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October 25, 2023

Europe's newest AI hub is being built in a German city no one's heard of

Stakeholders in the city of Heilbronn are coming together to create a startup hub of "European significance"


Credit: Innovation Park AI (Ipai)

Oliver Hanisch, a German-born entrepreneur living in San Francisco, didn’t imagine he’d end up moving back to his home country after a decade in the US. He had the career that many in European tech only dream of: making it to the Silicon Valley big leagues. 

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Credit: Campus Founders
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A closeup of the travelling AI campus model, which was loaned out to Slush'd tech conference in Heilbronn this year
A closeup of the travelling AI campus model, which was loaned out to Slush'd tech conference in Heilbronn this year
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Inside Campus Founders' HQ.
Inside Campus Founders' HQ. Credit: Campus Founders
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An audience looking at a screen that says Welcome to Heilbronn Slush'd.
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The main stage of Slush'd, housed in a tent that resembles a snowglobe
The main stage of Slush'd, housed in a snowglobe
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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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