Call for Ideas: Impact Pitch Night

The Impact Factory provides intensive support to help you turn your vision into reality – from idea validation to market entry! The upcoming incubator program runs for six months starting in December 2025. Anthropia will award one of the final teams from Impact Pitch Night an exclusive place in the incubator's selection camp, allowing you to skip the first stages of the regular application process.

You should address the following aspects in your pitch deck. Depending on the stage of development of your idea, it may not yet be possible to describe every individual point in detail. Nevertheless, try to be as specific as possible (without exaggerating).

The order of the individual areas is not predetermined.

• Problem
• Solution
• Presentation of product/service
• Target group
• Market and competition
• USP
• Business model and financing
• Marketing and sales
• Team
• Sustainability/impact
• Milestones and outlook (vision)

Conditions for participation

• Persons with a start-up idea and those who have already founded a start-up are eligible to participate. The company must not have been founded before August 2024. The date of business registration is decisive. Participation is possible for both individuals and start-up teams.
• Regional relevance: At least one person in the start-up team must be resident in the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg region. Alternatively, the submitted idea must have a specific connection to the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg region. The Bonn-Rhine-Sieg region includes the city of Bonn and the towns and municipalities of the Rhein-Sieg district (Alfter, Bad Honnef, Bornheim, Eitorf, Hennef (Sieg), Königswinter, Lohmar, Meckenheim, Much, Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Niederkassel, Rheinbach, Ruppichteroth, Sankt Augustin, Siegburg, Swisttal, Troisdorf, Wachtberg, Windeck).
• All start-up ideas formally received in full by 11.59 p.m. on 12 October 2025 will be considered. Documents that are submitted in addition to the pitch deck and the application form cannot be considered in the evaluation.
• The idea must have been developed independently by the founding team and must not infringe the rights of third parties.
• The organisers reserve the right to change the advertised prizes for organisational reasons. There is no entitlement to a specific prize. In the absence of prize-worthy ideas and contributions, no prizes will be awarded.
• The organisers reserve the right to change the conditions of participation or to terminate the competition at any time, even without prior notice.
• The participants indemnify the organisers against all conceivable claims by third parties that could be derived from any infringement of copyrights, statutory property rights, trade secrets and other rights by the submitted documents.
• Organiser: The Impact Pitch Night is a regional ideas competition organised by Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (Start-up-Manufaktur), Alanus University and the University of Bonn (Transfer Center enaCom) in the SoNaR project.

Protection of ideas and data protection 

• The organisers will not pass on the personal data of participants to unauthorised third parties. The following personal data will be processed for the ideas competition and can only be viewed and processed by authorised persons:
  • Surname, first name
  • E-mail address
  • Telephone number
  • Date of business registration/name of company
• The start-up ideas submitted are subject to copyright protection. Documents provided by the participants will be treated confidentially by the organisers, in particular by all jury members involved, and will be used exclusively for the purpose of holding the start-up competition. They will be deleted at the end of the competition. There is no right to return the submitted documents.
• Participating start-up teams that qualify for the Impact Pitch Night agree, by submitting their entry, to present their idea at the final event and agree that the organisers may create, reproduce and publish images and video recordings of the participants in print and audiovisual media for information and documentation purposes. Specifically, publication on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bluesky, on the websites and newsletters of the organising universities is planned.
• By participating in the competition, participants expressly agree to the conditions of participation.