**Exclusively for TRIP-Class 24/25**
In individual cases, STIFT itself also acts as an investor and invests as an early-stage and side investor in promising Thuringian start-ups. Exclusively for the TRIP Class, STIFT shares its knowledge and experience from an investor’s perspective and, together with the Beteiligungsgesellschaft des Freistaats Thüringen (bm|t), checks how investment-ready the TRIP participants are.