GreenTech Monitor 2026
Around 2,903 GreenTech startups can be identified in Germany, against 19,608 startups in other sectors.
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Around 2,903 GreenTech startups can be identified in Germany, against 19,608 startups in other sectors.
Hamburg has 1,540 active startups, making it the third-largest urban startup ecosystem after Berlin and Munich.
168 startups shape Saarland's innovation scene, placing the state in the middle of the German per-capita ranking.
The number of active startups in OWL rises by 6% to 340, with software the leading sector at 21%.
Hamburg has 1594 active startups and a strong ecosystem, but founding dynamics remain well below the 2019-2021 peak.
There are currently 202 active startups in Brandenburg founded since 2019, about 40% of them based in Potsdam.
493 active EdTech startups were identified in Germany; 98 EdTech startups were surveyed in the German Startup Monitor 2024.
There are currently 320 active startups in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) region, concentrated in Bielefeld and Paderborn.
183 startups were founded in Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) between 2019 and mid-2023, led by the district of Paderborn (56) and the city of Bielefeld (46).
The number of startup foundings in Lower Saxony rose by 43% compared with 2019 to 126 in 2022, faster than nationwide (8%).