Gründungsstipendium.NRW approved

In June 2026 the notification arrived: the Gründungsstipendium.NRW, the NRW founders' grant, has been approved for CABITREE. The funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia accompanies the founding phase.

The road there: from the first concept paper, via the pitch to the jury of IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein, the regional chamber of commerce, and its recommendation, to the application and now the approval.

What this means for building CABITREE

The grant is tied to the founder as a person and secures the founding phase. In practical terms: concentrated work on CABITREE, without a side job splitting the attention. It comes with coaching through the regional founders' network, an experienced outside view that questions assumptions.

The work itself is about developing our lightweight material further and about TreePass, our digital project meant to document origin, material and processing in a traceable way.

We take the funding as support for the work, not as a result. We will report here as things move forward.