Deepdrive is the winning team of the 7th Munich Startup Award. The jury did not have an easy task deciding on a winner. The startup was able to hold its own against more than 70 competitors and nine other selected semi-finalists in the pitches.
Deepdrive wins Munich Startup Award
Deepdrive offers revolutionary drivetrains for electric vehicles that allow a vehicle to travel 20 percent further or require 20 percent smaller batteries for the same range. In addition to the trophy, the winning startup receives prize money of 5,000 euros and can now call itself “Munich Startup of the Year”.
The Munich Startups Award ceremony took place for the first time at the Munich Startup Festival directly after the final pitching round. Together with Gabriele Böhmer, Director of Munich Startup, Clemens Baumgärtner, Head of the Department of Labor and Economic Development, selected this year’s winning team and said:
“At the Munich Startup Festival we celebrate Munich’s successful tech ecosystem. Every single innovative solution from Munich’s startups counts and contributes to the future viability of our business location. The Munich Startup Award honours particularly outstanding achievements.”
Award Ceremony at the Festival
The winning team is delighted with the award. Vincent Berger, Business Development at Deepdrive, accepted the award and said:
“The joy about the award is enormous! Thank you to Munich Startup for giving Munich startups a stage. I also find it exciting to see that the topic is now being appreciated at a high political level.”
For the first time, there was also an audience award, endowed with 1,000 euros. The award went to Vaeridion. With an electric small aircraft, the Munich-based startup wants to accelerate the green transformation of aviation. Ivor van Dartel, co-founder and CEO of Vaeridion, is delighted:
“It is a great honour that we won the audience award at the first Munich Startup Festival. This underwrites the huge support for making travel, and especially flying, more sustainable.”
The Munich Startup Award has been presented since 2016, until now at Bits & Pretzels. Previous winners include the pathology company Inveox, the shopping platform Catchys, the smart city company Cleverciti, Pixel Robotics with its perception-controlled robots for intralogistics, the autonomous mobility startup Pylot, and the sensor startup Hawa Dawa.