CIRCULAR REPUBLIC | Start-ups

We enable innovative circular economy start-ups to be part of our multi-stakeholder projects and help them to achieve scalable impact.

Dr. Matthias Ballweg, Co-Founder and Director CIRCULAR REPUBLIC

We support you every step of the way
from ambition to acceleration

Enable

Bringing circular economy innovation to life

We connect you with corporates and integrate your business to our circular economy start-up landscape. Together with UnternehmerTUM we help you to implement your ideas and bring circular economy innovation to life. Check out circular economy knowledge in all our incubation, acceleration and learning formats like workshops, trainings, online courses to build your business.

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Act

Developing scalable and investable solutions

Get your chance to work together with corporate partners and us to develop scalable and investable circular economy solutions and tansformation initiatives. We initiate one multi-stakeholder project every 6 months and envision to build a system provider, enabling collection, re-use, recycling or other circular economy business models across sectors. Current topics: vehicles, textiles, packaging, whitegoods and industry electronics.

Learn more about our battery project

Inspire

Showcasing your ideas and inspire corporates

Get ready for our Festival in May 2025! Showcase your business ideas to our international ecosystem and get to know exciting people to broaden your network in the circular economy scene. Join numerous other events with networking opportunities, inspiration and knowledge-sharing. Profit from CIRCULAR REPUBLIC marketing and communication channels and share your story.

Join the CIRCULAR REPUBLIC FESTIVAL

Promote your Circular Start-up at the #CRF25

At the CIRCULAR REPUBLIC FESTIVAL 2025 in Munich this May, your circular economy start-up will have the chance to win an impact award in a live ceremony on stage, promote your circular business solution with an exhibition booth, and capture the interest of investors & corporates.

Interested in showcasing your circular business solution with an exhibition booth or joining the festival pitch session? Contact us!

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Be part of our circular start-up ecosystem

Our circular economy start-up landscape shows that more and more young German companies put the circular economy at the core of their business model. With our map, we want to provide orientation, strengthen collaboration and initiate projects together.

You are active with your start-up in the field of circular economy and is circular economy the core of your business model?

Let's add your start-up to our landscape!

Circular Republic - Start-up Landscape 2024

Ready for an EasyMatch?

Our new platform, that connects you to the corporate, that best suits you and your circular business case. As a circular start-up this is your chance to shape your business to the next level.

Register now for free!

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Learn more about EasyMatch

Discover more about our new matching platform with Leo, who’s behind EasyMatch. He will give you a brief overview of what makes EasyMatch unique and how it can benefit you as a start-up in developing your circular business model.

Get to know our programs

Circular Republic - Start-ups - Sarah Fleischer

Circular Republic - Start-ups - Christian Schiller

CIRCULAR REPUBLIC - Start-ups - Niclas Lehnert

Battery recycling is a necessity in order to close the loop of the decarbonization challenge. Therefore, we as tozero are on a mission to truly bring this battery waste to zero and recover all critical materials, like lithium, nickel, and cobalt.
CIRCULAR REPUBLIC is a fantastic initiative that brings leading players across industries together to shape the next generation technologies for a circular economy. We are proud to contribute and be part of this community.

Don’t be a plastic hater, be a hater of plastic in the environment: Condemning the whole material just because we don’t run it sensibly in circles ultimately solves no problem. Plastic has an incredible number of positive properties that will help us counter climate change and the climate crisis. CIRCULAR REPUBLIC helps cirplus to connect with relevant partners to join forces and to push ciruclar economy for a sustainable future.

A circular approach to batteries starts with using this valuable resource as long and as efficiently as possible. For this reason, we at BAVERTIS are working on a technology to double the life of electric vehicle batteries and enable them to be reused in other applications via a simple software update. Keeping them in the loop as long as possible.
In this context, CIRCULA REPUBLIC acts as a remarkable intermediary between industry partners and us, to promote and leverage joint synergies for a circular future!