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"It started in a club."
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak first met at the Homebrew Computer Club — a community of hobbyist programmers in a garage. That meetup became the world's most valuable company.
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The biggest changes never started with one person — they started with a community. We're building it at TU Wien: the place where encounters become teams and ideas become startups.
Change doesn't happen in isolation. It begins in garages, lecture halls, coffee shops, and computer clubs — wherever people come together, share ideas, and become greater than the sum of their parts.
"It started in a club."
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak first met at the Homebrew Computer Club — a community of hobbyist programmers in a garage. That meetup became the world's most valuable company.
"One student. One community."
Student Linus Torvalds posted kernel code to an online community of hobbyists. Today 90% of the cloud runs on Linux — built by thousands of volunteers, no company, no CEO.
"Three students. One tech university."
Three students at the Technical University of Munich founded Celonis out of a university project — carried by their university's founder community. Today: one of Europe's most valuable software companies.
"No company. Just community."
No ads, no investors: a community of volunteers built the largest knowledge archive in human history. 60+ million articles in 300+ languages.
If you want to build something great, you need people who'll build with you.
That's the promise of the TU Wien Innovation Club.
From research to the world stage. TU Wien has produced some of Europe's most exciting deep-tech companies — the best proof of what's possible here.
Examples from the TU Wien ecosystem. Coming soon: startups from our own community.
All community dates at a glance. The first events are in planning — as soon as a date is fixed, you'll find it here.
The official launch of the TU Wien Innovation Club: the club's vision, short talks — and above all, time to get to know each other. Open to all TU Wien students, researchers, and alumni.
Founders from TU Wien spin-offs share how research becomes a company — together with our founding partner, the Spinoff Factory of TU Wien.
From first idea to concept: finding problems, validating ideas, shaping a business model. No prior experience needed.
By our side from day one: the Spinoff Factory of TU Wien — where research becomes real companies.
We're just getting started — and our first members shape what this club becomes. Not spectators, but builders. Be there from day one.
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