Startup Contest is coming back in 2022

Registration begins in January 2022. See the schedule for more info.
In the meantime, check out the previous edition's winners.

Winners

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 authors of innovative business ideas and startup companies to appear before the Infoshare conference audience and investors invited by the organizer.

Present your project to the international investors, establish business contacts, and compete for the main prize of 20 000 euro in cash. Discover the numerous opportunities in just one startup pitching contest.

Winners

Contest 2021 Winners

Check out the 3 Startup Contest winners!

Contest 2022 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 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.

Schedule

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

no later than 30.06.2022

Startup Contest application process

Register for Startup Contest Pass or Startup Pass and send us your application form with a detailed pitch deck attached. Based on that, we choose up to 20 projects to compete in the semifinals.

no later than 12.08.2022

Semifinalists announcement

Check our website to see which projects are going to the Infoshare Startup Contest semifinals held on the 25th of May 2022.

06.10.2022

Semifinals

Get ready to pitch in front of international investors and experts. Make the most of your 5 minutes. From the 20 startups that have entered semifinals become one of the 5 projects going to the Final.

07.10.2022

Final

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

CHECK THE RULES or CHECK PITCH DECK TEMPLATE