Top 3 of 2024
1st Place: Synctive GmbH
Business: IoT
Location: Bielefeld
1st Place: Synctive GmbH
The Synctive Industrial IoT solution enables manufacturers of machinery and equipment to offer data-driven services to their customers. From basic condition-based monitoring to AI-supported predictive maintenance and innovative equipment-as-a-service business models, companies can tailor data-driven solutions to their customer’s needs. The all-in-one package of industrial IoT gateway, intelligent edge processing software and Synctive IoT cloud platform enables a fast and effortless entry into the Internet of Things.
2nd Place: Voltfang
Business: Energy
Location: Aachen
2nd Place: Voltfang
Voltfang is a scale-up from Aachen that produces environmentally friendly and profitable battery storage systems from 2nd-life batteries for SMEs and industry. With our sustainable storage, excess energy, especially renewable energy from PV systems, can be stored. Our energy storage system helps to cut unnecessary peak loads and enables intelligent electricity use, thus making an important contribution to the successful management of the energy transition.
3rd Place: arttrade
Business: eCommerce
Location: Düsseldorf
3rd Place: arttrade
Düsseldorf-based arttrade GmbH is a German provider of art investments. The company offers private and institutional investors the opportunity to invest in works by the top 100 artists, so-called blue chip artists, by means of digital securities. With an average increase in value of around 9 percent per year, these are among the most attractive alternative asset classes. arttrade makes it possible to invest in expensive and sought-after works for as little as 1,000 euros. The arttrade portfolio includes works by Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz, Tony Cragg, Damien Hirst, Max Ernst, Christo and Erwin Wurm.