At this year’s MACHN Festival in Leipzig, the »boOst« initiative presented itself on the main stage on June 18 with a welcoming speech by State Secretary Thomas Kralinski from the Saxon Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport: As part of the federal »Startup Factories« competition, 10 universities in Saxony and Thuringia as well as various investors, accelerators, companies and entrepreneurs are joining forces to form the structured DeepTech ecosystem boOst (Business Oportunities Ost). TU Dresden AG contributes its many years of expertise as a partner in the non-profit founding company. Together with all other partners, we are pursuing the goal of doubling the number of start-ups in the next five years and creating a new generation of growth companies in the region. The result of the funding selection will be announced in Berlin in July.