Be there when our 8 Ignition start-ups present their innovations for the green tech sector!

Since 2017, we have been supporting start-ups with our 5-month accelerator program "Ignition+". Each of our start-ups is supported with €25,000 without participation. We also offer mentoring, coaching, pilot projects, peer group exchange, events, network access, matchmaking and preparation for meetings with investors. The milestones: product development, proof of concept, product market fit and scaling readiness.

The program ends with the legendary Ignition Demo Night "Pitch Party". The rules for the evening are simple: our 8 start-ups pitch first, followed by networking.

5 minutes pitch per start-up to present the idea in the best possible way

3-minute jury Q&A, during which the start-ups have to answer critical questions

These start-ups will compete for the follow-up funding of €25,000:

• AI-Land
• ESG-X
• GreenTrax
• ivilion
• Layer Performance
• RayVen
• RecyCoal
• SLAPStack

Followed by jury and public voting:

• "Winner of the follow-up funding in the amount of another €25,000!"
• "Best Pitch Award"

A 4-member jury will determine which of the start-ups will "win" a further €25,000 as follow-up funding for the upcoming product development. The members include:

• Christian Els, Founder & CEO @sentin.AI (Ignition Alumni & Special Sparrings Partner)
• Louisa Desel, Co- Founder & CEO @OSPHIM(last year's winner)
• Alexander Hochgürtel, Partner @New Forge
• Björn Breidscheid, Product Owner @sipgate

Agenda:

17:00 hrs | Admission

18:00 | Welcome

18:20 | Start-up Pitches

6:50 pm | Panel: Challenges in the Transition from Research to Entrepreneurship with Dr. Ricardo Godinez-Moreno from CEPLAS, Götz Hensel from Centre for Plant Genome Engineering and Ingmar Stock from Startup Village Jülich

19:15 | Start-up Pitches

19:40 hrs | Fireside Chat: Sustainable investing - Insights from a greentech investor with Christine Curtius from DigiHub Düsseldorf and Thore Vogel from Leanox Impact Capital.

19:55 | Award ceremony

8:10 pm | Networking & snacks

20:30 | Guided tour through sipgate with Sigurd Jaiser

21:00 | Goodbye

Investors and company representatives are explicitly invited to get to know our start-ups and network with the start-up scene. The Ignition Demo Nights have already led to exciting collaborations and even investments. Please contact us at: marina.krawczack@digihub.de

We look forward to a great evening with you!

Your Ignition team

Further information:

>>> You can find more information about the Ignition startup support program on our website.

>>> Get an insight into our past Demo Night.

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