Germany’s economic strength is very well qualified for SMEs that amount to 99.5% of all companies with more than 1500 hidden champions. Fast-growing Startups with their innovative and disruptive technologies make use of the German heterogeneous ecosystem. Why both sides got to get together, which challenges they have to overcome and how Telekom supports as bridge builder and strategic partner in digitization is going to be revealed by Hagen Rickmann, managing director business customers.