Wilbe × Munich Build Week application
Apply to Wilbe × Munich, Wilbe's 7-day online Build Week for scientists and engineers starting 13-20 Nov 2026. Test your vision and plans with our GPs, equity-free.
Status: Applications open. Week 46. Dates: 13-20 Nov 2026.
What is Wilbe Build Week?
Every week, we select 5 exceptional scientists and engineers for 7 days online with our GPs, equity-free. Test your vision and plans, leave with clarity, and you might leave with a first check. Every Wilbe founder is invited to our quarterly residency in San Francisco.
Application questions
- Name
- LinkedIn profile
- Whether you are working on an idea
- Previous funding
- Funding details, if applicable
- Problem you are trying to solve in 5 words
- Confirmation of weekend availability and engagement over the following week
Schedule
- Friday kickoff
- Weekend independent build using the Wilbe platform
- Monday and Tuesday office hours with the Wilbe team
- Monday to Friday 1:1 calls if requested by the Wilbe team
- Wednesday submissions
- Thursday and Friday material review and next steps
Investment decisions may happen at any point during or soon after the week.
Investment offer
During or after Build Week, Wilbe may offer to invest. We write first checks ranging from $100K-$500K, either at inception or directly at pre-seed. At inception, we may invest up to $200K through a SAFE, with pre-emption rights to invest at pre-seed. We may also invest up to $500K directly at pre-seed. Build Week is free to participate in, with no equity required and no obligation to accept investment from Wilbe.
Confidentiality and IP
You do not need to disclose confidential technical details or sensitive IP to participate. Wilbe encourages applicants to keep patent-enabling details, unpublished results, confidential data, or anything they are not ready to discuss publicly out of the application, office hours, and community discussion.
Themes of interest
- Robotics
- Energy
- Manufacturing
- Defence
- Materials Science
- AI Infrastructure
- Photonics
- Quantum
- Bio
- AI x Science
- Hardware