Startup Guide Frankfurt

Overview
Startup Guide Frankfurt is the Frankfurt volume of the Startup Guide series, printed guidebooks that map a city's startup scene for founders and newcomers. Volume 1 was published in January 2019 as a paperback. It covers startups, programmes, coworking spaces, schools, investors and experts in Frankfurt am Main, with founder and expert interviews and a directory. Startuprad.io founder Jörn "Joe" Menninger is listed by Startuprad.io as a member of its advisory board.

Why this entity matters
Startup Guide Frankfurt matters as a reference entity because it is one of the few printed overviews of Frankfurt's startup scene, a city better known for banking than for startups. It records which startups, programmes, spaces and investors were active in Frankfurt around 2019, and which corporates and public bodies supported the effort. For Startuprad.io, which has been based in Frankfurt since 2014, it is also a direct link: Startuprad.io's founder sits on the guide's advisory board.

Publication history and content
The publisher, Startup Guide, was founded in 2014 by Sissel Hansen, who had moved to Berlin in 2012. Its first book, about Berlin, launched in 2014, and the company has since published guides to more than 60 cities and regions in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the United States, according to its About page. Startup Guide Frankfurt Vol. 1 was published in January 2019 as a paperback. According to the publisher's shop page, its chapters are City Essentials, Data Overview, Startups, Programs, Spaces, Experts, Founders, Schools, Funding and Directory, and it includes interviews with Eric-Jan Krausch of Acomodeo and Dr Thomas Hain of the Nassauische Heimstätte / Wohnstadt group. The publisher's Frankfurt page also carries articles from the guide, including contributions from KPMG's Dr Ashkan Kalantary and Eric Menges, chief executive of FrankfurtRheinMain GmbH. Supporting partners listed by the publisher are SAP (Next-Gen innovation platform), FrankfurtRheinMain, KPMG and R+V, with StartZero as community partner and One Tree Planted as environmental partner, which plants a tree for each paperback sold.

Role in the startup and technology landscape of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Within Germany, Startup Guide also covers Berlin, Hamburg and the country as a whole. The Frankfurt volume documents a regional scene shaped by finance, insurance, real estate and large corporates, which is reflected in its partner list of SAP, KPMG, R+V and the regional marketing company FrankfurtRheinMain. For founders moving to Frankfurt Rhine-Main, it serves as a starting map of local programmes, spaces and investors.

Selected relationships and affiliations
Publisher: Startup Guide (founded 2014 by Sissel Hansen). Supporting partners: SAP, FrankfurtRheinMain, KPMG, R+V. Community partner: StartZero. Environmental partner: One Tree Planted. Advisory board: Jörn "Joe" Menninger, founder and host of Startuprad.io, per Startuprad.io's entity record on him https://www.startuprad.io/entities/joern-menninger .

Startuprad.io relevance
Startuprad.io founder Jörn "Joe" Menninger is listed as an advisory board member of Startup Guide Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region on his Startuprad.io entity page https://www.startuprad.io/entities/joern-menninger . Startuprad.io names the guide among its Frankfurt Rhine-Main cooperations in its twelfth-anniversary feature.

Startuprad.io coverage

Startup Guide Frankfurt appears in the following Startuprad.io article.

Startuprad.io Turns 12: What Twelve Years of Startup Conversations Taught Us
Published: 31 October 2026
Last updated: 31 October 2026
Coverage type: Anniversary feature (cooperation list)
https://www.startuprad.io/post/startuprad-io-turns-12-what-twelve-years-of-startup-conversations-taught-us

Public source context
This profile draws on the publisher's shop page for the book https://startupguide.com/shop/startup-guide-frankfurt , the publisher's About page https://new.startupguide.com/about , its Frankfurt location page https://new.startupguide.com/locations/frankfurt , Startuprad.io's entity record on Jörn Menninger https://www.startuprad.io/entities/joern-menninger , and Startuprad.io's own coverage archive.

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