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BE PART OF THE FUTURE
Come and watch together the emerging startups compete among the international contestants from 11 universities in the Danube Cup 2025 Final in Budapest.
Danube Cup 2025 Timeline
- Application deadline - DC '25 Int'l
- DC '25 Semi-final (online)
- DC '25 Int'l Final at Budapest
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DC '25 Hungarian Final competition
- Finalists notification for DC '25 HUN Final
- Application deadline - DC '25 HUN Final
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30 April 2025
- 5 May 2025
- 22-24 May, 2025
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10 April, 2025
- 7 April, 2025
- 4 April, 2025
How to Apply?
Interested? We’d love to see you pitch! We request all applicants to submit a short video via our website in English that gives us a sense of who you are and how your solution would be propelling the future of the world. Video submissions should cover the following points in max. 3 minutes:
Your startup’s value proposition
Problem(s) your product and/or service is solving
The validation you have already conducted: process and results: significant insights, surprising, and pivot you decided consequently
Why your startup is a good fit for the Danube Cup 2025 International Entrepreneurial Pitch Competition for University Students along the Danube
PITCH DECK REQUIREMENT
– The Why (outlining the problem) – USP/UBR (what differentiates you from existing solutions?
– The What (proposed solution/service…) what make you stand out?)
– The How (business model) – The Who? (team)
– The Where (market [size] & competition) – Timeline & Financials
– The Why (outlining the problem) – USP/UBR (what differentiates you from existing solutions?
– The What (proposed solution/service…) what make you stand out?)
– The How (business model) – The Who? (team)
– The Where (market [size] & competition) – Timeline & Financials
Questions may also be sent to: info@danubecup.eu
What to expect at the final?
- Competition Finalists are expected to prepare a presentation showcasing the company’s innovative solution, idea, and/or technology. Finalists will pitch in English.
- Pitch time will be 3 minutes. At the end of the pitch, the panel of judges will be provided additional time for Q&A.
- Finalists will be assessed by a panel of judges consisting of acclaimed academics and industry professionals, and the results will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Closing Session on the same day.
Competition Eligibility for Danube Cup 2025
To be eligible, teams must meet the following requirements:
Validation: We are looking for teams that have already performed validation research for their ideas, at least locally. This event is not an idea competition. The applicants must have started validating the business idea among potential customers, the product must be innovative and enjoy a growth potential independently of local market trends as far as possible.
Team size: Teams must have at least two, maximum five total members. Participants can only be a member of one team.
Student teams: Teams may contain non-university member participants. However, the majority of the team members should be registered as a student at one of the participating university. A “registered student” is a student who has been accepted into a degree program at respected Unviersity and is working toward the completion of that degree by taking at least one course in the 2024/25 academic year.
Fresh project: Teams must present an original idea for an enterprise that has not existed before 2025. Teams must be in a “pre-incubator” form and must not have received financial backing by professional third-party business angels or venture capitalists.
GRADIENT, ONLYPASS, ARPORTHUNGARY,
Congratulations to the winners of the Danube Cup Hungary 2025 competition, organised by Corvinus university of Budapest, on the 10th April 2025.
We are also honored to welcome Serpentrace, Tennismate, Layeredsteel startup teams selected by the jury to compete in the international Semi-final and Final of the Danube Cup 2025 international competition
ARPort Hungary – 1st place
Onlypass – 2nd place
Gradient – 3rd place
DANUBE CUP HUNGARIAN FINAL 10 APRIL 2025 HOSTED AT GELLERT CAMPUS AUDITORIUM BY CORVINUS UNIVERSITY OF BUDAPEST
The Danube Cup pitch competition was created for students from BME and BCE in 2016. Since then we have grown into an international competition with several rounds.
Danube Cup is a competition of validated ideas, so it’s not enough to have an idea. Do market research to make sure your idea has market potential.
Our past
Danube Cup 2022 Hungarian Final összefoglaló
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Danube Cup 2021 összefoglaló
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Startup Maffia: Benke Hunor beszélget Danyi Pállal, Dehelán Gáborral és Kövesdi Áronnal
Európai szintű, a hallgatói innovációt segítő kezdeményezést hoztunk létre