The best encounters, ideas, and collaborations often truly unfold after the hustle and bustle of the trade fair. ✨
At the IMPACT FESTIVAL 2025, it became evident once again what sustainable transformation truly needs: exchange, bold decisions – and places where people from business, startups, politics, and the ecosystem truly come together.
More than 4,000 participants, 229 exhibitors, 284 speakers, and 46 masterclasses – and most importantly: countless conversations that are now being continued.
A huge thank you to Startup Hessen for the idea and implementation of the joint stand – this “together instead of side-by-side” approach gave the Hessian ecosystem a stage that was both seen and felt. 💛
And likewise: thank you to the Creative Industries of the Frankfurt Economic Development Agency, which brought together Frankfurt’s impact founders – this is exactly how cross-innovation emerges: across industries, perspectives, and career paths.
🌍 The strongest signal: Every ecosystem partner could bring innovative impact startups – and it’s precisely this diversity that makes Hessen (and Frankfurt) so compelling.
🚀 Our Compass Startups on site (and yes: we are proud!):
- Peter Rappl – PENGUINBIO
- Felicia Isabell Fischer – Human Insight
- Ersin Kozak & Stefano Invidia – AgriVoltX
- Senayt Kesete – MainBaumWächter
- Iwan Laumann – IWAND
And congratulations to all the awarded teams – including PFLANZENTHEKE GmbH, Impact Award 2025 (category “solution”). 🌱
What remains? Contacts, concrete starting points, new collaborations – and this feeling: We are many. And we are serious.
Impact is not an event. Impact is a process. And it continues. 🔁
Well done and greetings to everyone who was there and made this spirit possible: Kompass Frankfurt, Female Founder Alliance (Carolin Wagner), Futury, HUB31 – Technology and Founder Center Darmstadt, StartMiUp, cesah GmbH – Center for Satellite Navigation Hessen, business angels frm, Wirtschafts- und Infrastrukturbank Hessen (WIBank), House of Energy e.V., TIGZ Technology, Innovation and Start-Up Center GmbH, Hessen Ideen, Hessischer Gründerpreis, Science Park Kassel GmbH, Wirtschaftsförderung Wiesbaden, Wirtschaftsförderung Frankfurt am Main, Heimathafen and hessian.AI.
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Thanks to Melina Johannsen and Nina Blaß from forstory for the great photos.
