Faster Company Formation
Faster and easier company formation in Germany
Setting up a business in Germany is often a bureaucratic and time-consuming process. Founders have to fill out countless forms and wait a long time for responses. Establishing a limited liability company (GmbH), for example, often takes several weeks.
Status: Concluded
Contact details: presse@digitalservice.bund.de
Facts and figures
In 2024, there were 585,000 business founders in Germany.
A record 3,568 start-ups were founded in 2025. Artificial intelligence is part of the business model for almost one in three start-ups.
It currently takes four to eight weeks on average to set up a limited liability company (GmbH).