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Apply by February 4th
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Our Journey
Apply now
Feb 4
Feb 4
Apply now
Apply promptly, as applications are reviewed continuously during the application period
10-day Challenge
March 10
March 10
10-Day Challenge
Collaborate with ABB experts to uncover new business opportunities, fully equipped with insights from pre-coaching webinars
Finalists Selection
March 21
March 21
Finalists Selection
Selection of startups who will compete in the Grand Finale
Grand Finale
April 9-10
April 9-10
in Bilbao
Grand Finale
Final pitching event and award ceremony featuring ABB's top executives, marking the beginning of a new business journey
Collaboration
May-Oct
May-Oct
Collaboration
Continued development and collaboration with the winners
Go-to-market
Q4, 2025
Q4, 2025
Joint go-to-market and exploration of growth opportunities
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Winners Package
Exclusive access to Energy Tech Summit, April 9-10, 2025 in Bilbao, Spain
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Complimentary tickets for all finalists to attend Europe's largest Climate Tech conference
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Exclusive ABB Boot Access for all finalists, providing the opportunity to showcase their startup to potential customers, partners and investors
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Did you know?
ABB's startup challenges have a 100% MVP hit rate and 30% of all solutions have been commercelized.
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Hear from our Alumni
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Winner 2022:
"ABB has been a great partner to work with, the speed with which they been able to operate and the engagement with us at all levels has been really incredible."
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Winner 2021:
"The challenge was a really important stepping-stone in the development of the company and the product."
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Challenge highlights 2024
Summing up the 2024 challenge
Watch the whole journey
Last year's winner
Listen to the podcast for insights
Press release abb.com
Read the official statements after the 2024 startup challenge
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ABB Startup Challenge 2025
Hosted by ABB & SynerLeap, Partnered by Microsoft
ABB
Helping industries become leaner and cleaner. ABB is a global technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and re-source-efficient future. By connecting its engineering and digitalization expertise, ABB helps industries run at high performance, while becoming more efficient, productive and sustainable so they outperform. At ABB, we call this ‘Engineered to Outrun’. The company has over 140 years of history and more than 105,000 employees worldwide.
www.abb.com
SynerLeap powered by ABB
By bringing startups, ABB, industrial partners and our customers together through our innovation growth hub SynerLeap, we ignite innovation transfer across industries, ranging from industrial automation, and robotics to grid technologies, smart cities, buildings and transportation technologies. So far we have created more than 260 collaborations, together with our 240 startup members from 26 countries. SynerLeap brings in up to 4 new members monthly, and one new ABB collaboration is starting every week. Sandvik, Microsoft, Hitachi Energy and IBM are just a few examples of our partners that together bring value into our entrepreneurial ecosystem. We are open to international members!
www.synerleap.com
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft)
Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. With the dedicated Microsoft for Startups Program, Microsoft helps cloud-based startups with a B2B focus growand scale through a global ecosystem of customers and partners. The focus is on building a long-term partnership with the startup, while ensuring thatintellectual property is always owned by the inventors and founders.
www.microsoft.com/startups
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