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Just for context, you can't actually apply anymore and it's been like that for about a year. And that's not the first time period for which aplications are blocked.
In addition, both founding a start-up and actually applying is a lot of bureaucracy. You've probably run dry of money long before it's approved.
Lastly, I believe they mostly fund mobile games.
Short story time. In USA, over 25 years ago, a Russian immigrant used to give me rides down the peninsula to work in the early hours. I wondered at his ability to survive and provide for a family in our high cost of living area. He told me that applying for government and nongovernmental aid and so on was easy for him because he was used to the much worse Soviet bureaucracy.
Not only this, they cut the budget starting 2025 by a lot and only productions with >400k on their own will be qualified to apply for a state funding. Cause that will be a good reason for each state (Bundesland) to rise their funding (Berlin has some millions and Hessen 260k/year funding budget). Or at least that was one of the arguments to cut the state budget.
Don't get me started on state funding, there is none at my location.