Infoshare Startup Contest

Boost your startup at the biggest tech conference in CEE!

Are you a seed or early-stage startup with tech4good solution?
Join the pitching competition to win € 20,000! The deadline for application is February 28.

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BOOST YOUR STARTUP

Win a cash prize

Compete for prizes worth €30,000 in total funded by the Mayor of Gdańsk. The main prize is €20,000 in cash!

Show your project to investors

Present your product during the pitch contest to the jury of investors and corporate experts looking for innovations.

Participate in the biggest tech conference in CEE

Get 2 Startup Passes for your team to access all Infoshare stages, matchmaking, and networking opportunities.

Establish business contacts

Join two days of intensive networking at the venue or side events plus 5-day matchmaking with 3 online days.

Get media attention

Attract media attention of our numerous partners, including top Polish media interested in projects being tech4good concepts.

Startup Contest prizes

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Startup Contest is a great opportunity for young entrepreneurs to present their ideas and get support for their implementation. We are proud that as a city, we have been supporting this initiative for 10 years by funding groundbreaking ideas that change our reality for the better. Gdansk has always been a city open to innovation and we want it to remain so.

Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, Mayor of the City of Gdansk

WHAT IS STARTUP CONTEST ALL ABOUT?

Infoshare as an organization aims to share what is worthy in the world of technology.

The Startup Contest takes place every year during the Infoshare Conference. It allows innovative startups to introduce their businesses to investors and one of the most tech-savvy audiences in CEE and win exceptional prizes. It is a chance to achieve two goals: to support young entrepreneurs and their ideas and to speed up the delivery of products and services that change lives.

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We support positive change by promoting tech4good startups!

We’d like to promote solutions that can make the world a better place. This year, we are again looking for seed and early-stage projects ready to present their game-changing tech4good products.

Our contestants must provide solutions in one of the following 17 sustainable development areas:

Schedule

How to win the cash prize?

no later than 28.02.2025

Apply to Startup Contest

Register and send us your application with a detailed pitch deck. We will choose up to 20 projects to compete in the semifinals.

no later than 15.04.2025

Check the semifinalists

Check our website to see if your startup has been selected to participate in the semifinals. Only 20 projects will get this chance.

27.05.2025

Pitch in the semifinal round

Get ready to pitch in front of international investors. You have up to 5 minutes to make jury speechless. Only 5 startups qualify to the Final.

28.05.2025

Pitch in the final round

Do your best! You have only a 3-minute pitch and a 2-minute Q&A session with the jury board. Make it count! You can win the grand prize of 20k euro in cash.

CHECK THE RULES or CHECK PITCH DECK TEMPLATE

Evaluation criteria

Business potential

0-10 points

Show your product and name need(s) it addresses, estimate TAM and declare your SOM, present your target client(s).

Team

0-10 points

Introduce your company's founders and key team members. Tell us who's missing.

Product level of innovation

0-10 points

Prove you are working on a real disruption, identify your competitors and mark all your strong points and their weaknesses.

Performance (semifinals, final)

0-10 points

Make sure your presentation is the best ever and the jury have no questions as everything is perfectly clear.

Startup Contest Jury

Jury 2025 will be announced soon! Check who helped us chose winners last year.

Eva Abel

Oryx Impact

Samo Zalesak

Zaka VC

Katarzyna Grondkowska

Simpact Ventures

Max Moldenhauer

Sunfish Partners

Daniela Aldescu

Smart Impact Capital

Piotr Pawłowski

Level2 Ventures

Monika Borowiecka

Tangent Line

Pavel Petřek

Tilia Impact Ventures

Żaneta Kurszewska

Aligo Venture Capital

Piotr Grabowski

AC/VC Foodtech Impact Fund

Emily Kegels

Pitchdrive

Adam Radzki

Impact Angel Investor

Grzegorz Borowski

Infoshare

Agnieszka Meller

Infoshare

Tomasz Pawul

Infoshare

Infoshare 2025

Scale up and develop!

The Startup Contest is not only an opportunity to grow your company, but also to attend the biggest tech and startup conference in CEE!
Every Startup Contest Semifinalist will be granted 2 Startup Passes for Infoshare 2025.

Compete live in front of a large tech- and business-oriented audience and investors, and learn from professionals.
Check out what awaits you!

Expert speeches

Learn from experts how to grow your business and how to impress investors.

Networking events

Expand your business network and have fun during our side events.

Matchmaking

Find investors, other startups, and a great number of potential business partners using the matchmaking tool.

Why attend Infoshare Conference?

Ali Jamal

First Check Ventures

"I came to Infoshare to meet very great early startups. I definitely found several (startups) which I will be following up on and learning more about."

Dr Jules Hammond

Startup Contest Winner, CEO & Co-founder of BeFC

"I am really impressed with this exhibition. I've been to many exhibitions in my life, and this is really diverse mix of people, different technologies, innovations, and backgrounds. This event (Infoshare) really is a hub for technology and innovation."

Gabriele Poteliunaite

"It's fantastic! A lot of people, a lot of international investors. Super well organized, there are great startups and great investors. I feel like a lot of people (here) have a lot drive, inspiration, and passion to build something big."

Stefan Batory

Booksy

"What I love about Infoshare is that I always come here to listen to others, get inspired by their stories and I always leave with a new dose of energy. [...] I definitely recommend it! This is my favorite conference in Poland."

Aisling & Mark Kirwan

Startup Contest 3rd place Winners, Positive Carbon

"It was a great opportunity, we've met a lot of people who we're gonna get in touch with, that will help us grow our business even more, and... it's fantastic! (...) there's a lot of cool speeches about e. g. AI, tech ethics..."

Ana Wolsztajn

"I was pretty impressed with the organization, everything is on time, the side events are absolutely fantastic, and the matchmaking allows us to meet a lot of startups effectively. It works perfectly."

Olena Iosifova

Ender Turing

"That's a great concentration of business, enterprise, potential customers, startups, and innovations. I didn't see any other place where companies will be so open for cooperation with startups."