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Munich Startup Award: A look back

It all began at Bits & Pretzels 2016: For the first time, Munich Startup presented the Munich Startup Award, endowed with €5,000, to the Munich startup that had performed best in the founders' festival's pitch competition. The ceremony didn't take place just anywhere, but right in the middle of Oktoberfest – except during the coronavirus pandemic, of course. Since this year, however, a lot has changed: The award is now part of the Munich Startup Festival. was awarded at the first edition Deepdrive – and at Bits & Pretzels, the Munich Startup Special Prize will be awarded to the best Munich startup at Bits & Pretzels. This prize is endowed with €2,500. Before that happens, let's take a look back at the Munich startups that have already been honored with a Munich Startup Award at Bits & Pretzels.

September 19, 2023 5 min reading time

Pixel Robotics
2022: Neither Bits nor Oktoberfest took place in 2021. But the following year, things continued: The winner of the Munich Startup Award 2022 was Pixel RoboticsThe robotics startup, founded by Johannes and Valentin Plapp in 2020, builds intelligent, perception-controlled robots tailored to intralogistics. Using an AI vision infrastructure, a digital twin of the operational area is created. Using this real-time twin, the Munich startup's robots can collaborate autonomously with their human colleagues. Pixel Robotics was visibly delighted about the Munich Startup Award: "The Bits & Pretzels and the pitch competition were a tremendous experience in themselves. Of course, we're even more excited that we've now also won the Munich Startup Award. We'll invest the prize money in our team, because for the past two years we've been primarily focused on product development so we can bring it to customers – we deserve to celebrate having achieved that. And part of the money – we are a startup after all – will be reinvested directly into the product." (Photo: Lukas Lindner / Munich Startup)
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