Accelerator Program 'Liftoff'

What’s it about?

Liftoff is an intense training program for startups and entrepreneurial teams in the early stages. Each team receives a powerful boost for their business model. Advisors and mentors support them in establishing the company, in market strategy and coach them in communication and presentation skills.

At ITS.Connect, Germany’s largest job fair for IT security students, the Liftoff teams can present themselves with open positions. They get to know the students and recruit their future employees at their own exhibition stand.

Liftoff Startups

AWARE7

links technical and human IT security, creates synergies, and helps companies identify and resolve potential security vulnerabilities in both areas.

EDGELESS SYSTEMS

develops a high-performance platform for the provably secure and accountable processing of data. Think always encrypted, think big data, think confidential smart-contracts.

emproof

provides a solution to protect intellectual property contained in the software of embedded devices.

immune

delivers highly innovative cybersecurity products for the datacenter, hyperscaler, and edge computing market.

PRIVACEE

is an all-rounder in the field of data protection management for SMEs, including an integrated external data protection officer.

qbound

offers Secure Access to Critical Systems and IoT Devices. Anytime. Anywhere. qbound Security = Software Defined Perimeter + Blockchain + Artificial Intelligence.

securious

protects businesses from cyber attacks with a full range of IT security services.

Trustcerts

provides the possibility to check the validity of proofs at any time with the blockchain - completely automated and GDPR compliant.

Who is participating?

Most of the teams come from the ITS ecosystem in the Ruhr area, they are a few months away from launching their service or have recently formed a startup. Their founding ideas are strongly technology driven. The young teams are guided and advised individually by mentors and coaches from our network according to their stage of development.

In 2019 the Liftoff took place for the first time. For information on the schedule and program …read more here.

At a glance

Workshops

Regular workshops such as pitch training, business and pricing model development and other topics prepare the teams for market entry.

ITS.Connect

At Germany’s largest job fair for IT security students held at Ruhr University Bochum startups can present themselves and open positions at their exhibition stand.

Mentors

To make the support as individual as possible, Cube 5 offers a network of experienced mentors. Each team can choose from a range of skilled founders as well as managers with domain knowledge.

Cybersecurity Match Making

The startups become acquainted with representatives from large companies and discuss possible pilot projects. The meeting is organized in cooperation with Gründerallianz Ruhr.

Feedback

The teams continuously meet mentors, help each other and exchange their progress in meetups.