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You can see all the beautiful pictures of Joost Nuijten/ Innuendo Fotografie here —> https://t.co/HQZL6YgBSt We hope to see you all again on the next Startup Weekend Groningen - keep an eye on our social accounts for future announcements! This was #SWGRO22 💚🖤!

Whoah, it’s been 24 hours already since #swgro22! ✅ 50 participants ✅ 26 (!) Friday pitches ✅ 8 final presentations on Sunday ✅ The amazing venue of @fcgroningen ✅ An incredible energy of motivation, dedication and fun! Thank you for making this edition a BLAST! 🚀

After 2 years of lockdowns it was great to finally have a great event and talk to new people, brainstorm, drink and work. Thank you @swGroningen for an amazing weekend with great pitches and awesome vibe.

And the first price goes to…… #Plantastic! 🏆🥇 Congratulations to all the winners AND participants! You were awesome! #swgro22

2nd prize goes to… #ButterBitches! #swgro22

Third prize goes to the #BetterTogetherFoundation! #swgro22

4th prize (not place!): #BitBot! #swgro22

The jury found it difficult to appoint only three winners - so there’s a different prize system this time around. 😯 #swgro22

Building up the tension for the judges to come back with their top 3 winners. Most of all, there’s relief in the Euroborg now. The presentations are DONE. And wow, we’ve seen quite a few fantastic, ‘buttersmooth’ presentations on stage. 🤩 #swgro22

That was the last of the pitches - and the first of the prizes! #ButterBitches won the public’s favourites price! #swgro22

And the last pitch - it’s the #ButterBitches! Removing the boredom from butter, by ‘making butter better’ with way more flavours - mocha, anyone? A LOT of people inside the building and out on the streets tasted it. And yeah, they got the first paying customers. #swgro22

Pitch 7 is #MonYAY. A service, a package deal to make your week better. What if the company you work for would get you a kickstart of the week by getting you smoothies, wannahaves or experiences - a box of surprises provided by different brands and companies? #swgro22

Moving on the pitch 6 - #Coutchmates. Defeating loneliness under youngsters by getting them together to watch movies. The incredible, smooth pitch is done by the youngest #swgro22 participant in ten years time - 15 years of age.

Fifth pitch out of 8: it’s #BitBot! Setup your own crypto trading bot without having to write a single line of code. ‘Drag and drop your own trading strategy.’ Hundreds of crypto investors shared their biggest problems with them - and they’re on a roll to tackle them. #swgro22

Pitch 4 - #BetterTogetherFoundation Helping refugees in their new country with a platform that connects them to instances and companies that can use their - often amazing! - skills. Humanitas says it’s interested - and for sure, the problem is hart felt by the team. 💕

Pitch 3 now: #Plantastic! Peat-free potting soil to overcome the massive CO2-problem of regular potting soil. They got Bauhaus and gemeente Groningen interested already! #swgro22

Pitch 2 - #TheInfluencers. One mission: build an influencer in one weekend. They used a screaming friend on TikTok. 😬 So they openly admitted they lost money, now have a social media addiction and had to overcome 17 fatal disagreements. 😂 Well: they had fun. 💪🏻 #swgro22

First pitch! #Ashtronaut by Stardust. Shoot the remains of your loved ones into space - ‘fives times more affordable and more fossile friendly’ than the current options - by using a slingshot! #swgro22

Whoppa! The crowd getting pumped up and motivated to fistbump and dance a little by a certain Alexander Schmutz. 🥵 #swgro22