betahaus, your local coworking space of choice, offers you 6 months of deskspace for up to four team members. That means six months of an international community of entrepreneurs, makers and work-life revoluzzers, mentoring by all kinds of experts and feedback from a lot of  experienced folks. Basically, its 6 months of everything you need to take your startup to the next level.

FastBill Fastbill is a flexible allround solution for everyday accounting problems of small enterprises, no matter if freelancer, agency or startup. All accounting tasks and paperwork can easily be mapped and displayed: writing estimates and invoices, sending out bills, monitoring incomes and expenses and recording working hours. The winning team will get a free, year-long membership!

XING is a social software platform for enabling a small-world network for professionals. It is used by 12 million people from over 200 countries. For the winning team they sponsor 6 months of free membership!

finmar is about to be Germany ´s first crowd-to-business lending platform any time soon. Their mission is to enable entrepreneurs to turn their social capital into financial capital. finmar offers the winning team a half day of advice on startup-finance related issues. From bootstrapping to crowdfunding, from bank loans to venture capital. In addition the winning team may use finmar for free!

mindmatters is a tech incubator for hire. They provide web software development, agile and lean development process support, help their clients with market and customer discovery and generally support them from idea to launch. For the winner of the next betapitch they offer a half-day workshop on the topics of product design, development strategy or paper prototyping. The workshop will be modelled to the winners needs!

Three-Headed Monkeys is a consultancy for strategic storytelling. They use the power of narratives to move hearts, minds and businesses. The winning team of betapitch Hamburg will have the chance to participate in a private storytelling workshop to carve out their unique brand-story. And if desired, this could develop into a cooperation with the video producers from erster Sinn to create an awesome image video.

erster Sinn is the first video production company in Hamburg specialised in sustainable and smart projects and companies. They create short animated videos to explain products, ideas or companies. In cooperation with Three-Headed Monkeys erster Sinn offers a one-day workshop to develop a story around your business and create a concept which can easily fit into a short video – depending on the kind of business we can even think about producing it.

RBS Kipke advises entrepreneurs and small businesses. They support their clients from the very beginning: choice of the appropriate legal form, Terms and Conditions, drafting of contracts such as Employment contracts, shareholder agreements etc. The winner of betapitch Hamburg gets three hours of Legal Consulting precisely tailored to his needs.

The tax accountants from Wegener & Weber not only take care of current startups at betahaus Hamburg, but would also be pleased to do the same for the wining team of betapitch. For this reason Eduardo Avarello from Wegener & Weber offers a free counseling interview and the chance to save the fee they would usually charge for a new client.

Maximilian v. d. Ahé, LL.M, is a lawyer and partner at mka law firm. Maximilian specialises in intellectual property law and company law. Maximilian is in charge of  enforcing and protecting the legal positions of freelancers, agencies and companies, and helps them develop legal and economic strategies. For the winner of the next betapitch he offers 2 hours of in-depth legal advice!  

Nina Diercks, professional lawyer and author of the renowned German blog “Social Media Recht”, is absolutely passionate about social media and the legal situation resulting from those new communication forms. Therefore she offers an one-hour-workshop about social media and law to clear up the do’s and don’ts for the winning team.

99designs is the world’s largest online graphic design marketplace – connecting small businesses who need fast, affordable graphic design with a community of more than 180k graphic designers worldwide. The winning team of betapitch Hamburg will receive credits worth 250 Euro and, in addition, 99designs offers credits worth 150 Euro for the second place.

Seedcamp is an early-stage micro seed investment fund and mentoring programme. We make our investment decisions in companies several times throughout the year. Seedcamp was created to jumpstart the entrepreneurial community in Europe by connecting next generation developers and entrepreneurs with over 1200 mentors from a top-tier network of company builders. Due to the partnership between Seedcamp and betahaus the winner of the betapitch will get a headstart for the next seedcamp and receive a spot in the relevant regional Mini Seedcamp.

Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone. AirBnB supports all finalists with a voucher on their next booking!

Pidoco is a web-based prototyping software for rapidly creating clickable wireframes and UI prototypes for web, mobile and enterprise applications. It’s easy to use with smart sharing and collaboration features, a convenient usability testing module and much more. The top 3 teams of Betapitch will receive Pidoco Expert Licenses worth 290€ each.

For the winning team they sponsor either 1 kg of Coffee or Espresso beans!