EUROPEAN SUPPLY CHAIN START-UP CONTEST 2025

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 Get ready for the European Supply Chain Start-up Contest 2025!

 The boldest innovators in European supply chain showcase their ideas and solutions. This annual competition is a platform for emerging startups to demonstrate their potential to revolutionize the industry.

This year the contestants are:

 Finalists 2025

The finalists of the European Supply Chain Start-up Contest 2025 will be announced soon!

Jury assessment

This year, the jury consists of Mathias Bosse (co-founder of Prequel Ventures), Ella Cullen (co-founder and SMO of Minespider),  Ulrich Schmid (Principal and supply chain-expert at Oliver Wyman), Willem Poerink (Invest Manager at Shift Invest) and Martijn Lofvers (CEO & Chief Trendwatcher at Supply Chain Media, also serving as jury chair). The jury will evaluate the finalists based on the commercial potential of the presented solutions, the level of innovation, practical applicability, and the clarity of the presentation.

Attendees of inNOWvate Supply Chain Event cast their vote for their favourite finalist on-site on the 14th of May. Join us at the event and support your preferred chosen start-up by purchasing a ticket today!

Mathias Bosse

As a founding partner of Prequel Ventures and co-founder of scm-startups.com, Mathias helps businesses navigate the supply chain innovation landscape, access cutting-edge technology, and achieve digital transformation. With over a decade in venture capital and start-ups, he has worked with more than 20 portfolio companies, including PreWave and PreSize (acquired by Meta). With a background in logistics and finance, holding an MBA from HHL Graduate School of Management and a CFA charter, Mathias combines deep industry knowledge with investment expertise to support the next generation of supply chain innovators.

Ella Cullen

Recognised as Young Female Miner of the Year 2024 and one of the 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining (WIM100) in 2022, Ella is a mentor at CV Labs and DLT Talents and contributes as a UNECE expert in blockchain traceability. She is also the founder of TokenWoman.io, a platform highlighting top female speakers in Web3. Passionate about decentralised systems and governance, she frequently speaks on blockchain traceability, sustainability, and female entrepreneurship.

Willem Poerink

Willem feels a strong personal commitment to bring sustainable innovation to the transport & logistics sector. He combines his entrepreneurial spirit with analytical skills to support entrepreneurs in reaching their goals. Willem has a background in Business Economics & Law, worked in strategy consultancy and lead a startup for Rocket Internet before joining NBI.

Ulrich Schmid

Ulrich Schmid is a Principal at Oliver Wyman in Munich, where he advises leading logistics companies, distributors, and the logistics functions of consumer goods firms across Europe. His work focuses on post-deal value creation by improving operations and logistics networks, and using data to enhance service and efficiency.

Martijn Lofvers

Martijn Lofvers is founder of Supply Chain Media and Chief Trendwatcher of the Dutch Supply Chain Magazine (since 2006) and the European quarterly Supply Chain Movement (since 2011). He is a frequent speaker on the topic of Supply Chain Strategy Mindmapping at international conferences and has conducted internal workshops on this subject for well-known multinationals. In addition to mind maps, he has developed various concepts for visualising complex topics, such as metro maps (with suppliers), roadmaps, and the Trend Compass. He studied business administration at Eindhoven University of Technology, specialising in supply chain management.

Throwback 2024 edition Start-up & Scale-up Contest

Hamburg-based Gryn wins European supply chain start-up contest 2024, Digilo most promising supply chain scale-up.

German start-up Gryn is the winner of the seventh European Supply Chain Start-up Contest during the inNOWvate Supply Chain Event in Amsterdam on 22 May 2024. Supply Chain Media has organised this contest annually since 2018 to give start-ups a stage, literally and figuratively. During the event at Pathé cinema complex, Gryn convinced the expert jury and participants with an automated solution for collecting CO2 emissions in the supply chain. 

In addition to the start-up contest, three scale-ups also pitched for winning the audience award at the inNOWvate Supply Chain Event. German scale-up Digilo, represented by Managing Director Nicolas Lassal (pictured, left) received the majority of audience votes for its solution to support employees in a warehouse with smart technology solutions – cameras and tags, for example – in manual processes such as order picking.

Recordings

More recordings of previous editions of inNOWvate Supply Chain Event are available on the YouTube channel of Supply Chain Movement: