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 Mar 14.

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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.

Get Wild Ticket to InCredibles

Among valuable prizes, there is also access to InCredibles mentoring program for young entrepreneurs running startups in Poland. Reach for it!

Startup Contest Semifinalists

Agro Contracts

Food & Nutrition & Agtech

Augmandy

AR & VR

BioDairy Labs

Food & Nutrition & Agtech

Braining

Health & Medtech & Wellbeing

CodeSense

Customer Care

EmbeddedSystems.do

Food & Nutrition & Agtech

Exoheal

Health & Medtech & Wellbeing

Honestli

Media & Communications

iMTED

Artificial Intelligence

InSimili

Biotech & Pharma

Kardi Ai

Health & Medtech & Wellbeing

Mentalio

Health & Medtech & Wellbeing

PadCare

Recycling

PastEcho

Health & Medtech & Wellbeing

Remy

Food & Nutrition & Agtech

Rilemo

Health & Medtech & Wellbeing

SafeMe

Security

SkyBee

Food & Nutrition & Agtech

spacER

Health & Medtech & Wellbeing

WaterSense

CleanTech & Energy

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

EXTRA PRIZES

A special prize for one selected Polish startup

Wild card for the IX edition of InCredibles, a mentoring program for young entrepreneurs with vision created by Sebastian Kulczyk.

Read more: InCredibles

Beyond.pl GPUaaS $5.000 Voucher

Take your startup to the next level with a GPU as a Service from Beyond.pl - a perfect boost for your AI or data-intensive projects. Tap into high-performance NVIDIA GPUs and accelerate your growth!
Read more: GPU as a Service - Beyond.pl

WHAT IS STARTUP CONTEST ALL ABOUT?

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

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.

APPLICATION CLOSED

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TECH4GOOD

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

no later than 14.03.2025

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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

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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.

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

Meet the 2025 jury! Check out the experts selecting this year's winners.

Sana Afouaiz

Womenpreneur-Initiative

Magdalena Surowiec

Unfold VC

Sara Resvik

Endeit Capital

Piotr Grabowski

AC/VC Fund

Zofia Banaszewska

EVIG Alfa VC Fund

Anna Mleko

OTB Ventures

Sam Baker

Planet A

Magdalena Olczak - Nowicka

DOV

Adam Radzki

Impact Angel Investor

Tomek Czapliński

SpeedUp Venture Capital Group

Borys Musielak

Smok Ventures

Magdalena Wójtowicz

Inkubator Starter

Wojciech Stramski

Beyond.pl

Agnieszka Meller

Infoshare

Grzegorz Borowski

Infoshare

Tomasz Pawul

Infoshare

Infoshare 2025

The Startup Contest is your gateway to Infoshare 2025 - the largest tech and startup event in Central and Eastern Europe.

As a Semifinalist, you’ll receive 2 Startup Passes to Infoshare 2025.

Don’t miss out - discover the opportunities waiting for 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?

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."