#Idtx

June 4-5, 2025

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PROGRAM

The #IDTX is the meeting place for the startup community. The event is an opportunity to network and exchange experiences with other founders, potential partners and contacts from science, business and politics.

June 4 | pitch Day

Innovations | Investments | Community

FORENOON

Founders meet Investors meet Explorers: Around 50 start-ups and growth companies present their innovative business models in search of the next funding or the next cooperation.

On the morning of the first day of the event, selected investors and growth companies will meet at an exclusive Investors’ Breakfast at the Gartenbaum Museum in Egapark. The subsequent pitches by the growth companies will provide the basis for an exchange on pioneering technologies from Thuringia and investment opportunities in excellent teams.

Focus: Late-Seed and Series A

AFTERNOON

The afternoon on the Petersberg is open to all innovation enthusiasts and explorers and puts the spotlight on innovative start-ups and early-stage projects.

The startups pitch their business concepts live on stage in front of investors and the assembled innovation community. Experience how founders strive for the next investment to bring their innovative business model to the market. VC investors, business angels and co. vote in the jury. Which startup has the greatest potential to shape the future with its innovation? As part of the audience, you are also in demand. The most convincing pitches will receive one of the Pitch Awards combined with prize money and other benefits that will further advance the startups. In the innovation arena, the pitchers and other start-ups with their innovations are ready to exchange ideas. Be inspired, test prototypes and discover trends and technologies.

Focus: Pre-seed and seed

Gartenbau Museum
09:00-13:00

St. Peter's Church
13:00-22:00

17:25

Networking & Innovation Arena

June 5 | INTERNATIONAL DAY

Connect Innovative Entrepreneurs

#IDTX goes international: This year, the Investor Days Thuringia are cooperating with the Enterprise Europe Network Thuringia and Thuringia International at the State Development Corporation of Thuringia. This gives Thuringian scale-ups and companies the opportunity to drive forward their internationalization.

Network with companies from South Africa, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Germany and strengthen your position in international markets. Improve your global growth strategy with inspiring keynotes, interactive sessions and networking opportunities.

Selected start-ups can test their business models for megatrends and their impact in a future proof session.

St. Peter's Church
08.30-13:00

09:45

Pitch Sessions & Matchmaking

Petersberg Visitor Center*
13:00-17:00

* This event is only open to selected guests. Registration is not possible.