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Accelerate Pitch Contest

Elevator Pitch Contest at Accelerate@HHL

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Our Elevator Pitch Contest will take place again at Accelerate 2021!
This year in an online format. Three Startups are going to pitch their business idea/ start-up for 90 seconds in front of a renowned jury and have the chance to win 1,000 EUR prize.
Use this opportunity to get in touch with some of the most successful Venture Capitalists of Germany!

Pitch Contest HHL Leipzig

Submission Deadline - 24th April

Premium Pitch Jury

Dirk Frohnert

Co-Founder & General Partner at Smart Infrastructure Ventures

Tina Dreimann

Founder @ better venture

Márton Sarkady Nagy

VC at Visionaries Club & Growth at TIER

Pitch Contest:

    • Everyone with a startup idea or an already young startup can participate
    • The prize money is 1000 EUR
    • Either provide a five-page slide deck or a 90sec elevator pitch video. (We must say that we love videos!)
    • Accelerate@HHL selects 3 Contestants for the Final
    • During the Final, contestants have to pitch and defend their idea/startup in front of a VC jury and a live audience

Your Pitch:

    1. The attention-grabbing line to draw us in
    2. A description of your idea/startup
    3. For who is it? Who is your target market?
    4. Why are you/ the team the right to realise it?

Time Table - Pitch Contest

24th February 2021 Start of the Submission
Submission Opening

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

24th April 2021 Deadline for the Submission
Submission Deadline

Please provide us with your pitch deck/video

2 Days Internal Review
Internal Review

We are going to review every pitch deck/video with an internal jury to announce the 3 contestants for the final pitch contest

26nd April 2021 Announcement
Announcement of the 3 contestants

We are going to announce the 3 contestants that will be in the Final

30th April 2021 Pitch Contest Final
Final & Annoncement of Winner

We are looking forward to the exciting Final. The winner will be determined by a professional jury and announced afterwards