TOP 10: The BPW finalists

These are the business concepts and idea creators of the BPW. In each phase of the competition, ten business concepts are selected from the jury's evaluation. The TOP 10 present their ideas to a jury of experts, who select the winning team in each phase. All ten teams have the opportunity to pitch for the audience award at our award ceremonies.

Drei Pokale sind auf einem Tisch aufgereiht

1. competition phase

Top 10 1. Phase: Factor 4 Solutions© Leo Seidel

FACTOR4SOLUTIONS

Winning team

Through savings in operating energies in their refrigeration centers supports F4 SOLUTIONS all operators (data centers, hospitals, industry, food manufacturers, energy suppliers, etc.). An increase in efficiency by a factor of 4, for example, allows a reduction of CO2-emissions by up to 75 percent. F4 SOLUTIONS offers a universal, model-based, holistic and technology-open system controller that is open to all technologies.

Top 10 1. Phase: Mealstock© Leo Seidel

Mealstock

Audience Award

The Mealstock app offers consumers a digital way to optimize the way they use food. In Mealstock, receipts can be simply photographed using a mobile phone camera. All purchased food is automatically sorted into a "digital refrigerator," which also records the expiration dates.

Top 10 1. Phase: ecopeak© Leo Seidel

ecopeak

TOP 10

The ecopeak app creates incentives and rewards for households to better adapt their electricity consumption to the fluctuating generation from solar and wind power. As part of a B2B2C model, the app is free to all households and a SaaS solution for electricity providers. The added value for climate and society are savings in gas and CO2, increased grid
grid security, and reduced costs for electricity.

Top 10 1. Phase: first aid gloves

first aid gloves

TOP 10

first aid gloves is a product designed to encourage more people to actively intervene in accident situations and provide first aid. The first aid gloves combine the basic protection of disposable medical gloves with helpful first aid instructions. They ensure patient and self-protection and, by means of internationally understandable pictograms, create a safe and intuitive framework for action in which a hectic emergency situation can be managed.

Top 10 1. Phase: inuu© Leo Seidel

inuu

TOP 10

inuu creates Germany's first peer-to-peer sharing platform for valuable objects, making them profitable for providers, accessible for everyone and more sustainable for society. Here, users can offer their objects for short-term rent, exchange information with those asking for them and lend them out. Conceivable occasions range from a photo shoot for one's own website to a wedding or an opera ball.

Top 10 1. Phase: QEP3D© Leo Seidel

QEP3D

TOP 10

QEP3D - Quick and Easy Print - stands for a young and emerging company for slip-based ceramic 3D printing in the areas of component manufacturing, optimised printing processes and materials as well as customised material adaptations and developments. With two innovative printing processes, open gaps to already existing 3D printing processes as well as to classic ceramic shaping processes are closed.

Top 10 1. Phase: Quouch© Leo Seidel

Quouch

TOP 10

Traveling via homestay platforms like Couchsurfing has many advantages - for example, you quickly get to know locals, visit places off the beaten path, and you can travel inexpensively. However, for more vulnerable groups like women or queer people, Couchsurfing is not without its dangers.  With Quouch, we are developing an
alternative homestay platform that allows women and queer people to travel more safely without having to give up the homestay form of travel.

Top 10 1. Phase: Urbane Moore© Leo Seidel

Urbane Moore

TOP 10

In large cities, the stresses caused by heat, drought and heavy rainfall are particularly severe due to the high degree of sealing and the confined development. New solutions are needed here to make cities more resilient. Urban peatlands cool cities, actively filter the air and retain rainwater. Using Urbane Moore's systems, it is possible to comply with the new regulations, manage large amounts of water on a small area and at the same time have
significantly more positive impact on the environment.

Top 10 1. Phase: Weldinx© Leo Seidel

Weldinx

TOP 10

Weldinx GmbH will market a user-friendly cloud welding simulation software whose application does not require hiring additional personnel with expert knowledge or investing in powerful hardware.

Top 10 1. Phase: Wingrow© Leo Seidel

Wingrow

TOP 10

Wingrow's window farm allows sustainable people to grow microgreens on their own windowsill within a week. Microgreens are grown from the same seeds as regular vegetables, but harvested after only 5 to 9 days at the seedling stage. At this stage, they are more nutritious and have a more intense flavor.

2nd competition phase

Top 10 2. Phase: UniWearables© Leo Seidel

UniWearables

Winning team

The founding team is developing a medical wearable designed for broad use on inpatients in hospitals. The device is attached to the patient's chest using an adhesive sensor pad and continuously transmits the most important clinical vital signs to the hospital's central patient information system. Based on the continuously collected data, physicians can make decisions based on trends, which improves the quality of treatment.

Top 10 2. Phase: first aid gloves© Leo Seidel

first aid gloves

Audience Award

first aid gloves is a product designed to encourage more people to actively intervene in accident situations and provide first aid. The first aid gloves combine the basic protection of disposable medical gloves with helpful first aid instructions. They ensure patient and self-protection and, by means of internationally understandable pictograms, create a safe and intuitive framework for action in which a hectic emergency situation can be managed.

Top 10 2. Phase: App4Pets© Leo Seidel

App4Pets

TOP 10

App4Pets is an animal health platform designed by veterinarian:in. The app is tailored to the specific needs of pet owners and the challenges of our time. It presents findings from animal nutrition science and expertise on individual pet species, provides recommendations for health prophylaxis and offers support for pet owners.

Top 10 2. Phase: ChartCrafter© Leo Seidel

ChartCrafter

TOP 10

ChartCrafter is the first editor for crochet font, that understands how crochet works and thus offers the DIY crochet community on its in-house platform digital instructions in internationally standardised crochet language and uniform texts generated from it.

Top 10 2. Phase: ecopeak© Leo Seidel

ecopeak

TOP 10

The ecopeak app creates incentives and rewards for households to better adapt their electricity consumption to the fluctuating generation from solar and wind power. As part of a B2B2C model, the app is free to all households and a SaaS solution for electricity providers. The added value for climate and society are savings in gas and CO2, increased grid
grid security, and reduced costs for electricity.

Top 10 2. Phase: Factor 4 Solutions© Leo Seidel

FACTOR4SOLUTIONS

TOP 10

Through savings in operating energies in their refrigeration centers supports F4 SOLUTIONS all operators (data centers, hospitals, industry, food manufacturers, energy suppliers, etc.). An increase in efficiency by a factor of 4, for example, allows a reduction of CO2-emissions by up to 75 percent. F4 SOLUTIONS offers a universal, model-based, holistic and technology-open system controller that is open to all technologies.

Top 10 2. Phase: Status Flow© Leo Seidel

Status Flow

TOP 10

Status Flow GbR supports founding teams in establishing an efficient and conflict-sensitive team culture, combining know-how from peace and conflict research and entrepreneurship with practical experience in design thinking and mediation. In workshops, the basics of independent conflict management are taught and teams are guided to work on their conflict issues. In case of escalated conflicts Status Flow GbR supports with the structured procedure of mediation to find interest-oriented solutions.

Top 10 2. Phase: TRACK 3 D© Leo Seidel

TRACK3D

TOP 10

TRACK3D is developing an FDM 3D printer that can be used to print series-quality parts. The 3D in-situ monitoring continuously monitors the print and actively compensates for errors. A digital twin of each component is created, which makes subsequent quality control unnecessary - continuous dimensional accuracy of the components is automatically ensured. The granulate print head reduces costs for users while at the same time improving quality.

Top 10 2. Phase: Weldinx© Leo Seidel

Weldinx

TOP 10

Weldinx GmbH will market a user-friendly cloud welding simulation software whose application does not require hiring additional personnel with expert knowledge or investing in powerful hardware.

Top 10 2. Phase: Wingrow© Leo Seidel

Wingrow

TOP 10

Wingrow's window farm allows sustainable people to grow microgreens on their own windowsill within a week. Microgreens are grown from the same seeds as regular vegetables, but harvested after only 5 to 9 days at the seedling stage. At this stage, they are more nutritious and have a more intense flavor.

3rd competition phase

Top 10 2. Phase: Factor 4 Solutions© Leo Seidel

FACTOR4SOLUTIONS

Winning team

Through savings in operating energies in their refrigeration centers supports F4 SOLUTIONS all operators (data centers, hospitals, industry, food manufacturers, energy suppliers, etc.). An increase in efficiency by a factor of 4, for example, allows a reduction of CO2-emissions by up to 75 percent. F4 SOLUTIONS offers a universal, model-based, holistic and technology-open system controller that is open to all technologies.

Top 10 3. Phase: PsySolutions© Leo Seidel

PsySolutions

Audience Award

With the online platform TEPAVI, the start-up PsySolutions improves the outpatient care of mentally ill people in Germany.  As a full-service provider, the TEPAVI service of the start-up PsySolutions takes over the application for a prompt and successful reimbursement of costs for patients with statutory health insurance in a private practice. This reduces the waiting time for patients in most cases to 1-3 months.

Top 10 2. Phase: ZukunftMoor© Leo Seidel

ZukunftMoor

Sustainability Award

ZukunftMoor wants to establish agriculture on wet moorland to accelerate rewetting. 95% of the moors in Germany have been drained.
 Without the protective layer of water, carbon and nitrogen from the soil oxidize with oxygen to form CO2 and laugh-
gas. This now accounts for 7.5% of Germany's greenhouse gas emissions. The company is initially focusing on peat moss as a peat alternative for the soil for the earth industry.

Top 10 2. Phase: 12minutes© Leo Seidel

12minutes

TOP 10

Emergency physicians develop revolutionary learning system for regular practice of first aid measures for baby and child emergencies. To better protect babies and children, the founding team has developed an inflatable emergency practice manikin in combination with an online first aid course. It enables parents to learn from home not only the theory but also practical measures for the prevention and treatment of baby and child emergencies and practice them regularly.

Top 10 2. Phase: Conscious Living© Leo Seidel

Conscious Living (KIREYNA)

TOP 10

The team develops sustainable skin care products of natural origin. With this value proposition focused on effectiveness, sustainability and customer benefit, the team clearly sets itself apart from the competition in the highly competitive market for skin care products and aims to be a pioneer in making truly sustainable skin care mainstream.

Top 10 2. Phase: mowee© Leo Seidel

mowee

TOP 10

Three quarters of all couples experience a relationship crisis when they become parents. The associated conflicts mean severe psychological and physical impairment for the affected parents and their children. mowee is the first video-based couples app for young parents who want to preserve their relationship. It combines scientifically based couple therapy methods and audiovisual storytelling in a digital framework and thus opens up user groups that have not been reached by previous offerings.

Top 10 2. Phase: SHIT2POWER© Leo Seidel

SHIT2POWER

TOP 10

SHIT2POWER turns wastewater treatment plants into power plants. SHIT2POWER develops scalable container plants, each designed for 30,000 inhabitants, which are installed on site at the wastewater treatment plants. In a thermo-chemical process, local, renewable and sustainable energy is generated from the sewage sludge. This form of regional energy production increases the independence of wastewater treatment plants and municipalities and also creates a financial incentive outside Europe to keep freshwater in the cycle.

Top 10 2. Phase: Status Flow© Leo Seidel

Status Flow

TOP 10

Status Flow GbR supports founding teams in establishing an efficient and conflict-sensitive team culture, combining know-how from peace and conflict research and entrepreneurship with practical experience in design thinking and mediation. In workshops, the basics of independent conflict management are taught and teams are guided to work on their conflict issues. In case of escalated conflicts Status Flow GbR supports with the structured procedure of mediation to find interest-oriented solutions.

Top 10 2. Phase: sylby© Leo Seidel

sylby

TOP 10

sylby revolutionises language learning by fusing AI speech recognition and linguistics. The genuine, scalable AI model is able to filter subtle nuances from the acoustic signal to provide detailed feedback on individual sounds. Tips and videos provide language learners and international employees with personalised workouts to train the intelligibility of their pronunciation.

Top 10 2. Phase: Zwürn© Leo Seidel

ZWÜRN

TOP 10

ZWÜRN produces cloth handkerchiefs, kitchen towels, napkins as well as cloth bags from recycled waste textiles from textile recycling. The production is to be carried out by workshops for people with disabilities. ZWÜRN impresses with individuality of high-quality printing or embroidery.