Startup Pitch 2025
Berlin, 20 March 2025 – A smart language learning app, digital educational platforms, upcycling of textile waste or an operating system for green heating networks – on 20 March, 20 selected startups presented their impressively diverse and innovative business ideas to high-calibre investors as part of the Berlin Startup Pitch 2025. The range of concepts and the wealth of ideas of the companies underlines Berlin’s pioneering role as a startup metropolis in Germany and Europe.
Innovation meets tradition: As part of the pitch event, the participating startups were given the promising opportunity to present themselves to a large number of potential investors in the time-honoured Rotes Rathaus and at the same time to engage in dialogue with founders and other stakeholders from the startup community, business and politics. Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner opened the event and State Secretary Dr. Severin Fischer also addressed the startups and guests with a few words of welcome.
As diverse as the participating founders are, they still have one thing in common: The startups are all graduates of the Berlin Startup Scholarship. The funding programme is financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the State of Berlin. It is awarded via Berlin incubators and aims to support innovative business ideas right from the conception or development phase. In addition to financial support, the startups benefit from other support services such as coaching and access to networks and are therefore able to create ideal conditions for the development and market launch of their products and projects.
Dr. Stefan Franzke, Managing Director of Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie, confirms: “Berlin continues to be one of the most popular startup hotspots in Europe - and our ecosystem continues to grow. As a startup hub and science metropolis, we stand for innovation and new technologies. Here, founders find good location conditions and an open society as well as access to venture capital. The dynamic growth has already catapulted us to number 1 in the Fintech sector.”
The following startups took part in the pitch event:
- TreeScatter: Creation of digital twins of forests and 3D visualisation
- [qgm] quantum grande materials: Production and marketing of isotope-pure semiconductor gases
- DeepFile: Development of a GDPR-compliant offline LLM search for documents
- Luup: Provision of AI agents as internal sustainability managers
- ZULA: Response to the growing global reading crisis
- VREY: The Energy OS product seamlessly integrates photovoltaics, heat pumps and smart metering systems and offers an automated billing solution for landlords
- MonarchAI: Development of an advanced AI-supported parental control app
- acemate.ai: Development of an interactive learning platform for students and lecturers
- Get2Germany: Digitalisation and simplification of the recognition process for foreign healthcare professionals
- OMIGA: Development of a social language learning app for advanced learners
- Maluma: Development of a digital education platform
- VYVYT Innovations GmbH: Development of technologies for coping with grief
- Famedly: Development of the first Gematik-approved IT messenger for the healthcare sector
- Re-Fresh Global: Development of textile upcycling through patented technologies
- Kelvin Green GmbH: Development of an intelligent operating system for green heating networks
- Quouch: Development of a queer couchsurfing platform for queer people and women
- Soltrac: Development of cost-efficient, modular plug-and-play solar array solutions for the power supply of satellites
- U Impact: Development of an AI-supported solution for the financial sector
- autarc: Development of a B2B SaaS software for the more efficient installation of heat pumps
- Sparkules: Offer of digital shopping and meal planning for end consumers