On Wednesday, 12 February 2025, the ASAP Final (powered by NXTGN) took place for the thirteenth time. This year, the 31 best university-related teams from all over Baden-Württemberg pitched their ideas live in the Zoom stream and via YouTube. High-calibre prizes awaited the winners - the overall winner was the "InnoZell" team from the University of Konstanz.
This is how the ASAP final #13 went
The Academic Seed Accelerator Programme (ASAP for short), which has been running since 2018, is an offer from the innovation platform NXTGN. As part of ASAP, university-related teams from all over Baden-Württemberg develop numerous innovative business ideas each round, which they are then allowed to present to an audience as part of the ASAP final.
The thirteenth final of the programme took place for the second time in ARENA2036. The two hosts of the startup podcast "Spätzle Valley" Sebastian Demuth and Christian Veit moderated the exciting final live from the balcony for the fifth time and guided the audience through this year's programme. The 31 teams were able to pitch their business ideas in front of an audience consisting of numerous spectators, university and company representatives, investors and other players from Baden-Württemberg's startup ecosystem.
Between the various pitches and the award ceremony, Sebastian and Chris interviewed the startup Bloom Future (founded by Carlo Mailänder and Kevin Costa), participants from last year, who gave us exciting insights into startup life.
Before the jury, consisting of Carolin Eißler, Prof. Dr Christina Ungerer, Janine Weigele, Philipp Bühner and Christine Ludwig, selected the winning teams, the accelerators represented were presented to the electronic sounds of DJ Clemens.
These teams have won the ASAP Final #13 won
- "InnoZell" from the University of Konstanz was chosen by the jury as the overall winner of the current round. With its technology, InnoZell is committed to eliminating the need for animal testing in drug trials.
- The Business Model Award was won this round by "Bauer-Lieferant". The team from DHBW Stuttgart offers local farms a delivery service that connects them directly with their customers.
- The Innovation Award went to the "Linq" team from the University of Heidelberg. Linq is all about optical control units for quantum computers.
- The "SchwarzMatt Desalination" team from Ulm University of Applied Sciences won the Impact Award in this round. SchwarzMatt Desalination is developing a technology for self-sufficient water desalination in the Global South.
- The Best Pitch Award went to "TellMedNet" from the University of Heidelberg, a digital platform that focuses on arranging and conducting teleconsultations. This enables GPs and general practitioners to involve specialists in examinations in real time.
Thanks to the support of L-Bank, the awards were endowed with prize money of up to €1000. The team of the overall winner, InnoZell, also won a wildcard for the Startup BW Elevator Pitch preliminary round and the Bauer-Lieferant team also received a wildcard for the Road to Start Summit in Stuttgart on 14 February.
In this round, viewers once again voted for their favourite team. Team Bauer-Lieferant also received the most votes and thus the "Audience Darling" award.
Further information, an overview of the prizes, the jury and the recording of the final are on our Website to find.
