Getting your impact startup off the ground, it all starts with a pitch - be it finding a co-founder and great team members, winning your first customers, or closing investment rounds to fuel your growth!

Come and get inspired by a new generation of impact startups tackling pressing social and environmental challenges of our time. Learn from around 15 pitches how to craft and communicate a pitch in a clear and concise way that effectively grabs your audience’s attention, grows their interest and confidence in you, while triggering curiosity to talk and up to closing the deal. Get insights into the industry standard on how investors approach your pitches, by evaluating them yourself. Your voting also decides which of the 15 teams will win the Publikumspreis! 

These impact startups come from diverse sectors e.g. climate, health, social, HR, AI, creative industries - all with one common conviction - to make our world, through their very own innovative and scalable products, a better place for all of us. They have achieved significant traction, revenues, and investments, being graduates and participants from the Avant Now Accelerator which accelerates innovative, tech-based ventures, building sustainable futures.

If you are looking to turn your idea into a scalable business or an ambitious impact founder already embarking on your entrepreneurial journey, this is the opportunity for you to level up your own pitches!