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Start your own GmbH and UG quickly and digit­ally

  • Fast & uncom­plic­ated: Shelf com­pan­ies are checked, ready for use and avail­able without wait­ing times.
  • Com­plete sup­port: per­son­al­ised advice and hand­ling of paper­work for a smooth start.
  • Trans­par­ent costs & bank bene­fits: Clear prices with no hid­den fees, includ­ing access to a busi­ness account with Ber­liner Volks­bank.

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Why is it so com­plic­ated to set up a com­pany in Ger­many?

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Just want to get star­ted with your idea?

The busi­ness idea is ready, but the path to set­ting up a com­pany feels like a mara­thon full of bur­eau­cracy and paper­work. Why make it so com­plic­ated if you just want to get star­ted?
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Do you think your com­pet­it­ors could be faster?

While you are still wait­ing for the go-ahead, someone else could already be put­ting the same idea into prac­tice. Time is more than money here — it’s the com­pet­it­ive advant­age you don’t want to lose.
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You don’t want to wait up to 6 months for your com­pany?

Months often pass between regis­tra­tion and mar­ket entry. Months in which valu­able oppor­tun­it­ies go unutil­ised — and the com­pet­i­tion never sleeps.
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Don’t want to take care of the bank account as well?

After all the pre­par­a­tions, the last thing you need is a lengthy account open­ing pro­cess. But this often takes weeks — and delays the start of your busi­ness even fur­ther.

Start your own busi­ness quickly and digit­ally with Start­bereit.

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Digital ser­vice

Our ser­vice is com­pletely digital. Take over a shelf com­pany with just one not­ary appoint­ment.

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Busi­ness Bank Account

The account with Ber­liner Volks­bank is already set up, and you even get all fees waived for the first 3 months.

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Com­munity

You get access to our com­munity and exclus­ive bene­fits from our part­ners when book­ing a ser­vice through us.

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No more paper­work

Enter the neces­sary inform­a­tion using our digital tool. Don’t worry, it’s easy to fill in and we’ll give you tips and help on all top­ics. Mean­while, everything is auto­mat­ic­ally sum­mar­ised and sub­mit­ted to the not­ary at the end. Take over a fully set-up shelf com­pany in just 24 hours and with just one not­ary appoint­ment. 

READY TO START

Busi­ness bank account included

Your busi­ness account with the tra­di­tional Ber­liner Volks­bank is ready for you to take over at any time and waives all fees for the first 3 months. In addi­tion, you have the option of flex­ibly adapt­ing the account to your needs at any time and upgrad­ing to a higher account vari­ant. Your per­sonal con­tact at Ber­liner Volks­bank is of course always there for you – so you are optim­ally pre­pared for your busi­ness.

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TOGETHER

Strong com­munity

As part of our ready-to-start com­munity, you will receive exclus­ive access to our part­ners and valu­able net­works to optim­ally sup­port your start-up jour­ney. You also bene­fit from attract­ive dis­counts on smart tools such as clev­er­lohn, sevDesk and flex­ible work­ing solu­tions from Regus, so that you are optim­ally posi­tioned from the out­set.

What founders say about us

You are not alone on the path to found­ing a com­pany. Our cus­tom­ers talk about their exper­i­ences and the suc­cesses they have achieved with start­bereit Find out first-hand how we sup­port female founders to reach their goal faster and more eas­ily.

Enter­ing the Ger­man mar­ket for the first time seemed over­whelm­ing and bur­eau­cratic. Start­bereit made it easy for us at Temple Future Own­ers to nav­ig­ate the chal­lenges, help­ing us set up quickly and without the usual paper­work. We’re grate­ful we found this solu­tion, sav­ing us valu­able time that would have oth­er­wise been lost in lengthy pro­cesses.
Karsten Kossatz

Hen­rik Johans­son

Co-Founder and CEO at Temple
For me, set­ting up a GmbH always involved an end­less amount of bur­eau­cracy. With start­bereit, it was all done digit­ally and thanks to the step by step guidelines, I was done and became the CEO of my GmbH sur­pris­ingly quickly.

Tor­sten Daus

ENTREPRENEUR & INVESTOR
start­bereit sup­por­ted me with all my ques­tions even after the found­ing pro­cess and saved me a lot of research.

Stefanie Mar­czok

NUTRITIONIST & FOUNDER
Our pro­cesses

Your own com­pany in just a few steps

Our pro­cesses are kept very lean to min­im­ise the effort on your side. You can find out more about the indi­vidual steps here.

What type of com­pany?

Still not sure which com­pany form is right for you? Take our test!
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Register in the app

Fill out the com­pany data in the app, such as com­pany name, registered office, address, com­pany sec­tor and com­pany pur­pose.

Order with oblig­a­tion to pay

To final­ise the reser­va­tion of your com­pany, you need to place a paid order in our app and pay the share cap­ital and our ser­vice fee.
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Enter share­holder data

Enter the data required for the pur­chase con­tract and the trans­fer of the com­pany in the app so that the not­ary can pre­pare all the con­tracts and final­ise the checks before the dead­line.

Book a not­ary appoint­ment

After filling in all the neces­sary data, a cal­en­dar is auto­mat­ic­ally dis­played in which you can book your not­ary appoint­ment. The appoint­ment will then be con­firmed within a few hours.
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Bank account

After all steps are com­pleted, you will be redir­ec­ted to the bank account pro­cess to enter the required data. The account allows quick access to the share cap­ital and is exempt from all fees for 3 months.

Start­bereit

You’ve made it and are now offi­cially the man­aging dir­ector of your com­pany! You now also have access to our exclus­ive resources and receive many bene­fits and dis­counts from our part­ners.
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Would you like to find out more about start­bereit and our app?

Then you can now con­veni­ently see which day suits you best and we will guide you through our pro­cess. If you wish, you can also buy a GmbH or UG at this stage – we will sup­port you every step of the way and will be happy to answer any ques­tions you may have.

Still have ques­tions?

A shelf com­pany is a com­pany that has already been foun­ded but is not yet act­ive and is just wait­ing to be taken over. It enables a quick start as all the legal form­al­it­ies have already been com­pleted. Simply buy it, rename it and get star­ted straight away! Ideal for a quick busi­ness start.

The main reason for pur­chas­ing a shelf com­pany is the abil­ity to act imme­di­ately, exclud­ing per­sonal liab­il­ity, espe­cially if a con­tract or prop­erty acquis­i­tion is immin­ent and there is there­fore not enough time for the com­pany to be foun­ded. In the area of M&A, flex­ib­il­ity plays a par­tic­u­larly import­ant role.

Yes, shelf com­pan­ies are fully leg­ally secure. They are already entered in the com­mer­cial register and have ful­filled all legal require­ments. As they have not yet been act­ive, there are no leg­acy issues or legal prob­lems. How­ever, a small check after the pur­chase is recom­men­ded.

When you book start­bereit ser­vice, you will receive all the neces­sary doc­u­ments to ensure that everything is in order. You also have access to the com­mer­cial register to check the company’s his­tory.

In a glance: A shelf com­pany is newly formed, unused, and ready for imme­di­ate deploy­ment. It has no oper­a­tional his­tory, no pre­vi­ous activ­it­ies, and no liab­il­it­ies, mak­ing it an ideal choice for a quick and uncom­plic­ated start. In con­trast, a shell com­pany comes with a history—it has been act­ive in the past and may carry leg­acy bur­dens, such as pre­vi­ous busi­ness activ­it­ies or exist­ing liab­il­it­ies. This makes thor­ough due dili­gence essen­tial when con­sid­er­ing a shell com­pany to identify any poten­tial risks or oblig­a­tions. Shelf com­pan­ies are spe­cific­ally cre­ated for imme­di­ate sale. Since they have never been act­ive, they are entirely new, free of liab­il­it­ies, and unen­cumbered by any past com­mit­ments.

When pur­chas­ing a shelf com­pany, it is cru­cial that the share cap­ital is fully paid. The seller should guar­an­tee that the com­pany has been prop­erly foun­ded and does not have any inher­ited liab­il­it­ies or encumbered assets. With our shelf com­pan­ies, you are on the safe side: they are 100% leg­ally com­pli­ant, foun­ded in Ber­lin, have an impec­cable his­tory and the share cap­ital is fully paid. You can start your busi­ness with peace of mind.

By pur­chas­ing a shelf com­pany, you are able to act imme­di­ately without the risk of per­sonal liab­il­ity. You avoid the time-con­sum­ing incor­por­a­tion pro­cess and remain flex­ible until the last moment. You receive the bank account dir­ectly with the pur­chase and it is yours as soon as you suc­cess­fully pass the veri­fic­a­tion pro­cess at Ber­liner Volks­bank.

When found­ing a GmbH on your own, it is pos­sible to ini­tially deposit only €12,500 in share cap­ital instead of the full €25,000 required for a shelf com­pany. While this approach reduces upfront cap­ital require­ments, it res­ults in addi­tional effort and higher costs for not­ar­ies, law­yers, and tax advisors. Moreover, per­sonal liab­il­ity remains in place until the full share cap­ital has been paid. In sum­mary: less cap­ital tied up, but sig­ni­fic­antly more risk, time and effort required for the incor­por­a­tion pro­cess.

The pur­chase price depends on the legal form of the shelf com­pany. You can find an over­view above. A GmbH with fully paid-up cap­ital of 25,000 euros costs 28,500 euros. A UG with paid-up cap­ital of 1,000 euros costs 2,900 euros. There are no fur­ther costs from our side. How­ever, not­ary and court costs are added to the pur­chase price.

We offer super fast found­ing in just a few days — com­pletely paper­less! Even though we are still new on the mar­ket, we guar­an­tee full legal cer­tainty and work with reli­able part­ners such as Ber­liner Volks­bank. You also get a busi­ness account that is free of charge for the first three months. We take care of everything, includ­ing open­ing a bank account.

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