ProjectTogether

Overview

ProjectTogether is a German non-profit organisation, legally a gGmbH, that works on what it calls open social innovation: it bundles initiatives, funders, public bodies, companies and volunteers around a societal challenge and runs programmes that help many solution approaches develop in parallel. Its team page names Philipp von der Wippel as founder and managing director and Henrike Schlottmann as managing director. The organisation operates in Berlin and describes missions in areas such as food and agriculture, construction, mental health and administrative reform on its website https://projecttogether.org .

Why this entity matters

ProjectTogether is relevant to the DACH startup ecosystem because it sits at the point where civic tech, social entrepreneurship and public-sector innovation meet. It is best known as one of the civil-society organisations behind the #WirVsVirus hackathon of March 2020, which the Stifterverband describes as a collaborative online process under federal government patronage. It also runs an impact incubator programme in Berlin that matches people with ideas and people with business expertise to found social ventures, a route through which at least one company later featured on Startuprad.io, the compostable-materials startup Traceless Materials, found its co-founding team.

Company or institutional background

According to the German Wikipedia article and the organisation's transparency page, ProjectTogether gGmbH was founded in 2015 and grew out of an earlier initiative from around 2012. The transparency page, in a snapshot dated October 2022, lists an operational address in Berlin and a registered office in Munich, and names Philipp von der Wippel as the sole shareholder; Startuprad.io has not checked whether these details are still current. The same page states that income in 2021 came mainly from donations and foundation grants. The organisation's tax-exempt purposes are listed as promotion of science and research, of education and vocational training, and of civic engagement. Programmes named in public sources include the ActOnPlastic Challenge, which the Stifterverband describes as supporting 100 initiatives, a Farm-Food-Climate mission, and further alliances and missions listed on the team page such as Bauwende Allianz, Mental Health Alliance, Re:Form and Welcome Alliance. German Wikipedia additionally lists several awards, including a 2023 Schwab Foundation recognition for collective social innovation; that award is reported by a single source and has not been independently re-verified for this record.

Role in the ecosystem

ProjectTogether occupies the non-profit and social-innovation layer of the German ecosystem. Rather than investing in companies, it convenes initiatives, foundations, municipalities and ministries and offers programmes that lower the barrier to starting mission-driven ventures. It is therefore a feeder for social-impact startups and a counterpart to the venture-funded organisations that dominate other Startuprad.io entity pages.

Selected relationships and affiliations

Public sources describe collaborations with foundations, public authorities and other civil-society organisations. The Stifterverband names ProjectTogether as a partner in its Wirkung hoch 100 initiative and lists six other civil-society organisations that co-initiated #WirVsVirus. German Wikipedia names the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, the Schoepflin Foundation and the Robert Bosch Foundation among funders and partners, again from a single source. Henrike Schlottmann, managing director, is the public face of the organisation in the Startuprad.io award feature below. The nature and scope of each relationship is as described by those sources and has not been independently detailed for this record.

Startuprad.io relevance

Startuprad.io mentions ProjectTogether in two posts. In its German Startup Awards 2021 coverage, Henrike Schlottmann of ProjectTogether is presented as winning the Female Social Entrepreneur award and explains the organisation's idea of bundling resources and ecosystems around large societal challenges. In the Traceless Materials founder interview recorded around the German Startup Awards 2022, the founder explains that she met her co-founder through ProjectTogether's impact incubator programme in Berlin.

Public source context

This record draws on ProjectTogether's website https://projecttogether.org including its team and transparency pages, German Wikipedia's article on the organisation, the Stifterverband interview with Henrike Schlottmann, and Startuprad.io's own archive. Details on legal seat, shareholding, funders and awards come from the sources named and have not been independently re-verified.

Startuprad.io coverage

Green Startup Traceless Replaces Plastics With Compostable Materials #GSA22 — Founder Interview
Published: 15 March 2026
Last updated: 20 September 2026
Coverage type: Interview
https://www.startuprad.io/post/green-startup-traceless-replaces-plastics-with-compostable-materials-gsa22-founder-interview

German Startup Awards 2021 — Female Social Entrepreneur of the Year
Published: 30 September 2024
Last updated: 20 September 2026
Coverage type: Blog
https://www.startuprad.io/post/german-startup-awards-2021-female-social-entrepreneur-of-the-year

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