Entrepreneurship often seems to be like an elite sport for the few.

We’re making it everybody’s game.

3,000 EURa month + network, community and skills, so you can build your idea or take it further.

FÜRJEDE:N

We envision a society full of people who try new things, solve problems and inspire others with their ideas. Or who simply build something that lasts. All of that is entrepreneurship to us.

We help make that possible for everybody: money that covers your living costs; people around you who carry some of the weight; and learning that happens in practice.

The way start-up funding works today, it leaves a huge amount of entrepreneurial potential untapped.

Steven Strehl, Founder of everypreneurs

The facts are clear: many people can picture working for themselves or starting a business. Whether they actually do depends far too rarely on their idea and their talent, and instead, in most cases, on gender, background and financial means.

Current funding programmes come with so many prerequisites that they largely prevent entrepreneurship. We need new conditions that reflect the realities of people’s lives, so that the power to innovate and shape things can unfold in our country. That also means fewer funding applications or business plans, and more trust in people and their ideas instead. Encounters, sparring and financial security are the foundation for a more resilient economy and for economic participation that reaches society at large.

  1. Many would, few do

    37 per cent of young people aged 14 to 25 can readily picture starting a business, but only 3 per cent actually do.1

  2. Women are left out

    94 per cent of venture capital went to all-male founding teams in 2025. So the investment logic on offer leaves out half of society.2

  3. Background gets funded

    The need to bring their own money and applications full of financial and tax jargon put off people without an academic background, well-off parents or a high income before their ideas and talents even come into play.3

  4. Worry holds people back

    For 73 per cent of people with no plans to start a business, the financial risk is too great, and many also worry about social protection and finance.4

  5. Funding passes many people by

    Seven in ten new businesses in 2025 started part-time, many of them alongside a job. Yet the state start-up grant is only for a full-time business started out of unemployment, and, among other conditions, it is also tied to an entitlement to unemployment benefit.5,6

Sources

  1. 1Gründungsaufbruch der jungen Generation: Hohes Interesse und Rekordaktivität trotz Barrieren (opens in a new tab), Bertelsmann Stiftung, Impulspapier, Ivo Andrade, Tobias Bürger und Nils Heck. Reference year 2026.
  2. 2Startup-Finanzierungen: Nur 1 Prozent des Risikokapitals fließt an rein weibliche Jungunternehmen (opens in a new tab), EY, zum EY Startup-Barometer 2026: Gründerinnen und Gründer. Reference year 2025, published 2026.
  3. 3Das Potenzial der Vielen heben: Förderlücken in der Startup-Förderung schließen (opens in a new tab), D64 – Zentrum für Digitalen Fortschritt, AG Startup-Förderung, Positionspapier. Reference year 2022.
  4. 4KfW-Gründungsmonitor 2024 (opens in a new tab), KfW Research. Reference year 2023, published 2024.
  5. 5KfW-Gründungsmonitor 2026 (opens in a new tab), KfW Research. Reference year 2025, published 2026.
  6. 6§ 93 Gründungszuschuss (opens in a new tab), Sozialgesetzbuch Drittes Buch, gesetze-im-internet.de. Reference year 2026.
All data & insights
Steven Strehl, Founder of everypreneurs

Financial security, encounters, learning together, diverse role models and new, tangible founding stories are the key to more entrepreneurial action in Germany.

Our answer

Money

A “founder’s salary” that covers your living costs, so you can focus on your business.

Learning

Entrepreneurship can be learned. We offer formats and content that are relevant to you.

Network

People and organisations who open doors: partners, customers, people to look to, and people who have already done it.

Community

A community that gets you, gives you feedback, moves you on to your next steps, and is in a similar place.

Research

We’re looking for the levers that work best for bringing entrepreneurship into the 21st century and making it accessible to many people. So we draw on current research, and we observe, ask and measure ourselves.

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Who backs us

Michael BohmeyerFounder
WeFix.Social

Our state hasn’t yet built the infrastructure that broad entrepreneurship urgently needs. But we can’t afford to keep waiting for it.

Klara SimonChair of the board
Mein Grundeinkommen

Our society wins when privilege and luck aren’t the only tickets to being able to afford risks and shape the world.

Christoph BackesManaging Director
u-institut

Everyone can think and act entrepreneurially! everypreneurs increases the chances of successful entrepreneurship: in my view, this project has the greatest possible entrepreneurial impact on society!

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