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The Berlin Newcomer Startup Award Show!
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MEET THE BNSA 2024 FINALISTS!
Discover the innovative startup ideas from our 2024 Berlin Newcomer Startup Award finalists.
By Tapas Dwivedi
Relatable is an app designed to help couples resolve conflicts at home within 30 minutes through AI-guided conversations.
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By Bella Davis-Riemer
Monarch AI is an AI-driven parental control app that proactively detects harmful behaviors like bullying and predatory actions.
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By Ajit Naik
HeidiMed offers "Heidi", an empathetic chatbot that helps seniors manage medications seamlessly via WhatsApp or SMS.
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By Tea Bano
TreeScatter uses AI and remote sensing to create fast and affordable forest inventories.
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By Raymond Miranda
Myhejo is a personalized tool that helps users turn fear into growth through storytelling, coaching, and community support.
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By Kwasi Safo Ayirebi
Information architecture is the art and science of structuring and organizing information
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Public Voting
Who should win the Berlin Newcomer Startup Award? We’re interested to find out which business idea is the most convincing to you as a potential future client, supporter, business partner, or investor. That’s why we invite you to be
a part of our “extended jury”!

Our jury preselects 6 awesome finalists!
You support your favorite by giving them your vote,
sharing the link to their profile with your network –
and in the end making them the winner of
the extra prize of 5.000€ + 2.500€ budget
for coaching / consulting.

Watch out Newcomers: This could be your chance to kickstart your startup!

Do you have an exciting business idea? Or have you just entered the journey of creating your own startup? Did you come to Germany within the last 8 years? Are you now living and working in Berlin? If so, this is a competition for you.

The Berlin Newcomer Startup Award offers you not only the opportunity to work on your concept and get feedback from experienced trainers, jury members, and peers, but also – DRUMROLL – 27.500€ seed capital in total plus individual coaching and support for the winners!

What is in it for you?

We know it’s not all about the prize money. The Berlin Newcomer Startup Award has even more to offer:
Great opportunities
to network – online and offline.
Valuable feedback
on your ideas and plans from experienced entrepreneurs and experts.
Visibility
and the chance to present your (future) business to a larger audience if you are nominated as a finalist.
Our Prizes:
And this is how it works:
Everything you need to know.
Still wondering if this is for you? Take a look at our FAQs and read the conditions for participation

MEET THE 2024 JURY!

We’re excited to announce that we’ve received dozens of diverse, creative, and innovative applications for the Berlin Newcomer Startup Award! 🎉 Now, it’s time to dive into the selection process. We’ve assembled a diverse jury with expertise in entrepreneurship, investment, and government initiatives to ensure a well-rounded evaluation. 🌟

Peter is an Investment Director at Impact Partners, managing €350M in assets and investing in social impact businesses across Europe.
Viktoria is the CEO of Avant Now, an impact hub supporting tech solutions for societal challenges, with a focus on helping founders overcome barriers.
Mihri is the co-founder of beams, a Work Intelligence Platform to help companies reduce SaaS costs, and winner of the Berlin Newcomer Startup Award 2021.
Norbert has led startup initiatives for the Berlin Government since 2017, developing the Berlin Startup Agenda to promote impact startups, diversity, and inclusion.
Evaluation Criteria

Evaluating the entrepreneurs’ business ideas, analyzing potentials, and deciding which (future) businesses should win the big prize is not an easy task – but our expert jurors like a little challenge!


As a team with diverse backgrounds and expertise, they not only pre-select the six finalists to compete for the public voting prize, but also evaluate their live pitches at the final award show.


Decisions on the winners of the 3 main prizes are based on the following criteria:

  • degree of innovation of product or service solution
  • clear understanding of and attractiveness for a target group
  • competition in the market
  • feasibility
  • business model
  • entrepreneur / team and network
  • business responsibility
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SINGA Berlin
SINGA Berlin was founded in 2016. We are devoted to creating meaningful connections between locals and newcomers. Our portfolio includes programs with focus on entrepreneurship and the working field like Business Lab by SINGA, Inclusive Entrepreneurship, Kompetenzwerkstatt, Perspektive neuStart where SINGA Business Lab is one of the initiators. We are also proud of our successfully completed project Integration neu denken. Building up on the experiences, approaches, methods and networks from it, we created a new, international project: Shaping Inclusive Societies. Our activities are taking place in Berlin and the surrounding area. At the same time we support organizations and initiatives all over Germany in implementing innovative projects that lead towards an inclusive society.
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City of Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises
The state office for development cooperation – as part of the Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises – coordinates Berlin´s development cooperation activities. It supports NGOs, universities and other stakeholders in achieving the sustainable development goals, supporting human rights and working for global justice.

“We support the Berlin Newcomer Startup Award because we believe in the power of people from all over the world in finding innovative solutions for a better world!”
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