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prototype.club assisting you in reaching your goals

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Meaningful orders

Demonstrate your skills to potential customers in public and receive a follow-up contract as the winning team.

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Market entry

Use the challenge idea to quickly position yourself in the market with orders from established companies.
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A transparent tender platform

Our procurement-compliant platform allows you to prequalify as a provider for established companies despite lacking credit history.
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A platform for networking

Attend a major trade fair and easily connect with challenge owners, competitors and exhibitors.
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A stage to present your startup

By pitching your prototype, you attract the attention of potential clients, investors and even supporters.
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Fast implementation

After winning a challenge, you define a 100-day roadmap to directly turn your prototype into an MVP with the challenge owner.
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Meaningful orders

Demonstrate your skills to potential customers in public and receive a follow-up contract as the winning team.

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Market entry

Use the challenge idea to quickly position yourself in the market with orders from established companies.

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A transparent tender platform

Our procurement-compliant platform allows you to prequalify as a provider for established companies despite lacking credit history.

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A platform for networking

Attend a major trade fair and easily connect with challenge owners, competitors and exhibitors.

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A stage to present your startup

By pitching your prototype, you attract the attention of potential clients, investors and even supporters.

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Fast implementation

After winning a challenge, you define a 100-day roadmap to directly turn your prototype into an MVP with the challenge owner.

TAKE THE STAGE AND PRESENT YOUR IDEAS TO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES

PUBLIC EVENT

Pitch your real prototypes at one of the largest trade fairs in Germany with an international audience: IAA MOBILITY | IAA TRANSPORTATION | E-World energy & water | HANNOVER MESSE | Agritechnica | Eurotier | ANUGA FoodTec
Upcoming events

COMPANY INNOVATION COMPETITIONS

Your innovation with an exclusive audience! Take part in special events we organize together with companies. Pitch your unique ideas and gain insights on what really matters in the industry. Connect with the right people and talk about future collaborations.
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VIRTUAL COMPETITIONS

Become a participant in virtual competitions! Present your ideas with ease at a virtual event. First insights on the specific topic, pitching and follow-up conversations will be taking place completely remote. Little logistical effort, yet a great opportunity. Don't miss this chance!
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Want to put your skills to the test?

Take a look at which current challenges are currently open and which have had to be overcome so far
Current challenges

THAT'S HOW IT WORKS

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OUR REFERENCES

sdp

Participating in the Daimler Truck „Driver’s Vital & Mood Detection Challenge“ with prototype.club was an exciting and rewarding experience, enabling sdp GmbH to showcase their innovation in AI solutions.

RKW BW

RKW Baden-Württemberg supports SMEs with expert consulting, training, and a strong network to drive innovation and business growth.

Daimler Truck AG

Driving Road Safety Innovation through “Driver’s Vital & Mood Detection

clean energy global

Clean Energy Global transforms energy concepts into scalable solutions by enabling seamless, modular energy storage and empowering a sustainable future.

hannoverimpuls

Together with hannoverimpuls, we connected innovative startups with industry leaders to foster new collaborations and drive impactful solutions.

Innovationsagentur RLP

Together with Innoagentur RLP, we launched the Smart Farming Hackathon to drive agricultural innovation and connect startups, companies, and researchers.

GEA

prototype.club acts as APCOAs decentralized development arm and supports by matching them up with suitable start-ups for their mission.

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.

Studicon

Studicon, winner of the TÜV NORD Challenge at IAA MOBILITY 2023, delivers innovative consulting services through young experts.

APCOA

prototype.club acts as APCOAs decentralized development arm and supports by matching them up with suitable start-ups for their mission.

proband15

proband15 turns ideas into meaningful experiences by involving people from the start to shape a people-centered future.

NEXALTA

NEXALTA took part in the Daimler Truck challenge and provided valuable insights in the connection between AI and our health.

RiDERgy

RiDERgy won the APCOA challenge at the IAA Transportation 2024 and will join a collaboration to work on smart urban hubs.

BOTfriends

Learn how BOTfriends and prototype.club are partnering to revolutionize customer experiences and automate processes with innovative chatbot solutions!

ANavS

ANavS surprised the DLR at the IAA 2022 with its solutions. Together they revolutionize the accuracy of vehicle detection with camera data.

Decarbon1ze

Decarbon1ze won the TransnetBW quest at the E-world 2023. Now they’re working together on electric vehicle charging in roaming-free settings.

Lumos

Lumos convinced Claas at the DLG.prototype.club 23 with their unique UX Design and developed a tractor cab as the future farm control center.

OmegaLambdaTec

OmegaLambdaTec won the DLG.prototype.club twice and is tackling challenges with innovative data science and AI approaches.

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 Mobility

One of the largest and internationally most important automotive trade fairs

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.

Anuga FoodTec

The leading international supplier fair for the food and beverage industry

HANNOVER MESSE

The most important international platform for all technologies related to industrial transformation

VDMA

VDMA Startup Machine is the entry point for startups that want to gain access to mechanical engineering and get a taste of the VDMA network of more than 3,500 members.

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.

Unternehmenswerkstatt Hamburg

The Unternehmenswerkstatt Hamburg offers start-up support for founders by offering workshops, counselling, coaching and more. Together we support prospective founders.

powercloud

For their internal hackathon, prototype.club scouted numerous specific talents to boost powercloud’s recruiting.

SmartGrids BW

prototype.club partners with SmartGrids BW to advance intelligent energy systems for a more resilient infrastructure in the future.

KOINNO

KOINNO supports public institutions and companies with innovative procurement methods, such as innovation competitions by prototype.club.

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.

DLR

At the IAA TRANSPORTATION 2022, ANavS solved an almost impossible image recognition challenge of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

EnBW

Challenge partner EnBW posed a challenge regarding autonomous drone inspections for solar parks for E-world energy & water 2023.

TÜV NORD

At IAA.prototype.club 2023, TÜV NORD introduced a challenge focused on data synchronization between inspectors and garages including an incentive system. Explore the solutions the startups developed.

Siemens Energy

Challenge partner Siemens Energy posed a challenge regarding offline asset localization
at the Hannover Messe 2023. They were amazed by the variety of innovative ideas the participants presented.

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.

Zentur.io

As software as a service provider, Zentur.io made first place in the E-world.prototype.club 2022.

E-world

E-world as Europe’s largest energy and water trade fair hosts the E-world.prototype.club as a partner every year.

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.

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.

Red Bull Basement

Giving wings to people and ideas! Red Bull Basement supports prototype.club since 2021.

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.

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.

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.

TransnetBW

German transmission system operator TransnetBW took part in the Enerthon 2021, DLG.prototype.club 2022 and the E-world.prototype.club 2023 hosted by prototype.club. Their final conclusion on the developer sprint: a complete success!

CoVerified

CoVerified won the Enerthon challenge by TransnetBW and the E-world.prototype.club with a huge success following.

Max Brüggemann

Max Brüggemann won the powercloud speed hackathon 2022 and made second place in the Elia Group hackathon.

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