Take off on the market with the Business Plan Competition Swabia – BayStartUP is looking for the best startups from the Bavarian Swabia region. The top teams can look forward to winning prizes totaling 2,250 Euros. Startups and prospective founders can take advantage of the free business planning workshops to prepare for participation.
Voxeljet, Secomba or Little Lunch – these are today's successful companies that grew up with the Business Plan Competition Swabia and are now operating in the market as growth drivers and innovative pioneers in their field. Since 2002, BayStartUP has been supporting ambitious entrepreneurs from Bavarian Swabia with the competition. It is sponsored by Bayern Kapital and the City of Augsburg.
Business idea and customer benefits
Startups from Bavarian Swabia who are working on their business plans after the deadline above or who would like to enter the competition in a later stage can apply for the Munich Business Plan Competition. From phase 2 onwards, this competition is open to startups from entire southern Bavaria. Current information about the Bavarian Business Plan Competition is also available in our newsletter (German only).
The Allgäu tech startup Mozaik (Picture Framing GmbH) was one of the winners in the 2021 Business Plan Competition Swabia, followed by their high six-figure seed funding in July of the same year. Mozaik's video creator app enables companies to easily and cheaply shoot professional videos with their smartphones.
The winning teams in the Business Plan Competition Swabia are awarded at festive award events. Here, the best up-and-coming entrepreneurs come together with startup experts and experienced entrepreneurs from the region. Those interested in start-ups are also invited to attend the award ceremony and get to know the top teams and their ideas personally.
BayBG, Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH
www.baybg.de
Stadt Kaufbeuren
www.kaufbeuren.de
Steuerteam GmbH – Steuerberatungsgesellschaft Landsberg; München (vormals Häckl und Partner)
www.steuerteam.de
Umwelt-Technologisches Gründerzentrum Augsburg UTG GmbH
https://u-t-g.de/
Based on your postal code, you will be assigned to the Business Plan Competition Swabia or Ideenreich, the Munich Business Plan Competition or the Business Plan Competition Northern Bavaria when you register your team.
The competition is a platform on which you can test your concepts and improve them through feedback. So: yes, please submit your concept even if it is not perfect, yet.
You upload your concept in our protected web portal after a successful registration at www.baystartup.de. All our judges have signed an NDA and are bound to secrecy.
If we at BayStartUP communicate your solution externally (e.g. if we present your team as a winning team as part of our marketing activities), then only with content that you have approved in advance.
Feedback from experts, the chance to be included in the free BayStartUP financial coaching, media attention, prize money, support from the twelve digital incubators throughout Bavaria and our other partners in the network, information and updates from the Bavarian startup scene.
The page numbers of the chapters are guidelines, but they should by no means be exceeded. In terms of content, you should make sure that you address the main topics of the respective competition phase.
Fabian Brunner via brunner@baystartup.de
Head of Business Plan Competitions Munich, Swabia & Ideenreich
