Start-up Challenge – that is how you start a business!

This year’s edition of Start-up Challenge saw almost 250 entries.

The jury faced a difficult task of selecting the best idea. Among them were an app to manage “use by” dates of products, an educational 3D print ecosystem, a solution enabling to create particles that selectively bond in nuclei of cancer cells and might be used as drugs transporters, a system enabling treatment of asthma and COPD that has evolved from breath-controlled games, a subscription for pet health care and many, many others.

We are presenting 100 most interesting start-ups that entered Start-up Challenge in 6 categories. Eighteen of them made it to the final stage and competed in front of the audience of the largest business event in Central Europe – the European Economic Congress and European Tech and Start-up Days – gathered in the International Congress Centre in Katowice as well as viewers following the LIVE coverage of the competition on computers, tablets and smart phones, thus increasing chances for a company to attract an investor or a business partner and catch the interest of the media.

Here is the shortlist of Start-up Challenge 2020 and 6 winners in particular categories:

• BUSINESS PROCESSES. Management, business intelligence, ICT, cybersecurity, logistics, and HR

  AIA
  Banacha Street
  BIGDATABOX
  Blockchain Development Foundation
  Digital Fingerprints
  Fincastly
  Grow Uperion S.A.
  Holo4Labs
  ICsec S.A. – winner in the category 
  MC2 Innovations Sp. z o.o.
  PragmaticAD
  Segmetric
  Semoni Sp. z o.o.
  Staffly
  TakeTask
  VR-Learning
  WEKTOO

• CLIENT & LIFESTYLE. Retail, customer experience, e-commerce, fintech, edutech, gaming, sport, and the leisure industry

  COGG Coffee
  Dietly.pl
  doorie.io
  ePeer
  Gamehag – winner in the category 
  GetDressed
  GGPredict Sp.z.o.o.
  Heavy Kinematic Machines Sp. z o.o.
  Iconic Art Spirit Sp. z o.o.
  Lanpocket
  Mirror Investment Sp. z o.o.
  Monethero
  ultronAR
  Skriware
  Wavy
  Whatto
  Xploria
  Yosh.AI
  Zajęcia Domowe
  ZweryfikujFirmę.pl

• THE ENVIRONMENT. Environmental protection: technologies for climate, organic farming, smart energy, the use of raw materials, and waste recycling

  BIO-FILMS
  Biostra
  DAC
  DEHT S.A.
  EcoTech System
  Hugo Green Solutions
  Intelligent Hives
  Listny Cud
  Maizo
  NataLab Sp. z o.o. – winner in the category 
  Planet Heroes
  Plantalux
  Power Maize Sp. z o.o.
  RAS Technologies
  SmartHive
  Smartta Sp. z o.o.
  SOLHOTAIR Sp. z o.o.
  T-Master
  Trashstock
  WAAM Sp. z o.o.
  WaxyPack

• HEALTH & BIOTECHNOLOGY. Medicine, health, medical technologies, pharmacy, and biotechnology

  AIDA Diagnostics
  Bio ActiW
  BIOmesh Sp. z o.o.
  BioMinds Healthcare
  Biotts – winner in the category 
  BRAINCURES
  Breather One
  CelVet s.c. Monika Jezierska, Monika Marczak
  CUSTOMY
  DEBN
  Deventiv Sp. z o.o.
  ENforce Medical Technologies Sp. z o.o.
  Genegoggle
  H'ability
  Healthly
  HigoSense
  Instytut Biotechnologii i Medycyny Molekularnej
  Mediprintic Sp. z o.o.
  Med-One
  MEDORION Sp. z o.o.
  MedTransfer
  NEUROPLAY
  PETHELP
  Protein Capture Science
  Rekuperator 4.0
  uPacjenta
  Warmie
  Zabezpieczenie Endoprotezy Stawu Biodrowego

• NEW INDUSTRY. Industry 4.0, robotics, automation, production systems, new materials, and the space industry

  A4BEE
  AI BUSTERS Sp. z o.o.
  Ai Factory
  AR Solutions
  DBR77
  FrostX
  InnerWeb
  Panamint
  PROA Technology
  Progresja Space – winner in the category 
  Proteco Machines Sp. z o.o.
  Skycrops

• TRADITION & MODERNITY. Traditional industry, the energy industry, telecommunications, transport, and construction

  EASYFOOTINGS
  KPMP – winner in the category 
  Silencions Sp. z o. o.
  VELL

The winners were selected and awarded during an award gala of the European Tech and Start-up Days on September 3rd 2020.