Hessian Founding Prize 2024: Finals in Marburg with strong university startups
Hessian Founding Prize 2024: Finals in Marburg with strong university startups
Frankfurt/Main, October 24, 2024 —On November 1, 2024, the time has come: The final of the Hessian Founder Prize will take place in Marburg. Young founders from all over Hesse present their innovative ideas and pitch to the expert jury and visitors. The jury's evaluations, feedback from visitors and the results of the online voting are incorporated into the final decision. In the evening, the prize winners will be presented at a festive gala and the winners will be selected in the various categories.
Die Rhine-Main Universities (RMUs) And the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management have sent several startups into the race in various categories:
- Ceres FieldCheck (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management): offers small farmers AI robots for plant monitoring and weed control
- Gelly (Goethe University Frankfurt): an AI-supported, digital laboratory notebook that supports researchers with experiments
- LUMINATE (Goethe University Frankfurt): sustainable solutions in 3D bioprinting for fewer animal testing
- MeDieM (Technical University of Darmstadt): an AI-supported call system for nursing staff in hospitals
- MimoSense (Technical University of Darmstadt): advanced sensors for health care, machine care and climate care
- Newbee (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management): a one-stop app that helps immigrants find their way around Germany
- TwinWatt (Technical University of Darmstadt): efficient, vertical wind turbines for sustainable energy generation
With mySympto, a virtual assistant for emergency rooms in hospitals, a company that was founded as a research project at TU Darmstadt is also in the final round. The Rhine-Main Universities, including TU Darmstadt and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, are working together with Futury to further develop the Future Factory Rhein-Main in order to promote such spin-off successes and further strengthen the region as an innovation hub.
A successful semi-finalist for the Hessian Founder Award also comes from Futury's accelerator: NatStruct AG reached the semi-finals in the Innovation category. Due to Futury's effective industrial network, NatStruct has already launched a pilot project with Lidl Germany and initiated further collaborations, such as with the efficiency agency NRW and Fraunhofer IOSB-INA. These success stories show the strength of the future ecosystem, which brings founders together with industry partners right from the start.
“As a Startup Factory, we want to further expand our ecosystem to promote even more startups and innovations in the Rhine-Main region. We support founders from the start, from successfully ensuring product market fit to scaling and piloting their product,” explains Melissa Ott, Managing Director of Futury. Close cooperation between startups, industry and research is the key to achieving long-term success — as the example of NatStruct proves.
The Hessian Founder Prize provides a stage for young companies and sends a clear signal of the importance of startups in Hesse. Futury is proud to be part of this ecosystem and to support the next generation of founders.
About Futury
Futury is the innovation center for startups in the Rhine-Main region and supports founders from the initial idea to market readiness. As a Future Factory, Futury offers a strong ecosystem of industrial partners, scientific institutions and transfer centers such as HIGHEST (TUDarmstadt) and Unibator (Goethe University Frankfurt). The goal is to bring innovative ideas to market quickly and to support founders on their way to scaling. With its close network of research and industry, Futury brings ideas and technologies into practice. Futury supports the networking of science and entrepreneurship, particularly in the areas of cutting-edge research and DeepTech. More than 90 startups have already been successfully supported. Futury promotes a new start-up culture and aims to develop the Rhine-Main region into a central innovation hub in Germany.
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