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About Startup World Cup Luxembourg
Startup World Cup is a global series of conferences and competitions with the goal of connecting startup ecosystems worldwide and encouraging the most talented entrepreneurs to battle for the prestige of winning the Startup World Cup and a US$1 million prize in investment.
The competition comprises three phases: the regional finals (more than 100 regional competitions are scheduled all over the world); a semi-final and the Grand Finale, both held in San Francisco.
The Luxembourg regional competition is hosted at the EY offices. Through this event, EY Luxembourg and its collaboration partners aim to foster local innovation by bringing a distinguished startup ecosystem together, giving Luxembourg startups exposure and access to some of the top VCs and tech entrepreneurs in the world.
On event day, 10 startups, pre-selected by our collaboration partners, pitch in front of a jury composed of leading investors and serial entrepreneurs.
The winner of this regional pitching competition represents Luxembourg in the next stages of the competition in San Francisco and is in for a chance to win a US$ 1 million prize in investment.
Winner of 2025
Exobiosphere won the regional final in Luxembourg and secured their spot at the at the grand finals in San Francisco to pitch their ambition to send pharmaceutical research to space.
As a pioneering Contract Research Organization (CRO), Exobiosphere stands at the intersection of biotechnology and space exploration, aiming to leverage microgravity-based disease modeling with high-throughput testing to bring faster, more efficient, and cost-effective solutions in drug discovery.
Our 10 finalists for 2025
Winner of 2024
Videobot won the Luxembourg competition Startup World Cup. The company specializes in creating personalized interactive video content with the help of AI.
“This win is significant not just for me but for our entire team of 25 people. It validates our efforts and energizes us to keep pushing forward. We are incredibly ambitious, and now we have our sights set on San Francisco. We aim to not only compete but to win the biggest trophy,” says Matias Mäenpää, co-founder of Videobot.
Winner of 2023
Circu Li-ion was co-founded in 2021 by Antoine Welter and Dr Xavier Kohll. It is a European cleantech start-up aiming to maximize the lifecycle of each lithium-ion cell by developing solutions to create an ecosystem of reuse for lithium batteries on an industrial scale.
The business works toward the upcycling of a large numbers of batteries, giving them a second life thanks to a fully automated procedure, result of a universal disassembly method saving up to 48% CO2 emissions.
Winner of 2022
ANote Music was founded by Marzio F. Schena, Matteo Cernuschi and Grégoire Mathonet in January 2018 in Luxembourg, and became part of our EYnovation program. To this day, the total amount raised by the company stands at over € 1.5 million.
ANote Music’s mission is to ‘bridge the gap between music and finance, creating an accessible platform for music investment, through continual innovation, user first technology, and a love for music.’
Co-organizer of the rehearsal pitch event
