With their expert knowledge, the jurors of the Bavarian Business Plan Competitions make a significant contribution to supporting founders in their business planning.
Provide feedback and shape the startup ecosystem.
Competition jurors at BayStartUP
Our approximately 300 competition jurors are an important part of the BaystartUP network. They are the first to gain insights into the latest business models of the startups. Their evaluation of the business plans is an important feedback for the entrepreneurs, which enables them to further sharpen their concepts and to position themselves strongly in the competitive environment.
In doing so, they are actively involved in volunteer work for young Bavarian entrepreneurs. With annual jury events and invitations to the sometimes exclusive awards of the Bavarian Business Plan Competitions, we say thank you for your support.
Who can become a juror?
The submitted business plans are evaluated by a jury of several entrepreneurs and investors. Important for becoming a juror is a sound understanding of business planning, a feeling for sustainable, innovative concepts and expertise in the startup scene. If you yourself are an experienced entrepreneur, successful founder or committed investor, we look forward to receiving your application.
These are your tasks
Write feedback for the participants
The Bavarian Business Plan Competitions are distinguished by the fact that all participants - regardless of their ranking - receive feedback from our jury. To ensure this quality, we need your comments and suggestions for improvement in written form.
Since the submission and evaluation process is carried out entirely via our protected online tool, your activity is independent of location. Only the jury meeting will take place in person. Here, the pre-selected startups (based on the jury's assessments of the business plans) present their business ideas personally in pitches. The participating jurors then determine the winners of the respective competition phase.
Objective evaluation of business plans
As a juror, you will receive about 3-10 plans (depending on the phase), create detailed evaluations and comments for each plan and award points. In addition to the overall impression, you evaluate all elements of the business plans separately.
Scope of the engagement
As a juror, you have the choice of how many competitions and competition phases you are involved in.
- You have approximately four weeks per phase to evaluate the plans.
- Experience shows that an entrepreneurial juror needs about 20 minutes in phase 1 to evaluate a plan, about 40 minutes in phase 2 and about 60 minutes in phase 3.
- For investor jurors, approximately half the time per plan should be allocated to each phase.
Apply as a juror
You can apply either as an investor or entrepreneur juror.
Send a meaningful mail (with a short CV) to Tobias Bladowski (Business Plan Competition Northern Bavaria) or Max Achmedschin (Munich Business Plan Competition, Business Plan Competition Swabia and Business Plan Competition Imaginative). The respective project manager will then send you the jury onboarding package of BayStartUP by mail. It consists of a guide for jurors, a registration form, a schedule for the competition season and a confidentiality agreement.
Contact
Head of Business Plan Competitions Munich, Swabia & Ideenreich
Max Achmedschin
Head of Business Plan Competition Northern Bavaria
Tobias Bladowski
