Meet the DDX Award 2024 Nominated Startups

Meet the 10 Nominated Startups for the DDX Award

The DDX Awards 2024 spotlights digital innovation and user-focused design. This year, 10 startups will compete for the awards, pitching their ideas to a jury of investors and experts from UnternehmerTUM, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and others. They are judged on innovation, design quality, and positive impact. This event is a unique platform for startups to showcase creativity and connect with industry leaders.

The DDX Conference is on May 11 in Munich, Germany. This one-day event includes startup pitches, expert talks, and workshops. Attendees can network with over 300 designers, strategists, and product managers, creating a lively setting for innovation and knowledge sharing.

Startup World Cup

Startup World Cup (by Pegasus Tech Ventures) is dedicated to launch the world's next wave of leading entrepreneurs. DDX Munich 2024 will host the Qualification Event for Germany & DACH region.

DDX Awards

The DDX Awards recognize the best startups on digital innovation and user experience

Atopia: The Metaverse for Arts & Culture

Existing digital offerings, such as two-dimensional, one-way media (e.g. a concert video) rarely become real experiences. Atopia revolutionizes this by crafting social, immersive virtual spaces where users can explore museums, galleries, and music performances from the comfort of their homes, making cultural experiences accessible to all.

Cre[ai]tion: Discover the Unseen

Design consists of many repetitive tasks, but Cre[ai]tion tackles this by offering a tool that is closely aligned with designers' workflows through an interactive AI-based platform, fostering creativity for designers, creators, and artists. The feed dynamically adjusts to users' needs, providing creators with tailor-made design suggestions - providing a digital designer’s muse.

HEIDI: The City at Your Fingertips

There is too much information in too many places. HEIDI, an open source platform for digital citizen services, bundles this information and makes it visible using AI. Citizens can easily take part in surveys, find out about their surroundings and upload their own entries. The whole city in your pocket! 

PHONT: As Diverse as Language Itself

Subtitles don't convey how something is being spoken but only what. PHONT solves this by making subtitles emotional. Through integrating AI-driven emotion recognition combined with with dynamic and tested design, PHONT delivers a more inclusive and immersive media experience. 

Raily: Meets on the Move

Finding like-minded individuals for friendship, business, and shared experiences can be challenging. Raily, a social travel hub designed specifically for travelers, addresses this need with the integration of AI, AR, and gamification that enhances the travel journey and allows users to earn exclusive NFTs and cashback while connecting with fellow travelers. 

Suitcase: Dispute Resolution Made Easy

Suitcase provides a digital platform to settle legal disputes outside court within a few days for a fraction of cost, bypassing the lengthy and costly traditional court process. By offering accessible and timely legal solutions tailored to each case, Suitcase makes legal recourse affordable and straightforward for all. 

Swifty: Auto-GPT for Travel Business

Swifty is an AI business travel agent that solves the problem of long and fragmented business trip arrangements for SMEs. With Swifty, travelers can book their entire trip in just 5 minutes, including planning, booking, payment, and invoicing—all within the natural language interface. 

Syte: Transforming Real Estate at Scale

Syte, an innovative platform for the building stock, revolutionizes the real estate industry through AI, optimizing management and renovation for efficiency, profitability and sustainability. With real-time data analytics, Syte empowers real estate developers, investors, and architects to uncover the full building potential and energy efficiency within seconds. 

Zario: Digital Mindfulness Coach to Reduce Screen Time

Zario is driven by the mission to help users live a digitally balanced life. The goal is to reduce and replace undesired screen time and cultivate healthy habits through psychology-backed concepts and gamified challenges. Zario focuses on empowering individuals to take conscious action to replace unhealthy screen time habits.

Zaubar: Time Travel Made Possible with AR

ZAUBAR tackles the gap in digital innovation within physical venues by offering a generative AI-powered SaaS platform for easy AR content creation that turns existing multimedia content into an interactive experience. This solution enhances customer engagement and reduces 3D content production costs