Meet the HHL DIGITAL SPACE Crew
Our crew consists of entrepreneurs, researchers, technology experts, creative minds and a whole lot more. HHL is dedicated to drive new business ideas as top entrepreneurial university and the network is dedicated to support you.
We build from scratch
Experience our space with an innovative, open and inclusive working atmosphere.
The Tech Incubator of HHL
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management is a university-level institution and ranks amongst the leading international business schools. The goal of the oldest business school in German-speaking Europe is to educate entrepreneurial, responsible and effective business leaders. HHL stands out for its excellent teaching, its clear research focus, its effective knowledge transfer into practice as well as its outstanding student services. More than 300 companies were set up by alumni of HHL. The most well-known examples include the unicorns (startups with a valuation of more than $1bn) trivago, AboutYou, Delivery Hero, Auto1 and IONIQ.
To share this expertise and broad network, HHL set up the HHL DIGITAL SPACE as an open platform and incubator to support entrepreneurs not only for their own students and partners but for everyone with a digital business model.
Who we are

JProf. Dr. Dominik Kanbach
Academic Lead
Sophia Kuhl
Managing Director
Hanna Fiedler
Incubation Manager
Maurice Steinhoff
Incubation Manager
Philipp Hentze
Founder Support (EXIST Scholarships)
Francie Lange
Entrepreneurship Associate
Alexander Kramer
Entrepreneurship Associate
Alina Kramer
Office Management
Hannah-Lea Ruppender
Social Media Manager
Rosalie Kopp
Social Media Assistant
Support our crew
If you would like to support us and the founders of our batches, please don't hesitate to contact us digitalspace@hhl.de or click below.
Our Values
We are committed to creating an innovative, open and inclusive environment with our digital transformation platform.
We focus on the needs of entrepreneurs and early-stage founders with digital business models and are fully dedicated to facilitating their growth.
We support long-term and sustainable value creation for entrepreneurs and their ecosystem with a purposeful societal impact.
We foster out-of-the box thinking to find the best solution.
We adhere to HHL’s core values of respect, integrity and supporting each other.