Manuela Rasthofer and her startup TerraLoupe took first place in the Darboven IDEE funding award and received funding of 50,000 euros.
The Hamburg-based company JJDarboven honored the most innovative and promising business ideas from young female entrepreneurs as part of the Darboven IDEE Award. With her promising concepts, finalist Manuela Rasthofer won first place for her company. TerraLoupeSecond place went to Dr. Ağanoğlu and is endowed with €10,000, while third place went to Tanja Nickel & Katharina Obladen with €5,000. The Darboven IDEE Award is the only national recognition for innovative ideas for entrepreneurship by women.
“Unfortunately, even in 2017, too few women are starting businesses and are still disadvantaged,”
so Albert DarbovenHis goal: to encourage women on their path to self-employment. The IDEE Award therefore focuses on the business ideas of entrepreneurial women.
The finalists and their ideas
This year, the jury focused on five very different topics in the final: Dr. Joyce Schmatz presented her imaging microstructure analysis, which reveals the nanostructure of samples. Dr. Ruzin Ağanoğlu presented lab-on-fiber laser probes, which for the first time make it possible to precisely irradiate cancer cells and communicate data to the surgeon in real time. Artificial intelligence, meanwhile, is the topic of Manuela Rasthofer, who can create informational world maps from ordinary aerial photographs. Tanja Nickel and Katharina Obladen, on the other hand, competed with their idea of preventing pandemics caused by UV-C rays by disinfecting handrails, similar to those on escalators, using UV rays. The fifth finalist, Mariam Vollmar, impressed the audience with her children's furniture, which is designed to prevent movement injuries by simulating horse riding movements.
