The Start-up BW Summit is the highlight event of Start-up BW – the start-up initiative of the state of Baden-Württemberg. At the Start-up BW Summit, start-ups, accelerators and ecosystems, corporates and SMEs, VCs and business angels from Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe and the world meet to pitch, network and exchange ideas. In addition to the exhibition areas for start-ups and start-up ecosystems, AI initiatives and companies, the Start-up BW Summit offers a VC lounge for investment talks as well as a pitch competition and a varied conference program.

The main focus of this year’s Start-up BW Summit is the topic of artificial intelligence and is organized in cooperation with the Tübingen AI Centre, one of the six national AI competence centers in Germany. The event will take place at the Landesmesse Stuttgart.

Date: 30. September 2022

Location: Landesmesse Stuttgart

Link: Start-up BW Summit 2022 (startupbw.de)

Seven Israeli companies will exhibit at the fair. Are you interested in meeting with them? Don’t hesitate to get in touch!

• GigaSpaces

GigaSpaces is building on its in-memory computing and operational data store technologies to offer one of the market’s first Digital Integration Hubs (DIH), an out-of-the-box solution that simplifies organizations’ digital transformation, while drastically lowering legacy systems’ TCO. Whether you need to accelerate one application with cache, or modernize your entire architecture with a Digital Integration Hub, the GigaSpaces in-memory data platform can future-proof your investment. Never before has it been this straightforward to accelerate API-powered digital applications to transform user engagement, legacy modernization, and ‘Customer-360’ software infrastructure projects. Smart DIH is part of the GigaSpaces Smart suite of products, alongside the award-winning Smart Cache solution.

• Semperis

For security teams charged with defending hybrid and multi-cloud environments, Semperis ensures the integrity and availability of critical enterprise directory services at every step in the cyber kill chain and cuts recovery time by 90%. Purpose-built for securing hybrid Active Directory environments, Semperis’ patented technology protects over 50 million identities from cyberattacks, data breaches, and operational errors. The world’s leading organizations trust Semperis to spot directory vulnerabilities, intercept cyberattacks in progress, and quickly recover from ransomware and other data integrity emergencies.

• RevealSecurity

RevealSecurity detects malicious insiders and imposters by monitoring user journeys in enterprise applications. Powered by the unique clustering engine, RevealSecurity is ubiquitous, thereby detecting threats which originate from SaaS and custom-built applications. It protects enterprise organizations against cases in which either an authenticated user is taking advantage of permissions to abuse or misuse an application, or when an impersonator successfully bypasses authentication mechanisms and poses as a legitimate user. Tracking user journeys within applications does not rely on solution-specific rules, and is instead based on an advanced unsupervised machine learning algorithm to detect abnormal journeys which reflect abuse, misuse and malicious activities.

• NoviSign

Novisign digital signage is a cloud-based software platform that enables users to create, manage and broadcast rich, engaging digital content – as easy as drag and drop— at affordable prices. Our vision is to be the gold standard broadcast platform enabling SMBs’ to broadcast their message in their own businesses, creating an open-exchange and local business networks around the world.

• Gloat

Gloat is an industry-leading Workforce Agility Platform that enables businesses to move like a startup and deliver like an enterprise. Bringing together the world’s first AI-powered Talent Marketplace with rich, dynamic Workforce Intelligence, the Gloat platform empowers businesses to develop and deploy their talent, while continuously understanding and adapting their workforce to changing needs. With Gloat, businesses are ready to navigate change at speed, retain critical skillsets, and design a future-proof workforce.

• ZOOZ Power

The transition to electric vehicles is critical to achieving this goal. But making the EV future a reality today means that we need to overcome significant grid power limitations. ZOOZ’s mission is to introduce innovation that eliminates these limitations and speeds up the EV revolution with complete sustainability today with their pioneering flywheel technology and revolutionary power boosters that enable ultrafast, reliable, and cost-effective EV charging, anywhere.

• GenCell Energy

GenCell Energy GNCL fuel cell solutions offer affordable, clean power for humanity, enabling businesses to Say No to Diesel and render diesel generators obsolete. Using ultra-reliable fuel cell technology that powers spacecraft, the company delivers backup power for utilities, homeland security, healthcare and automated industries. GenCell’s revolutionary process to create hydrogen-on-demand from anhydrous ammonia (NH3) enables their fuel cell solutions to also provide primary power for off-grid and poor-grid sites, as well as rural electrification. GenCell Energy numbers more than 90 employees, including veterans of space and submarine projects.