This year's Rhineland Pitch finale attracted over 1,000 visitors to Düsseldorf Airport. Four startups presented their business ideas to the audience and a high-profile jury of experts. In the end, the Munich tech startup Invenox, which develops lithium-ion battery storage systems for electromobility, among other applications. Second place went to the team from Kernwerk, followed by Readymade and Pozi Technologies.
This year's Rhineland Pitch Final was opened by Stephan Schneider, CEO of Digital City Düsseldorf and Senior Manager Public Affairs at Vodafone GmbH. He then moderated the evening together with entrepreneur and startup coach Vidar Andersen.
Before the finalists' pitches began, two startups presented their success stories. Thorben Hasberg of VisBricks GmbH presented his new product VIRA. Frank Heck and Santosh Satschdeva of MySchleppApp — the company has recently started cooperating with the Munich-based startup Thinxnet — , the winners of last year’s summer final, reported on last year’s successes, including a major collaboration with Bosch.
Audience and jury choose Invenox as the winner
The main event was the four startup pitches: In seven minutes of pitches and a further seven minutes of Q&A, the participants presented their business ideas to around 1,000 spectators and the expert jury.
The winner was the Munich-based start-up Invenox The Munich-based startup develops, produces, and sells high-quality lithium-ion battery storage systems with improved energy density for greater range and longer operating time.
The winning startup, Invenox, was chosen through a viewer vote and the expert jury. The jury consisted of Nicolas Brenk (Deutsche Bank AG), Thomas Dittrich (EMBA), Heike Kommol (Düsseldorf Airport), Heiko Faure (Interface AG), Uwe Kerkmann (Düsseldorf Economic Development Agency), Dr. Christian Plenge (Düsseldorf Trade Fair Center), and Dr. Udo Brockmeier (Düsseldorf Public Utilities / Düsseldorf Chamber of Industry and Commerce).
