How to present your creative startup on Creative City Berlin
TL;DR
Creative City Berlin is the online portal for Berlin's cultural sector and creative industries, run since 2008 by Kulturprojekte Berlin, a non-profit company owned by the State of Berlin. Creating a profile and posting jobs are free. It suits Berlin-based creative businesses, studios and freelancers; tech startups outside the creative sector or outside Berlin gain little from it.
What is Creative City Berlin?
Creative City Berlin (creative-city-berlin.de) is a community portal for artists, cultural workers and the creative industries in Berlin. The Berlin Senate Department for Culture calls it the central platform for the cultural sector and the creative industries in the city, for residents and for people planning to move there. The EU's European Regional Development Fund and the Berlin Senate co-fund it.
The portal has four main parts:
- Network: profiles and portfolios of people and institutions.
- Jobs: job and internship offers. The board listed 359 jobs on 30 October 2026, with new ads from the day before.
- Marketplace: studios, ateliers and co-working spaces in Berlin.
- Magazine: industry news, market trends and interviews. The newest article on the homepage dates from August 2025.
For funding and business questions, the portal points to Kreativ Kultur Berlin, a sister service that gives creative freelancers and companies free advice on starting and growing a business.
Who should create a profile on Creative City Berlin?
- Berlin creative startups: design studios, fashion labels, games, music, film, architecture and publishing.
- Freelancers and agencies who want a place in the local creative network and a free job board for hiring.
- Founders who need a studio or a desk and want to search or list spaces.
- Skip it if your startup is a B2B SaaS or fintech product with no creative angle, or if you have no Berlin presence. The audience is Berlin's creative scene.
How much does Creative City Berlin cost?
Creating a profile is free: the homepage invites visitors to create a profile "free of charge". The jobs page states "Everything is free", so posting a job or an internship costs nothing too. Public money funds the portal, and the pages we checked show no paid tiers.
The domain authority shown belongs to creative-city-berlin.de; the real benefit is a place in Berlin's creative network and free hiring.
How do you create a profile on Creative City Berlin?
- Open Creative City Berlin and choose to create a profile, or go straight to the sign-up and login page.
- Set up a profile for yourself or for your studio, company or institution.
- Add a description of your work, your contact details and portfolio images.
- To hire, log in and use Offer a Job to post a job or an internship. If you manage several profiles, switch to the right one first so the ad carries the correct name.
- To find or offer a studio or a co-working desk, use the Marketplace.
Tips to get more out of Creative City Berlin
- Lead with images. The homepage features selected portfolios, and strong visuals give you a chance to be picked.
- Post your jobs and internships here. The board is free and current, with fresh ads on 29 October 2026, which makes it a cheap hiring channel for creative roles.
- Book a free session with Kreativ Kultur Berlin if you need help with funding or setting up the business.
Our verdict
Creative City Berlin is a free, publicly funded network for Berlin's creative economy, with a busy job board and a studio marketplace. For a creative startup in Berlin it is an easy yes. A tech startup without a creative product or a Berlin base gets little out of it.
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