The summer finals format is finally BACK from the pandemic slumber – completely sold out in Düsseldorf!
And the Rheinland Pitch Summer Finals 2024 winners were…
Climate Tech: Regascold
Digital Health: skinsure
Generative KI: comdaily
Humbled and excited to be back for the fifth year in a row mentoring startup teams in the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management accelerator program!
Happy to see not ONLY AI teams – and at least a couple of female founders in this year’s batch!
This week I was invited to join the incubator “Synthesis” at the Constructor University in Bremen, DE as a mentor.
Join me at Constructor University as we launch migrant entrepreneurs with world-changing ideas. Deep tech, UNSDGs, Diversity – that is what “Synthesis” is about.
Here’s why to apply:
Applications close March 25th, here’s how to apply.
P.S. Know someone this program would be perfect for? Spread the word!
I’m back also this year mentoring startups at the (rebranded) Young Entrepreneurship Summit run entirely by students at Constructor University in Bremen, DE.
About YES
“The Young Entrepreneur Summit is the ideal springboard for you to project that unique idea!
Contest your idea, benefit from the expertise of successful entrepreneurs through our one-to-one mentorship process, and win thousands of euros to kick-start your venture!
Here at Young Entrepreneur Summit, we guide you from your first business idea towards your very own company—from vision to venture.
From the first application round, you will be provided with valuable advice from experienced founders and entrepreneurship professionals and get a chance to participate in webinars that introduce you to the most important aspects of founding your own business.
The best ten teams will be paired with a personal mentor to guide them through the last application round and prepare them for their pitch during the final event on the Constructor University campus.”
As you may or may not already know, as the co-founder of the Rheinland Pitch, Germany’s largest startup pitching event founded back in 2013, I’ve been preparing and training the applying startups how to pitch investors.
And with training how to pitch, I don’t mean how to put on a song and dance in front of investors – I mean how to actually find investors, how to contact investors, what investors are looking for, how the funding game works, and the contents of what and how to actually pitch investors successfully – with my in-person Pitching Masterclass.
So far I’ve trained over 3.000 startups how to successfully pitch in person.
Over the years I’ve also been booked by companies, events, organisations, startup programs (like incubators and accelerators), and universities and colleges, to help their employees, members, startups, and students improve their pitching skills.
Happy customers include KIT ( Karlsruher Institut für Technologie), Cologne Business School, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Reifenhäuser, Bertelsmann, Budapest Enterprise Agency, USAID, DMEXCO, Web Summit, Pirate Summit, Medien Gruppe RTL, ottobock, Zentis, Founders Foundation, 0-1 Booster (Japan), Startup Nano (Portugal), Startup Braga (Portugal), IHK, DigitalHUB Aachen, DigitalHUB Düsseldorf, DigitalHUB Bonn, DigitalHUB Cologne, Reifenhäuser, etc.
But until now, you’d have to be able to attend an in-person Pitching Masterclass to enjoy the benefits.
As the Pitching Masterclass has been evolving and updating – and the aggregated collective wisdom of the thousands of startups I’ve been working with for over the last 11 years – I thought it was a damned shame that you could only access the knowledge if you were somehow able to attend an in-person Masterclass.
So to be able to help as many people as possible to pitch investors for raising funds, I’ve now created and released a 100% digital version of the Pitching Masterclass open for anyone, anywhere, anytime!
So, got startup? Get smart, get funded: Enroll today.a
And that’s not all; I’ve also created a different version for employees wanting to secure buy-in from stakeholders for their innovation ideas and for companies wanting to train their employees to be better at pitching new innovations internally. Spoiler alert: corporate innovation ventures are not startups and they need a different approach to securing funding and support. This version includes a framework for getting to yes, for securing buy-in from stakeholders and an additional very useful alternative pitch format to the classic pitch deck just for corporates. Here’s how to learn more about this corporate edition.
Both versions of my Pitching Masterclass are available either as a single user for startups and employees AND as an subscription edition with unlimited users for companies, organisations, startup support programs, and educational institutions who want to make it available to all of their employees, members, startups, or students on-demand. Here’s how to learn more about the unlimited users options.
What you can expect is +2 hours of video and +370 slides with these topics and contents in a user friendly web-based learning interface:
INTRO
BEFORE YOU START PITCHING
HOW TO RAISE MONEY
PITCHING
ADDENDUM
20.1 Startup metrics
20.2 Pitching Tricks
20.3 Further Resources
20.4 AirBnB’s first (successful) pitch deck
20.5 Acknowledgements
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+370 slides as PDF
AFTER THE PITCHING MASTERCLASS
What’s next?
