Hamburg Business: Your partner for all business matters

The hamburg-business.com portal is the main online resource for all business stakeholders, startups and investors. Hamburg Business is the right place for you if you would like to find out more about Hamburg and the Hamburg Metropolitan Region as an innovative business location or are looking for quick, hands-on help and support from professional contacts.

Whether you are looking for commercial space, startup-related information or funding opportunities - we create transparency and connect you with the right partner for your request.

Your portal for doing business in Hamburg 

Hamburg AS AN INNOVATION LOCATION

Future Hamburg

You've come to the right place if you're looking to explore the exciting innovation landscape of Hamburg and the Hamburg Metropolitan Region or need a helping hand when entering one of the region's innovative ecosystems. 

RelocatION, expanSION & TRANSFORMATION

Commercial real estate

Hamburg Invest's Real Estate Services team supports companies wishing to relocate, expand or transform their business in Hamburg - helping them to build their future success.

ALWAYS CLOSE TO YOUR NEEDS

One-stop agency for investment

We are the central point of contact for all companies wishing to invest, expand, restructure, relocate or set up business in the Hamburg economic region.

KEEPING UP to date WITH BUSINESS NEWS

News from the Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Hamburg News is an indispensable resource for anyone wishing to know what is and will be important in Hamburg's business community. The Hamburg News editorial team reports on exciting trends and relevant events, supplying you with insights, industry reports and stories.

Why is Hamburg the right location?

Business news from Hamburg and the Hamburg Metropolitan Region

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Startup City Highlights

Top monthly reports from Hamburg's startup ecosystem
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Path to successful energy transition

Hydrogen now key to energy transition - Hamburg News spoke to Professor Hans Schäfers, Director of CC4E, about economic efficiency and technical progress

Bonjour Hamburg: Startups from France at OMR 2025

Kick-off on May 5 with the newly founded La Tech Hambourg network

Der Eifelturm in Paris

"Parlez-vous français?"

France now Hamburg's third most important trading partner - friendship still going strong thanks to young founders at OMR 2025
Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht im Sommer

Commercial Court and Commercial Chambers open in Hamburg

Hanseatic city strengthening Germany as a legal centre
Innovative Unternehmen in der Metropolregion Hamburg

News briefs from Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Awards, investments and innovations across metropolitan region - from Fehmarn to Soltau, Cuxhaven to Schwerin
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Launch of AI.Academy platform

AI.Hamburg/AI.Group to prepare companies to use AI responsibly
Präsentation der gemeinschaftlichen Entwicklungsvereinbarung zwischen Oman und Europa in den Niederlanden

HHLA now in hydrogen partnership between Oman and Europe

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG to set up world's first import corridor for liquid hydrogen from Oman to Europe
Student und Studentin in der HafenCity Universität

Record 120,000 students in Hamburg

Hamburg now attracting increasing number of tomorrow's scientists
Jugendliche stehen um einen Bildschirm mit der Visualisierung der Erde

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology celebrating 50th anniversary

Hamburg now a leading climate research centre with Nobel Prize winner and super computer

Hamburg's topics of the future

Cities play a crucial role in tackling some of the biggest challenges of our time. Hamburg is one of the most liveable cities in Europe and a magnet for companies, investors, startups and talent, making it the perfect place to put ideas into practice. Below you can find Hamburg's focal topics.

Press Service 

Additional resources on Hamburg as a business location

Upcoming dates and events

Exhibition

polis CONVENTION

Düsseldorf, Germany, 7 – 8 May 2025

The polis CONVENTION is an annual trade fair for project and urban development that takes place at the Böhler area and is accompanied by a congress. In addition to project ideas and developments, the focus is on a different trade fair theme each year. 

 

Exhibition

Real Estate Arena 2025

Hanover, Germany, 14 – 15 May 2025

The Real Estate Arena is a real estate fair for networking and exchange that focuses on the real estate markets in B and C locations, bringing together politics, economic development, real estate and the digital economy.

 

Exhibition

transport logistic 2025

Munich, Germany, 2 – 5 June 2025

transport logistic 2025 offers exciting insights, pioneering impulses and groundbreaking innovations in the world of logistics, mobility, IT and supply chain management.

 

Event

Handelsblatt Annual Meeting-Future Plan Real Estate

Berlin, Germany, 23 – 24 June 2025

The two-day event will deal with the topic of new business models for the real estate industry as well as market opportunities, investment trends and the role of data centers as energy storage for a sustainable infrastructure.

 

Event

Hamburg Real Estate Congress

Hamburg, Germany, 1 July 2025

IMMOCOM has been developing and organizing sustainable networking events for more than 20 years. At this event, IMMOCOM welcomes numerous players and experts from the regional real estate industry to discuss the real estate industry in the Hanseatic city.

 

Exhibition

Expo Real 2025

München, Germany, 6 – 8 October 2025

Every year since 1998, EXPO REAL has played host to the entire real estate industry for three days in October. As the largest trade fair for real estate and investment in Europe, EXPO REAL in Munich offers ideal conditions for efficient networking.

 

Exhibition

MIPIM 2026

Cannes, France, 9 – 13 March 2026

Since 1990, this 4-day event with at least 20,000 participants from 80 countries and 19,300 m² of exhibition space has been the leading international real estate trade fair where influential players from all areas of the international real estate industry meet.

Reasons for doing business in Hamburg

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