About: "The Seal of Excellence is a quality label awarded to project proposals submitted to Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding program, to help these proposals find alternative funding. Projects which were judged to deserve funding but did not get it due to budget limits receive the Seal of Excellence. It recognises the value of the proposal and helps other funding bodies take advantage of the Horizon 2020 evaluation process."

About parameta: "parameta Projektmanagement GmbH has existed since 2002 and specializes in IT consulting and sourcing for IT project and project portfolio management. We advise and accompany IT and digitalization organizations on their way to becoming an optimally positioned project factory of the future. Our experts bring the know-how and experience to the table: we are proud of almost 20 years of IT project management consulting and implementation in renowned companies - from medium-sized businesses to large corporations."

About BfZ: "As experts in strategic foresight and scenario planning, we invite you to join us in navigating through the terra incognita of an increasingly confusing world. We sensitize for the key factors of basic changes, for dynamics and complexity. We identify pitfalls, open up new perspectives and disclose new potentials, allowing your decisions to become sustainable and robust in the future."

About syseleven: "SysEleven stands for security, reliability and scalability in the operation of business critical applications in Germany and Europe.

Data protection and data sovereignty are a major concern of SysEleven to protect users from the long arm of US corporations and surveillance through evaluation of personal data. With the latest ECJ ruling, the "EU-US Privacy Shield" is history. Therefore, it is SysEleven's concern to support "The European Cloud", GAIA-X, as a full Day-1-member and to drive digital progress for Europe."

VOLT about VOLT: "European challenges need European solutions. National parties are reaching their limits, and populist promises are putting our peace at risk. That is why Volt was founded, a movement and party for the whole of Europe. We are the first pan-European party - we make politics for a federal Europe across European borders. In more than 30 countries we encourage citizens on the local, national and European levels to rethink and shape politics. We are pan-European, pragmatic and progressive. Against the background of common values and goals, we ask courageous questions and make feasible proposals to solve pan-European grievances."

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About Philipa: "A digital mindest. Professional legal expertise. Transparency. Trust. Experimentation. This blend makes us unique.

Philipa is a digitally network based patent law firm. We are established on servers, cloud computing, databases, algorithms, AI and program code rather than on paper files, representative offices and large back-office resources. We provide a digital infrastructure and processes that support you to build up and manage patent portfolios that have the potential to grow your business. Welcome to your future digital patent department. Today."

About TechQuartier: "TechQuartier, founded in 2016 in Europe‘s financial center of Frankfurt. We are a cross-industry innovation platform created to bring startups, corporates and new talent together to work, meet, learn and collaborate on new technologies and digital business models. Our member-based community numbers more than 350 startups, 50 academic and corporate innovators, and hundreds of potential founders."

About Château Louis: "Our passion is communication. Our heart beats for brands, campaigns and projects that make a difference, promote dialog and encourage participation. We want to help companies, cities and communities shape the future effectively and sustainably. Our focus is on targeted communication that stirs emotions and triggers change. We are not only about ideas and creativity, but also about relevance, attitude and identity. In this way, we want to reach people and move things together."

About 4Sing: "4Sing is a boutique strategy consulting firm that supports leaders in the interactive development of strategy/policy, for dealing with the challenges of today and tomorrow. This is possible within the leadership team or with the participation of other colleagues and key stakeholders. We use interviews, workshops and online interactions, using a variety of different methods, tools and games. In addition, we also enable organizations to build such capacity for themselves by providing training, templates and coaching."

About STATION: "With STATION, we offer the growing FrankfurtRhineMain ecosystem a modern digital contact point that bundles relevant information and concrete assistance on startup and innovation topics. In addition to current news and background stories, we offer a comprehensive overview of the most important events in FrankfurtRhineMain, a job exchange, statistics on the regional ecosystem, and detailed directories."

About Tucan: "Tucan is a young, fast growing, VC funded, AI software startup from Berlin. We believe in improving work processes and especially meetings. Our goal is to replace tedious protocol and post-processing work with our software, so we can focus again on what we enjoy: creating, being creative and convincing people of our ideas."

About: "INVEST brings together startups and private investors who believe in bold ideas. The support program mobilizes more private venture capital from business angels and thus helps startups find investors more easily."

About SPECTRUM: "SPECTRUM turns talents into experts and thus supports company’s sustainably in their digitalization. Through the recruitment and qualification of junior staff or experienced experts, as well as the further development of existing specialists and managers, we gain and strengthen the skills of the people who shape the future of our customers."

About Büro28: "Creative, authentic, competent.
As an all-round design agency, we develop solutions for our B2B customers in the areas of web, graphic and corporate design - and we do so throughout Europe. For over 20 years, we have been giving brands, products or content a face and a soul."

We cooperate with the Berlin-based think tank Next Work Innovation Garage, who, among other things, have developed a model for companies to implement company-wide focused work ("The Focused Company“).

About Distr@l: "With its 4 funding lines in the areas of Digital Innovations and Research and Development, the Distr@l funding program offers you a needs-based funding program. Funding is provided for individual and collaborative projects that significantly raise state of the art digital technology. Distr@l is explicitly “open topic” and focuses on “digital application” related projects. Join us in shaping the present and the future." ivicos is pleased to have received a notice of approval for financial support from the State of Hesse end of July 2020.

About: "WIPANO - Knowledge and Technology Transfer through Patents and Standards brings together various funding approaches to patenting and capitalize on inventions and to promoting innovative (research) projects on standardization. The program supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular in developing creative potential. It contributes to the economic exploitation of innovative ideas and inventions from public research by helping to efficiently secure intellectual property through patents and utility models."

About TECHBOOST: "Is your startup working on an innovative cloud-based business model and poised for successful growth? Then it’s time to get your business moving right to the top with our TechBoost startup program!
TechBoost supports you individually and lightens your workload. How, you ask? TechBoost delivers financial aid for using the Open Telekom Cloud, offers discounted rates, and provides more support than any other startup program in sales, marketing, and communications."

About CMS: "Our equIP team works with carefully selected start-ups to help you grow and become a strong contender for Series A financing and subsequent financing rounds, right up to a successful exit. Our team has a long track record of supporting a wide range of innovative start-ups as they build a successful future. Alongside providing advice, we are also a strong partner for the road ahead. We are familiar with the typical difficulties faced by start-ups, in particular the limited financial resources at the beginning and the challenges of negotiating with investors."

About MaybornWolff: "We make people more effective through IT. Methods, technologies, processes - to us, they’re just tools. They are different means to the same end. "Culture eats strategy for breakfast" (Peter Drucker). Developing IT for people means understanding people's motives, winning people over and making complex content clear, visible and tangible. Attitude before method. New tasks are pushing their way onto the agendas of board members: it's all about digital strategies, technologies and security. Agility is becoming a success factor. Above all, however, people should welcome change, not put the brakes on it."

About GEKON: "According to the WHO, health is more than just not being sick. GEKON Gesundheitskonzepte GmbH has rethought the concept of health. The top service provider is market leader in the field of occupational health management and promotion (BGM/BGF) based on the German Occupational Health and Safety Act.

It advises companies, corporations and decision-makers from management and HR on sustainable added value in the area of workforce health promotion. In this way, performance, motivation and image are permanently promoted and a high cost potential is noticeably reduced."

About: "The Bundesverband IT-Mittelstand e.V. (BITMi) is the only IT trade association that exclusively represents SME interests in a high-profile manner. Its members are medium-sized IT companies from all areas of the IT industry, most of which are owner-managed. In the association, both established IT companies and start-ups come together to find common interests. Furthermore, in addition to our direct members, associations related with us have also come together under the umbrella of the BITMi. The association represents the interests of more than 2,000 medium-sized IT companies in Germany with a sales volume of several billion euros."