The recent 126th edition of the Rheinland Pitch took place in partnership with the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences (HSD) and their Gründungszeit program.
Cellgo GmbH, TenderFlow, Oberheim Speakers, and wemote mad it all the way from the application process and through pre-pitch filter to contend on stage at HSD.
And the winner was… CELLGO!
Go team!
Recently, I was honored and excited to be invited to the ZENIT “Innovationspreis 2025 / 2026” awards ceremony at ZENIT in Mülheim, NRW. It was an interesting opportunity to check out what else is going on when it comes to innovation outside that of startups in our state.
And the winners were…
1. Studio 47 Stadtfernsehen Duisburg GmbH & Co KG, for their product(s) BotCast & ClipSense for AI supported media production.
2. IANUS Simulation GmbH, for their product ECOTWIN (Dortmund et al)
3. Petanux GmbH, for their product Retail AI System (Bonn)
And the event was graced by the presence and introductory speech of the current minister of innovation and a partridge in a pear tree in NRW – Mona Neubaur.
In what is becoming a yearly tradition, I was recently invited back as a mentor to the student-run event “3-Day Startup” (think of it as a clone of Startup Weekend) at WHU in Vallendar.
And the winners were… Quanta Labs (think EU version of Mercor).
It was that time of year again, time for the Rheinland Pitch Winter Finals!
It’s a wrap! And the winners were…
Defence Tech: Auxsys
Female Founders: Youro
Enterprise SaaS: Neo Predicts
The Rheinland Pitch was founded in 2013 by Lorens Gräf, Matthias Gräf, and me – and since grew to become Germany’s largest startup pitching event. It is open to all startups (for free) and a public audience on a regular basis ever since.
Check out https://rheinlandpitch.de for more photos and the next events.
