Saxon Founders’ Award: After the first year, we place in the top 3 in Saxony!

In 2019 we unex­pec­tedly won the Audi­ence Award at the Sax­on Founders’ Award event. At this time we were just a few days before our found­ing. Now, we took anoth­er run at the 20^th anniversary of the Sax­on Founders’ Award in 2020. This year, we wanted to con­vince not only the audi­ence but also the expert jury of the innov­at­ive power of our com­pany and its great mar­ket poten­tial. In fact, we made it into the top 15 in the first round of judging. That was remark­able because there was a record par­ti­cip­a­tion of 126 start-ups vying for the prize. Sub­sequently, FutureSax gave us the oppor­tun­ity to present our idea once again in per­son to the jury. Moreover, we had the chance to shoot an image film.

Then, on July 8, 2020, the Innov­a­tion Con­fer­ence with the award­ing of the top 3 took place. It was an online event for the first time, due to Cov­id-19. Only the nom­in­ated teams were on site. In accord­ance with our patho­lo­gic­ally optim­ist­ic atti­tudes, we took the chance and organ­ized an in-house pub­lic view­ing event on the occa­sion of our first Peer­ox birth­day, with all Peers present.

So while Markus and Andre were watch­ing the award cere­mony by Mar­tin Dulig (Min­is­ter of State for Eco­nomy, Labor and Trans­port of the Free State of Sax­ony) and Mar­ina Hei­mann (Man­aging Dir­ect­or of FutureSax) live at the Dresden Fair, the team of now 11(!) oth­er Peers were pre­par­ing a deli­cious din­ner at our Peero in RoboLab and warm­ing up.

So in dif­fer­ent places, but still togeth­er, we cel­eb­rated our young Peer­ox win­ning the 3^rd place award. Back in the office, every­one cel­eb­rated until late into the night and looked back on the crazy last twelve months. A great first year, a great team, and unbroken curi­os­ity make us look for­ward to the next steps together.