H-BRS Entrepreneurship Centre

Start-up-Cup @ H-BRS: Ideenwettbewerb 2024

In our ideas competition, we are looking for innovative ideas from creative minds! The most convincing ideas have the chance to win prize money of up to €2,500 or attractive special prizes. The application phase for the Start-up Cup 2024 starts on 10 June and runs until 19 August! To take part, we only need your motivation and a convincing pitch deck in addition to your start-up idea.

Application form

Gruppenfoto Teilnehmer Start-up Cup 2024

Foto: Nathan Dreesen

Prizes:

1st place: 2,500 euros (sponsored by Hochschulgesellschaft Bonn-Rhein-Sieg)

2nd place: 1,500 euros (sponsored by CENTIM)

3rd place: 1,000 euros (sponsored by CENTIM)

Special prize DIGITALHUB.DE: Inclusion in the accelerator programme "HubGrade" for the best digital idea

Special Innovation Prize: Up to now, a full scholarship for our MBA Start-up Development programme has always been awarded as a special prize. We are endeavouring to offer this special prize again this year. More information will follow. If you have any questions, please contact the MBA team at startup-info@h-brs.de.

Benefit for all final teams: individual pitch training with a professional coach.

„Einmal mehr haben wir gesehen, welches Innovationspotential sowohl in der Forschung, aber auch in den Ideen unserer Studierenden und Absolvent:innen steckt. Ein spannender und unterhaltsamer Abend.”

Christoph Krieger - Business Development Manager in der Start-up-Manufaktur

Die Jury

Bewertet wurden unsere Finalteams von unserer externen Jury, bestehend aus Expertinnen und Experten aus dem Start-up-Umfeld.

Prof. Dr. Ralf Meyer

Mitglied der Hochschulgesellschaft Rhein-Sieg und Professor für Business Administration und International Financial Management.

Julia Huthmann

„Menschen, die sich trauen außerhalb der ausgetretenen Pfade nach Lösungen zu suchen, sind immer wieder inspirierend. Ich freue mich junge Gründer:innen zu unterstützen ihr Geschäftsmodell weiterzuentwickeln.”

Julia Huthmann - Gründerin von JackyF

Anna Villwock

„Ich bin gespannt, welche kreativen Ideen dieses Jahr von den Studierenden entwickelt wurden und welche (aktuellen) Herausforderungen damit gelöst werden. Besonders freue ich mich darauf, die Pitches der Studierenden zu sehen.”

Anna Villwock - Gründungsberaterin der enaCom

Prof. Dr. Martin Sieber

Direktorium CENTIM und Professor für Biologie, insbesondere Klinische Forschung, Transferprofessor

Axel Nitsch

Principal / Prokurist beim High-Tech Gründerfonds

Eindrücke von der Veranstaltung

Our support

In preparation for the ideas competition, we offer free workshops to help you improve your idea or pitch deck.
Participation in the workshops is free of charge, voluntary and not linked to participation in the Start-up Cup.
If you need additional support with your start-up project, you are welcome to register for our start-up consultation.
All teams that reach the final will also take part in pitch training with a professional coach.

Consultation

Workshop “How to: Pitch-Deck” on Thursday, June 27, 2024

Thanks to our sponsors.

The Start-up-Manufaktur is an initiative of CENTIM and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action as part of the EXIST programme (Logos: Exist.de)