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February 12, 2025

Munich’s top business programme CDTM has a new venture fund — backed by alumni at startups like Tier and Personio

The firm pooled over €8m from alumni to invest in CDTM's startups

Former students at the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM), a joint study programme of two of Europe’s top universities in Munich known for its brutal 6% acceptance rate, have started a fund to invest in startups with at least one alum from the programme on the founding team.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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