Current Cohort
We are excited about the diversity of ideas from this year's cohort.
CONNi

With CONNI, wearing contact lenses is now for everyone. Whether you are a complete beginner, who struggles with contact lens insertion or an experienced lens wearer looking for a cleaner and more practicable way to handle your lenses.
CONNI is a portable, handy device that makes contact lens insertion easy, clean and comfortable. The precise mechanism of CONNI eliminates typical problems with lens insertion like trembling hands or eye closing reflexes. No mirrors or prior handwashing are needed. The CONNI facilitates clean and secure lens insertion every time, everywhere!
Team members: Maximilian Adelheit, Mariem El-Kaffas, Sebastian Feller & Ahmad Odehs
WeBackpack

The goal of WeBackpack is to create a central digital home for the backpacker and digital nomad community around the world. Our all-in-one „travel & work“ social platform significantly simplifies the organizational process of travel planning by consolidating all important functions in one central location, enabling carefree travel and work. Among other things, this is realized by an AI-supported evaluation of user-generated content. WeBackpack captures value through bookings made via our partners on the platform and a subscription-based model for our users.
Team members: Olivia Jaron & Stefan Oberhofer
Lesson Organizer

Lesson Organizer is a system that allows lesson planning in a flexible, well-structured, and more collaborative way. Lesson Organizer is currently available analogously as a set of cards, supported by a web-based app. In the future, the digital version of Lesson Organizer will include a lesson design and management tool. Lesson Organizer saves teachers time and energy, which they can in turn use for the benefit of a better work-life balance and to concentrate more on student-teacher-relationship. The app will be offered as a subscription model in lite and premium version.
Team members: Thea Kakavand & Florian Niederhuber
Boxie

We are Jasmin, Vanessa, and Sophie – the founders of Boxie. With Boxie, learning about nutrition becomes a fun and exciting experience for children, as we offer different themed boxes that teach children about a balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle in a child-friendly and fun way. The boxes contain various games, stories, and activities that can easily be integrated into everyday life. Our goal is that children become more self-confident and independent in regard to nutrition and to develop an awareness of a healthy lifestyle.
Team members: Jasmin Schwarz, Vanessa Nering & Sophie Pernkopf
Starwise

Our idea is to make shopping for clothes smarter and faster. Thus, our app will only show those clothes, that suit the clothing lines of our customers, based on Kibbe‘s philosophy. The Kibbe philosophy is about guiding people on how to use clothes as a tool to bring out the natural beauty of a person instead of making people look taller or thinner. The app‘s guidance makes shopping for our customers more targeted, sustainable and quicker. Our revenue will come from subscriptions and partnerships with clothing producers.
Team members: Sukeerthi Sanjay Kumar, Nuray Kenzhebekova, Abdumalik Gulomjonov & Oibekaoi Mamasaidova
HotPack

HotPack is a Ukrainian start-up that specializes in instant meals of high-quality targeting mainly healthy eaters and office workers. The first product of HotPack is a soup: Ukrainian borscht – 100% veggie, full of vitamins and fibre. The soup is ready to be eaten anywhere (no cutlery needed!). Customers only need to add some boiling water in the package to enjoy meal! In the course of the war, HotPack has launched a volunteer initiative. On the basis of donations, soups are produced in larger units and made available to those in need through volunteering organizations.
Team members: Mariia Valiieva, Iryna Ruzhylova & Nazar Sukhotskyi
BayernConnectEd

BayernConnectEd is all about the power of culture. As regional culture can have strong impact on functional areas such as marketing, distribution, and sales, we offer Bavarian courses. In our courses we share insights in the Bavarian dialect and culture, and by this help to connect people in intercultural work teams. BayernConnectEd is available online, i.e., as an app with gamification, and offline, i.e., through organized cultural events and language lessons. By this we also contribute to rising cultural awareness and passing on cultural knowledge in a positive format.
Team members: Eunice Abieyuwa Igbinedion, Annette Riese & Maureen Orji
TvrochaBa

TvorchaBa‘s vision is to empower Ukrainian retirees by enabling them to augment their pensions through the sale of handmade products (mainly clothing and accessories). In order to reach a large group of potential buyers, TvrochaBa handels the sales for which it relies mainly on digital sales channels. Furthermore, TvrochaBa encourages communication between the generations by enabling direct exchange between buyers and retirees (producers).
Team members: Kateryna Myslytska, Dariia Mukha & Yuliia Havriushenko
GreenifyUp

GreenifyUp is a nutrition statistics platform that helps users make healthier food choices. On the basis of supermarket bills and with the help of AI, GreenifyUp classifies the products bought by a household. Based on this data GreenifyUp is able to approximate weekly sugar and nutritional consumption and compare it to recommended standards which allows the customers to adapt their food choices. Moreover, GreenifyUp can notify its users when certain products are about to expire and thereby contribute to the sustainable use of foods.
Team members: Hrishikesh Jadhav, Smit Soni & Siddhant Sahoo