up.
Clima Cell x Porsche
— Pilot project
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“Mercedes-Benz and Nexmachina accelerate digital transformation in the shopfloor via IoT”
Nexmachina is a pure IoT startup, specializing in wireless technologies. In their joint pilot project at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vitoria, Spain, they focused on the smart monitoring of hundreds of fluid meters scattered throughout the two assembly plants – proving that LORA WAN provides an efficient and economical solution to digitize assets in the plants.
Nexmachina x Mercedes-Benz AG
— Pilot project
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