Startups
The PwC Next Level initiative supports innovative startups and scale-ups to meet their growth ambitions and take their business to the next level.
From startup to scale-up
PwC’s Next Level Team is here to help: you have the idea, the product, the technology. We’ll give you access to a pipeline of new customers & markets, the full benefit of our extensive network of experts and connect you with all relevant stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem.
Our Services
Additional services for startups
In addition to our startup programs, we support you with >170 colleagues throughout Germany in all other topics that concern you and your startup. The services include in detail
- Legal advice
- Cross-border tax advice
- Audit
- IPO
- Internationalization
- Protection of intellectual property
- Marketing & Communication
- ISO advisory & certification
- Support financing process - PwC Venture Deals
Dein Ansprechpartner
Stephan Hofnagel
Tel.: +49 30 2636-4813
E-Mail
Scale
Is your company ready for scaling? Then join our 10-week Scale programmes! With a focus on commercial opportunities and lead generation, we support you in mastering your most difficult scaling challenges to ensure your business is fit for its next growth phase. Check directly below to see when the next batch for your industry will begin.
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Raise
Your startup is looking to raise its first significant round of institutional funding, but you want to concentrate on your business instead of dedicating all your time to raising finance? Are you looking for the right investor that best suits your goals? We can help: become investor-ready with the help of PwC experts who will support from the preparation of the business plan to the execution of the deal.
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Meet our Team
"In recent years, we have managed to convince more and more PwC employees of our Next Level startup initiative. In the meantime, we have grown into a large nationwide team of auditors and consultants who support our startups with a great deal of passion and expertise."
- Your contact person for the region North
- Your contact person for the Central region
- Your contact person for the region West
- Your contact person for the region East
- Your contact persons for the region South
Your contact person for the region North
Jannis Grube
In the far north Jannis is responsible for all topics around Startups & Scaleups. He has been active in the Next Level Team since he joined PwC and is passionate about promoting young companies in the North, always keeping the entire startup ecosystem in mind. He finds the connection of young companies with corporates and investors particularly exciting. In addition, he cultivates a close relationship to family businesses and especially to the NextGens.
Your contact person for the Central region
Daniel Spengemann
An auditor from the private equity and family business sector on his way through the start-up jungle - does not fit? Yes, because Daniel's many years of experience in screening a wide variety of companies helps him to identify challenges, including those of young entrepreneurs, and to help them overcome them - from the first steps of founding a company to going abroad and going public on the stock exchange.
Your contact person for the region West
Sebastian Holtze
Sebastian is an expert on digital transformation and New Work, who as a "networker between the worlds" brings together start-ups, corporates and scientists. He supports start-ups in the (further) development and professionalization of business models and prototypes. In addition, he accompanies founders in scaling - at home and abroad. He is a coach, jury member and moderator in the start-up scene of the Ruhr area and heads the working group "Entrepreneurship of the Junior Chamber in Essen". Privately he prefers to build "ninja warrior playgrounds" suitable for children for himself ... and his son.
Your contact person for the region East
Your contact persons for the region South
This is how we live innovation at PwC (German only)
Business ecosystems are the future: Strong partnerships accelerate the development of digital solutions and products. Innovation, growth and resilience are the result. Find out how PwC initiates and participates in these ecosystems.
