Results of the All-University Youth Entrepreneurship Competition "Summer Startup Session 2023"

On May 26, the final of the all-university youth entrepreneurship competition Summer Startup Session 2023 took place.

The event was organized by the Department of Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship of the School of Economics of Karazin University.

According to the results of the judges' voting, the places were distributed as follows:

• 1st place was shared by the teams: ParaOlimp (students of the Department of Banking Business and Financial Technologies of the Karazin Banking Institute Vladyslav Tsymbal, Anatolii Pishta, Iryna Oliynyk); WeldTogether (National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"); Stud.Web (Hearts on Fire team - students of the Department of Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship of the School of Economics Danylo Brazhnik and Anna Didenko);
• 2nd place was taken by the team Lares and Penates (students of the Department of Banking Business and Financial Technologies of the Karazin Banking Institute Yulia Gorbunova, Rustam Lahiev, Svitlana Prokopenko, Yaroslava Kameneva, Yulia Gladka);
• 3rd place was taken by the teams: Hearts on fire (students of the Department of Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship of the School of Economics Danylo Brazhnik and Anna Didenko); Be healthy (representatives of the School of Economics Mykyta Belikov and Anna Herbali); TWICE (representatives of the School of Economics Yelyzaveta Samsonenko, Alyona Kuzub and Anastasia Chizhova).

The teams also received nominations:

• best project idea: ParaOlimp, WeldTogether, Stud.Web;
• best presentation: WeldTogether, Lares and Penates, Be healthy;
• best business model: WeldTogether, Be healthy;
• best solution to potential customers' problems: ParaOlimp, Card Book, Stud.Web;
  project relevance to the needs of society and the country's economy: ParaOlimp, TWICE.

We express our gratitude to the judges of the competition: Roman Orlov, Commercial Director of KRON, Oleksandr Veremko, Director of INEGVA, Oleksandr Veremko, Coordinator of the YEP Academic Business Incubator Network in Kharkiv, Viktor Kauk, mentor of the Kharkiv City Startup Center, organizer and mentor of startup hackathons, Associate Professor of the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, and Alina Ilchenko, HR Assistant at WHO in Ukraine.

We would like to thank the mentors of the winning teams - Natalia Shmatko, Professor of the Department of Management at NTU "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", Halyna Azarenkova, Head of the Department of Banking Business and Financial Technologies at the Karazin Banking Institute, Kateryna Orekhova, Associate Professor of the Department of Banking Business and Financial Technologies at the Karazin Banking Institute, and Tetyana Kutsenko, Associate Professor of the Department of Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship at the School of Economics.

Congratulations to the team members on their excellent pitching! See you at the winter session!