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Set up a GmbH — digital, struc­tured & leg­ally com­pli­ant

Set up your GmbH fully digit­ally, with clear pro­cesses, per­sonal sup­port, and only one not­ary appoint­ment.

The GmbH is the most pop­u­lar legal form in Ger­many. start­bereit provides you with an already estab­lished GmbH as a shelf com­pany, includ­ing a busi­ness bank account and, if desired, a tax num­ber. The pro­cess is digit­ally structured—from applic­a­tion to regis­tra­tion in the com­mer­cial register—transparent, effi­cient, and with per­sonal sup­port.

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What is a GmbH?

Explain­ing the lim­ited liab­il­ity com­pany (GmbH)

A GmbH is a cor­por­a­tion with its own legal per­son­al­ity. It offers a clear lim­it­a­tion of liab­il­ity to the company’s assets and is often used for busi­ness activ­it­ies with a pro­fes­sional focus. The stat­utory min­imum share cap­ital is €25,000.

Who is a GmbH suit­able for?

Your bene­fits when set­ting up a GmbH

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    Any­one who wants to start oper­at­ing pro­fes­sion­ally (trades­people, inter­na­tional com­pan­ies, and many more).
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    Star­tups with investors, growth, or scal­ing plans
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    Spe­cial pur­pose vehicles (SPVs) for real estate deals or asset man­age­ment
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    Ready to start imme­di­ately: Pre-estab­lished shelf GmbH with a busi­ness bank account and an optional tax num­ber
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    Digital pro­cess with a not­ary net­work — only one not­ary appoint­ment required
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    Per­sonal sup­port + optional fol­low-up ser­vices

Set up a GmbH with start­bereit

Via start­bereit, you pur­chase the shelf UG digit­ally and eas­ily. You provide details such as your desired com­pany name, and we review and pre­pare the inform­a­tion and for­ward it to our part­ner not­ar­ies so the GmbH can be trans­ferred to you. After­wards, Ber­liner Volks­bank also reviews everything so the account trans­fer can be com­pleted. Fast, trans­par­ent, effi­cient.

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GmbH

28.500 €
incl. € 25,000 share capital/
excl. not­ary fees
Get star­ted pro­fes­sion­ally.
  • Leg­ally com­pli­ant and ready to go in 24 hours
  • Digital pro­cess — no more paper­work
  • Pre­pared con­tracts and doc­u­ments
  • Simple GmbH con­fig­ur­a­tion (instead of the sec­tion about contracts/documents)
  • Exclus­ive dis­counts with our part­ners
  • Busi­ness bank account with spe­cial terms
  • Not­ary fees for trans­fer of the com­pany
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Our pro­cesses

Your own GmbH in just a few steps

Our pro­cesses are spe­cific­ally optim­ized to min­im­ize your effort. Here you can learn more about the indi­vidual steps if you want to set up a GmbH with start­bereit.

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You want to set up a GmbH? Great! Simply select it and con­fig­ure it in the next step.
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Add info

Enter the details of your future GmbH here, such as the com­pany name, registered office, address, industry, and busi­ness pur­pose.
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Book the GmbH as a paid ser­vice

For the final reser­va­tion of your com­pany, a paid order as well as the pay­ment of the share cap­ital and our ser­vice fee are required.
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Enter share­holder data

Please enter the required inform­a­tion here for the pur­chase agree­ment and the com­pany trans­fer (re-regis­tra­tion). This allows the not­ary to pre­pare the doc­u­ments and com­plete all neces­sary checks before the appoint­ment.

Book a not­ary appoint­ment

After you have entered all the required details, a cal­en­dar will appear where you can book your not­ary appoint­ment. Con­firm­a­tion is usu­ally provided within a few hours.
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Iden­ti­fic­a­tion at the bank

In par­al­lel, you can com­plete your iden­ti­fic­a­tion with the bank. For this, you will receive a link for the Video-Ident pro­ced­ure. This allows the account trans­fer to be final­ized after the not­ary appoint­ment, based on all doc­u­ments from the not­ary appoint­ment and your suc­cess­ful iden­ti­fic­a­tion.
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Set up a GmbH with start­bereit

Con­grat­u­la­tions! You are now offi­cially the man­aging dir­ector of your GmbH. You also gain access to our exclus­ive resources and can bene­fit from numer­ous advant­ages and dis­counts with our part­ners.
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FAQs Shelf-GmbH

A shelf GmbH is an already incor­por­ated GmbH with no oper­a­tional busi­ness activ­ity, which you can take over to become oper­a­tional more quickly.

No. It has not been used oper­a­tion­ally: no rev­enue, no con­tracts, no employ­ees — it serves solely for later trans­fer.

 

You start with an already exist­ing GmbH struc­ture and there­fore save time com­pared to a full new incor­por­a­tion.

The trans­fer is car­ried out through a not­ary. In doing so, for example, the share­hold­ers, man­age­ment, com­pany name, registered office, and busi­ness pur­pose are adjus­ted and then registered in the com­mer­cial register.

You don’t start from “zero,” but with an already exist­ing GmbH struc­ture — which usu­ally makes the path to being oper­a­tion­ally ready sig­ni­fic­antly shorter.

In prin­ciple, yes — the setup is adjus­ted to fit your plan. In reg­u­lated indus­tries, addi­tional doc­u­ment­a­tion or pro­cesses may be required.

Look for: no busi­ness activ­ity, no revenue/contracts, com­plete doc­u­ment­a­tion, and trace­able records of the incor­por­a­tion and safe­keep­ing.

 

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You can start early with branding/your web­site, but leg­ally bind­ing ele­ments (e.g., the final name/registrations) should only be com­mu­nic­ated as “final” after the changes have been prop­erly com­pleted.

Yes — mainly in terms of share cap­ital and external per­cep­tion. A GmbH often appears more “estab­lished,” while a UG is fre­quently used as an entry-level option.

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Still have ques­tions about the start­ing a com­pany in Ger­many, com­pany regis­tra­tion Ger­many, busi­ness bank account Ger­many, the reser­va­tion or the pur­chase pro­cess? We answer many ques­tions in our FAQs, for everything else you are wel­come to con­tact our team.
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