Pitch im Paternoster 2018
Convince the CEOs of Austria’s industry leaders!
Convince the CEOs of Austria’s industry leaders!
We celebrate our fourth year with a focus on learning. The Junge Industrie and WhatAVenture invite innovative hardware and software startups in education and training as well as in the machine learning sector to present their company to top-level executives of the largest Austrian industrial enterprises.
13 startups will be selected and will compete in the 100 year old Paternoster located in the historic “House of Industry” in Vienna. The startups will each have the possibility to pitch their business idea to the jury while riding in a cabin of the Paternoster.
The aim of the event is to link startups with leading industrial companies in Austria. Therefore, each startup will also be assigned an own booth next to the pitch in the Paternoster. This allows them to present their prototype and/or product to a wide audience of industrial enterprises and innovation manager.
Schwarzenbergplatz, 1030 Vienna, Austria
Startups in the field of learning & education wanted! Pitch your business on the 100-year old Paternoster & convince the CEOs of Austria’s industry leaders. Join Pitch im Paternoster 2018!
Hop on the 100-year old Paternoster and get the unique opportunity to pitch your business idea to the top-level jury.
Requirement: 2 people per startup must attend. One set at the booth and one in a cabin of the Paternoster for the pitch. At least one founder must be present.
Each startup will be assigned a cabin in the historic Paternoster. One after the other a jury member will join the startup. The pitcher will have approximately 4 minutes to present their business and discuss the matter with the member of the jury.
The startup that can convince the most members of the jury from their idea will win the challenge! This year the jury may choose a winner by utilizing the app Pitchscoring©. Here the jury rates the startups pitching in the Paternoster by voting on their team, market, scalability, business model and technology.
The prizes sponsored by Infineon, AWS, Round2 Capital Partners, and SpeedInvest will be constantly updated.
Strategic Growth Marketing Workshop
Win a half-day growth marketing workshop with two experienced international marketing experts of Speedinvest Pirates. As the Growth Marketing Competence Center of the leading Central-European Seed VC, the Speedinvest Pirates are responsible for the growth marketing portfolio provided to the Speedinvest startups.
What you can expect:
Spend one day with the industry leader Infineon
Here the winner may use the chance to gather know-how and expertise on the topic of their choosing (e.g. production, logistics, sales, …).
Win a participation in the Round2Lab Program
The Round2Lab is a program that gives you the expertise to design and implement a successful scale-up strategy.
Legal consulting
by Brandl & Talos in the value of EUR 5.000, EUR 3.000 or EUR 1.000.
Special Price: Pre-pitching for the Pitching Days in London
Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft mbH, in cooperation with Außenwirtschaft Österreich and Junge Wirtschaft, will provide a wildcard for pre-pitching at the English Embassy in Vienna.
11:00 – 15:00
Exhibition of prototype & product (exhibition booth)
11:00
Official start
11:45 – 12:45
“Pitch im Paternoster” – Jury meets the startups
12:30 – 13:30
Award ceremony & lunch
13:30
Open end & networking
These are the selected startups for this year:
“Der ‘Pitch im Paternoster’ sorgt für einen höheren Adrenalinspiegel. Wer dort die Gelegenheit bekommt vor 13 hochkarätigen Führungskräften zu pitchen, stellt sich vor eine große Herausforderung, die sich lohnt!”
– Michael Hettegger, co-founder of Craftworks & participant of 2016
“We really liked the format, had a lot of fun and were able to connect with a lot of great people. The Pitch in the Paternoster proved to be much more than we originally anticipated.”
– Qian Qin, co-founder of Panono & winner of 2016
“We found the event was very well designed! The Paternoster Pitch is an outstanding format that allowed potential industrial partners make themselves a picture of startups in a very efficient way.”
– Dr. Leonhardt Bauer, co-founder of Xarion & winner of 2015
Pitch your startup to top-level executives on the 100-year old Paternoster and win the challenge!
Requirement: 2 people per startup must attend. One set at the booth and one in a cabin of the Paternoster for the pitch. At least one founder must be present.