March 2023

Openness, Collaboration and Innovation

SFK IIoT Hub Official Launch. On Mar. 23, SFK Industry IOT Hub held an official launch reception in Shanghai. The German Consul General in Shanghai, the government official of Kunshan Zhangpu, Kunshan German Industrial Park, founding partners of SFK, technical partners as well as other guests of close to 100 people attended the reception. Read more [...]

November 2022

Startup Factory USA Moves into New Facility

Startup Factory is expanding its company incubation model into the U.S.! In November 2022 our Startup Factory USA president Mike Birkle moved into our office and light production building in Fort Mill, SC greater Charlotte area. Read more [...]

October 2022

Startup Factory and Tencent Cloud Cooperate on SME Digitalization

Startup Factory China with its embedded Smart Factory Kunshan IIoT Hub and Tencent Cloud laid the foundation for a deeper collaboration to empower Chinese and German SMEs through Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions and cloud technologies in a recently signed Memorandum of Understanding. Read more [...]

May 2022

Startup Factory Family Met in Cologne

More than 20 of Startup Factory’s client companies met at IHK Cologne May 9th, and spent an intensive morning session with Startup Factory partners and with the German General Consul in Shanghai Pit Heltmann. The "China Day" was completed by an afternoon session “The Future of Business in China - Where Is the Journey Heading?" organized by IHK Cologne. Read more [...]

May 2022

Smart Factory Kunshan @ IOTSWC

Smart Factory Kunshan@Startup Factory China has been the 2nd time as exhibitor on the joint booth of Bavaria, Bayern International, at the IOT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona. SFK partner Bernd Reitmeier, Dr. Christian Haug and Frank Gaenzle had three days packed with discussions on technology implementations on the manufacturing floor. Read more [...]

August 2021

Startup Factory Invests in IIoT Startup nxtBase

Startup Factory China took over shares in Berlin-Brandenburg-based nxtBase technologies GmbH in August 2021 as part of an early-stage financing. This step accelerates the expansion of Startup factory's customer portfolio towards startups, especially in the area of Industrial IoT. Read more [...]

April 2021

German Chamber of Commerce Meeting

The German community of the Greater Shanghai area visited Smart Factory on April 15th, 2021. It was our great honor to host a dinner for the German Chamber of Commerce and German community led by Dr. Christine Althauser, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai and Clas Neumann, Chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce in China | Shanghai following the conference "Xplore the Digital Future". Read more [...]

July 2020

BALLUFF Client Event in Smart Factory Kunshan

Smart Factory Kunshan served as stage for German industrial automation specialist BALLUFF's client event "Effective Predictive Maintenance Powered by Condition Monitoring" on July 28th. You are looking for a unique event venue for your company event? Get in contact, we will give you the stage. . Read more [...]

September 2019

VDMA CEO T. Brodtmann visits Startup factory

VDMA delegation headed by VDMA's CEO Thilo Brodtmann visited Startup Factory on September 26th visiting the VDMA member companies under our roof and exchanging ideas on further development of German SMEs in China. Read more [...]