Innovation meets investment
The Saxon Investors' Day 2026 - The deep dive into Saxony's innovation landscape.
Exclusive insight into the Saxon innovation landscape and its growth companies.
Based on selected best-practice examples, you will learn why Saxony is attractive as an innovation location for investments in growth companies, why the Saxon entrepreneurial spirit offers the prospect of promising multiples and why you as an investor should consider Saxony as a business location for growth plans of established companies.
Program & Highlights
- 16:00Check-in
- 17:00Welcome
- 17:10On course for growth: Saxony as an investment location in the heart of Europe
Internal and external perspective on Saxony as a location for growth investments: Role in the heart of Europe, insights into the WIN initiative and Saxony's SMEs compared to the federal level.
- 17:35Round of introductions at the tables with appetizer
- 18:00Capital meets skill: How funding creates real growth alliances
The panel shows the growth journey of Saxon companies and the perspective of their their investors - from financing to resilient growth alliances. growth alliances.
- 18:25Main course
- 19:00Two Unicorns, two paths to growth
How Sunfire and Staffbase are conquering global markets from Saxony and scaling with scaling with different strategies - two paths, one strong origin.
- 19:30Dessert
- 19:55Neuromorphic AI as a game changer: How brain-inspired systems are redefining the dual-use paradigm
Opportunities and challenges of brain-inspired AI systems in the dual-use context and their potential to rethink industrial applications and security
- 20:00Get-together
Opinions on the Saxon Investors' Day
"International global players as well as innovative start-ups are consciously choosing Saxony as an important location for future technologies. Saxony's innovation ecosystem offers the best conditions for strong growth."
Dr. Anna Christmann, Member of the German Bundestag, Federal Government Commissioner for Digital Affairs & Start-ups
"The Saxon economy is robust in the face of the current challenges and is tackling the upcoming transformation with determination. Saxony is a good place to invest in the future. Decisive steps are currently being taken here that will trigger new growth, such as investments in the microchip industry, the development of a hydrogen infrastructure or the establishment of new major research institutes. In my view, there are therefore good reasons for investors to take a closer look at Saxony as an up-and-coming location for start-ups and innovation."
Martin Dulig, Saxon State Minister for Economic Affairs, Labor and Transport 2014 - 2024
I'm at a table that is a colorful mix with a lot of visitors who are not from Saxony, who are here for the first time and are only now understanding what kind of basis there is here.
Gesche Weger, CEO and Co-Founder Packwise
There is an exceptional density of research institutions here and in various clusters. These range from microelectronics, to automotive, to materials, to lightweight construction, to the circular economy and so on. And these clusters are always interesting for investors because they can focus on specific sectors.
Dr. Isabelle Canu, Partner Green European Tech Fund
"I am very enthusiastic about the quality of the discussions. And what I learned today and I think this is clearly why we should have Saxony on our radar: That Saxony is an epicenter of technology."
Britta Lindhorst, Managing Director and Head of European Investments HQ Capital
Your contact at futureSAX
Claudia Landrock
Project Manager
Capital Transfer & Investors
Connecting people - that's what Claudia Landrock is passionate about. Before the native of Zwickau completed her bachelor's degree in economics at the TU Dresden, she gained one year of experience abroad as an au pair in Australia and France. An internship of several months in the USA was followed by her master's degree in business administration at the University of Regensburg. Subsequently, she supported and accompanied technology-oriented start-ups and digital start-ups in the Innovation and Start-up Center in Regensburg from the initial idea to the financing round and helped to further develop the regional start-up ecosystem.
Her fascination with innovation and start-ups is also rooted in her student involvement with "enactus Regensburg". She still supports young start-up projects on a voluntary basis as a mentor at StartUP Teens and also campaigns for better conditions for start-ups at federal level as chair of the Start-up Promotion Working Group at a digital policy association.