Der Deutsche Startup-Pokal wurde vom gemeinnützigen Verein GFFT e.V. ins Leben gerufen, um die Innovationskraft zu stärken und junge Unternehmen dabei zu unterstützen, sich am Markt zu etablieren. Die Startups werden in das Netzwerk von United Innovations eingebunden und haben dort die Chance, ihre Innovationen ganz gezielt interessierten Anwenderunternehmen und einer Fachjury zu präsentieren.
Der Fokus liegt auf einem Austausch mit Experten und Expertinnen zu aktuellen Themen und Herausforderungen aus dem IT-Umfeld. Junge Unternehmen setzen mit ihren Pitches Impulse und zeigen neue Lösungsansätze auf. Gleichzeitig treten sie in direkten Kontakt und profitieren von der Expertise der Jury.
03. Juli 2024 – Die Gewinner des Deutschen Startup-Pokals in den Kategorien Cybersecurity und KI/Software stehen fest: AskUI und heylogin haben sich durchgesetzt. Die gemeinnützige Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Forschungstransfers e.V. (GFFT) ist Initiator des Pokals, Ausrichter das Innovationsnetzwerk United Innovations. Die PHOENIX group fungierte als Gastgeber des Events in ihrer Mannheimer Unternehmenszentrale. „Als führender Gesundheitsdienstleister in Europa ist es uns ein besonderes Anliegen, den Austausch zwischen Forschung, Startups und Wirtschaft zu fördern“, so Dr. Roland Schütz, Mitglied des Vorstands IT & Digital/CIO PHOENIX group.
heylogin GmbH replaces passwords with a swipe-to-login on the phone. It works with all websites and saves 3 hours / month of your employees‘ time. For project managers, it eases on- and offboarding of employees. For CEOs, it gives back control over all your companies‘ logins.
🥇 1. Platz und Gewinner des Deutschen Startup-Pokals 2024 in der Kategorie Cybersecurity
Primary Target GmbH: Primary Target’s cyber security automation software shortens, manages and secures the vehicle development process. It automatically generates a threat analysis and controls the process to meet mandatory regulatory standards, making it more reliable, complete and less prone to error. Compared to the current established manual process manufacturers can meet deadlines, save 90% of time and reduce costs by more than 80%. The solution can also be applied to other industries such as defence, aerospace, machinery, IoT and others as well.
🥈 2. Platz des Deutschen Startup-Pokals 2024 in der Kategorie Cybersecurity
SANCTUARY Systems GmbH: Modern embedded devices face the challenge of complex software supply chains. The security of the embedded devices depends on the security of each third-party component, and hence, third-party vendors need to be trusted blindly. This problem led to high-impact supply-chain attacks, causing tremendous financial losses, data breaches, and fines. The SANCTUARY Zero-Trust Platform is a software solution that proactively encapsulates third-party components to confine security breaches, effectively disarming the cyberattacker.
🥉 3. Platz des Deutschen Startup-Pokals 2024 in der Kategorie Cybersecurity
Betterscan.io: The Only Open Cybersecurity Software that secures both Cloud and Apps. A simple and powerful DevSecOps software to automate thousands of checks and eliminate human errors in Source Code and Cloud Infrastructure. Integrateable into anything.
➜ Teilnehmendes Startup für den Deutschen Startup-Pokal 2024 in der Kategorie Cybersecurity
Autobahn Security GmbH is a SaaS platform that saves IT security experts time and empowers IT teams to make networks more secure. Our platform serves as the single pane of glass that aggregates, filters and prioritizes vulnerabilities from different scanners and turns them into easy-to-understand remediation guides. Our so-called Cyber Fitness Workouts enable even IT teams with no security knowledge to quickly and efficiently remediate vulnerabilities.
➜ Teilnehmendes Startup für den Deutschen Startup-Pokal 2024 in der Kategorie Cybersecurity
KraLos GmbH: In an increasingly digitalized world, cyber threats are everywhere. At KraLos, we understand the challenges businesses face and provide advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect your digital presence.
➜ Teilnehmendes Startup für den Deutschen Startup-Pokal 2024 in der Kategorie Cybersecurity
askUI GmbH is the first prompt-to-automation platform that understands applications and their context through artificial intelligence. By controlling operating systems, askui provides a unique and cost-effective solution for automating intentions, not interactions. Because we want to live in a world where humans are freed from being robots.
🥇 1. Platz und Gewinner des Deutschen Startup-Pokals 2024 in der Kategorie KI & Software
UltiHash is the data infrastructure that allows you to grow your data sustainably. We connect your cloud and on-premises architectures with a unified infrastructure and maximize the resource efficiency of your Big Data applications. These capabilities prevent unwanted redundancies, solve costly connectivity issues, and ensure that organizations achieve their sustainability goals through efficient use of infrastructure.
🥈 2. Platz beim Deutschen Startup-Pokal 2024 in der Kategorie KI & Software
Tonic.ai is a synthetic test data management platform that provides developers with highly realistic data for efficient product development, while ensuring compliance and security. With universal data connectors and flexible APIs, Tonic integrates seamlessly into existing pipelines. Its advanced subsetting and synthetic scaling technology allow developers to tailor and scale their data accurately.
🥉 3. Platz beim Deutschen Startup-Pokal 2024 in der Kategorie KI & Software
Queryella GmbH aims to protect data from misuse by scanning apps for potential security or privacy issues. This goal is achieved through an automated analysis platform that leverages the latest research in security and privacy. It combines various analyses with artificial intelligence to detect IT security issues or potentially sensitive data leaks in binaries. Our platform provides reliable results even when common obfuscators have been used. We analyze privacy declarations, hidden dependencies, and data flows to provide a user-friendly and intuitive interface that allows our customers to understand the results of the analyses quickly.
➜ Teilnehmendes Startup für den Deutschen Startup-Pokal 2024 in der Kategorie KI & Software
AI-UI GmbH is a Thuringian AI company specializing in the development and implementation of artificial intelligence in various industries. Our team consists of experienced experts who are familiar with the latest technologies and developments in the field of AI. We offer tailor-made solutions for companies that want to optimize their processes and increase their business growth.
➜ Teilnehmendes Startup für den Deutschen Startup-Pokal 2024 in der Kategorie KI & Software
Qdrant is a leading open-source high-performance Vector Database written in Rust with extended metadata filtering support and advanced features. Powering vector similarity search solutions of any scale due to a flexible architecture and low-level optimization. Qdrant is trusted and high-rated by Machine Learning and Data Science teams of top-tier companies worldwide.
➜ Teilnehmendes Startup für den Deutschen Startup-Pokal 2024 für die Kategorie KI & Software
s2 data is a company of pragmatic mathematicians and highly experienced in house software developers who deliver tailored optimization solutions for all industries. As young a start-up company, we develop MasterScheduler, a flexible, simply customizable SaaS solution for operative logistics planning to solve clients’ business challenges. We offer consulting and digital transformation solutions. As add-ons to your ERP Software or standalone. Use our digital decision support systems and full decision automation systems with intensive reporting features for a diverse set of business intelligence challenges.
➜ 42 % der Stimmen und Finalist für den Deutschen Startup-Pokal am 06.11.2024 bei BASF Coatings in Münster
(Ergebnis aus dem digitalen Symposium vom 28. Febr. 2024 zum Thema „Zukunft der Logistik – Supply Chain Managements“)
Loady GmbH wants one thing above all: to make B2B logistics smoother, more digital and sustainable. This is why the company launches „Loady“, the first standardized platform for master data on loading and unloading requirements, in 2023. Loady’s innovative idea: in order to achieve consistently high data quality, shippers and recipients manage their transport-relevant information on the platform themselves. They then share their data „first-hand“ with logistics partners, digitally and in a clear, standardized structure.
➜ 32 % der Stimmen und Finalist für den Deutschen Startup-Pokal am 06.11.2024 bei BASF Coatings in Münster
(Ergebnis aus dem digitalen Symposium vom 28. Febr. 2024 zum Thema „Zukunft der Logistik – Supply Chain Managements“)
driveMybox logistics GmbH is a digital service for the truck transportation of containers. We simply link transport capacities and demand online, from the price inquiry to the invoice. Real-time updates are available at any time during the transport process. We are more than just a platform – we are a contractual partner and responsible for every single order.
➜ 26 % der Stimmen (Ergebnis aus dem digitalen Symposium vom 28. Febr. 2024 zum Thema „Zukunft der Logistik – Supply Chain Managements“)
Logistikbude GmbH is a software company from Dortmund, founded in 2021, which aims to give companies a digital status quo of the reusable objects they use. To this end, the company has developed a neutral and standardised software that digitalises and simplifies the management of reusable load carriers. Their user-friendly software is ready to use without extensive implementation effort and creates transparency over stocks, needs, volume flows and turnaround times.
➜ 54 % der Stimmen und Finalist für den Deutschen Startup-Pokal am 06.11.2024 bei BASF Coatings in Münster
(Ergebnis aus dem digitalen Symposium vom 18. Juni 2024 zum Thema „Zukunft der Intralogistik“)
Cellgo GmbH Rethinking warehousing with warehouse automation for medium-sized companies. Discover warehouse automation from a new perspective. Cellgo’s all-in-one technology makes it possible to automate small parts in a way that was previously reserved for large logistics centers.
➜ 31 % der Stimmen (Ergebnis aus dem digitalen Symposium vom 18. Juni 2024 zum Thema „Zukunft der Intralogistik“)
Clover Optimization GmbH develops algorithms for 3D load planning and vehicle routing. The 3D load planning helps to reliably determine the loading meters for notifications, orders, or external assignments. Moreover, integrated planning enables even greater savings in planning time, transportation costs, and the need for vehicles and drivers compared to conventional route planning solutions.
➜ 15 % der Stimmen (Ergebnis aus dem digitalen Symposium vom 18. Juni 2024 zum Thema „Zukunft der Intralogistik“)
United Manufactoring Hub is an open source helmet chart for Kubernetes that combines cutting-edge IT and OT tools and technologies and puts them in the hands of engineers.
➜ 53 % der Stimmen und Finalist für den Deutschen Startup-Pokal am 06.11.2024 bei BASF Coatings in Münster
(Ergebnis aus dem digitalen Symposium vom 12. März 2024 zum Thema „Zukunft der Produktion – Smart Factory“)
nebumind GmbH offers manufacturing companies a data analysis software for automatic quality monitoring and process optimization. The software collects data from machines and sensors during manufacturing, visualizes them as „digital twins“ of the manufactured components and makes them available for automated analyses. With this concept, nebumind helps its customers to speed up the industrialization of new manufacturing processes, to detect defects early in productions and to adapt manufacturing processes more flexibly.
➜ 28 % der Stimmen (Ergebnis aus dem digitalen Symposium vom 12. März 2024 zum Thema „Zukunft der Produktion – Smart Factory“)
tulanā (Vishwakarma GmbH) tulanā is an intelligent decision support system for planning functions in manufacturing, making it possible for leaders to navigate a world of complexity and uncertainty. As opposed to current planning tools, it enables robust and forward-looking planning while being highly configurable. Using the latest techniques in artificial intelligence and stochastic optimization, it finds the best tradeoffs between unmet demand, high inventory costs and scarce resource availability, all while considering costs, business constraints and the complexities of your manufacturing processes.
➜ 18 % der Stimmen (Ergebnis aus dem digitalen Symposium vom 12. März 2024 zum Thema „Zukunft der Produktion – Smart Factory“)
Inline Process Solutions GmbH is a young deep-tech start-up from Kaiserslautern. IPS develops and distributes the patented inline sensor technology ARIMOS, consisting of precise optical image-based sensors and AI-driven image analysis software. ARIMOS acquires and analyses images of particle streams directly inside the production equipment in real time, providing its customers with live information that can be used immediately to optimize production and thus reduce costs and emissions.
➜ 57 % der Stimmen und Finalist für den Deutschen Startup-Pokal am 06.11.2024 bei BASF Coatings in Münster
(Ergebnis aus dem digitalen Symposium vom 14. Mai 2024 zum Thema „Zukunft der nachhaltigen Produktion“)
greenable GmbH We believe in transparency for products across industries. As a GreenTech startup, we have developed a cloud-based software solution that enables companies to balance, disclose and reduce the carbon footprint of their products.
➜ 29 % der Stimmen und Finalist für den Deutschen Startup-Pokal am 06.11.2024 bei BASF Coatings in Münster
(Ergebnis aus dem digitalen Symposium vom 14. Mai 2024 zum Thema „Zukunft der nachhaltigen Produktion“)
Data Coffee GmbH provides software to make your Machine & IOT Data available in minutes to achieve transparent and objective data base for decisions in running and developing production. We create a standardized interface across all systems and enable simple and application-specific data exchange between industrial protocols, controllers and any IT systems. We convert machine data into relevant and meaningful information and visualisations and make them available for other controls, IT systems or business models, as ai driven analytics or customer used applications.
➜ 14 % der Stimmen (Ergebnis aus dem digitalen Symposium vom 14. Mai 2024 zum Thema „Zukunft der nachhaltigen Produktion“)
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