Designed to address the challenges of the early stages of a startup process, inCUBE is specifically tailored to the needs of cybersecurity and IT security startups. The offer for ambitious founders focuses on sustainability and provides intensive five-month mentoring with customised training opportunities and operational support. The participating teams are sensitised to the key areas of startup mindset, ecosystem building and impact entrepreneurship and receive support in the development of business models, company formation, sales and online and personnel marketing. At the same time, the integration into a strong regional and supra-regional startup ecosystem, which exists in close partnership with science and business, allows the teams valuable networking opportunities.
The inCUBE funding programme takes place twice a year - in the summer and winter semesters. Applications are open for teams from all over Germany consisting of at least two people. Participation in the programme is free of charge.
The application deadline for the next batch is 15 September 2023.
Further information and details on the application process can be found here: https://cube-five.de/incube
General note: In case of using gender-assigning attributes we include all those who consider themselves in this gender regardless of their own biological sex.
About Cube 5:
Since 2018, Cube 5 has been accompanying and supporting people interested in founding and startups in the fields of cybersecurity and IT security in all phases of development. Cube 5 is based at the renowned Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security and the Faculty of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum. One focus of Cube 5 is on supporting spin-offs from research with prospects for success in the B2B sector. As one of four locations in Germany, Cube 5 supports highly innovative founding projects and startups from the scientific context of IT security nationwide in the "StartUpSecure" funding programme of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The local ecosystem of research institutions and companies has developed excellently in recent years and radiates internationally. Bochum has thus established itself as a centre for cybersecurity.