On Wednesday evening, the five winners in Phase 2 of the current Munich Business Plan Competition at the 7th Munich Startup Demo Night. Over 60 startups – including the competition winners – presented their innovations and new products at their own booths. BayStartUP regularly organizes the Startup Demo Night in cooperation with Werk1 to show what Bavaria's startup scene has to offer.
What happens when Munich's TonHalle is packed on a Wednesday evening, but the spotlight isn't on a band, but on startups? That's right: the Munich Startup Demo Night is underway. More than 60 startups presented their products and solutions that evening. to touch and try out – and thus entirely in the spirit of the Demo Night.
The winners of Phase 2 of the Munich Business Plan Competition were also honored. 88 participating teams submitted their outline business plans by mid-March. The focus was on developing a marketing and sales concept. First place went to the startup team ParkHere, which aims to establish more sustainable and faster-communication transport systems in cities and municipalities through sensor-equipped parking spaces. Startups with medical technology products, biotechnology, and the construction industry were also honored.
"The Munich Business Plan Competition has been a successful tool for promoting technology transfer at universities, colleges, and research institutions in Bavaria for 20 years. The successful path from the laboratory to the market is only possible if scientists also learn to plan and act on sound entrepreneurial principles. The jurors and the broad network surrounding the Munich Business Plan Competition help them achieve this."
emphasized Dr. Carsten Rudolph, Managing Director of BayStartUP.
Harald Wagner, Head of the Munich Business Plan Competition adds:
"By providing each individual competition participant with jury feedback, we help founders on a broad basis. Especially in the high-tech sector, niche markets are often involved. The founders receive targeted feedback from the right experts and successful entrepreneurs to optimize their strategy and put it into practice."
The winners of the Munich Business Plan Competition – Phase 2
The 1st winner is the founding team ParkHere From the Technical University of Munich: ParkHere offers an energy-autonomous system that will improve parking space utilization in cities. Ultra-thin sensors are mounted on parking spaces and register when a car enters or leaves the parking space. The elastic deformation of the sensors generates an electrical voltage that transmits the occupancy status via a cellular module to a central database. From there, map manufacturers and navigation service providers can obtain the data and integrate it into their systems. Drivers are guided directly to the nearest available parking space.
In second place the scientific team from ATR Elements, also from the Technical University of Munich: ATR infrared spectroscopy is widely used in laboratories around the world. For several years now, it has also been used to analyze blood for research purposes: blood values are determined, and even diseases such as cancer or malaria can be diagnosed. ATR Elements provides a key element for the leap into clinical practice: a sample carrier that is 100 times cheaper and therefore suitable for single use. Up to 100 times higher sensitivity ensures greater diagnostic accuracy. Only a single drop of blood is required, eliminating centrifugation.
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The 3rd winner is DEOXY from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: The team is working on a future in which every cancer patient receives the drug that will help them. Worldwide, 1.7 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer and 1.8 million people with lung cancer each year. Due to technological limitations, doctors often only find the right drug after several attempts. A cancer drug that doesn't work causes catastrophic side effects without providing any relief. DEOXY is developing a technology that can immediately identify the right drug across the board.
4th place went to the Munich-based medical technology startup ReActive RoboticssPatients requiring early mobilization (EMM) can leave the intensive care unit (ICU) one day earlier. Manual EMM is costly, requiring three additional nurses. ReActive Robotics is developing a robot that automates EMM in the ICU and is operated by one nurse. The device is the only one on the market that automatically adapts to the patient.
In 5th place was SpaceCooling from the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics: The new cooling ceiling system uses condensation-free surface cooling for hospitals, laboratories, hotels, industrial buildings, offices, and residential buildings. The technology enables healthy room temperature control through silent heat dissipation without air exchange, condensation, drafts, or mold growth. This makes the safe application of surface-based cooling ceiling systems in tropical climates possible for the first time.
