At the 2021 digital Cashwalk, startup teams were selected in seven different categories. Containergrid, Rhubarb, Findustrial, Volytica Diagnostics, Vay, Newlife.ai, and Crowd Curator prevailed against almost 50 competitors, winning the jury and audience votes. Each team will now receive individual coaching from experts from the Munich startup scene.
The Cashwalk pitch event, organized by German Entrepreneurship, connects startups with investment firms. A jury of well-known investors, including Katharina Neuhaus of Vorwerk Ventures, Christian Arndt of High-Tech Founders Fund and Mila Cramer from 'Project A Ventures', grilled the startups after their pitches with questions about their business models. Together with the audience, the jury selected the winning teams.
The winning teams at Cashwalk 2021
ContainerGrid in the Business & Enterprise category
The startup ContainerGrid Munich-based company offers cloud-based, modular process management software for waste management. Container services, waste disposal companies, and scrap yards can use the software to manage and optimize their processes.
Rubarb in the Consumer & Lifestyle category
With its financial app, the Rubarb team from Hamburg offers the opportunity to save money automatically and easily through rounding up, savings plans and one-off payments and to invest in ETF portfolios.
Findustrial in the Data & Connectivity category
Findustrial, an Austrian startup, also impressed the jury with financing solutions that automate the financing of industrial projects.
Volytica Diagnostics in the category Energy & Sustainability
The Dresden-based startup Volytica Diagnostics specializes in the evaluation of batteries in electric vehicles. Algorithms analyze field data, simplifying battery degradation reports and valuation.
Vay in the Life Science & Health category
Vay's method from Switzerland teaches computers to understand and evaluate human movements. This allows fitness apps, for example, to determine whether users are performing an exercise correctly at home and provide individualized support.
Newlife.ai in the Media & Entertainment category
The Czech startup Newlife.ai offers a decentralized social creativity platform with its app, which brands and creatives can use to discover and shape new trends.
