Startup.Network team is grateful to all participants, juries, partners and guests of our 190th Unicorn Battle in Frankfurt


We greatly appreciate the support of the Venue Partner - Mindspace https://www.mindspace.me/

Special thanks to our Jury Expert Board Team: 

Pedro Ferreira, Founder Institute | Chapter Director, Frankfurt Valley - Founder
Ali Pasha Foroughi Abri, Software Developer, Tech Lead and Lecturer
Maria Pennanen, Accelerator Frankfurt | Co-Founder and Managing Director
Patrick Lowry, CEO, and MP of Iconic Holding. Head Of Asset Management at Cryptology Asset Group
Karím Mustaghni, Kairos | Director, European Community
Philipp Weber, Partner Venture Capital / M&A, FPS Law
Nicolas Reitmeier, Co-CEO KINAM, former Business Transformation and Start-up Consulting at PwC
Guenter Kraft, Managing Partner and Founder at Xariva Ventures
Irène Dr. Kilubi, Techstars mentor, H2020 expert, brandPreneurs & brandFluencers Managing Director
Christoph Klippert, Head of Business Operations at PAPA OSCAR Ventures
Boris Yudin, Investment Manager at Finatem private equity fund
Jonas F. Bertsch, Managing Partner at Morgenstund Capital
Andrecrzhaupt, Founding Partner at NooVentures
Ertan Can, Managing Partner at Multiple Capital
Luise Gruner, Principal at GMPVC German Media Pool
Andreas Lukic, Managing Partner, ValueNet Capital Partners
Harald Holzer, CEO at HIGHEST, the Startup and Innovation Center at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Volkan Barut, Assistant Manager | Real Estate Advisory, KPMG
Bob Rode, Plug and Play Ventures | Ventures Associate

The Unicorn Battle started with Panel Discussion. 
This time our fantastic Speakers revealed the topic: Scaling business models in the new age of nationalism 

Nicolas Reitmeier, Co-CEO KINAM, former Business Transformation and Start-up Consulting at PwC
Guenter Kraft, Managing Partner and Founder at Xariva Ventures
Maria Pennanen, Accelerator Frankfurt | Co-Founder and Managing Director
Patrick Lowry, CEO and MP of Iconic Holding. Head Of Asset Management at Cryptology Asset Group

The second part of the Battle was devoted to the Pitch Session. 

We had 3 winners of Unicorn Battles! 

The first place winner is:
Byprotex
The first digital marketplace focused on trading animal by-products, plant-based products as well as dairy products
https://startup.network/company/410443.html

The second place went to:
LuBu (LunchBuddies)
An intelligent B2B Matching App that connects people for coffee and lunch in an easier, faster, more fun and flexible way – and works completely without texting.
https://startup.network/company/410483.html

The third place went to:
Knowledge 42
Provides organizations a holistic technology view defined by machine learning validated by expert communities to enable strategic innovations
https://startup.network/company/409534.html

Special thanks to our Information Partners:

MINDSPACE https://www.mindspace.me/
Frankfurt Valley https://www.linkedin.com/company/frankfurt-valley/
Founder Institute https://fi.co/overview
STATION HQ https://station-frankfurt.de/
CONTENTshift  https://www.contentshift.de/
Merck Accelerator  https://www.merckgroup.com/en
Mainstage Incubator https://www.mainstage-incubator.com/

Many thanks to our Sponsors:

- Network VC California Seed Fund https://network.vc/
- ICU https://www.icu.ua/en ICU Ventures invests in technology companies with strong ties to Europe, focused on helping ambitious founders build global businesses, ICU Ventures makes late seed and Series A investments across the tech spectrum.
ICU Ventures is part of the ICU Group, an independent asset management firm founded in 2006 and is one of the largest and most diversified asset managers in the CEE region.  

- Mainstage Incubator (Swen Wegner) https://www.mainstage-incubator.com/Swen Wegner
-FPS Law (Philipp Weber)  https://fps-law.de/en/

PHOTOS, you’re welcome to check:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wkCQQzHcHZHV9leSazAMsKGCDsQeYTpn
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6641680955268571137
 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6641674114602008576-PVQV

We look forward to meeting you at our Unicorn Battles in Frankfurt again.  

The event will be organized in Q2-Q3 2020, please, follow our announcements: https://battle.startup.network/events/