We can look back on a successful 2024 season in the Munich Business Plan Competition: the number of participants has risen sharply compared to the previous year and the quality of the submissions remains high.the winners of the Munich Business Plan Competition 2024 are EpiCure, Qualiwise and AUDAVIS. They impressed with their innovative approaches - from cancer therapeutics and AI platforms for supplier quality management to cloud automation for auditing.
Das sind die Gewinner!
EpiCure is dedicated to the development of new cancer therapies based on epigenetic mechanisms, focusing initially on the treatment of leukaemia. At the centre of this is the introduction of carbacitabine, a promising new drug. Due to its lower side effects and higher efficacy, the active ingredient is expected to replace conventional treatments and alternative approaches in the treatment of blood cancer.

Qualiwise is developing a user-friendly, AI-supported platform that supports industrial manufacturers and their suppliers in improving the quality of the products supplied and making procurement more flexible. At the production level in particular, Qualiwise offers support through the use of mobile devices, speech-to-text conversion and visual communication options.

AUDAVIS aims to optimise auditing by using data automation on a globally scalable cloud platform. AUDAVIS uses state-of-the-art AI technology, including advanced learning methods, to optimise the audit process. A specially developed language model answers auditors to audit-related questions and prepares reports. This gives audit organisations the tools to work at the highest technical level in a cost-effective way.

Hans Peter Göttler, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of LfA Förderbank Bayern, said:
‘I congratulate the winners of the Munich Business Plan Competition on their great business models. The talent and determination of the founding teams are very impressive. Their ideas can help to improve the lives of many people and the competitiveness of the Bavarian economy. I am therefore very much looking forward to the next steps of the founding teams. The LfA supports founders with attractive development loans, risk assumption and venture capital to ensure that the startup does not fail due to financing.’
Many thanks to our long-standing partner LfA Förderbank for its support of the Munich Business Plan Competition and its commitment to Bavaria's startup scene!
Your participation helps to shape the competition and the associated BayStartUP initiatives and contributes to the promotion of a lively and successful startup ecosystem in Bavaria.
Other nominees
- Fluvion from Munich is developing biomimetic bioreactors to efficiently scale up epithelial cells and thus make them usable for industrial partners in the pharmaceutical, chemical or food industries, for example.
- Onyx from Munich is developing a digital platform as software as a service for the efficient and rapid development of biopharmaceutical active ingredients.
- Perian from Augsburg offers a Sky Computing platform that makes the use of cloud services simpler, more cost-efficient and more flexible.
- Radical Dot from Munich is developing a technology that converts mixed plastic waste into chemical building blocks. In this way, the company is helping the plastics industry to achieve its recycling targets.
- VORTEX from Munich is developing a vertical take-off long-range drone to supply the middle mile of the logistics chain.
At the Bavarian Business Plan Competitions, innovative founders from all sectors benefit from market-oriented professional feedback on their own ideas at a very early stage. Through the competition, they can quickly steer their concepts in a direction that appeals to their market as well as potential partners, investors and customers. Today's successful competition alumni include companies such as Adnymics, Blue ID, Fazua, Flixbus, invenox and Magazino, Testbirds or Toposens.
For many investors, a good competition ranking is a reliable proof of quality and is synonymous with well thought-out, forward-looking business models. Especially for technology-oriented teams that rely on venture capital to build up their company, the Bavarian Business Plan Competitions are seen as a springboard for the first rounds of financing.
Photo: BayStartUP / Bert Willer, Photos Startups: respective teams