Kenya 🇰🇪

Startup of the year

Kubik wants to remove millions of tons of plastic from the environment by turning them into low-carbon buildings of the future. Their buildings are more durable and affordable than the old way of making buildings- and it’s less polluting. From schools to clinics, homes to warehouses, Kubik is bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow and urbanize.

Uganda 🇺🇬

Best Newcomer

Emata offers a compelling and scalable solution to some of the world’s most underserved demographics. It seeks to disrupt and retake a broken financing system, to support both cooperatives and farmers, and already boasts massive growth. It helps all sides, and there’s nothing not to like about this initiative.

Portugal 🇵🇹

Best Co-working space

Avila Spaces is the most awarded business center in Portugal and is the innovation leader in the flexible workspaces market in the country. Coworking and Business Lounge offer a premium, state-of-the-art environment where businesses can grow sustainably and dynamically.

Poland 🇵🇱

Diversity role model of the year

Magdalena founded Her Impact in 2019, a women's career platform, using her leadership skills and community-building talents. Holding a law degree from Warsaw University and studies in Art History in Paris, she independently secured seed funding and grew a community of 30,000 within a year. Her passion is in connecting with people. Outside Her Impact, Magdalena engages in new projects, writes articles, and volunteers.

Denmark 🇩🇰

Best GreenTech

At Spirii, we strive to provide high-quality, innovative software that allows companies, municipalities, real-estate dev. and facility owners to build and deploy their EV charging buisness within months and not years. Electrifying the speed for change within adoption to EVs.

Sweden 🇸🇪

People's Choice

Bowers vision is to make recycling a rewarding no-brainer and create a world free from trash. That's why weve developed a world-unique mobile app that rewards recycling of all consumer packaging at regular recycling bins.

Pakistan 🇵🇰

Founder of the Year

Aero Engine Craft Private Limited is developing the first generation of environment-friendly contrail-free aircraft engines for the global aviation industry. The product aims to address aviation induced global warming due to contrails; a non-carbon engine emission from aircraft.

Lithuania 🇱🇹

Accelerator/Incubator Program

With 250+ investments in early stage startups, Startup Wise Guys is one of the most active investors in Europe. To help techy startup founders become entrepreneurs, they are running a world class startup accelerator since 2012.

Spain 🇪🇸

Investor of the year

A venture capital management entity, it was founded in 2010 and has since invested in more than 100 startups. It was promoted by a team of entrepreneurs and investors who, in turn, founded the first Spanish accelerator specialized in promoting innovative business ideas

Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

Best VerTech

CEREBRA is an AI-powered software for early stroke detection for faster and more accurate treatment, available as a cloud platform on a PC and a mobile application.

Austria 🇦🇹

Ecosystem hero of the year

Petra Wolkenstein has been working for seven years with national and international startups and entrepreneurs on go-to-market strategies, cooperation and investor access. She heads Konsultori, the Viennese boutique consultancy, specialising in scaling projects. In 2018 she founded the platform key2investors, which supports startups in their investor search. Her experience comes from 10 years of corporate M&A in the telecommunications industry in Eastern Europe and business development in the TMT sector, from training and consulting projects on negotiation tactics, investor search, cooperation and business development for Austrian and international projects and accelerators.