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Consumer Goods

REWE Group's innovation agency MAXFIVE looks for new ways to identify attractive solutions and implement radically new business models for food retail.

Industrial Goods & Services

Through machine vision and an intelligent AI algorithm, the agri-tech startup provides fruit producers with the capability to optimize their orchards by leveraging reliable yield monitoring and forecasting data.

Energy & Utilities

Enpulse, venture building unit of a leading energy company, validated the potential of connecting individual electric vehicles to the grid as flexible assets. Parked cars are turned into a powerful new energy resource.

Energy & Utilities

Innovating how offshore wind energy is connected to the grid. By adapting proven subsea technology we simplify offshore infrastructure, reducing size, cost, and lead times. A step toward faster, more scalable energy solutions.

Energy & Utilities

FlexPowerHub fully automates European balancing market processes through precise forecasting models and digital workflows. The platform enables energy providers to automate bidding, marketing, and settlement of flexible assets from data collection to execution, maximizing revenues while minimizing manual interventions through intelligent algorithms and customizable update cycles.

Industrial Goods & Services

As a strategic partner in the VERBUND X accelerator, voestalpine joined forces with leading corporates and institutions to future-proof steel production. By teaming up with selected startups, the initiative is unlocking new possibilities to increase efficiency, reduce emissions, and drive sustainable impact in industrial manufacturing.

Consumer Goods

GoPrimal is a venture that produces supplements rooted in science designed to address the micronutrient deficiencies of modern life. Their goal is to improve the longevity of all athletes, from amateur to professional.

Mobility & Logistics

A utility company ventured into an adjacent market by providing infrastructure for shipping and logistics companies to deliver directly to well-situated parcel box locations. This bold move led to their position as the largest supplier-independent player on the market.

Tourism

Austrian healthcare provider repurposed existing hotel in the Tyrolean mountains into innovative prevention center, developing offer packages focused on well-being and mindful leadership.

Consumer Goods

The Miele Intrapreneurship Program has its roots in the New Growth Factory business unit which is responsible for identifying and tapping new growth fields outside Miele's core line of business.

Construction

A global leader in industrial minerals, launched a structured innovation program to identify new solutions in calcium carbonate and construction waste recycling. The initiative led to strategic partnerships with startups now implementing cutting-edge approaches to mineral recycling.

Industrial Goods & Services

PixoAnalytics is a spin-off from DPDHL’s Startup Lab. Its machine vision technology creates unique “fingerprints” of inhomogeneous surfaces such as paper, cardboard, plastics, and more. This enables improvements in supply chain efficiency, customer experience, and counterfeit detection across various industries.

Tourism

The camping concept developed with Falkensteiner Group blends nature immersion with premium comfort, aiming for rapid scalability and implementation.

Construction

Wood_Space is a joint venture with Rubner Holzbau, and it creates sustainable modular buildings made of solid wood. The Wood_Space modules are delivered prefabricated, assembled on-site, and ready for occupancy within just a few days. The modules can be configured in multiple ways and are environmentally friendly and cost-effective.

Industrial Goods & Services

Metaloop provides a B2B marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of scrap metal. It streamlines transactions and creates transparency in a formerly untransparent market.

Consumer Goods

A leading manufacturer in the furniture and kitchen industry explored extending its product range into smart home solutions—enhancing the customer experience within the home.

Energy & Utilities

With the launch of the OMV Sphere platform, the group initiated an organization-wide program to tackle key sustainability challenges. Across five focus areas — sustainable aviation fuel certificates, smart energy management, sustainable packaging, circular by-products, and B2B retail intelligence — the initiative identified collaboration partners to unlock new business opportunities.

Consumer Goods

Variand offers modular furniture that can be adapted to any style or living situation. The team's vision is to offer a furniture system that can accompany customers throughout their lives, instead of being thrown away and replaced after a few years.

Tourism

International leader in tourism & hospitality, Falkensteiner, introduced a unique investment offering through their FMTG Invest platform. International guests and customers can now directly participate in the capital raising for their hotels, apartments & camping projects.

Consumer Goods

Chiloobal breaks down barriers of cross-border e-commerce for Chinese shoppers. It provides a streamlined, reliable way to buy tax-free goods from abroad and have them delivered directly within China.

Energy & Utilities

PowerLab is the intrapreneurship program of TenneT, a leading European grid operator. Over the years, it has grown into a well-positioned and structured process for TenneT intrapreneurs. It is supported by a clear decision-making approach, hands-on coaching, and a strong focus on validation. The program enables employees to tackle relevant challenges by developing validated projects with real impact in the energy industry.

Energy & Utilities

Born out of a corporate venture initiative, a digital marketplace is transforming the energy sector by streamlining access to spare parts and services across the German-speaking region.

Energy & Utilities

A leading regional energy provider is embedding innovation into its core—boosting business outcomes and employer branding through a dedicated corporate venture arm.

Energy & Utilities

Consumers without their own rooftops are enabled to invest in large-scale solar projects and use the produced energy through a dedicated energy community —making solar power accessible to more people through one-time investments in energy communities.