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December 4 saw the season’s last Startup Lounge before the school semester finally transitions into the holidays, and Café L3’s floors went buzzing yet again with startup enthusiasts from all walks of life – startup founders, students aspiring to become entrepreneurs, and those simply interested to get ideas and a flavor of the throbbing startup scene of the region. In this edition of the Startup Lounge, we invited teams from the MAN 633 Entrepreneurial Spirit to present their business ideas to a team of expert jury – consisting of industry professionals, startup consultants as well as startup entrepreneurs themselves.

Since September, four teams – Good Cha, Hearma, Laptop LockWare and Voltgear – have been working on startup ideas for this course ultimately preparing themselves for a head-to-head pitch battle session at Café L3 in what was the last Startup Lounge for the year. Each of the teams presented their startups to the audience and a panel of experts in a lively session that ended with a question and answer round between the jury and the participants. Laptop LockWare ultimately won the pitch battle, and was awarded with seed money of EUR 1,500 sponsored by Startup Mannheim to advance their next steps in their entrepreneurial journey. 

Meet the startups

Good Cha	Good-Cha aims at including beneficial probiotics in the daily nutrition by developing and selling probiotic functional and wellness drinks. We pursue a multichannel strategy in order to deliver our customers delicious probiotics as part of a healthy nutrition. Our USP lies in attaching nutritional education, convenience, and a delicious taste to traditional probiotic dietary-supplements.
hearma	Hearma develops ear protection which is customizable at home and promises a unique pleasant-to-wear sensation in a single solution. The plug-and-go filter system enables customers to use their Hearmas in any situation.
Laptop LockWare	When leaving your laptop unattended, Laptop LockWare is a theft-protection software and an alarm system specifically designed for the library, office, or public workstation (e.g. train). The application does not require any additional hardware, as after activation LockWare continuously monitors your power cable connection, hence nobody can remove your laptop from the workspace without triggering various customizable alarms and notifications.
Voltgear	Voltgear is selling functional fitness products online. Functional fitness includes full-body workouts, muscle growth, stabilization, coordination, prehab, and rehab. Our products are lightweight and portable to enable customers to train everywhere. We are developing products and workout plans together with well-known athletes and influencers, combined with marketing via email and social media. Currently we are targeting the entry of the B2B market by selling products and subscription-based workout and nutrition programs to SMEs. We thereby want to enable companies to increase employee health to reduce sick days and improve employee motivation and well-being. We are approaching annual revenue of EURO 100,000 while maintaining healthy margins.

Jury Members on Pitch Finals

• Florian Fischer, Startup Mannheim
• Jonathan Glick, Startup Mannheim
• Frank Zumbruch, Startup Mannheim
• Oliver Mickler, Tillub
• Dr. Simone Burel, Linguistische Unternehmenskommunikation (LU)
• Noah Fleischer, Linguistische Unternehmenskommunikation (LU)

We thank the jury for their fantastic support!

The time has come! On December 2, 2016 our new student startups from the MAN 631 Creativity and Entrepreneurship course will present their exciting new ideas to you for the first time! Be a part and show your support to all the teams and see the results of their months of hard work live on stage. They will pitch their ideas to a jury and of course you! Check out our teams further down.

After the event MCEI is inviting you to our last startup lounge (Startup Lounge #33) and aftershow party at L3 Cafe afterwards to celebrate and network!

When: Thursday, October 19, 2017 | 6:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Where:  Munich, Germany
Tickets: here

WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT:

The event is tailored around Germany’s most innovative high-growth startups that are on their way to reach global success.

All attending startups will have the chance to showcase their innovative products at our dedicated expo area and meet industry leaders, acceleration pioneers, politicians and international guests.

During the evening event our expert jury will announce all future program participants. Each selected winner will then pitch its company live on stage to the entire audience.

See also: http://germanaccelerator.com/tech/events/celebrating-innovation/

When: Thursday, April 27, 2017 | 6:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Where:  Fernsehwerft, Stralauer Allee 8a, 10245 Berlin, Germany
Tickets: here

WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT:

The event is tailored around Germany’s most innovative high-growth startups that are on their way to reach global success.

All attending startups will have the chance to showcase their innovative products at our dedicated expo area and meet industry leaders, acceleration pioneers, politicians and international guests.

During the evening event our expert jury will announce all future program participants. Each selected winner will then pitch its company live on stage to the entire audience.

See also: http://germanaccelerator.com/tech/events/celebrating-innovation/

WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT

The event is tailored around Germany’s most innovative high-growth startups that are on their way to reach global success. All attending startups will have the chance to showcase their innovative products at our dedicated expo area and meet industry leaders, acceleration pioneers, politicians and international guests. During the evening event our expert jury will announce all future program participants. Each selected winner will then pitch its company live on stage to the entire audience.

When: April 27, 2017 | 6.30 pm – 10.30 pm

Where: Berlin, Germany

Tickets: here

Find more info at: http://germanaccelerator.com/tech/events/celebrating-innovation/

Are you success-hungry like Mark Zuckerberg? Are you as visionary as Steve Jobs? Do you want your tech startup to be amongst the best and the brightest from beginning to end? Then German Accelerator is right for you.

German Accelerator Tech supports German tech startups to accelerate their growth and to develop into internationally recognized and successful ventures. Take the next step now and conquer the biggest growth market in the world by submitting your application by August 21, 2016!

see also: http://germanaccelerator.com/application/

When: October 13th, 2016 | 6.30 pm – 10.30 pm
Where:  Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tickets: here

WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT:

The event is tailored around Germany’s most innovative high-growth startups that are on their way to reach global success.

All attending startups will have the chance to showcase their innovative products at our dedicated expo area and meet industry leaders, acceleration pioneers, politicians and international guests.

During the evening event our expert jury will announce all future program participants. Each selected winner will then pitch its company live on stage to the entire audience.

See also: http://germanaccelerator.com/celebrating-innovation/

As announced, our next Startup Lounge will feature a very special inspirational session! Instead of a regular inspirational talk, we will feature elevator pitches of the business ideas that were created in our master degree course "Creativity and Entrepreneurship". Don't miss this opportunity to hear about lots of cool projects! Just join us at Tuesday ( November 4th) at the L3 Coffee Lounge at 7.30 pm.

Check out the teams that are going to pitch: 

GetSet

GetSet is an online platform which would serve as an intermediary in the marketing policy of consumer goods companies. This platform offers companies a way to advertise their products among the target customer groups and get customized feedback from them. In return, customers get an opportunity to try products, which are new to the market, or which they have not tried before, for a small monthly fee.

Swarmeo

For everyone who is interested in interacting socially and saving money, swarmeo is a platform that offers a service for gathering people together and benefit from reduced prices. Unlike other applications, swarmeo not only offers a platform for train tickets but also for other services such as music or sport events.

Who Am I              

WHO AM I conveys the symbolic character of powerful idols in the past, which have shaped the world we today kniow. We want to set a contra motion by connecting past and present to form a new combination of ancient figures and fine, modern art.

Happy Fridge…immer Frisch

… application which notifies the user whenever a food item stored in the fridge and deep fridge is about to reach its expiry date.

Lightning Bolt

For smartphone users that need to charge their devices on the go, LightningBolt is a portable battery rental service that enables users to charge their devices while traveling or away from home. Unlike regular charging stations, LightningBolt is a portable battery rental service that allows people to charge their devices when in need on the go, without having to wait for their phone to charge.

Bizfood

Our Product is for companies with intellectual demanding tasks, that want to support the health and wellbeing of their employees, Bizfood is a provider of convenient food (snacks). Unlike the providers of similar services, bizfood offers self manufactured healthy snacks that, due to the high standards of manufacturing as well as cooperation with local farmers are of superior quality. careful composition of ingredients, bizfood’s products not only serve as healthy snacks, but also enhance important functions of the brain and the body.                                                                                                                               

 eFitting    

For multinational retail-clothing companies, who need to improve their customers' fitting room experiences, eFitting is the technology to send a request of different size or color to a store attendant in an efficient way.

Chupi

Chupi shots is an innovative way to consume drinks. We offer to young people a tasty, funny and fancy way to have best time partying. Chupi balls will change your idea of party.

At the Europe StartupBus Challenge the participants develop a Startup from scratch within 72 hours while sitting in a bus driving through Europe. On October 27, six buses started from Amsterdam, London, Valencia, Paris, Rome and Berlin heading to Vienna. In every bus, several teams were working on their own ideas - all with the same goal to be one of the eight finalists that will pitch their idea at the Pioneers' Festival in Vienna.

What Made This Challenge So Special?

I took part in the German bus starting from Berlin, together with 21 other startup enthusiasts. The best experience was to work with people who shared the same entrepreneurial mindset and pushed themselves to their limits. During the trip we also met and competed against participants from the other buses, so-called "Buspreneurs" at our stops at well-known co-working spaces and incubators in Cologne, Karlsruhe and Munich.

It has been impressive to see how total strangers with totally different skill sets formed teams within hours and started to work on their projects. Every team had to think carefully about their idea in all kind of areas:  to build a business model, to create a marketing strategy, to consider the competition and the USP’s and finally the presence in social media. Finally and most importantly, we also had to create a (design-) prototype of the idea for the presentation in front of professionals.  And even after considering every tiniest detail, we had to adjust our whole concept over and over again according to the feedback we received from the professionals – all this while our bodies were desperately asking for some sleep.

In the German Bus, the five startups RingsAndBells.com, A2B, iHandy, treat.me and ShareSurance were created. But in the end, a team from the Dutch bus won the StartupBus Challenge with an application called Aiden. Aiden is an emotion-tracking app to help people reclaim their lives from depression.

Even though the 72 hours were extremely exhausting, I enjoyed every second of it. In case you ever thought about joining something like the StartupBus Challenge – Go for it, I promise it will be one of the best experiences in your life.

Max Kleinedler

Max is an entrepreneurship student at MCEI and nascent entrepreneur. We thank Max for sharing this excellent story and his  experience with us. Want to meet Max in person? He will open the Startup Lounge on December 3 with an inspirational talk. Do not miss this great opportunity.