betapitch | global

betapitch 2016

Welcome to BETAPITCH, the startup competition powered by betahaus. This year BETAPITCH took place in 12 cities around the globe. The local winners met at the grand finale BETAPITCH global & Investor Day at betahaus Berlin on October 15th.

Read about BETAPITCH Global & Investors Day 2016

How BETAPITCH Alumni Botium is Automating Chatbot Testing

Veronica October 16, 2018

Based in the chatbot hotspot Vienna, Botium is the startup that has set out to introduce a new industry standard for chatbots with their unique framework for automated chatbot testing. We had a talk with them to take the temp on their business and get the scoop on what’s next in the chatbot industry.

How to Succeed at Your Next Startup Pitch Competition

Veronica September 18, 2018

Every year the world’s best startups gather in Berlin for one big startup pitch competition: Investors Day & BETAPITCH Global! The competing startups are selected at local BETAPITCH events around the globe. They’ve prepared their pitches, sweated on stage and won! To convince a jury like that you need a really good pitch – here are some tips to succeed at your next startup pitch competition!

How Nordic Adventours experienced BETAPITCH

Veronica September 1, 2018

Meet Moritz Witter, the 27-year-old, nature-loving entrepreneur who founded Nordic Adventours in 2015 and has been changing Scandinavia’s adventure travel market single-handedly ever since. In 2016 he took on the stage at Investors Day as one of the BETAPITCH Global finalists.

Alumni startups

Here's a look at our startup alumni who took part in the BETAPITCH over the last few years.

get2play
Get2play lets you learn instruments easily online through live online lessons and interactive video courses.
Dronamics
Dronamics is a Dutch-Bulgarian company developing advanced Unmanned Aerial Systems optimized for heavy payloads and long range, for use in commercial and special logistics missions.
Protonet
The easiest server in the world!
Thingthing
Thingthing is highly dedicated at creating a whole new messaging experience on iOS: Their keyboard gives you instant access to all your digital things, while chatting and emailing on iOS.
Bragi
Bragi produces Dash, in-ear headphones working without any phone – measuring the heartbeat, serving as a mic, music player…. They‘ve just crowdfunded over $3.4m on kickstarter.
Vienna Skill Smiths
Vienna Skill Smiths aims to open up learning and teaching and connect members of the local community through affordable, accessible and fun classes on…everything!
Form
Form makes intelligent things that look after your home. Starting with smoke detector.
PeerAce
PeerAce is a community marketplace where people can find personal fitness or sports trainers and offer their own services as a trainer to others. No long-term contracts and an easy way to get to know other sports-minded people around.
Little Riot
Little Riot specialises in connecting people with technology, through design. The company was formed to develop our flagship product, Pillow Talk, but we can also work with you to help your product or service emotionally engage with your users and customers.
BeeCanvas
BeeCanvas is an online visual collaboration tool: a virtual canvas for anything. It enables you to arrange files, links and other resources along with visual comments on a single canvas, so all shared information can be understood at a glance. BeeCanvas can be used for aggregating song lyrics, music videos and scans of tickets, just as well as it can be used for sharing storyboard sketches, video clips and text scripts – all in real time.
LUUV
LUUV has designed a camera stabilizer that enables you to tape all your adventures shake-free.
Smartrade
Smartrade is an app planning to popularise access to the financial market so that anyone can learn and invest in the stock market. Through education and collaboration, users of Smartrade can migrate from a virtual to a real investment environment.

Network

Who came to our Investors Day?

Thomas Madsen-MygdalAngel Investor
Hugo AmsellemMD of Berlin's The Family
Ralph RieckeSenior Investment Manager hub:raum
Philipp SemmerBusiness Angel Investor

Paul von BünauManaging Director at idalab
Fabian ProbstManaging Director at Step2Venture
Fabian LeipeltAssociate at WestTech Ventures
Karsten LemmSenior Editor at WIRED

Sonia ParkSupervising Technology Transfer & Global Startup Group in KIC-Europe
Robin HaakAxel Springer Plug n Play
Fred EichelbaumFounder of Berlin.ai
Yatan Blumenthal VargasHardware.co Co-Founder, Startup Coach, Freelance Consultant

Andre MarquisExecutive Director of the Lester Center
Jakob SchreyerCofounder of Orderbird
Matt WebbManaging Director of R/GA's Internet of Things startup accelerator
Jessica GeutnerCorporate Strategy - Business Development, Digital Services/ Digital Portfolio bei AUDI AG

Bastian SchmidtkeCofounder of Orderbird
Alper AlsanHead of Business Development at Siemens
Stephane GantchevLAUNCHub
Sebastian HerfurthCoFounder & CEO of Friendsurance

Partners

They make BETAPITCH possible!

hub:raum
hub:raum will sponsor a cash prize of 5000 € for the winning team of the BETAPITCH | global. Let the best startup have the cash!
Holvi
Holvi offer banking for Makers & Doers. The company is a digital current account for your business. Combined with streamlined bookkeeping and powerful business apps.
Klöckner
Klöckner is our great supporter who seeks for potential startups to invest in.
Welcome Startup EU
Welcome Startup EU aim to connect 5 different major EU ecosystems (Berlin, Dublín, Milan, Madrid and Salamanca) The company work with local WELCOME partners to identify and engage the most relevant players.
YouNoodle
YouNoodle is a great supporter of BETAPITCH
SIEMENS
Siemens is global BETAPITCH supporter, merging its corporate expertise with innovations brought on by startups.
Startup Safary
Startup Safary create open doors days for startup ecosystems. Attendees have a chance to visit startups, VCs, accelerators, incubators and community hot spots in a given city. The event takes place all over the city in multiple locations, most of them – offices of participating companies. We're super excited to have them as a parter for our Investor's Day this year!
CleanTech
Our partners at The CleanTech Innovation Center (CIC) provide the ideal place for startups and growing companies in the cleantech sector. They have the infrastructure for young founders and entrepreneurs!