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Startup Lounge #60 - MCEI Seed Award 2019 Finals
As February 19 draws near, we are getting ready to host the first Startup Lounge of the year! The 60th edition of the Startup Lounge would kick off with the much anticipated MCEI Seed Award 2019 Pitch Battle that will decide which of our 3 finalists of this season takes home the prestigious MCEI Seed Award of EUR 10,000. The winning team is awarded the Best University of Mannheim Student or Alumni Startup of 2018!
As promised before, we are ready to announce the 3 finalists that would be pitching their business ideas in front of an expert jury and the audience of the Startup Lounge Seed Award Special. After the jury’s assessment of the pitches, the winning team will be awarded the much coveted prize money of EUR 10,000 – a fund with no strings attached and no equity taken – to help advance the startup and foster its growth in its upcoming entrepreneurial journey.
Get your ticket here! And don’t forget to join our Facebook event for exciting updates!
Details
Date: 19 February 2019, Tuesday
Time: 19:30 – 23:00
Venue: Café L3, L3, 9, 68161 Mannheim
Who are the finalists?
Beesonix  |
Team: Alexander Kowollik, Timo Häcker, Mark Kirn, Birk Schweppe, Sai Manoj Marepalli BeeSonix enables the public transport infrastructure to communicate with smartphones. With ultrasonic announcements, stops and vehicles can record and report the location of a passenger to routing and ticketing platforms. Thus, we are able to offer pay-as-you-go systems and unique passenger navigation, allowing a relaxed journey and high flexibility. Alternative methods like Bluetooth or NFC cannot keep up with ultrasonic communication, as they require expensive hardware installation and maintenance or are not as precise as our technology. Also, GPS has strong deficits underground. Beesonix helps to avoid these issues. |
Blauherz  |
Team: Sven Butz, Johanna Stolch, Celina Kirschner, Christine Netzhammer, David Grüning, Florian Damovsky, Gabriel Himmelein, Jonas Bruder, Julian Gruber, Julien Vogel, Michelle Beck, Patricia Meka, Pauline Machtolf Blauherz is an inclusive fashion label that hand-tailors fashionable clothing that everyone, people with and without disabilities, can identify with. We produce style without borders and contribute to an inclusive society by integrating socially disadvantaged people into our production of inclusive and sustainable products. |
RideBee  |
Team: Lukas Mohs, Tobias Reinerth, Fabian Seitz We offer a platform, where one can find a carpooling partner or group within their company and share the commute to work. To provide value to those who already carpool, we organize users conveniently in travel groups that know each other personally, encourage regular use through gamification and incentives and provide useful everyday features such as keeping track of payments and live location sharing. The solution is designed for larger company sites in suburban and rural areas. A 30 km commute one-way sums up to over 4.000€ of vehicle costs and 42 eight-hour workdays of mainly unused travel time per year. For companies, providing parking spots can be an expensive and tedious task, a stressful commute leads to an unproductive workforce and they have an increasing corporate social responsibility concerning the environment. The B2B approach specifically offers numerous advantages: As people are travelling to the same destination and at similar times, it becomes easier to reach a critical mass. Further, the social barrier is reduced among colleagues and the employer can be involved to encourage the use of the platform. |
Who are the jury members?
- Andrea Kranzer
Co-founder and Member of the Executive Board, Angels4Health e.V. - Frank Zumbruch
Head of Creative Commission Mannheim / Cultural Economy Officer, Startup Mannheim - Klaus Dibbern
Advisor, Wingcopter - Marcel Vogler
Looks after Operations, Sales and Finance in Freigeist and Co-Owner of some McDonald's Franchises in Germany - Ruth Cremer
Lecturer at HS Fresenius University of Applied Sciences and CEO at euworx UG - Sonja Wilkens
Startup Consultant at Stadt Mannheim Wirtschaftsförderung
We are looking forward to an exciting competition!
Please note that we will take photos during the event that may be published in various social media websites (Facebook, etc.), through reports on the event (MCEI and ifm websites) or in general PR materials (flyers, presentations, etc.).
The MCEI Startup Lounge is your place to get inspired to create something new and to meet and mingle with the Mannheim Startup Ecosystem. Meet startups and creative minds to discuss great ideas in a laid-back atmosphere. Each Startup Lounge features an inspirational talk by a (usually early-stage) venture to get the discussion going. Each Startup Lounge has some budget to cover drinks (provided by either MCEI or one of our co-feature partners). Join us if you are into startups and want to expand your network in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region and live the entrepreneurial spirit.
Learn more about the MCEI Startup Lounge here.
Startup Lounge #53 - covexo
We are starting in the new semester with a new Startup Lounge season. This time we will be welcoming covexo to share their experience and tell us more about their business. Getsafe is sponsoring this Startup Lounge!
Your first time to the Startup Lounge? The Startup Lounge is your place to get inspired to create something new, to discuss great ideas while hanging out with cool people and to meet startups, students and creative minds in a laid-back atmosphere. Join us if you are into startups and want to build a network in the Rhein-Neckar area. As usual, the first rounds of drinks are on us.
Date & Time: September 11, 2018 from 7:30 pm
Location & full address: Cafe L3, L3 9, 68161 Mannheim
https://www.facebook.com/events/527743771009929/
About covexo:
covexo shifts the development of software from the local computer to the cloud. By providing an innovative synchronization technology, users of a covexo DevSpace can develop with their local desktop tools and still get all the benefits of the cloud, such as more computing resources and no installations and config issues on the local laptop. The locally written code is therefore transferred to the cloud in real-time, making a hot reload of the developed application in the cloud possible. For this, covexo DevSpaces heavily rely on the newest cloud technologies Docker and Kubernetes. covexo is providing its solution as an open source software and additionally offers a fully managed cloud development platform.
covexo was founded in 2017 by three graduates of the University of Mannheim. After being supported by the EXIST Business Start-Up Grant and winning several awards, covexo was invited to the final interview round of the Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator. covexo’s open source project providing the DevSpace CLI has been released at the end of August 2018.
About getsafe:
Heidelberg-based Getsafe is among Germany’s fastest growing and most innovative InsurTech startups. We are developing the first digital insurance that is fair by design and transfer the concept of multi-line insurers like Axa or Allianz into the digital age. Our strong growth is supported by Munich Re, one of the largest re-insurers of the world, as well as by strong and leading VC investors, including Rocket Internet, CommerzVentures and Partech. We are looking to further expand our team - Join the revolution!
Startup Lounge #47 - MCEI Seed Award 2018 Finals
The Startup Lounge is your place to get inspired to create something new, to discuss great ideas while hanging out with cool people and to meet startups, students and creative minds in a laid-back atmosphere. Join us if you are into start-ups and want to build a network in the Rhein-Neckar area!
We are going to kick off 2018 with a special Startup Lounge as we will find and award the winner or the MCEI Seed Award 2018!
We received 18 amazing submissions and the hard task was up to the jury to find the three best startups for the finals. It was a tight race but we have our finalists now.
Mirabesque, evid.one and Reportix will pitch to win the 10.000 Euro Seed investment.
Our jury this year consists of Klaus Dibbern, Sophie Horstmann, Eligiusz Skwara, Matthias Henel and Michael Woywode.
We are excited and keeping our fingers crossed for the finals!
JOIN THE EVENT ON FACEBOOK!
Date & Time: February 20, 2018 at 7:30pm
Location & full address: Cafe L3, L3 9, 68161 Mannheim
Please note: during our events photos and will be taken which may be published in various media (Facebook), reports on the event (MCEI and ifm websites) or general PR materials (Flyers, Presentations).
Startup Lounge #41 - Pitch Battle Recap
What a reopening after summer break! On September 26th, the Startup Lounge Pitch Battle in Café L3 was a fantastic start of this fall´s event series with a lot of networking and new opportunities. We counted about 140 participants excited to witness the pitches of three very promising startups: Orderpoints, VlO Coffee and CoTutor.
ku.bus (Kurpfalz Business Briefing) founder Oliver Brümmer opened the evening with a brief presentation about the ku.bus tour. On October 12th ku.bus embarks upon a special bus ride taking along corporate executives, entrepreneurs and founders on a journey through the Rhein-Neckar metropolitan area. ku.bus orchestrates news on business, entrepreneurial personalities, and lifestyle of the Rhine-Neckar region in a two-weekly newsletter.
Orderpoints started with the first pitch of the evening. They aim to simplify ordering for hotels, restaurants or catering services via their app. Guests can order food or drinks from special order points in the shortest possible time with their own smartphones. A pilot project is already running in a Best Western Hotel in Mannheim.
The second pitch was held by V|O Coffee - an online coffee retailer of high quality Vietnamese coffee in Germany. The founder Petra Vo and her team intend to disrupt the highly attractive coffee market through a brand driven approach.
Last but not least, the team of CoTutor presented their idea to the crowd. CoTutor is an innovative e-learning start-up offering exercises with high variability and an adaptive algorithm guarantying individualized learning paths based on performance. CoTutor is assisted by students of any field for content creation.
The first prize (taking part in the ku.bus tour) went to Cotutor. Orderpoints and V|O coffee shared the second place. Orderpoints won MCEI cups for the team, filled with Café L3 Vouchers. V|O Coffee won an Innovation Box by our partner WhatAVenture. After the award ceremony, the floor was open for networking and discussions.
We would like to thank our partners ku.bus and WhatAVenture for sponsoring the prizes for our Startup Lounge Special. We are looking forward to continue these partnerships! We also thank the Café L3 for hosting another great event and making the time most enjoyable for our guests.
Startup Lounge #41 - Pitch Battle
The Startup Lounge is back from its summer break and to celebrate, we will start with a Pitch Special. Meet 3 awesome Startups from the Spring Entrepreneurial Spirit and Thinking Beyond Boxes accelerator cohort: Orderpoints, V|O Coffee and CoTutor! Who will convince the judges and the audience the most?
Your first time to the Startup Lounge? The Startup Lounge is your place to get inspired to create something new, to discuss great ideas while hanging out with cool people and to meet startups, students and creative minds in a laid-back atmosphere. Join us if you are into startups and want to build a network in the Rhein-Neckar area. As usual, the first rounds of drinks are on us.
The first drinks will be free!
Yoin the Facebook Event!
Date & Time: Septmeber 26, 2017 from 7:30 pm
Location & full address: Cafe L3, L3 9, 68161 Mannheim
Startup Lounge #40 - Pediquick
The Startup Lounge is your place to get inspired to create something new, to discuss great ideas while hanging out with cool people and to meet startups, students and creative minds in a laid-back atmosphere. Join us if you are into start-ups and want to build a network in the Rhein-Neckar area!
This time our inspirational speakers will be Pediquick!
The first drinks will be free!
Yoin the Facebook Event!
Date & Time: May 16, 2017 from 7:30 pm
Location & full address: Cafe L3, L3 9, 68161 Mannheim
Startup Lounge #34 - MCEI Seed Award
The Startup Lounge is your place to get inspired to create something new, to discuss great ideas while hanging out with cool people and to meet startups, students and creative minds in a laid-back atmosphere. Join us if you are into start-ups and want to build a network in the Rhein-Neckar area!
We are going to kick off 2017 with a special startup lounge as we will find and award the winner or the MCEI Seed Award!
15 startup teams submitted their pitch decks by the January 15th deadline (some just before midnight!), most of which meet the eligibility requirements set forth in our call for the best University of Mannheim Startup 2016. Eligible pitch decks will be rated by a panel of independent external experts leading to three finalists, which will be announced on or around February 7th and will then receive invitations to pitch for the prize on February 14th at the Startup Lounge (from 7:30 pm), accross the street from the Mannheim Castle.
The final jury will include representatives of VC and law firms, the city of Mannheim and organizations that coach startups in the Rhein-Neckar region. After a brief decision period, the winners will be announced at the award ceremony.
The prize money (€ 10 000), kindly sponsored by the Heinrich Vetter Foundation, is meant to support the market launch of the startup’s product or service. All applicants will be eligible to join our new startup mentoring program in cooperation with the university’s alumni association, Absolventum.
JOIN THE EVENT ON FACEBOOK!
Date & Time: February 14, 2017 at 7:30pm
Location & full address: Cafe L3, L3 9, 68161 Mannheim
