Germany's leading innovation community for cybersecurity startups has formed around ATHENE. We are home to everyone who is passionate about cybersecurity innovations. As a hub, we connect startups, companies, investors and VCs as well as other stakeholders. We are convinced that cybersecurity innovations and startups contribute to a secure and sovereign future in Germany and Europe.

Founding new companies is an important transfer path for ATHENE in order to sustainably bring research results into application. We are also part of the national Digital Hub initiative and the StartUpSecure initiative.

In recent years, we have supported numerous teams with innovative ideas in the field of cybersecurity from research in their spin-offs from universities and institutions. In addition to startup projects from academia, we also support startups from industry with an innovative cybersecurity solution.