German Tech Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC) is the first private-sector,
open campus for entrepreneurship in Europe. Connecting an international network
of companies, universities, and startups, GTEC acts as a springboard for innovation
in Germany and beyond.
Together with its founding partners, GTEC promotes entrepreneurship
and supports tech startups to access the market better and grow faster.

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Germany’s first open campus to unite technology entrepreneurship organisations, resources and expertise in one place.

GTEC.berlin

• GTEC founding partners RWE and Globumbus supporting Innovation Award with a total of German Tech Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC), Germany’s first open, private-sector platform for entrepreneurship,

Globumbus and will present a total of €50,000 (€20,000 Gold; €15,000 Silver; €10,000 Bronze, plus a €5,000 Community Prize) to startups and founders working on the best innovation using blockchain technology.

Blockchains, the technology best known for powering the cryptocurrency bitcoin, are digital ledgers on a shared

big data to the Internet of Things, the potential of blockchains to disrupt a vast range of industries is immense. For

this reason, award sponsors RWE and Globumbus have made the competition industry-and-stage-agnostic. Ap- plications using blockchain technology from anywhere in the world and with any focus are welcome. Whether startup

or just an idea, the sponsors are looking for the best ideas utilizing blockchain infrastructure or solving daily problems

Energy company RWE already has a focus on blockchain-based business models through their RWE Innovation

blockchain is a technology with the potential to strongly influence the future energy system. Right now, we’re working

For Globumbus founder Jens Hewald, the GTEC Innovation Award is about, “encouraging all people interested in this technology to realize how they can make the world better; bringing tech and business together to make something happen.”

Globumbus is an ongoing supporter of bitcoin hackathons and meetups, blockchain workshops, and the Bitfilm Festival, as well as an investor in blockchain infrastructure projects, including Swarm, Bitshares, and Gems.

RWE and Globumbus, GTEC, and blockchain experts will judge the entries. An Award Ceremony with major figures

in Berlin on April 7. Any startup or founder entering the contest can win a place in the exclusive GTEC Lab - a 12-

German Tech Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC) is an international business incubation center for startups, established at ESMT European School of Management and Technology in Berlin. GTEC was launched in 2015 with the collaborative innovation, promote disruptive entrepreneurship in Europe, and connect with high-potential startups.

Equity, 0 euros rent, 12-months free support. Qualifying startups benefit from free office space; prototyping facilities;

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The GTEC Lab is a 12-month, industry and stage-agnostic

support program for tech startups. Qualifying startups benefit from free central-Berlin office space, prototyping facilities, business and tax consulting, and direct access to a network of investors, partners, and customers. The unique value proposition of the GTEC Lab supports startups for 0% equity, no strings attached. Any high-potential tech startup with global ambitions can apply.

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to the GTEC Lab.

Since its launch in July 2015, 14 startups have been accepted to become
members of the GTEC Lab.

From medtech to AI, wearables to IoT, these startups represent the most promising
tech innovation in Europe and beyond. Read on to meet them.

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Konetik is a data-driven car management solution for SMEs and established companies. Our purpose is to enable data-driven decision-making for fleet owners and drivers and trigger behavioural change.  Konetik offers a car management system, including a hardware, cloud service and mobile application, to reduce time spent on administration, increase vehicle efficiency, and help make smarter, data-driven decisions

www.konetik.com

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DBGlove

INTACT – solutions making impact – designs, patents, develops, and distributes innovative hardware and software B2B and B2C solutions for the healthcare and interaction sectors. The company has a portfolio of award-winning products and services, which – in addition to consulting – enable the development of new technology and business units, and to expand into other verticals.

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UVISIO

is a programmable wearable device with integrated technology for tracking the user’s individual accumulated sun exposure and warning if this exposure approaches maximum. Our device can be integrated in accessories or clothing. It synchronises with a smartphone application where data can be analysed and logged. The device works without constant connection to a smartphone and gives recommendations and alarms according to your personal profile.

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Fresh Square

is a smart home garden to grow your herbs and veggies for you - in your living room. Plug in your Fresh Square, fill up the water tank and watch your tasty veggies grow. Fresh Square has nature by its side, its smart soil takes care of your plants, from seeds to fruits. Relax and enjoy real food.

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TULA

Autonomous last-mile transport vehicles - silent, solar-powered, zero-emission,
and able to stop wherever the passenger needs to. The transport system of the future for closed environments (airports, tourist resorts, university campuses, and hospitals).

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Heili
is an AI-based solution which outsources and optimises
IT management across all aspects of business activity, freeing up businesses to concentrate on the stuff that really matters like great product and customer-service.

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Parlamind

gives you the tools to get a handle on your customer experience. Using AI,
Parlamind tells you what the customer wants without having to wade through thousands of emails.
Far more effective than existing tagging systems, our software extracts the information you need, groups it, categorises it, and reports on trending topics so you know exactly what to deal with and when.

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Zenodys'

visual IoT platform for Industry 4.0 helps companies start benefiting from the
Internet of Things quickly and is hassle free.
Our fully visual approach provides connectivity, development, visualisation, and predictivity, and also saves time and money in IoT solution implementation and maintenance. Focusing on the challenges where a lot of flexibility and customisation is needed, our customers vary from manufacturers and utilities to industries and service providers.

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Papermine

works across all platforms, across all devices. And offline.
Papermine gives your content superpowers, creating the ultimate marketing tool with call-to-actions and SEO-friendly content.

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ÜberEnergy

uses cloud-connected hardware to create an energy prediction engine for working and living spaces. Helping you consume energy more efficiently, our system predicts and adjusts to how much energy is needed in a given room based on the actual human occupancy and thermal behaviour.

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The IT startup zoomsquare offers a real estate search machine that aligns the wishes of home-hunters with current online offerings.

For the first time, users will be able to compare all available online offerings from the web. Using semantical text analysis, geocoding, big data crawling, machine learning, and a matching algorithm, zoomsquare helps its user to save time and makes the property search easy and understandable. Thanks to its technology zoomsquare will be able to provide continental-wide real estate data and aims to disrupt the industry.

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Hfactory

Enabling enterprise customers to build cool, data-rich applications faster,
HFactory is your Hadoop and HBase web apps fabric. A lightweight toolkit to build Hadoop-based applications, HFactory radically simplifies and speeds up the development of data-driven enterprise web apps. The platform helps you deliver tangible value from your data quickly. Beyond data exploration and visualisation, you can now easily leverage Hadoop data in your enterprise business applications.

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Coolinginno

technology represents the world’s first effective passive technology for sustainable indoor climatisation. This is achieved by the innovative use of Phase change materials (PCM) with big thermal capacity, which absorbs the heat in the room during the day time and releases it back into the room during the night time. This way the room temperature stabilises in a healthy way, while the energy costs are reduced up to 90%. The patented innovative solution was awarded Top 10 innovation at SMART CITY EXPO in Barcelona and won 1st place at the Slovenian National Innovation Forum, 2014.

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iiMES

provides unique fluid surface treatments for metals in order to reduce friction and to boost energy and material efficiency in simple and complex machinery. Our USP is that our products do not contain any solids and form a tribological layer out of the original metal surface that reduces friction and related challenges, when under the influence of heat and pressure. Alongside, we offer tailored IT solutions to improve the performance of cooling equipment regarding heat development, energy consumption, noise, and wear.
Contact: office@iimes.de

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