For businesses starting up in the creative industries.

From idea to actual startup – we'll assist you with our know-how on business plans, markets and competition, financing options, and much more. We'll support you in drawing up detailed startup roadmaps and assessing your needs in terms of consultations and qualifications.

Our initial consultations, founder coaching, and startup coaching are for prospective founders, founders and entrepreneurs, startups, one-person enterprises, as well as micro-enterprises and self-employed individuals who fall under the new self-employment scheme (Neue Selbständige) – in the pre-founding phase and up to five years after founding. Completion of an initial consultation is a prerequisite for participation in the subsequent coaching sessions for founders.

To qualify, a business must have been founded in Vienna or already be headquartered in Vienna.

Note: We offer specialised consultations for women entrepreneurs. In addition, we provide consultations in you language.

Whether you have national or international expansion plans, wish to develop new business areas, or consolidate your business relations with partners upstream or downstream of your value chain, we've got you covered. We offer strategic process and organisational development and connect you with financing partners.

Our growth coaching is geared towards assisting startups and entrepreneurs up to five years after founding. To qualify, a business must have been founded in Vienna and the growth objective must be clearly defined.

Note: We offer special consultations for women entrepreneurs. In addition, we can provide consultations in your language, on your premises.

Associations and people participating in the start-up programme (UGP) of the Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS) are not eligible.

We offer consultations on digital technologies, intelligent production, sustainable technologies, and for the development and implementation of social innovations. In addition, we'll assist you with any issues related to new regulatory policies adopted at national, international, or EU level.

Our innovation consultations are for prospective founders, founders and entrepreneurs, startups, one-person enterprises, and micro-enterprises, as well as self-employed persons who fall under the new self-employment scheme (Neue Selbständige) – in the pre-founding phase, startup phase, and up to five years after founding. To qualify, a business must have been founded in Vienna or already be headquartered in Vienna. We also offer specialised coaching with a focus on the creative industries or the technology sector.

Note: We offer specialised consultations for women entrepreneurs. In addition, we provide consultations on your premises, in your language.

We're here to assist you in developing circular products and services, in resource conservation and material efficiency, impact analyses, logic models, as well as CO₂/methane calculations, and in your efforts to avoid rebound effects (effects through which the savings potential of efficiency improvements is not, or only partially, realised).

Our sustainability consultations are for businesses in the field of energy, mobility, logistics, construction, urban development, assistive technology, food production, facility management, architecture, climate and impact, sustainable construction, circular economy, and urban mining.

Note: We offer specialised consultations for women entrepreneurs. In addition, we provide consultations on your premises, in your language.