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Since the Media Lab first opened its doors in 2015, we’ve helped and played host to a wide range of great ideas and innovative startups. Many have gone on to transform their startups into visionary products that are shaping the future of media. These are our rockstars!

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #16

BeeYou

BeeYou is an AI-powered platform that provides teenagers with a safe space to ask anonymous questions about sexuality. They receive scientifically based and age-appropriate answers 24/7 – free from shame and taboos.

Infinitas Security

Infinitas revolutionizes cybersecurity with a digital, interactive, and AI-powered cyber management platform to make cyber processes up to ten times more efficient for SMEs and, in particular, media companies.

KLAO

KLAO is the first software designed to assist public institutions in automatically translating texts into certified Leichte Sprache that meets DIN standards, ensuring compliance with applicable laws.

NextGen Innovators

NextGen Innovators brings the next evolution of creator marketing to Germany. NGI enables creators to invest in startups with their reach. Its media-for-equity model offers downside protection, vesting, and monitoring – scalable through a digital platform.

Radiozeit

Radiozeit helps radio stations integrate karaoke-style subtitles into their apps - it is called "Read-Along Radio". The new media monitoring function also enables broadcasters to gain insights into the content of other stations in the region.

SO DONE

SO DONE's digital protective shield enables victims of online insults and threats to defend themselves. Because: The internet is not a lawless space! SO DONE enforces this principle with its AI-powered software.

The What If

The What If empowers peacemakers in conflict zones by amplifying local voices, facilitating solution-driven dialogues, and sharing best practices. Through journalism, community engagement and technology, we foster sustainable and resilient societies.

Trusted Accounts

Trusted Accounts reduces spam, fraud, and policy violations on platforms without frustrating real users. The solution detects and stops harmful actors early, improves content quality, and strengthens trust in the platform.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #15

Atopia

Atopia allows VR Users to explore global arts & culture in exciting, new ways, from home. Its no code UGC toolset allows Creatives to easily draft & publish high quality 3D experiences.

Background

Background is the first platform for constructive discussions on controversial topics. Users can discuss with their friends or anonymously with people outside their filter bubble. The discussions are supported by modern AI technology.

BitchFest

Hey, you Bitchin Beauty, ready for BitchFest? Content, Community & Lifestyle Festival for power women and bad ass Girls! A hybrid media company with content, community and podcast is to be created around the BitchFest festival brand.

BlueBottle

BlueBottle is an esports content production and graphics tool. It provides real-time data collection, aggregation and visualization by accessing low-level data to enhance the viewer experience and enable new sponsorship opportunities.

Daidream

Daidream's Mello is the AI-powered children's app for personalized, playful edutainment. Developed by parents to promote individualized entertainment and finally offer a healthy alternative to video-consumption.

Maple Tales

Maple Tales is an interactive reading app for children. The reading process is supported with reading aids and lots of fun through the gamification approach. With the school version, reading can be analyzed non-audio-visually.

Neuraforge

In an era of misinformation through evolving generative AI, the credibility of news and content is an asset worth protecting. With our AI-powered framework, we provide our users the power to technically distinguish between fake and real media content.

PHONT

PHONT is dedicated to automated creative captioning. PHONT combines AI and innovative design to promote immersion and inclusion in media for potentially hundreds of millions of captioning users. It's mission is to bring subtitles to life.

UNPREPARED

UNPREPARED presents people and ideas on a dedicaded media go-to platform that better prepares us for tomorrow with regard to the climate crisis. With the UNPREPARED newsletter, online magazine and events, the startup team connects and informs the sustainability scene.

Valid

Licence content from trusted sources securely and easily using innovative technology.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #14

Codum

Hybrid working models bring new challenges for companies. Codum is developing a solution for learning and development that improves the employee experience through a social learning system, keeps employees up to date and strengthens corporate culture and collaboration.

Exar

Transform your content with EXAR! Boost user engagement and interactivity, providing immersive and personalized experiences to audiences on media platforms!

Footprint Intelligence

The pressure on companies to decarbonize increases enormously due to regulation, competition, clients, investors, etc. Footprint Intelligence empowers Media, Ad & Digital companies to assess the carbon footprint and decarbonize the company or media campaigns effectively.

GetFit

With GetFit, creators receive their own personalized app, tailored specifically to their vertical content. The goal of the app is to help users achieve their personal goals sustainably through their relationship with the creator.

gistable

Every day, a multitude of scientific papers, studies, and articles are published. Gistable offers a reliable, AI-driven solution for more efficient knowledge absorption and better understanding.

Paper Pass

Paper Pass offers publishers a share of subscription revenues, increased visibility for promoting their own subscriptions, and user analytics for reading behavior. The easy integration via RSS feeds requires no internal resources.

Penemue

Digital platforms are not a safe space. Journalists, politicians, athletes and creators in particular are affected by digital hate speech on a daily basis. With its software, Penemue offers affected members of the public and institutions the opportunity to use AI to recognise, filter and delete hate comments and report them to the justice system if needed.

Physiofit

Additional income for physiotherapy practices - accepted and covered by health insurance companies. With Physiofit, physiotherapists can create customised training plans for their patients, which they can use to continue their therapy effectively at home with the help of videos and instructions.

gutfeel

gutfeel is a digital DIY research platform that allows companies to conduct market studies with the "Generation Z" target audience. The gutfeel app provides various incentives for young Gen Z individuals to participate in digital testing.

Loyalift

Loyalift revolutionizes the digital media and market research landscape enabling brands to build unwavering trust in their content creator collaborations. More than 1bn € live content creator ad-spend per year is nearly unmonitored. Loyalift combines conventional API-Data with AI-Insights.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #13

Azernis

Azernis displays the websites of a newsroom’s competitors side by side and digitally adds an additional data level which helps to decipher the competitors' publishing strategies.

LOCCO

Discover personalized audio experiences based on your live location. LOCCO is a cutting-edge technology that enhances every moment by providing personalized audio content based on your live location. Whether you're walking, driving, or cycling, LOCCO accompanies you, transforming your surroundings into an immersive Audioverse.

paged

Enabling access to digital information for everyone. paged provides more digital inclusion and a customized user experience for people with diverse needs - from which we all benefit!

plazy

plazy is a digital tool that gives users smart and quick travel tips - curated for them. They fill out a short questionnaire about their wishes and receive their personalised travel agenda with journalistic content in text, photos, audio and video.

Scavengar

Scavengar is an augmented reality storytelling and creation platform that allows creators and brands to bring their ideas to life in multi-sensory, contextual, and AI-powered AR experiences – without users needing to download an app.

wunderflix

The wunderflix app, enables parents to capture their experiences in videos - without any cutting or editing skills. They film scenes, select filters, music and titles and the app creates a family film for them.

Lio

Utilizing Generative AI and NLP to Provide Media Companies with an Unprecedented Guided Buying Experience. Employees simply DON'T know what and how to purchase – and they don't have to. Just ask Lio.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #12

FLOOX

FLOOX is the go-to platform for Creator & Artist monetization. With online courses and art boxes "HelloFresh for Art" and as an "event platform for Creators & Brands" we already support + 100 Creators with visibility and monetization.

freispace

freispace is a modern project planning software for post-production. The solution replaces editing suite management via Excel and shared calendars with an intuitive online solution, creating more reliable schedules and more time for production thanks to smart predictions.

fruits

fruits started out as a sales platform for digital creators and content creators at Media Lab Bayern. In the meantime, fruits has specialised further and lists well over 1,000,000 domains for sale.

PARENTI

The PARENTI app assists parents by managing & organizing all tasks related to parenthood. Based on user profile data we deliver customized tasks that are relevant by importance and chronological order NOW.

HypeRate

HypeRate helps streamers to get more engagement in their streams by adding their real-time heart rate as a stream overlay and creating automatic content highlights based on the streamers' emotions and game specific highlights with the help of AI.

Moonblock

Moonblock is a Competitive Intelligence Platform for Entertainment brand NFTs. Our web application offers competitive data on NFTs and metaverse activities, built from the ground up for media and brands that launch NFT projects and journalists reporting on NFT & Metaverse.

One Guide

Travelers spend hours researching attractions only to be disappointed by the on-site experience. One Guide offers travelers and partner companies an app with selected tours, audio guides and AR content, making visiting attractions an experience again.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #11

Audivio

Developments in the creator economy enable more and more creators to generate income through live streaming. Audivio helps streamers with insight and analytics to improve their professionalism and interaction with their audience.

Cinema Calc

Media professionals use complex and outdated software to calculate the costs of reports, documentaries and other film projects. Cinema Calc is a web-based solution, which help their users to calculate any video projects with ease.

Cultway

Cultway is a platform for personalized audiovisual stories in education and culture. With a simple construction kit, media and cultural institutions can create smart, mobile content and share it with their target audience.

Justt

Justt is an E2E solution for quality content creation, publishing and marketing. Users benefit from relevant and verified content with personalized UX. Creators & publishers reach matching audiences and monetize more successfully.

Kertos

With Kertos you automate your data privacy operations. Data subject requests, record of processing activities, deletion or retention processes - Kertos provides a tool-based home for all topics and stakeholders in the field of data privacy.

Mondo

Mondo is a gamified and interactive training platform. We provide our users with skills and knowledge for a sustainable and green future and make everyday positive impact easy and fun.

MuseKIT

Music selection and editing are incredibly time-consuming. With MuseKIT, video creators can add sound to their video by selecting the moods of their video. Finally, they have time to do what they're really good at - creating videos.

Prisma 3D

Prisma 3D helps creators bring their favourite scenes to life as 3D animations intuitively and from anywhere. The animations created can be rendered and shared directly on the mobile phone in real time.

Junite

Junite is a game app for adolescents and young adults that aims to help build and maintain a healthy relationship with sexuality. In a nutshell, it could be considered as a "Duolingo for the language of love and sexuality” based on scientifically-proven content.

SUMM AI

SUMM AI is the "Google Translate" for simplified language - an AI-powered tool that translates any text into a language style that is easily understood by everyone through simple sentence structure and additional explanations.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #10

AnymateMe

AnymateMe is a virtual video production platform which allows businesses to create realistic-looking AI videos by simply typing in a transcript. The platform can be applied to many different use cases, from video chatbots, corporate training videos, AI news reporting to personalized video ads.

The Broken Hearts Club

The Broken Hearts Club is the first German-language, interactive and smart app that guides its users through all stages of heartache, providing them with strength in the long term and promoting mental resilience, all through their smartphone.

Capacities

Capacities is the tool to note down all information, images, ideas, PDFs, people and what seems relevant to you on a daily basis. As a powerful note-taking tool, it helps you to collect content and media in a structured form and to have it available at all times when developing new ideas.

Churchpool

The Churchpool app provides all church members and parishes throughout Germany with a unique, data protection-compliant communication platform. Churches can use it to provide information about news, events and donation projects and make church newsletters digitally readable. Secure group communication channels within and between parishes enable church members and other interested parties to get closer to the church.

femfeel

femfeel empowers women with a personal plan for menopause. With powerful new ways to ease the discomfort of menopause, femfeel makes healthy habits a strategy for a self-determined menopause.

GrowGetters

GrowGetters is a platform designed for women who want to have long-term job security. Women all around the globe want to achieve professional independence along with ongoing learning, support and inspiration. GrowGetters meets this uncovered need by curating and imparting business methods, tools and technologies.

LESIDO

LESIDO combines your favorite photo albums with a video chat, enabling family members to share stories with their loved ones no matter how far away. At the same time, LESIDO has also paved the way to an entirely new kind of customer-centered, data-based content production by using hundreds of unique data points.

Nalan Sipar

YouTube channel Nalan Sipar offers bilingual, German-Turkish video content. It was primarily created for German-Turks with minimal German skills or a particular need for information, and anyone else interested in this community.

Newsbrief

Almost everyone reads news on social media. These networks have recently transformed into platforms for the spread of disinformation and hate. Newsbriefis a social news app that directly shares journalistic content with its users. The app uses simple news formats and posts audio interviews conducted by journalists.

snect.

snect. is a smart platform for sharing and generating knowledge. The platform uses smart algorithms to connect employees based on their requirements and aims, allowing them to quickly respond to questions and challenges.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #9

Anchorpoint

Anchorpoint is the GitHub for media production. It gives graphic designers, video producers and designers the ability to quickly communicate tasks, production data and feedback with each other. Repetitive, time-consuming tasks can also be automated.

Articly

Articly supports companies to automatically convert articles into podcasts, audio newsletters or briefings by leveraging AI.

DIGISALE

Digitalizing daily subscription management. Simple. Free. For everyone. DIGISALEis an SaaS solution that offers all publishers the ability to digitize and organize all aspects of subscription management.

Kopftuchmädchen

Kopftuchmädchenis a digital media startup created by Muslim women that casts a light on the perspectives of Muslim women that are so far largely underrepresented in the press. Our aim is to counteract the stereotypical representations we’re faced with on a daily basis in the mainstream media (with alternative images and narratives).

Mindpalace

Podcasts, articles, videos—we spend a lot of time learning every day. But how much can you remember a few days down the line? Mindpalacegives you the ability to store everything in one place, learn what matters and receive inspiring recommendations for new content.

what happened last week

what happened last week is an English-language weekly newsletter that reports on underreported news and topics from non-Western countries and puts them into a global context—concise, entertaining and brief.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #8

Adsata

Adsata transforms laptops into “eye tracking” labs. Recording visual interactions online enables Adsata to generate meaningful insights into the needs of your users.

CHICA CON CICLO

CHICA CON CICLO is an online platform for generation Y and Z women who want to independently take charge of their cycle, menstruation and contraception.

einbliq

einbliq assists media companies in their transition to become data-driven organizations—for better decisions, improved cost efficiency and satisfied users.

KARAKAYA TALKS

KARAKAYA TALKS is the first millennial talk show on YouTube to give a voice to underrepresented people and offer them a platform.

Nurii

Nurii helps people with food intolerances. The app detects intolerances and offers personal nutrition tips, media content and products.

PlanOpto

PlanOpto allows you to automate scheduling meetings with several participants from your network without the need to forgo a personal message.

Television.AI

Television.AI is a web-based video editing software and enables editorial teams to create news video clips in no time.

Was mit Medien

Was mit Medien is a podcast and community for the minds behind the media revolution. For constructive insight, inspiration and various perspectives on the future of media.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #7

Augmentris

Augmentris provides independent, high-quality information to help end users who can’t make up their mind on whether to buy something at a shop come to a decision. In order to achieve this, Augmentris collects relevant information from print media and the internet, compiles it and publishes the results in a smartphone-friendly format. augmentris.net

Design AI

Design AI has developed a visionary content management platform for the media industry. Cutting-edge AI technologies are used to automatically sort complex individual data types like videos, images or audio into keywords, save them in a structured format and efficiently reuse them. design-ai.de

FamilyPunk

FamilyPunk the fitness app that works around your family schedule. Digital coach FamilyPunk offers innovative digital learning formats in our app to provide parents with information and help them grow personally. Parents can also book coaching sessions with seasoned experts on the phone or in a video chat through FamilyPunk.

fible

fible features extensive itineraries and takes care of up to 100% of your vacation planning. So sit back and relax! In contrast to traditional travel guides, all of the content on fible is created by travel bloggers who share their itineraries with the community. fible also includes extra travel features to help you on your travels.

Forfuture.org

Forfuture.org is an independent non-profit community platform committed to mitigating climate change. Our mission is to help accelerate a positive social shift in environmental discussion and help build a future in which sustainability is the norm.

Fusionbase

Fusionbase is a Data-as-a-Service platform that aggregates and catalogs data sets from the internet and optimizes them for data science use cases. The platform allows data scientists to use this data far more productively, find matching data sets and easily link them to their internal process data.

ROKIN

ROKIN has developed an AI-based digital engineer. Their visionary engineer helps real engineers find the answers they need for their problem from the vast array of information and technologies available on the market. Allowing them to save valuable time looking for suitable solutions and instead focus on their main task: developing innovative solutions!

was wäre wenn

was wäre wenn is a magazine and platform that addresses constructive social issues of the future from a diverse range of perspectives. We also offer our network and expertise to organizations such as foundations, museums and associations to transform their content into visionary debates on the future, helping them advertise their content and add new perspectives to their findings.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #6

1E9

1E9 is the new hub for optimists. Learn all about the world of future technologies and get inspired! Discover a place where constructive discussions are always allowed. Meet others and network. The 1E9 community also has its own online magazine and hosts events. 1e9.community

aclipp

aclipp is a customer-oriented, web-based reporting solution designed to help PR agencies track their work and document their achievements. It allows agency employees to efficiently manage clippings (media monitoring), access useful information and create meaningful reports within a matter of seconds to stay on top of their KPIs at every point.

Flowra

Flowra helps musicians learn faster by adding flow to their practice. Can’t seem to get the hang of performing songs? Check out flowra.com to discover new inspiration and tools for effective practice.

Focal Analytics

Focal Analytics helps online publishers identify their loyal readers, how they read and what their interests are. This is all made possible by combining high-resolution tracking data with psychological insights produced by data from human-computer interactions and machine-learning algorithms.

Jalu

Jalu bridges the divide between professional sports commentators and their audience. Real-time social media comment analysis and the ability to communicate with spectators via chat takes user interaction to the next level.

ROSAMAG

ROSAMAG explores the multi-faceted world of Black women in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. ROSAMAG promotes increased plurality in the media industry and stands for authenticity and the appreciation of Black women. The lifestyle magazine conveys identity through creativity and aims to create role models for Afro-Germans while showing all the opportunities available to them—from Afro hair to politics.

The Story Market

The Story Market is the first online marketplace for top journalistic content. It helps publishers find unique stories from journalists all around the globe and helps the authors get their story out and share their experiences with work with editors beyond the confines of their home country.

Veeplay

Veeplay provides video frameworks with a server-side ad insertion platform that help broadcasters, media companies and content creators stream, secure and monetize their content on mobile devices and online. The SSAI platform guarantees streaming without buffering for users and a 20% increase in revenue.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #5

Luminovo

Luminovo has developed a platform that allows people to create videos, text or images with AI support. This hybrid approach aims to significantly accelerate the corresponding processes. At the same time, Luminovo is easier to use than previous solutions. The founders have adhered to a simple principle throughout: AI won’t replace humans—but it can support us in many tasks, boost our abilities and make us more efficient.

flint.gg

The team is currently working on the first social media platform for gamers: flint.gg will allow video gamers to use their game profile to connect and network. Gone are the days of using several platforms like Steam, Twitch and Discord: Flint offers one profile for all the gaming services you use.

Kerngedanke

Multimedia services constantly present new tasks for editorial teams: videos, audio and written content are a matter of course nowadays. As a result, we’re always exploring a growing number of platforms to transport content. Kerngedanke aims to simplify the processes behind this. The Software-as-a-Service solution provides a system that makes editing content and posting on various channels quicker and easier.

Sidepreneur

There’s never been a period with fewer new businesses in Germany! Starting a business on the side offers a great way to pursue your idea without taking a leap into the dark. Sidepreneur helps people who want to start a business to develop ideas while working another job with practical and relevant content.

Varia

Varia wants to burst the filter bubble—all with a simple browser extension. Varia offers alternative perspectives for every article read online and helps readers become more informed without extra effort! The founder believes one-sided information we’re exposed to by algorithms can often result in intolerant, uncritical thinking.

Webmag

Webmag is a new kind of CMS for digital magazines. It has been designed to help businesses take their content to the next level without the need for programming or design skills. Webmag stories are automatically responsive, interactive and SEO-optimized. They couldn't be easier for users to navigate!


Media Startup Fellowship Batch #4

AI Germany

AI Germany has set itself the goal of becoming the top platform for market insights on AI in Germany in 2018. Drawing on the founders’ extensive experience and access to proprietary technology, the company is working to decode the DNA of the AI market. The startup provides free content, paid reports and access to experts who consult companies on the development and implementation of AI.

Factfox

Factfox helps social media editors to find the right answer to every comment. What used to be manual work is now supported by generative AI to optimise customer communication and make it more efficient.

Plantura

Plantura is a digital gardening magazine that uses a data-driven tech framework to identify the latest trends. This approach leads to a high and very specific reach within the target audience, which Plantura converts into revenue through targeted and money-generating product placements.

EventSpace

EventSpace has developed a platform to help content creators host events and increase engagement among their online audience with a visionary interactive live format. A digital event consists of various components planned along with audiovisual transitions from a content management system.

Shelfd

We want to make it easier to discover, sort, recommend and watch videos with Shelfd. Our main objective is to build a platform where users can access every channel in one interface. Users receive personalized recommendations and producers can share their content with specified target audiences.

Upspeak

Upspeak is an app for podcast and radio communities that enables them to communicate solely through the medium of voice. Users can exchange voice messages within their community to talk to each other and directly contact their favorite podcast or radio host. Everyone is able to ask a question, voice their opinion or simply listen to others.

VIVOICO

VIVOICO takes a new stance on a publisher’s user engagement. The user-friendly technology combines existing publisher content with high-quality creator microcontent to provide a unique user experience. With this, VIVOICO fills a critical gap in the consumer journey.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #3

The Buzzard

The Buzzard is Europe's first journalistic geoblogging platform. It unites the voices of political bloggers, activists and independent journalists on a single online platform. The team is also the team from our partner fellowship with VOCER Innovation Media Lab.

personiq

The personiq platform allows users to individually monitor and control their data. Giving users the power to decide for themselves whether they want to share personal information—and with whom.

Picter

Picter is an access and asset management tool for photography and image-based media. It has revolutionized working with images and replaces FTP services such as WeTransfer and Dropbox. The team is also the team from our partner fellowship with the Red Bull Media House.

Mashtag

Mashtag is an automated content provider and smart editorial assistant. It has all the latest knowledge on your social media followers, the target audience and current online trends at its fingertips, enabling it to automatically find content to increase your reach.

wafana

wafana is Germany’s first digital fact-checking organization. It provides training courses on reviewing online content and uses the social listening tool Crowdalyzer to identify fake news in publications’ social media communities. The team has also launched the Media Entrepreneurship Program.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #2

Bohème

Bohème promotes a digital reading culture for exclusive magazines and newspapers. The digital issues can be read for free in the app from the comfort of one of the participating cafés.

Jornu

Jornu – subscribe to journalists instead of newspapers! Do you want to read content produced by independent journalists who write top-quality stories? Follow the reporters you're interested in and create your own news.

SPREE interactive

SPREE interactive (formerly Holodeck 4.0) – SPREE interactive is revolutionizing the way we experience content. The viewer becomes the protagonist through the magic of virtual reality and cutting-edge sensor technology.

SnapTrack

SnapTrack – SnapTrack is a management suite for Snapchat. It can be used to create Snapchat Stories with any number of accounts. We also provide extensive Snapchat analytics to optimize your stories based on KPIs.

Media Startup Fellowship Batch #1

Camperstyle

Camperstyle – Camperstyle is a global multimedia platform dedicated to everything camping. Find all the latest information, tutorials, travel tips and stories.

Der Kontext

Der Kontext – Der Kontext is a digital magazine that gets to the heart of issues, allowing readers to dive deeper and deeper into a matter with its intuitive design.

Soundticker

Soundticker – Personalized music paired with personalized audio content. Soundticker inserts personalized news into your music playlist. Soundticker

tangnt news

tangnt news – A news site that uses gamification to motivate experts to upload articles to a community and share and discuss them with others.

Contact

Ronja Schneider

Group Lead Startup