Startup Contest is coming back to Gdańsk!

There is 30 000 euro in the pool for 3 best startups.
Last year we got almost 700 applications from 50 different countries.
Do not hesitate!

Apply

Infoshare Startup Contest

for seed and early stage projects ready to show their game-changing products to investors and businesses looking for innovations.

Boost your startup

Startup Contest takes place every year (from 2014) during Infoshare Conference, allowing the authors of ideas for innovative business and startup companies to appear before investors invited by Organizer and audience of Infoshare conference.

Present your project to the international investors, establish business contacts and compete for the main prize – 20 000 euro in cash. Many opportunities in one Startup Contest.

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Contest 2021 Prizes

AWARDS funded by the City of Gdansk

1ST PLACE

20, 000 €

2ND PLACE

7, 000 €

3RD PLACE

3, 000 €

Evaluation criteria

Business potential

0-10 points

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

Team

0-10 points

Show who the founders are, present key team members, name who is missing.

Product level of innovation

0-10 points

Prove you are working on a real disruption, show the competition marking all your advantages and their weaknesses.

Performance (semifinals, finals)

0-10 points

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

Schedule

How to win 20,000, 7000, 3000 euro in cash funded by the City of Gdańsk?

no later than 31.07.2021

Startup Contest application process

Register for Startup Pass and send us your application form with a detailed pitch deck. Based on that we will choose up to 30 best projects going to the Semifinals.

no later than 31.08.2021

Semifinalists announcement

Check our website to see which projects are going to the Infoshare Startup Contest Semifinals held on October 14th 2021.

14.10.2021

Semifinals

Get ready to pitch in front of international investors and experts. Make the most of your 5 minutes. From the 30 startups that entered semifinals become one of the 5 projects going to the Final.

15.10.2021

Final

Do your best! Only 3-minute pitch and 2-minute Q&A session from jury board to win 20k euro in cash. Being one of the 5 best projects is something, but the winner can be only one.

CHECK THE RULES or CHECK PITCH DECK TEMPLATE