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And the winners are...

polisMOBILITY startupPITCH 2023

We are pleased about the great interest and the numerous applications received. These were reviewed by the jury and the finalists were selected for the startupPITCH on site, which took place on May 24, 2023. The winners have been announced!

ISTmobil GmbH

Robert Potocsnyek | ISTmobil GmbH

Robert Potocsnyek | ISTmobil GmbH

Prize: Interview article in polisMOBILITY print and online magazine

PITCH contribution:ISTmobil solves existing and future challenges in transportation. As a supplement to the public transport system, we realize a nationwide, affordable and flexible on-demand mobility. Using our dispatching software ISTdrive, trips are digitally arranged and bundled according to economic and ecological criteria, and the existing public transport system is automated and taken into account in real time for each trip request. In this way, we create a resource-efficient, area-wide mobility solution for the last mile and bring mobility to where it is needed!


RheinSharing

Felix Roder | RheinSharing

Felix Roder | RheinSharing

Prize: Mentoring by Mobility Allstars

PITCH contribution:RheinSharing entwickelt innovative Strömungskraftwerke für den innerstädtischen Einsatz in großen Flüssen. Die strömungsoptimierte Form sorgt für eine deutlich höhere Geschwindigkeit des Wassers im Inneren des Kraftwerks und erhöht somit das energetische Potenzial für den Ertrag sehr deutlich. Ziel ist die Stromversorgung umliegender bedarfsgerechter Verbraucher, welche beispielsweise in der Mikromobilität zu finden sind.


me energy GmbH

Felix Roder | RheinSharing

Felix Roder | RheinSharing

Prize: BahnCard 100 for 2nd class valid for one year

PITCH contribution:EV fast charging as a service with stations producing their own electricity. Completely grid-independent, CO2-neutral and mobile operated by liquid biomethanol or bioethanol. A 150 kW charging station to rent and lease in a carefree package simply anywhere.

Congratulations to all the winners!


A strong jury decides on the winners of the polisMOBILITY startupPITCH

You can look forward to:

Johannes Kirschner | EIT Urban Mobility

Johannes Kirschner | EIT Urban Mobility

"Start-ups are key drivers of innovation and change, and investing in them is critical to build a sustainable and liveable future for our cities. By supporting these entrepreneurs, we can catalyse real impact and transformation, not just in Europe, but around the world. I am looking forward to meet some of these pioneers at polisMOBILITY 2023."

More about Johannes Kirschner

Johannes Kirschner is an Investment & Portfolio Manager at the Impact Ventures Team of EIT Urban Mobility. He brings profound experience in the mobility sector and has worked with startups, corporates, and venture capital firms all around Europe. After his Master of Science in Management of Innovation & Business Development at the Copenhagen Business School he has worked for different mobility startups and corporates and has grown as an expert in technology scouting and investment trends, particularly in the areas of sustainable city logistics, future mobility, and mobility and energy.


Samoa Pfannenstiel, Senior Expert Mobility as a Service, Telekom MobilitySolutions

Samoa Pfannenstiel, Senior Expert Mobility as a Service, Telekom MobilitySolutions

"Our mission: We guarantee shared, connected and sustainable mobility for EVERYONE. To be successful, we need the interaction of private companies, the public sector and innovative startups. Only together can the mobility turnaround in Germany succeed!"

More about Samoa Pfannenstiel

Samoa Pfannenstiel joined Telekom MobilitySolutions in 2020 as 'Senior Expert Mobility as a Service', where she is involved in the design and development of an innovative digital mobility platform. With a degree in business informatics, she has been supporting various digitization initiatives at Deutsche Telekom (HR Suite, MagentaView, MaaS) since 2014. Samoa drives digital transformation with passion and enthusiasm.


Prof. Dipl. Ing. Jochen Siegemund | Architect & Urban Designer

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Jochen Siegemund | Architect & Urban Designer

"Practice and science know about the important role of universities and their potential in creative interdisciplinary teaching research with industry support via competitions, pitches, jury meetings, team process ... to founding a startup. The polisMOBILITY startupPITCH represents a very special challenge for holistic business ideas with sustainable concepts of our socially relevant challenges of inner-city mobility and urban development!"

More about Prof. Dipl. Ing. Jochen Siegemund

Prof. Dipl. Ing. Jochen Siegemund, architect and urban planner, leads an interdisciplinary office for architectural and urban design in Bonn, Germany. At the Technical University of Cologne he heads the Research and Development Center Corporate Architecture in research and teaching. His work includes practical work, consulting, teaching, research and development.

Born in 1959, he studied, after high school and an internship, architecture and urban design at the Technical University of Stuttgart, architecture at the HFT Stuttgart, architecture at the School of Architecture in Leicester, United Kingdom and restoration and archeology at the ENAIP Veneto, Italy. Due to its good performance he was stipendiant of the Fulbright, Robert Bosch and ENAIP foundations. After university studies he worked in teaching and research as a university assistant, scientific collaborations and as a assistant professor in the subjects; architectural design, construction and building design, design theory and interior design.

In 1989 he founded the office "Siegemund Architekten Stadtplaner", which he leads since 1992 in partnership with Dipl.-Ing. Elke Siegemund architect and town planner. In addition to numerous prizes in architectural and urban development competitions, the office is working on priority during the design and development of architectural and urban design and planning of industry and public buildings, fairs and exhibitions.

In 1995 Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Siegemund became professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Cologne. Holding the position as the director, he is the chairman for the master program corporate architecture of architecture studies and the director of the Research & Development Centre City, Architecture, Human & Mobility I SAM2. This architectural und urban design specialisation in Smart City Development is a unique selling point of the Faculty of Architecture in Europe.


Silvia Fischer | Founding member of Mobility Allstars e.V.

Silvia Fischer | Founding member of Mobility Allstars e.V.

"The sustainable development of our transportation system towards more flexible, more green and more attractive options is a crucial challenge of our generation. Together with the transition of our energy and heating systems, the mobility transition is the decisive lever to reach climate goals, and for a livable future for the generations to come."

More about Silvia Fischer

Silvia Fischer is one of the founding members of Mobility Allstars e.V. and brings along 15 years of experience in leading commercial positions across the mobility industry, e.g. at FREE NOW, Interrail and Deutsche Bahn. Additionally, the mother of 2 girls has founded Weinkules and works as an Executive Coach.

Mobility Allstars e.V. is a non-profit association, that is pursuing the goal of accelerating the mobility transition in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. To increase the quality of life and the attractiveness of the location. Each mode of transport has its own situational justification.

Mobility Allstars e.V. are promoting sustainable mobility solutions by constructively creating pressure for change among decision-makers in politics and business. Sustainable mobility solutions are geared towards the common good: They are sustainable, needs-based and simple and thus represent the core element of the mobility transition.

The network is a platform for doers and thinkers of the mobility industry and help them to benefit from each others experiences and perspectives and to make their voices being heard. Mobility Allstars support selected projects with a high impact on the transformation of mobility and attract public attention. For this they strive for a close cooperation with science, businesses and politics.


Philipp Kühn | Head of Marketing Strategy and Communication DB Regio

Philipp Kühn | Head of Marketing Strategy and Communication DB Regio

"I am convinced that public transport can be so attractive that people enjoy using it and that it can have many more positive effects for all of us than "just" lower Co2 consumption per passenger kilometre. And I would really like to be able to experience that soon..."

More about Philipp Kühn

The graduate in business administration with a focus on marketing is head of marketing strategy and communication at DB Regio AG and, after holding positions at DB Cargo and DB Fernverkehr, has now been dedicated to the topic of local public transport for over 10 years. He is convinced that attractive public transport is important for our future and wants to change the perception of public transport in a positive way.


The finalists

Name of the startup: Vision2Product
Founder: Thomas Görtler
Product: Consulting service

Consulting company for mobility solutions, innovations, business development, sales and corporate development.

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Name of the startup: RheinSharing
Founder: Felix Roder
Product: Stream power plants

RheinSharing develops innovative flow power plants for inner-city use in large rivers. The flow-optimized shape ensures a significantly higher velocity of the water inside the power plant and thus increases the energetic potential for the yield very significantly. The aim is to supply power to surrounding consumers in line with demand, which can be found in micromobility, for example.

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Name of the startup: RiDERgy GmbH
Founder: Claudio Geyken & Aneesh Mohan
Product: Consulting Service

Renewable energies are volatile, which endangers grid stability. Flexible power demand and batteries are needed. Electric vehicles provide both. We are electrifying and charging fleets efficiently to enable the adoption of electric vehicles and 100% renewable power. Fleet operators struggle to transition to e-mobility and keep costs down. We help via energy management software and flexible APIs to systems such as wallboxes, vehicles, dispatch systems, electricity markets, grid, charging infrastructure and mobility data.

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Name of the startup: ARI Motors GmbH
Founder: Thomas Kuwatsch
Product: Electric transporter sale

The ARI Motors GmbH offers the currently smallest electric transport vehicle with European road approval. The name ARI represents the Japanese term of “ant” – a description of how powerful, flexible and versatile our vehicles are.

Our declared aim is to bring low-priced and efficient electric transport vehicles onto European streets. These are perfectly customized for the use on the “last mile”. They are applicable for small entrepreneurs and medium-sized companies as well as the fleets of large corporations.

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Name of the startup: omobi GmbH
Founder: Clemens Deyerling & Robert Schotten
Product: Consulting Service

We at omobi stand for sustainable, modern and intelligent mobility solutions. We are a young transport company from the Bavarian Oberland and advise municipalities on all mobility issues (public transport concepts, on-demand systems, parking management, digital parking guidance systems, ridehailing/sharing, etc.) with a focus on rural areas. In addition, we operate digital on-demand bus systems in the Upper Bavarian communities of Murnau, Seehausen, Riegsee and Holzkirchen.

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Name of the startup: LiangDao GmbH
Founder: Dr. Yang Ji & Dr. Shengguang Lei
Product: Smart City Data Provider

LiangDao positions itself as a smart city data provider. The LiangDao Telescope system uses LiDAR sensors to collect real-time road traffic data, either stationary or mobile. This data includes different classes of traffic objects, their speed, position and trajectory. The special feature is that the data is DSGVO compliant. These data are used to efficiently create digital twins for smart city applications.

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Name of the startup: CHARGEUNITY
Founder: Niklas Seitenspinner
Product: Full-Service Application

Together with our partners, we are building a demand-driven network of public charging points. To this end, we offer a full service that enables private individuals and companies to become the owner of a public charging point at a desired location. Our partners can then not only charge there themselves, but also recoup their investment in the long term by selling electricity to other users.

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Name of the startup: Vesputi GmbH
Founder: Linus Frank & René Meye
Product: B2B tech provider

Vesputi is a B2B tech provider for solutions that put public transport at the center of networked offerings. With Mobilitybox, Vesputi has developed a standardized interface that links public transport operators with national and international companies. This approach enables customers of hotels, airlines and events, among others, to purchase local transport tickets on their platforms. Vesputi thus opens up new sales channels for transport operators and prepares them for a digital and networked future.

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Name of the startup: VEMO Logisitk GmbH
Founder: Jonathan Kümmerle & Paul Schwarzelühr
Product: Logistics service provider

We as VEMO Logistik GmbH have set ourselves the task of transforming the last mile to make it fit for the future. We chose the slogan 'Logistics of the Future' to show that we are always adapting to the conditions of the future. You can see this well in our fleet: today we have over 25 heavy-duty wheels and tomorrow perhaps autonomous vehicles. Always with the aim of making the last mail as sensible as possible for people in the city. This includes a high focus on resource and emission reduction, as well as economical operation.

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Name of the startup: Peregrine.ai
Founder: Dr. Steffen Heinrich, Jorit Schmelzle & Dr. Naja von Schmude
Product: Logistics service provider

Peregrine.ai is defining and enabling the future of safe and sustainable mobility with AI-powered perception technology.

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Name of the startup: ISTmobil GmbH
Founder: Alexander M. Fellner-Stiasny
Product: Software

ISTmobil solves existing and future challenges in transportation. As a supplement to the public transport system, we realize a nationwide, affordable and flexible on-demand mobility. Using our dispatching software ISTdrive, trips are digitally arranged and bundled according to economic and ecological criteria, and the existing public transport system is automated and taken into account in real time for each trip request. In this way, we create a resource-efficient, area-wide mobility solution for the last mile and bring mobility to where it is needed!

To the website

Name of the startup: me energy GmbH
Founder: Alexander Sohl & Inès Adler
Product: Service

EV fast charging as a service with stations producing their own electricity. Completely grid-independent, CO2-neutral and mobile operated by liquid biomethanol or bioethanol. A 150 kW charging station to rent and lease in a carefree package simply anywhere.

To the website

Name of the startup: goFLUX Mobility
Founder: Wolfram Uerlich
Product: Service Application

With goFLUX Mobility, we specialize in carpooling for commutes. We offer a solution for more than 100 million free car spaces that are on German roads every day and utilize them more efficiently through our carpooling app. At the same time, we integrate carpooling into the public transport network. In this way, we supplement bus and rail services, promote better connectivity between urban and rural areas, and move more passengers to the environmental network.

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Name of the startup: SHQUARED GmbH
Founder: Julian Nitsche, Nastasia Broda & Christian Kink
Product: B2B Marketplace Platform

SHQUARED provides with its platform a 2-sided B2B marketplace for sharing and renting commercial space. The mission is to develop the best all-in-one solution that makes sharing space easy and desirable. Temporarily unused space is rented and booked on the Marketplace. This intensification of use creates new space for MicroHubs, temporary storage, parking and new businesses. SHQUARED thus strengthens the green transformation of cities and supports the achievement of the SDGs.

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Name of the startup: Nextérité
Founder: Edith Nuss
Product: Real time information solution

Nextérité is an innovative French company established in the European mobility sector. Nextérité has developed a real-time information solution for disruptions in the road and transport network. Nextérité's mission is to facilitate the integration of systems into the mobility network, simplify traffic management, ensure the safety of citizens and reduce the response time of the services involved.

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Name of the startup: ladeplan UG
Founder: Benjamin Kasten, Lorenz Pott & Till Schlief
Product: Software

ladeplan is a digital startup from Paderborn in the field of electromobility. The business focus of ladeplan is the data-based potential identification of charging infrastructure, especially for municipalities, charge point operators and public utilities. In addition to municipalities, our customers already include renowned companies from the automotive and energy industries.

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Name of the startup: Ride Commerce
Founder: Sreenath Rangapuram& Kumudha Puram
Product: SaaS B2B2C Mobility

Ride Commerce is a SaaS B2B2C mobility startup for last mile.

To the website


The following prizes will be raffled among the winners:

  1. BahnCard 100 for 2nd class valid for one year.
    Travel flexibly in 2nd class throughout Germany for 1 year. With the included City Ticket, you can use public transport free of charge in over 130 cities. One bicycle is included.
    Further information on the BahnCard 100
  2. Mentoring by Mobility Allstars
    The winner receives several months of exclusive mentoring from the Mobility Allstars mobility experts.
    The Mobility Allstars select a mentor from their network who is a good match for the start-up and acts as the first point of contact. In addition, there is the opportunity to get in touch with other members of the network. There will be a monthly mentoring session where the startup can ask questions and receive help and support from the mentors and their network.
    Further information on Mobility Allstars
  3. Article in the polisMOBILITY print and online magazine
    You will receive 2 pages in the autumn 2023 issue of the polisMOBILITY magazine (print and online) including an interview. Present your startup to a broad audience and achieve more attention for your innovative ideas for the mobility revolution.


Procedure

Registration

Register with your startup for the startupPITCH of polisMOBILITY. The application phase ends on 5 April 2023.

Jury decision

Present your concepts and ideas to the professional audience. A jury will judge the entries after the presentations.

Award ceremony

After the evaluation by the jury, the winners will be announced and attractive prizes will be presented to the winners.


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