
Winners, categories & highlights of the award ceremony
The Startup Association has presented the German Startup Awards 2026 in Berlin. An overview of all the winners from the Founder, Investor, Newcomer and Impact categories.

Every year, Deutsche Messe honors a female expert from the STEM sector with the Engineer Woman Award. Through her commitment, her ideas or her work, she should have set innovative accents in the technical environment of a company.

With the Industry 4.0 Award, the management consultancy ROI-EFESO has established an industry benchmark. Every year, it recognizes companies that are pioneering smart factories for German industry. This year, Rittal wins the "Industry 4.0 Award 2022" for the digitalization of production at the Haiger plant with its sister company German Edge Cloud.
Innovative, marketable and of great benefit: This is what characterizes the submissions for the competition. The participants compete in six categories for the INDUSTRIAL Production trophies for the top three winners.

Igus honored the most impressive applications with the Vector Award 2022 in Hanover.
INDUSTRIAL Production handling award 2021

The jury has announced the winners in the four competition categories. The winners will find out their exact place at the awards ceremony.

This year, the Garant brand from the Hoffmann Group has once again won a prize at the renowned iF Design Award.

Award of the Industry-Era-Magazine
Proxia Software was honored with Industry Era Magazine's annual international award for "10 Best Shop Floor Management Solution Providers of 2021".
The 2021 "Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics & Automation" (IERA) goes to ABB with PixelPaint.

Festo's AI solution "Intelligent pneumatic runtime monitoring" was honored at the "AI Champions Baden-Württemberg" award ceremony of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor and Housing.
Endress+Hauser was named "Company of the Year 2020" by market research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan based on its market analysis for liquid analyzers.