15th & 16th of May
Maribor, Slovenia
Friday, May 12, 2017

The winner of PODIM Challenge is start-up Genialis!

Genialis builds software that empowers scientists to autonomously interact with biological data through Real-Time Interactive Visualization technology, which provides an unprecedented level of life scientist user engagement with data.
 
The investment part with the PODIM Challenge pitching competition concluded this year's PODIM Conference, the largest and most important conference in the Alps-Adriatic region.


This year’s main prize for the PODIM Challenge winner is an all-inclusive one-week business trip to the Silicon Valley with a networking programme, organized by the ABC Accelerator in the total value of 10,000 EUR.
 
The jury, consisting of the representatives of Slovenian Business Angels Club, RSG Kapital, Start:up Slovenia initiative, CorpoHub, DsgFwd Accelarator and Mr. Julien Coustary has reviewed 96 applications and after hearing the pitches of 20 semi-finalists chose 5 top startups for the finals of PODIM Challenge. The jury of investors chose the winner of the PODIM  after hearing the start-ups' final 3-minute presentations.