Top 3 of 2025
1st Place: Valoon GmbH
Business: Construction
Location: Dortmund


1st Place: Valoon GmbH
Valoon is the first chat for construction projects – simple, secure and directly in WhatsApp.Valoon brings all project participants together in a central, construction-specific chat that is directly integrated into WhatsApp. The aim is to digitize communication on the construction site, make information available more quickly and make collaboration more efficient.
2nd Place: ChemInnovation GmbH
Business: Chemistry & AI
Location: Münster


2nd Place: ChemInnovation GmbH
No matter if it’s pharma, specialty chemicals or perfume – they all face the same challenge: identifying unknown substances. The question “Which molecules are in my sample?” spans all of chemistry. GC-MS devices help, but produce complex spectrometric data, which can only be interpreted manually by experts – a slow and costly process. ChemInnovation develops chemically inspired AI and cheminformatics algorithms to automate this. Their product METIS, developed at the University of Münster, analyzes GC-MS data fully automatically in under 5 minutes, improving speed 5–20× and increasing identification rates by 50–200% – while needing less expertise and delivering high-quality results across a wide range of applications.
3rd Place: comuneo
Business: GovTech
Location: Münster


3rd Place: comuneo
Comuneo is a digital platform for planning, managing and implementing municipal measures. It is aimed at cities, municipalities and public institutions and enables data-based management of municipal processes – from strategy development to concrete implementation and evaluation. Comuneo promotes transparent collaboration between administration, politics and the public and helps municipalities to work more efficiently and in a more targeted manner. The aim is to provide digital solutions for modern, sustainable and citizen-oriented local government.