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These start-up teams have already taken part
We are delighted to count more and more inspiring and successful teams as alumni of our start-up programmes.
Whether ASAP or Masterclass - we support alumni and new teams with full commitment on their way, because their success is our success!
***Impact Award***
Our start-up idea revolutionises orientation for visually impaired and blind people: An innovative radar sensor recognises obstacles and makes them perceptible through 3D sound and haptic feedback. The acoustic warning utilises the hearing's natural sense of orientation, while nine vibration motors in a special blindfold indicate the direction and distance of obstacles. Intuitive navigation for a safe and independent life.
RadarVision
***Audience Darling***
SmartCart is a revolutionary AI-powered shopping trolley that makes shopping easier for visually impaired people. Using advanced AI algorithms and precise navigation systems, SmartCart helps to identify products and navigate the shop effortlessly. This innovation transforms the shopping experience for the visually impaired community and promotes independence, accessibility and inclusion.
SmartCart
DeHaB has set itself the goal of giving more space to the knowledge and experiences of Black women and preparing it in such a way that it can best support other Black women in their self-development. This is initially to be achieved by initiating a dialogue. Impulse cards that can be ordered for home delivery are supported by a podcast. In this way, DeHab highlights the diversity of Black women on the one hand and creates more visibility on the other. The vision is to learn from Black women in a transparent, flexible and location-independent way.
DeHaB
Green Report helps SMEs in the building sector that have to report in accordance with the CSRD for the 2026 financial year with the collection of sustainability data, the preparation of sustainability reports in accordance with the CSRD guidelines and provides accompanying advice to the client.
Green Report
With our start-up, we aim to make the search for apprenticeships more international- and employee-friendly. Integranted will transform the application process into a more personalised and inclusive process, breaking down barriers and building greater trust between companies and international applicants.
Integranted
I would like to create a "trading platform for industrial parts in the B2B sector", which makes surplus and incorrectly ordered components from one company's stock available to other companies so that other companies can meet their delivery deadlines. As you can order the components anonymously from the other company via my platform.
prePARTed
Senior Connect connects experienced professionals over 50 with companies looking to fulfil their need for qualified workers. Through the use of AI technologies, job offers and applicant profiles are precisely matched to ensure an optimal match. Seniors gain access to suitable positions, while companies benefit from the expertise and experience of older employees.
UV is building a global, distributed solar power plant that uses car parks to supply consumers with electricity. The technical basis is the first solar carport optimised for mass production and simple/fast installation as well as a digital platform that automates the entire process.
Ecalia develops modern components for heat pumps and air conditioning systems that can drastically increase efficiency by up to 30 %. At the same time, we reduce the systems' susceptibility to faults and the number of production steps, thereby cutting production and maintenance costs.
*** Overall Winner ***
As a spin-off from the University of Tübingen, we offer a generative AI model that generates hyperrealistic synthetic data based on real data. Open your Data with Tabularis.ai and benefit from increased efficiency and reduced costs. Protect sensitive data while sharing data insights freely between teams or even companies.
*** Impact Award ***
Battery-free safety light: Especially in the winter months, when the days get shorter, safety measures on the way to school or work are very important.
Due to the cold, the batteries of the previous safety lights are quickly discharged, which is particularly bad for the environment. This problem is solved by kinetic energy generation. This means that our safety light is always ready for use, regardless of the environment. In contrast to similar suppliers, we offer not only a simple safety light, but also customised solutions. Customers have the option of integrating the light into their products. In addition, our light can generate not only a flashing but also a permanent light signal and can therefore be used as a torch.
FightTheNight
*** Innovation Award ***
Sustainability is not only important on Earth, but also in space. This is because more and more space debris is accumulating in Earth's orbit, threatening the entire space industry. PeriSpace is therefore developing cost-effective solutions for the targeted removal of hazardous space debris in order to enable the sustainable utilisation of space in the long term.
PeriSpace
In a world where demand for gaming, board games and entertainment is steadily increasing, pen-and-paper role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons are experiencing a remarkable rebirth. The use of generative AI can both save production costs and create never-before-seen content. It makes it possible to create dynamic and customised worlds and adventures, enriched with generated images and a detailed background story. This creates a unique and personalised gaming experience.
LabChron improves sensor technology in bioprocess laboratories through open and flexible data management and modular sensor platforms. Our offering includes both ready-to-use sensor solutions and open source options for customisation. We are primarily aimed at smaller laboratories and research groups that require cost-effective and expandable solutions. LabChron supports self-build and self-repair of sensors to promote innovation and independence in research.
LabChron
With Luminary, we are setting up a platform for trading limited edition shoes in the secondary sneaker market. Unlike other platforms, only commercial sellers can sell on our platform (for the time being). This drastically reduces the disadvantages of existing options in buying and selling.
Luminary
MEDIGUM is an innovative start-up idea focussing on the development of cough chewing gums. Our innovation lies in the unique combination of long-term effect, saliva stimulation and soothing ingredients. We strive to improve the well-being of our customers and create a new dimension of self-care in respiratory health.
MEDIGUM
Service support from the younger generation for the older generation, especially for the topic of digitalisation, but also for physical work in the garden. As "digital natives", we want to support the older generation with everyday IT problems and build a sustainable relationship between the generations. We see ourselves as an inexpensive middle ground between expensive specialised service providers and employed family members.
We want to make amateur sports clubs fit for the long overdue digitalisation. To this end, we developed a software platform that enables local sports clubs to make convenient, cashless payments such as membership fees, tickets or food and drink.
Helping to accelerate the process of achieving the imposed sustainability goals. Shedding light on an under-recognised problem. All online and digital activity generates CO2e, and this is unavoidable. The idea is to raise awareness of how we can use our devices and the internet in a more sustainable and lasting way. This would be done through software that calculates the emissions we generate with our online/digital activities with the aim of reducing them. The software would include technologies to reduce these emissions, while also providing insights into how to incorporate greener digital practices.
Renovo
We have the vision to revolutionise science in Germany. We are developing a modern, uncomplicated and clear web/app-based mediation platform between study providers and potential study participants, with AI-supported mediation based on health data, as well as intelligent personalisation options and an evidence-based gamification approach from psychology to create a high incentive to participate. In addition to communicating studies, we want to use STUDIENFINDER to educate people about science: What is an mRNA vaccine? or How does an EEG work? This is how we promote science for everyone - from everywhere - for education with fun.
Study finder
Our app has a passionate mission: to inspire and support people to revolutionise the world through donations and transform it into a better place. With our modern and user-friendly application, we want to unite all donation activities in one central location and take a holistic approach. From researching donation projects to processing payments, visualising the resulting impact and providing standardised donation receipts - we accompany our users at every stage of their altruistic journey to make a positive impact on the world.
WePack is your online supermarket with a reusable system and click & collect service based on an AI-supported food management system. Compact WePack stations in container format enable unpackaged shopping around the clock on a floor space of 30 square metres, comparable to a conventional supermarket of 1,000 square metres with a full range of products and the same customer capacity. Thanks to the synergy of online ordering, local collection, a reusable system, resource conservation, AI-supported food management, transparency, flexibility, digital product information, origin tracking and inspiring recipe suggestions with Click & Cook, WePack is creating a promising shopping experience of the future.
Ventus builds high-resolution models for weather forecasts, enabling modern road vehicles to be prepared for environmental conditions. We not only make reliable charging strategies possible without range anxiety, but also more comfortable and safer autonomous journeys in the future.
Ventus
Cellios revolutionises cable and connector assembly and provides the world's first automated complete solution for previously monotonous assembly tasks. Our vision is the economical assembly of medium and small quantities, as well as the support and relief of employees. Cellios is a modular and flexible complete solution consisting of software and hardware in the form of a robot cell. Thanks to the flexibility and modularity of the software and hardware, several variants can be produced on a single cell. The high degree of modularisation means that the Cellios assembly solution can grow with the customer's individual requirements and can be easily expanded with new process modules for additional products or to increase the level of automation.
We make digital technologies applicable for everyone involved in the property market and bring digital building twins to life. We do this because we are convinced of the opportunities offered by digitalisation and that "everything that can be digitalised will be digitalised." So let's start with property today. With vreed.INSIGHT, we offer our customers a digital platform for property refurbishment.
Artificial intelligence harbours enormous potential for companies. However, we are facing major challenges in the field of AI, especially in highly regulated and high-risk applications. Trustworthiness, reliability and transparency of AI systems play a central role and strict compliance and security are essential in view of new regulations such as the European AI Act.
MATVIS is developing a platform that enables the potential of AI to be utilised responsibly and securely. Our product offers automated end-to-end compliance solutions, risk management and comprehensive security functions for AI systems. And all from a single source.
Kimoknow makes it easy for teams to use AI object recognition for their individual use case through a user-friendly platform with intuitive tools and automated workflows from the creation of their own recognition to the integration of the applications into company processes, services or products.
Industrial energy efficiency is the fastest and most cost-effective way to reduce CO2 emissions. To realise the potential, millions of companies need access to know-how and advice. The digital eeaser tool enables factories worldwide to identify feasible energy efficiency solutions and provides detailed expertise on the identified solutions.
Packair develops the first volume-adaptive and fully automated reusable shipping packaging with integrated padding for online retailers. Packair offers zero waste packaging as a service for online retailers and saves 4.5kg of CO2 and approx. 18kg of packaging waste per Packair.
Cyclize is developing a plasma-based process that replaces fossil resources and produces synthesis gas, which is used as the basis for the production of everyday items such as plastics, paints, adhesives and hydrogen, methanol and eFuels in the chemical industry. This enables the carbon cycle and utilises non-recyclable plastic waste.
Hydrop Systems digitises household water consumption by reading analogue household water meters with an attachment. Using artificial intelligence, we can allocate the data to the respective application (e.g. shower, toilet) and recognise and alarm leaks at an early stage.
Project managers in mechanical engineering need to keep an eye on the value creation process in order to adhere to schedules. Linetrack is a cloud-based tracking platform that automatically queries the project status and provides processed data in a single source of truth. This increases planning reliability and saves around 35% in order to be able to react to delivery bottlenecks.
Paxray relieves the workload of specialists by automatically uncovering process flows from digital interaction data. Optimisation and automation can reduce the workload by up to 40%. Paxray helps organisations achieve process excellence, regardless of the maturity level of process management. Paxray has extensive expertise in task mining and automation through award-winning research.
Product instructions are often complicated and difficult to understand. SIMPIs offers a simple and connected solution to help consumers get the most out of their products. We offer a white-label platform, content creation tools and a web format optimised for how-to's. Our vision is to become the leading how-to content platform where brands and consumers connect.
Every person is unique, but the product texts on online shops are the same for all visitors. At zigmund.ai, we personalise product texts psychologically. This means that every visitor sees exactly the text that appeals to them. All fully automated by our AI.
Laigo, founded in Friedrichshafen in 2022, makes artificial intelligence available to all companies. The no-code platform for machine learning developed by Laigo provides software manufacturers with the basis for developing AI models without specific expertise as well as a library of ready-made smart tools. They can integrate these into their applications and offer them to their customers to optimise their business processes. Laigo stands for AI solutions that are developed in Europe by a young international team of specialists from various disciplines and comply with both the GDPR and the planned EU AI law.
Find out how your gait affects your entire body with our mobile gait analysis for everyday use. Our unique sensor sole captures all your movements without you even realising it. With the help of our intelligent algorithms, we determine where muscle tension is occurring in the body due to misalignments and shoes. To help you, you can order an insole that corrects your gait based on the data. We digitise what was previously only possible with very expensive equipment and an extensive medical history in the gait analysis laboratory and offer a disruptive concept for insole care.
Nanoshape aims to reduce implant infections. Using a nanostructure inspired by dragonfly wings, we can improve artificial joints, bone plates and dental implants, for example, to give them antibacterial properties. The fascinating thing: The technology does not work by adding active substances such as antibiotics, but utilises purely structural effects at nano level. This can significantly reduce both the risks for those affected and the enormous follow-up costs for the healthcare system.
CENmat is an innovation centre dedicated to catalysing electrolysis into a scalable, green and profitable technology. We offer several product lines, including HYScale - a novel and economical electrolysis technology that does not require critical raw materials, and OXYGN - a scalable PEM electrolysis system with a particularly active and long-lasting iridium-based oxygen evolution catalyst. At CENmat, we are focussing on sustainability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness in order to set a new standard for green hydrogen production.
We offer cloud-based software solutions that can be easily adapted to any size of organisation. Our product Owlytic Audit thinks of the audit process as a PDCA cycle and connects all audit participants in a simple way. With the help of our sophisticated data analytics, we translate written findings into graphics as a transfer to the business context.
Senara is the first cell-cultured milk company in Europe: we preserve culinary tradition through innovation.
We want to make the global milk supply sustainable with tasty, high-quality, easily digestible and real milk in order to make the full variety of products available to everyone - now and in the future.
*** Impact Award ***
We want to help people who have problems understanding official documents, bank letters and the like by simplifying these texts into plain language in our app. With a simple scan, complicated documents are a thing of the past. Our target group is particularly people with a migration background or people whose native language is not German. For this reason, the app language and the output language of the simplified texts can be changed to different languages.
*** Innovation Award ***
The new milk alternative comes in the form of a paste in a reusable jar.
With Nucadera and a little water, you can easily mix your own fresh almond drink at home.
This not only makes shopping easier for you, but also avoids plastic waste.
*** Business Model Award ***
Trying to leverage the career of single mums in Colombia by integrating them into the tech workforce and being part of the tech boom. Helping German companies at the same time to overcome the talent lack to ensure to stay competitive.
*** Overall Winner ***
Environmentally friendly and resource-saving alternative building material based on geopolymer technology. Local raw material utilisation and circular economy by processing construction waste into building materials (tiles, bricks, screed, plaster, etc.).
GEOPOL Tech
The idea of the start-up is to optimise the cutting of structural timber for carpentry and roofing companies.
and to automate this process. This is intended to increase the order capacities of the companies and minimise
Processes should become more efficient.
Joinery centre Holz-Michel
The Crash app is a platform that allows users to create, discover, and participate in various events, mostly drinking related ones. It brings people together for shared experiences, whether it's a social gathering, adventure or a party. The app facilitates event organisation, ticketing, and communication, making it easy for users to connect and join crash events that align with their interests.
Crash App
EveryBody is a start-up that specialises in producing fashionable, sustainable clothing with special upcycling solutions for people with physical and mental disabilities. Individualised, affected people can have vintage clothing modified with our solutions (e.g. magnetic buttons) and thus wear clothing that makes their everyday life easier and meets their needs and style.
EveryBody
An ESG-compliant, cost-effective, holistic, automated and transparent solution tailored to SME companies in the form of a customised CO2 calculation. We currently offer this solution manually via Excel analyses. In the future, an efficient software solution will support SME companies. In addition, we want to be available to provide advice and develop customised measures to reduce CO2 emissions.
GreenLog
With our start-up "Namö", we want to give old furniture a new lease of life. In our social workshop, we work with disabled people to restore old furniture into new pieces of jewellery.
If you want to get creative yourself, our workshops offer the ideal opportunity to let off steam creatively in our workshop and design your own individual piece of furniture.
Namö
Local physical participatory and multifunctional spaces that foster social connections and provide a comfortable environment for people to gather, interact, and participate in various activities together without the pressure or expectation to spend money or consume goods and services.
People Places
The picture surface is an innovative and sustainable picture frame. The new design principle was developed by Sophia Hälterlein. Studio Minzi offers picture frames, matching wall mirrors and risograph prints - to make your four walls more beautiful.
Companies support talented and motivated but socially and culturally disadvantaged students from the 8th grade onwards through a combined scholarship and mentoring programme so that they can graduate from school with a degree that matches their cognitive abilities.
Upgrade Scholarship
The "Versatile Automated Lab Utility System/Equipment" controls parameters for various reactions on a laboratory scale, for which several devices are otherwise used, all in one. Various customised and expensive controls can be dispensed with thanks to inexpensive adapters. Modular integration allows complex reaction sequences to be controlled by a single automation system.
ValUse
*** Overall Winner ***
*** Audience Darling ***
The Batcam is an everyday orientation aid in the form of glasses for people with severe visual impairments. It uses camera-based 3D environmental field recognition to recognise the surroundings and warns the user of dangers that the cane cannot detect.
*** Business Model Award ***
Skinmate is the digital companion for people with skin problems!
With our wide range of features, we offer a unique and above all holistic solution that gets to the root of the problem. Those affected are taken by the hand on their way to clearer skin and receive fast, personalised and effective support.
*** Impact Award ***
We at "Milky Choice" have made it our mission to develop vegan products that counter current problems such as irresponsible animal husbandry and low-quality animal dairy products. We produce high-quality and flavourful plant-based milk powder alternatives which, thanks to their production and composition, conserve resources and retain their goodness and quality for a long time.
Milky Choice
*** Best Pitch Award ***
MeinDein is a modern rental platform from Karlsruhe for private and commercial providers.
We are committed to a simple, safe and fast process for the rental and donation of items in order to utilise resources more effectively, intensively and sustainably.
On average, each of us owns at least 10,000 items, of which only 20 % are used. Why not let the other 80 % generate passive income?
We want to help transport companies to increase the availability of rail vehicles and shorten maintenance times by utilising rail vehicle data. In a public transport company with 300 trams, approx. 17,820 hours of maintenance per year are required just to analyse faults in electronic components. With our solution consisting of software and hardware, we want to help workshop staff to identify defects more quickly. So that the rail vehicles are where they belong - on the rails.
"Unique gaming experience for players all around the globe, crafted by experience in diffrent scientifical fields"
Under this motto, we are in the process of building a studio that produces entertainment software for gamers from all over the world.
FindHelp connects psychotherapists/psychiatrists and alternative practitioners with those who are seeking help for their mental health.
As an app, it makes finding a suitable therapist based on individual preferences easy and assists help-seekers during the overall process. They can easily book an appointment online without having to make a call, look at/write reviews and consume additional informational content on the topic of therapy and mental health.
As a Software as a Service, it helps to improve the therapist-patient match and to better organize/prioritize and conduct appointments. Therapists can be listed on the App and use FindHelp's tools, including the booking platform, a practice calendar, automatic waiting list (with prioritization), messenger for the team and secure video consultation program.
FridgeStock is a merchandise management system for small restaurants or cafés. The idea is to make existing ERP systems such as SAP, Dynamics Navision or Oracle available to small businesses at an affordable price.
The aim of this service is to make work easier for small businesses with fast menu and stock maintenance via text scanning, to generate weekly comparisons of the ingredients of individual dishes and thus to create added value for the business owner through lower purchase prices and employee costs.
FridgeStock
IndieZone is the bridge between online shopping and local shopping.
The most convenient way to shop sustainably.
With IndieZone, we will make retail fit for the future. Our B2C2B platform is a revolutionary new type of online marketplace that combines the advantages of online shopping and local shopping. Consumers can find products from their local area on our marketplace just as easily and clearly as on Amazon. However, there is no central logistics centre behind the selection, but rather the variety of products in local shops, which the consumer can visit as quickly as possible thanks to the integrated route calculation so that they can then view their favourites in person and take them with them.
Kozo is a fully automated, systematic trading system that manages the risk of financial investments in fast-moving markets around the clock. We are convinced that our solution is an innovation in risk management and makes participation in both new and traditional financial markets safe, profitable and easy.
In short, Kozo combines two things that are usually mutually exclusive: fast-growing investments and a long, restful sleep.
*** Impact Award ***
We at "Milky Choice" have made it our mission to develop vegan products that counter current problems such as irresponsible animal husbandry and low-quality animal dairy products. We produce high-quality and flavourful plant-based milk powder alternatives which, thanks to their production and composition, conserve resources and retain their goodness and quality for a long time.
Milky Choice
Our idea is to use popcorn to produce a sustainable floor that is heat and sound insulating thanks to its natural properties. By popping the maize, a material with a low density is created and the volume is increased enormously. The floor can therefore be sold at a lower price than standard floor coverings. Another advantage over conventional parquet and cork flooring is the cultivation. The oak used for parquet flooring takes 180 years to grow. Cork grows on the tree within 9-10 years. Corn, on the other hand, can significantly undercut this, as it only needs 5 months to grow. The floor is to be produced regionally here in Germany, and the corn is also to be bought and processed by local farmers. The popcorn floor not only has personal or regional advantages, but also protects the environment and conserves resources.
Popcorn flooring - CornFloor
Scalable Insects develops technically freely scalable automated insect breeding systems that are technically fully competitive with giga factories, even at a smaller size than pure breeding systems. This free scaling means that, for example, local residual streams (e.g. in agriculture) can be converted directly into high-quality protein on site. Scalable Insects will not simply be a supplier for insect breeding facilities, but a network for insect breeding facility operators. The many benefits of the network include the analysis service with a learning cloud system from all plants, technical and biological service for the plant and, if desired, a raw material purchase subscription and a distribution subscription.
Symp is an app that reveals every mutual connection between two people who meet in real life and are into each other. We envision a world in which dating takes place in the real world again, is transparent and efficient and where people don't have to waste opportunities to build meaningful relationships.
WAYCANCY is a start-up idea that is committed to a gender-neutral recruitment process. It has set itself the goal of reformulating job descriptions in such a way that they are appealing to all people, including potential applicants.
What a Bottle is your coach when it comes to drinking enough during the day.
You receive a drinking bottle equipped with an LED ring that lights up to signal when it's time to drink. Depending on your sporting activities and the weather, the optimum amount to drink per day is determined for each individual and automatically entered into the What-a-Bottle app. For a more precise overview, the app can be linked to fitness watches or third-party apps such as Google Health. To enable the bottle to recognise how much is being drunk, a sensor is built into the neck of the bottle that measures the flow rate of the water.
What a Bottle
WORKONIO IS THE FIRST ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR PERSONNEL LEASING.
The platform makes it possible to counteract short-term staff shortages or to outsource entire projects to subcontractors.
Our aim is to provide personnel quickly and easily in a constantly changing and extremely dynamic world.
Leadnow makes it easier than ever for brands and agencies to find influencers and book them directly for advertising campaigns and content. We know the true reach of the influencers, free from fake followers, and enable automated campaign and payment processing with revenue tracking and a personalised component.
With our pocket-sized electronic IoT fitness device, we offer the first remote gym and bring the intensity and exercise variety of a gym to every living room and every park. The connected app boosts efficiency, motivation and fun in training through data-based coaching, gamification and content.
With Finably, we are rethinking donations and crowdfunding - our app allows users to financially support a customised portfolio of projects by automatically rounding up and donating the full euro amount with every card payment. Users are regularly informed about the impact of their projects and can exchange information about the projects with other donors.
*** Best Pitch Award ***
With SkillFit, CulturalFit and TeamFit, we identify suitable candidates and thus ensure more efficient, motivated and satisfied teams - without any job advertisements or time-consuming searches. Each team member answers your self-developed psychological TeamFit test anonymously, from which team profiles are created. We then use artificial intelligence to match the corporate culture and information about the position with suitable candidates.
cubeX overcomes financial barriers and revolutionises venture capital and private equity investments. In doing so, we create the opportunity for start-ups and SMEs to finance themselves quickly, without hurdles and without barriers. At the same time, we offer private investors transparent access to pre-IPO investments, giving them the previously denied opportunity to invest in companies of the future at an early stage and add an alternative asset class to their portfolio.
cubeX
"beyond" is a digital collection point for storing, organising and managing financial and estate documents.
Our solution simplifies the administration of estates, enables our customers to maximise their self-determination and provides relief for their relatives after their death.
beyond
*** Best Pitch Award ***
We generate sustainable living ideas tailored to your needs. You combine these with your own vision in build mode. Meanwhile, you can experience your concept in virtual reality together with friends and family in simulation mode. We implement the relevant expertise in the background, giving you live feedback on feasibility, costs and sustainability.
the circle
We want to create a digital platform in the form of an app to connect cultural professionals and people who are potentially interested in culture. For our users, the offer in a feed should be as personalised and inspiring as possible, while we want to offer every cultural venue the same opportunity for presentation. Our aim is to bring users of all ages and interests and cultural professionals of all types and sizes into contact with each other and to make culture more tangible.
EduBox is the first AI-supported tool that brings adaptive teaching to schools. Pupils complete assessments created by teachers, EduBox determines their learning level and provides feedback in the form of customised teaching material.
We teach so that no one is left behind.
"hey, belly! - Your pregnancy companion" is a monthly subscription box that makes the stressful time of pregnancy more enjoyable for pregnant heroines and gives them security and appreciation in a time full of uncertainty.
#celebratingpregnancy #empowerment #selfcare
hey, belly!
Whether in the drugstore, clothing shop or online shop. Every shopping experience begins with the decision between the men's and women's departments. Non-binary people are therefore excluded from shopping in our society. We believe that everyone is equally part of our society and should feel comfortable in it, even when shopping for everyday products, in which they are not categorised by gender through the choice of colours or words. We offer a collection of such gender-neutral products from selected brands on our Marketplace.
GenFree
*** Impact Award ***
They digitise the operations management and documentation of volunteer fire brigades and other blue light organisations.
With their mobile app, they offer uncomplicated added value for every application - even without a continuous internet connection and complex IT infrastructure.
At Clearmind, we help students to study in a relaxed, meaningful and successful way by strengthening their mental resilience through a personalised approach to mindfulness. As a first step, we offer hybrid courses as a basis for further digital and scalable solutions.
We are revolutionising calorie counting and making it fun and easy! No more guessing how many calories your food contains. No tedious weighing and entering ingredients. Simply take a photo of your food with our app and DishDetective will show you how many calories, carbohydrates, protein and fat your food contains within seconds.
Air taxis will be flying in the foreseeable future. However, a comprehensive (urban) infrastructure that is also integrated into the existing infrastructure is still lacking. We want to analyse and evaluate existing areas and convert them into take-off and landing points for air taxis.
Reminisce.ai is a platform controlled by artificial intelligence that enables users to create their own learning paths from uploaded teaching materials, which contain multimodal, AI-generated tasks and questions. In this way, Reminisce.ai reduces the learning and aggregation effort for pupils and students and makes a noticeable contribution to increased motivation and concentration through the integration of gamification elements.
An app like Tinder but for travellers. Where people can find their perfect travel partner anytime, anywhere in the world and much more. It's a one-stop solution for all your travelling needs to plan, book and execute your own trip without risk. An app that runs on a profile matching algorithm to bring travel enthusiasts closer together while offering the opportunity to build a network of like-minded travellers.
Travelout
Every year, 3000 tonnes of pesticides are applied to German vineyards, the residues of which can be detected in the wine. Grape leaf diseases reduce the quantity and quality of the grapes and require the use of pesticides. By using AI, we make it possible to identify pests in diseased vine leaves at an early stage using mobile phone images. Early action can minimise the spread of pests, reduce the use of pesticides and protect the environment.
Carico offers a smart test solution for a safe and reliable charging infrastructure. With the help of a test device, it is possible to simulate the exact behaviour of any electric vehicle and possible potential faults. The software then shows why a standard is not working or a corresponding vehicle is not charging. This simplifies and accelerates charging station maintenance, fault clearance and regression tests.
"Dr Google? Ask Medatus instead! We'll show you who or what can help you individually with your pain, illnesses or a healthier lifestyle - if it makes sense from a professional point of view. Say goodbye to hours of searching and dodgy websites."
Medatus
Is your assembly planning extremely time-consuming and labour-intensive and therefore cost-intensive?
With Assemblio, you not only minimise the planning effort, but can also avoid errors in advance. Without any expert knowledge.
With our Assembly Suite, your CAD models are used for assembly planning. Your assembly plans are created intuitively with just a few clicks. The assembly instructions can then be automatically exported in video, text or interactive formats.
Assemblio
THE GOLDEN CIRCLE is an online platform for cooking enthusiasts and flavour addicts, where renowned and well-known star chefs, patissiers, bakers and sommeliers pass on their knowledge in their online cooking courses. Our mentors such as Jan Hartwig, Cornelia Poletto, Jochen Gaues and many more show step by step how to prepare their favourite dishes, impart the basic knowledge they have learned and give valuable and practical tips and tricks. The high-quality online cookery courses are designed in such a way that you can easily cook along and recreate them at home. Whether you are a beginner or a professional.
THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
We are scitlab - an innovative tech startup from Stuttgart with the vision of bringing Germany safely forward into the world of AI: DocCape, our product, pseudonymises your data and turns your impenetrable but valuable data storage into an intelligent, data protection-compliant knowledge database. Protect sensitive data - use your productive data respectfully and efficiently.
We've probably all been there: the weekend is coming up or you're travelling in a new city and you simply have no idea what events are on offer, which bar you could go to or who you could do it all with.
But it's not just guests who face this challenge. There is just as much confusion on the part of organisers and venue owners about how to target the right audience and sustainably fill their events.
This is exactly where we create the bridge in the event sector with Univents and provide transparency for both sides with a social event overview app for guests and a fully digitalised management solution for organisers.
univents
Heat is often used in the manufacture of conventional facial care products. However, this can destroy the effect of sensitive ingredients and generate undesirable degradation products. EIGENHAIN skin care products are cold-stirred during processing using the °ColdStirred process.
It contains only active ingredients that are necessary: cold-pressed oils, selected plant extracts and innovative active ingredients - scientifically combined with each other.
The result: high-performance formulations and the skin gets more of what is good for it!
EIGENHAIN
Our "nextx" app offers an innovative, AI-supported platform with which we create transparency between young people and companies. On our platform, companies provide authentic job insights and thus unique career guidance - in return, they receive the valuable and highly competitive attention of the target group. In this way, we transform the candidate journey into a genuine employer brand experience.
During use, our AI determines individual personality profiles of the users and guides them through a unique Employer-
Matching potential applicants with suitable employers.
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With statpile, we have set ourselves the goal of modernising and radically simplifying the often neglected processes in the warehouse.
We offer managers the opportunity to view the most important key figures and optimisation potential at any time and provide (operational) employees with an intuitive and easy-to-use interface.
By connecting to all existing systems via our API interface, we ensure that the entire process can be operated via one interface.
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kernique stands for sugar-free & organic vegan nut snacks with a socio-ecological impact. Instead of the next bar, there are practical, bite-sized nut bites in sweet and savoury-sweet varieties.
In line with the motto "more than snacking", all products are packaged in plastic-neutral packaging and every snack sold promotes nutritional education in regional schools and daycare centres. After a successful crowdfunding campaign & validation in several market tests, the market launch is now imminent.
Behind kernique is the founding couple Katja Großmann & Marcel Fortwingel, who have turned their passion into a vocation.
have: Health without sacrifice. But with impact.
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We've all been there: you try to eat healthily but can't resist the craving for something sweet? PureCakes was founded in 2022 and delivers flourless and sugar-free cakes directly to the end customer's home or as an employee snack to companies.
Our cakes are sold by the slice, are not only sugar-free, but also gluten-free, lactose-free, low in calories and suitable for a low-carb diet. As well as for people with diabetes. The most important thing: they are super moist and taste really delicious!
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Over 80 million tonnes of construction waste every year! In Germany alone. Unfortunately, a large proportion of this material flow is still not efficiently recycled. At the same time, immense quantities of primary raw materials such as sand or gravel are tied up in the production of the individual fractions (concrete, bricks, etc.). The extraction of these and the energy-intensive manufacturing process means that concrete production alone is responsible for 7 % of global CO2 emissions.
OPTOCYCLE is developing a system for the optical classification of these materials to enable better recycling. This AI-based system makes it possible to significantly increase recycling rates and take an important step towards
towards a functioning circular economy.
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They connect people and build exciting friendships for life. No to superficial swiping and hello to interest-based group chats. Lots of new like-minded friends instead of just a painstakingly swiped flirt. One app - many faces.
Aampere is pursuing the vision of green mobility. To this end, the team is developing a platform for buying and selling used electric cars based on the modern Aampere principle of private.digital.contactless.
At Aampere, buying an electric car and having it delivered is as easy as ordering a pizza - only with a wallbox instead of mushrooms.
We offer a unique audiovisual virtual reality experience to make dental treatments more comfortable and improve the experience for patients and dentists. With our audio technology, we particularly address the reduction of unpleasant drilling noises.
With Univents, we are not only creating an all-in-one software solution for event organisers that gives them a deeper insight into their target audience, but we are also providing these same target groups with a platform that allows them to easily find great events, places and people.
bAV Solutions wants to democratise company pension schemes. With their platform, they offer employees simple and unbureaucratic access to company pension schemes. As an insurtech start-up, their task is to handle the process from employee entry to departure in cooperation with all three parties (employees, employers and insurance partners) on their company pension scheme platform.
MobiTech makes the mobility of tomorrow. Unlimited, sustainable and connected mobility for all is their motto and drive. To this end, they are creating an ecosystem in the field of mobility to offer a real alternative to motorised private transport in urban and rural areas. They are the bridge builders between the island-like mobility solutions that already exist today and network them with and among each other to give you the best answer to the only question that interests you: How do I get from A to B?
Synthavo helps manufacturers of machines and industrial components to automate their service and sales in the after-sales business. To this end, they are developing AI-based software for customer self-service and are starting with the topic of ordering spare parts. As a first step, they are offering visual machine part recognition, which can be integrated directly into their customers' web shop or service portal as an API.
With the MergeBoard, Sysmagine offers the first code review tool that only allows you to display changes that affect the programme logic.
This programme not only makes it easier to understand even complex changes, but also helps to find critical errors before they go live. In total, you save up to 25% of time during code reviews.
Osora's goal is to enable every patient to receive the best possible treatment for a bone fracture in the future so that they can quickly regain their mobility and health. OSORA's software platform can be used to support medical technology manufacturers in the design of implants. In the future, doctors will also be able to create individualised treatment and aftercare plans that take the patient's individual healing potential into account.
Thanks to their platform, networking is made efficient and sustainable for companies. With Lemontaps, you can easily share all your contact information, links and documents via NFC card or QR code and no longer waste paper. As you share all your relevant information directly in digital form, you will no longer be forgotten!
pragmatic industries offers a digital after-sales platform for machine manufacturers which, by combining existing data sets and IIoT, helps to increase service and maintenance revenue and enables the introduction of further digital business models such as predictive maintenance, pay-per-use or machine leasing.
With its innovative IRIS technology (Identification-based-on Random and Individual Surface Patterns), Detagto offers a new method of identifying objects based on their natural surface structures in a way that is both mark-free and forgery-proof.
SenseING develops modular and energy self-sufficient sensor loggers for IoT applications.
They have developed the SenseKIT sensor construction kit from the possible applications for process optimisation in various industries. This consists of four basic modules and, like Lego, can be individually combined and used just as easily.
Prenode enables the effective and efficient use of AI and brings decentralised machine learning to industrial machines. mlx from prenode is a software solution for local machine learning at the edge of heterogeneous customer systems via robust asynchronous communication.
askUI automates the testing of user interfaces for SMEs with a web-based business model.
Your test butler Carl understands test cases in natural language and addresses UI elements using visual properties in a human way.
This achieves test automation without writing a single line of code.
Design, rapid prototyping and small series production of customised lithium-ion battery systems. In addition to the high geometric flexibility, which makes it possible to optimally utilise the installation space, EMECTRIC's modular and lightweight battery kit is equipped with a comprehensive safety concept. By minimising investment costs, we want to enable an economical entry into electromobility.
The world is set to remote. WatchHome is a club-based streaming platform for watching sports together. This allows The Black Swan AI to enable sports fans to support their favourite clubs online and transport the emotions from the stadium to a digital platform.
With its service, amprove is revolutionising the way components are developed. The conventional design process is replaced by their simulation-based process chain. This results in geometries that are customised to the application and feature efficient material distribution. The customer benefits from lower material consumption, improved component properties and secondary effects such as accelerated production through lightweight construction.
Ventecon's Network Mining technology enables the fullest integration of the business ecosystem paradigm into classic business model development, the unification of perspectives and the derivation of targeted measures. The intelligent technology combines existing data from companies with an ecosystem pool and uses ecosystem analytics to create concrete positioning scenarios that take the systemic nature into account and lead to informed decision-making.
Prilogix develops supply chain risk and project management software that enables transport managers at machinery and plant manufacturers to reduce risks and simplify complex transport operations. It provides near real-time data and intelligent risk and project management to optimise on-time delivery and logistics costs.
nestOvest is an online platform for investors who want to invest in property with small amounts of capital. The digital platform is particularly interesting for tenants (nesters) who pay less rent. You also have a stake in the property. This means you can not only live in the property but also buy it step by step.
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In many municipalities, public transport is more than unsatisfactory. At the same time, many cars are parked unused in car parks in smaller municipalities. This applies, for example, to the vehicle fleet of a municipality, as well as private cars in employer car parks. With their unique product, it is now possible to equip existing vehicles easily and without great technical effort so that they can be used as Car-Sharing vehicles.
Market Pilot creates price transparency in the intransparent spare parts market of mechanical engineering companies and enables significant increases in sales and profits by switching from cost-orientated to competition-orientated spare parts pricing.
Metagrid enables the economical and ecological operation of tenant electricity models in multi-party properties so that owners and tenants benefit from the energy transition in the long term. Its cloud-based solution manages all energy producers and consumers in a property or neighbourhood and bills them automatically and reliably. The mission is to make climate-friendly and decentralised energy attractive through technology.
For the hearing impaired, Incluse offers a hearing aid with a clear focus on the user's emotional well-being.
Incluse is not the typical hearing aid that is worn behind the ear. It's more of a modern communication accessory that people like to wear. They do this to prevent the stigmatisation of hearing aids and to include hearing-impaired people in society.
Simplify your daily life! The aim of PAXET is to create a future-proof and smooth parcel delivery service that simplifies everyday life for recipients and parcel service providers by involving private households in the delivery process and making it more efficient. They see it as their task to minimise the growing number of delivery problems, to relieve overburdened parcel carriers and to reduce the volume of traffic caused by delivery vans and thus the environmental impact.
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They offer wood processing companies more transparency and trust in their supply chain through their blockchain-supported traceability system. Wood is tracked through the manufacturing processes to the final product and the information is used to comply with laws and reduce penalties. Xyylene's mission is to drive innovation and combat illegal timber and its impact on the timber industry.
For all health and environmentally conscious snackers, we offer a tasty snack alternative to greasy crisps & co.
Our mission? To revolutionise the snack market with our sustainable, healthy and delicious crisps + snacking without regrets!
→ Sustainably simply delicious!