€54.000 Equity-free. Cash.

That’s what the winning team of TUM.ai E-Lab 6.0 can walk away with.

No equity.
No strings attached.
Just €54.000 to build, provided by AI NATION.

And on top of that:

$25.000 in Google Cloud Credits FOR EACH TEAM from Google for Startups.

Huge shout-out to Axel Täubert & his team for making this possible. 🫶

Last iteration, our AI E-Lab 5.0 Demo Day brought together 1.000+ people.

Founders. Investors. Builders. Researchers.

All in one room to see what can happen when ambitious people stop talking about starting and actually start building.

Now it’s time for E-Lab 6.0 🔥

Maybe this time, it’s your startup on that stage.

Maybe it’s your team taking home the €54k.

Maybe the idea sitting in your Notes app right now becomes the company you spend the next 10 years building.

There’s only one problem:

Applications close TONIGHT, September 27 at 9 PM.

If you're in Munich and serious about building in AI or deep tech, this is your time to shine.

Stop overthinking it.

Just Apply!

TUMai E-Lab 6.0 🚀

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€8M+ raised.

By startups that came out of a student-run AI incubator in Munich.

When I was leading the AI E-Lab at TUM.ai, the idea was pretty simple:

Get insanely ambitious technical people into one room.

Give them 12 weeks.

And optimize for one thing: build.

Not startup theory.
Not endless workshops.
Not writing business plans nobody will ever read.

Build the MVP. Talk to users. Break things. Iterate. Pitch. Repeat.

A few iterations later, AI E-Lab startups have raised €8M+.

Founders went on to Y Combinator, EWOR and some of Europe’s top VCs.

And somehow, we’re already entering it's 6th iteration.

The program is still:

→ 100% equity-free
→ Munich-based
→ your own workspace
→ weekly sessions with founders & operators
→ direct access to VCs
→ surrounded by people actually building

You don’t even need a finished startup.

An idea, a prototype (or simply the obsession to build something) is enough.

If you're in Munich and have been thinking:

"I should really start that AI / deep-tech company..."

This is probably your sign.

Applications close Saturday, September 26th at midnight.

Don’t spend another semester thinking about it.

Build it.

TUMai E-Lab 6.0, here we go🚀

#AI #Startups #DeepTech #Entrepreneurship #Munich #TUM #TUMai #Founders
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