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Our winners of the 2025 ideas competition

10.11.2025 Aline Kinzie Events
Smart school assignments, instant analysis of potential solar areas and a measuring device that costs only a fraction of its current price. Once again, this year's ideas competition attracted numerous innovative entries. Our jury was spoilt for choice and had to decide on the best ideas. The award ceremony took place on November 6th at the Smart Production Park.

We congratulate the winners of the 2025 Ideas Competition. The top five entries also received cash prizes.

Here are the Top 10 rankings:

Platz 1: Marko Nedilko – Canis.lab: Green AI For Everyone
Platz 2: Alexander Benzler – SolarNOW
Platz 3: Nojus Barth – Stocki
Platz 4: Juliane Reisewitz – Making Lead Detection Cheaper
Platz 5: Hagen Dupp – LearnUp

Platz 6: Robin Budig – Flexigator
Platz 7: Vincent Schilling – ORCA: The Orchestrator
Platz 8: Louisa Riemer – BareScan
Platz 9: Thorben Leitte – KartenProjekt
Platz 10: Franca Klank – Surprise Fashionboxen aus Deadstock

The evening was a complete success. Hosted by Aline Kinzie, the rankings were announced one by one and the videos of the best ideas were shown again. A big Thank You to our KIT startups RESTUBE, Xantus and heatIt for providing us with prizes for the competition. If you missed the event, you can find the videos of our Top 10 below in this blog post. After our award ceremony, the kick-off of GROW by Pioniergarage also took place. We are already looking forward to next year!

Präsentation beim Ideenwettbewerb der Gründerschmiede am KIT, Ankündigung der Preise für studentische Startups bei Grow.
Große Teilnehmerzahl beim Grow Event des KIT Ideenwettbewerbs, Gründerschmiede versammelt die Startup-Community.
Pitch-Präsentation eines Startups beim Gründerschmiede Ideenwettbewerb am KIT, Networking und Innovation bei Grow.
Pitch-Präsentation eines Startups beim Gründerschmiede Ideenwettbewerb am KIT, Networking und Innovation bei Grow.
Publikum beim KIT Ideenwettbewerb der Gründerschmiede, volle Halle beim Grow Event für Startups.
Pitch-Präsentation eines Startups beim Gründerschmiede Ideenwettbewerb am KIT, Networking und Innovation bei Grow.
Publikum beim KIT Ideenwettbewerb der Gründerschmiede, volle Halle beim Grow Event für Startups.
Startup Gründer erhält Auszeichnung beim KIT Ideenwettbewerb, Gründerschmiede unterstützt junge Talente bei Grow.

Our Top 10

Here you can watch the videos and innovative ideas from our top 10.

Canis.lab: Green AI For Everyone

First Place: Marko Nedilko

SolarNOW

Second Place: Alexander Benzler

Stocki

Third Place: Nojus Barth

Making Lead Detection Cheaper

Fourth Place: Juliane Reisewitz

LearnUp

Fifth Place: Hagen Dupp

Flexigator

Sixth Place: Robin Budig

ORCA: The Orchestrator

Seventh Place: Vincent Schilling

BareScan

Eighth Place: Louisa Riemer

KartenProjekt

Ninth Place: Thorben Leitte

Surprise Fashionboxen aus Deadstock

Tenth Place: Franca Klank

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