Analysis

October 25, 2022

The fastest-growing German startups outside Berlin and Munich

Here are the 10 startups outside of Germany's two main hubs that have grown the most in the last 12 months


The Schüttflix team

Berlin and Munich are known as Germany’s main startup (and talent) hubs. But there are many other cities and rural idylls where startups are raising significant amounts of cash and growing just as fast.

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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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