Founder Award 2025 – Vote for your favorite video now!

The Sparkasse zu Lübeck 2025 Founder Award is entering the hot phase!
All applicants submitted a short video in which they present their business idea in just one minute.

Your vote counts: The video with the most likes on YouTube will receive additional points for the jury evaluation.

Voting ends on October 14, 2025, 11:59 p.m.

Video overview

You can watch all videos here. Click on “Vote now on YouTube” to go directly to YouTube and give your favorite a Like.

SoftSocket revolutionizes the prosthetic industry with a self-fitting, lightweight and cost-effective socket. The solution offers maximum comfort and accessibility and eliminates the need for frequent service visits – for an independent, active life.

HLOX – Development, production and trade of equipment for the safe shutdown of energy sources during maintenance and servicing activities to prevent unintentional restarting of a machine.

Cyberflight is developing a fully autonomous, electric eVTOL with eight tiltable motors for safe, quiet and emission-free flight. With minimal operating costs, a long range and flexible deployment options, it connects cities, rural regions and hard-to-reach places. The aim is to make air mobility accessible to everyone – fast, environmentally friendly and pilotless, ready for use anytime, anywhere.

With femCycle, we are developing a medical app to combat menstrual cramps so that those affected can reduce their symptoms independently and improve their medical treatment.

AuraVention Technologies UG (i.G.) is developing LUVY, a browser-based platform that enables STEM students to create 3D projects easily, collaboratively and without complex software installations. This significantly facilitates access to 3D development and enables collaborative work in real time – an innovative approach in a rapidly growing 3D technology market.

vJourney enables people who can no longer travel to experience real 360-degree travel experiences with virtual reality glasses. The glasses are pre-installed, ready for immediate use and work without the need for internet or prior technical knowledge. The target groups are care facilities, clinics and private individuals. Virtual travel increases joie de vivre, awakens memories and promotes social participation, thus combining tourism and health in an innovative way.

NARRIVO is an AI-powered text adventure that revolutionizes classic pen & paper role-playing games with modern technology. The app combines text-to-speech (TTS), speech-to-text (STT) and dynamic 3D audio for an immersive storytelling experience. While the market is dominated by classic text adventures, NARRIVO sets itself apart with AI-generated stories, real-time 3D audio and authentic dice mechanics.

CARDIO-RT is an intelligent software platform for stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation (STAR). It enables the fast and precise creation of radiotherapy plans, standardizes target definition and thus increases accuracy, consistency and efficiency in clinical work. Thanks to its manufacturer-independent architecture, CARDIO-RT can be flexibly integrated into various clinical environments. The platform has already been tested in international studies and supports clinics worldwide in their treatment. The aim is to obtain approval as a CE-compliant medical device and enter the market with a license- and usage-based business model that benefits patients, clinics and payers alike.

CANSY is a web application for sustainable communication training. Traditional courses often fail when it comes to transferring them into everyday life – practice, reflection and feedback are missing. CANSY closes this gap: Trainees can upload audio files, record live conversations or practise with an AI avatar. Analyses, transcripts and visual feedback support development. The result is scalable, individualized training – an advantage for both trainers and companies.

Campus Möbius offers practical and interactive support courses for particularly interested and talented schoolgirls, whose needs are often neglected in everyday school life. The offer is supplemented by study orientation, individual coaching and workshops for adults. The special feature: The courses mainly take place online and are run by highly qualified academics and experts from the business world. Thanks to flexible scalability, low financial risks and a clear growth strategy, Campus Möbius aims to expand sustainably from 2026 and thus close an important educational gap.

GoodLoop Eco-Dish transforms naturally fallen leaves into sustainable plates with an edible wax coating and embedded seeds. After use, they can be composted or planted and germinate into new trees. In addition, edible cups can be enjoyed without waste. This creates a closed cycle: Nature becomes product, product becomes nature again

Triple Acoustics develops and produces innovative accessories and diagnostic solutions in Lübeck, the center of German hearing acoustics. The portfolio includes stethoscopes, microphones, drying stations, otoscopes and measuring systems that make everyday life easier for acousticians, doctors and hearing aid users. Through in-house development, 3D printing and PCB production, the company combines medical technology, electronics and practical innovation directly at the industry’s most important location.