Innovationsagentur RLP
Together with Innoagentur RLP, we launched the Smart Farming Hackathon to drive agricultural innovation and connect startups, companies, and researchers.
Fast-track your innovation – tested solutions, ready to implement
Accelerate your innovation process with startup solutions that are validated, ready to use, and tailored to your needs. Reduce costs, minimize risk, and bring new technologies into your business faster than ever before.
Our services for your innovation success
Discover different solutions to implement your ideas
VENTURE CLIENTING AS A SERVICE
Your innovation partner on demand
Innovation needs continuity. With Venture Clienting as a Service, we are your long-term partner who continuously identifies startups and integrates relevant solutions into your company. Instead of one-off innovation projects, you receive ongoing access to market-ready technologies that strengthen your competitiveness – quickly, flexibly and without high risks.
Let ’s talk! Arrange an initial meeting and discover your innovation potential.
EVENTS ON TRADE FAIRS
Selected startups pitch their real prototypes correspondingly to your challenge. Lots of innovative ideas await you at one of the largest trade fairs in Germany with an international audience. Choose your challenge and find the perfect solution at one of our annual events:
IAA Mobility | IAA Transportation
E-World energy & water
HANNOVER MESSE
Agritechnica | Eurotier | Anuga Food Tec
INNOVATION COMPETITIONS
Your innovation competition, your rules!
prototype.club designs a customized event that facilitates the search for individual solutions to your company’s specific challenges. Let’s work together to develop an event that is perfectly aligned with your goals and fosters the creativity needed for sustainable results.
Selected startups will have the opportunity to present their solutions to specifically address the needs of your business. We are focused on creating an inspiring environment in which effective connections can be made and breakthrough solutions can be developed.
HACKATHONS
Hackathons are intense, time-limited events designed to spark creativity and collaboration. Unlike innovation competitions, which focus on market-ready startup solutions, hackathons drive rapid idea generation and team engagement.
At prototype.club, we tailor hackathons to:
- Inspire teams and boost creativity.
- Develop fresh ideas in a short time.
- Create engaging in-house events that strengthen your brand.
Perfect for companies seeking internal innovation and dynamic collaboration, hackathons offer a fast, fun way to explore new solutions.
Our services for your innovation success
Discover different solutions to implement your ideas
VENTURE CLIENTING AS A SERVICE
Your innovation partner on demand
Innovation needs continuity. With Venture Clienting as a Service, we are your long-term partner who continuously identifies startups and integrates relevant solutions into your company. Instead of one-off innovation projects, you receive ongoing access to market-ready technologies that strengthen your competitiveness – quickly, flexibly and without high risks.
Let ’s talk! Arrange an initial meeting and discover your innovation potential.
EVENTS ON TRADE FAIRS
Selected startups pitch their real prototypes correspondingly to your challenge. Lots of innovative ideas await you at one of the largest trade fairs in Germany with an international audience. Choose your challenge and find the perfect solution at one of our annual events:
IAA Mobility | IAA Transportation
E-World energy & water
HANNOVER MESSE
Agritechnica | Eurotier | Anuga Food Tec
INNOVATION COMPETITIONS
Your innovation competition, your rules!
prototype.club designs a customized event that facilitates the search for individual solutions to your company’s specific challenges. Let’s work together to develop an event that is perfectly aligned with your goals and fosters the creativity needed for sustainable results.
Selected startups will have the opportunity to present their solutions to specifically address the needs of your business. We are focused on creating an inspiring environment in which effective connections can be made and breakthrough solutions can be developed.
HACKATHONS
Hackathons are intense, time-limited events designed to spark creativity and collaboration. Unlike innovation competitions, which focus on market-ready startup solutions, hackathons drive rapid idea generation and team engagement.
At prototype.club, we tailor hackathons to:
- Inspire teams and boost creativity.
- Develop fresh ideas in a short time.
- Create engaging in-house events that strengthen your brand.
Perfect for companies seeking internal innovation and dynamic collaboration, hackathons offer a fast, fun way to explore new solutions.
That's how it works
Benefits
Explore your possibilities by working with prototype.club
Companies innovating with us
Infinite Foundry
Infinite Foundry is the winning team of the HM.prototype.club 2023, which won by convincing Siemens Energy with its digital 3D twin.
IAA Transportation
Leading international platform for logistics and transport
IAA Mobility
One of the largest and internationally most important automotive trade fairs
hannoverimpuls
Together with hannoverimpuls, we connected innovative startups with industry leaders to foster new collaborations and drive impactful solutions.
HANNOVER MESSE
The most important international platform for all technologies related to industrial transformation
GEA
prototype.club acts as APCOAs decentralized development arm and supports by matching them up with suitable start-ups for their mission.
Fraunhofer IGD
As part of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Fraunhofer IGD is developing software solutions in visual computing. They gave a challenge for DLG.prototype.club at EuroTier/ Energy Decentral.
EnBW
Challenge partner EnBW posed a challenge regarding autonomous drone inspections for solar parks for E-world energy & water 2023.
Elia Group
The prototype.club supported one of the top 5 leading European transmission system operators with the organization of their hackathon in Berlin, home to their German subsidiary 50Hertz.
E-world
E-world as Europe’s largest energy and water trade fair hosts the E-world.prototype.club as a partner every year.
DLR
At the IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022, ANavS solved an almost impossible image recognition challenge of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Die Autobahn GmbH des Bundes
With them being responsible for the German highway network of 13.000 km, they pave the way for innovative mobility solutions and sponsored one mobilitython challenge at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022.
DHBW Engineering
DHBW Engineering Stuttgart e.V. is a student organisation dedicated to the construction of an electric racing car. Its aim is to develop innovative and lightweight vehicles with high performance.
Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft
With DLG as cooperation partner, the prototype.club organizes the DLG.prototype.club for EuroTier and Agritechnica.
Decarbon1ze
Decarbon1ze won the TransnetBW quest at the E-world 2023. Now they’re working together on electric vehicle charging in roaming-free settings.
Daimler Truck AG
Driving Road Safety Innovation through “Driver’s Vital & Mood Detection
CoVerified
CoVerified won the Enerthon challenge by TransnetBW and the E-world.prototype.club with a huge success following.
clean energy global
Clean Energy Global transforms energy concepts into scalable solutions by enabling seamless, modular energy storage and empowering a sustainable future.
CLAAS
At Agritechnica 2023, Claas introduced a challenge looking for concepts for the driver cabin of the future with DLG.prototype.club. The teams developed innovative ideas to integrate the technology and complexity of today’s farming into their solutions.
Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft
The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture took over the patronage for the DLG.prototype.club at EuroTier/ Energy Decentral 2022.
Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr
The Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport assumed patronage for the mobilitython at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022.
BOTfriends
Learn how BOTfriends and prototype.club are partnering to revolutionize customer experiences and automate processes with innovative chatbot solutions!
Bosch
Bosch posed a hard- and software challenge at the IAA MOBILITY 2023 in regards to integrating radar and
ultrasonic sensors with delivery robots. The jury impressed how much the teams achieved in just two weeks.
Autostadt
If you haven’t been there yet, you should definitely pay a visit. The Autostadt in Wolfsburg is the Volkswagen Group’s experience centre where there is a lot to discover.
APCOA
prototype.club acts as APCOAs decentralized development arm and supports by matching them up with suitable start-ups for their mission.
Anuga FoodTec
The leading international supplier fair for the food and beverage industry
ANavS
ANavS surprised the DLR at the IAA 2022 with its solutions. Together they revolutionize the accuracy of vehicle detection with camera data.
AGCO
At Agritechnica 2023, AGCO introduced a tricky challenge around multi-route optimization for in-field farming. The results presented at the AGCO and Fendt booth during DLG.prototype.club convinced with complex algorithms.
5GAPS
5GAPS (5G Access to Public Spaces), partner at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022, digitally captures the public space in the three spatial dimensions in (almost) arbitrary fineness.
5G Smart Venue
Deutsche Messe, partner at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022, offers a highly innovative 5G multifunction campus on a site of 1.5 million m2.
Success stories
Siemens Energy and Infinite Foundry
Siemens Energy and Infinite Foundry cooperated successful on the challenging task of remote offline asset localization and tracking for ground robots.
Success story: BANULA project and decarbon1ze
BANULA and decarbon1ze revolutionize EV charging. Discover the role prototype.club plays in this collaboration.
Successful collaboration between TÜV NORD and prototype.club
The TÜV NORD Challenge at the IAA 2023 demonstrated how strong partnerships can support the development of mobility.
How OPEN INNOVATION is transforming the future of businesses
The Autostadt went on an exciting journey with prototype.club and made it a success story – learn more about open innovation in business.
Towards future at light speed – with data science and AI
OmegaLambdaTec is not only the two-times winner of the DLG.prototype.club but also a pioneer in Data Science and AI.
Feel free to contact us
Are you looking for ingenious solutions from innovative startups or are you a startup yourself that wants to convince?