Achievements and Recognitions

Since 2013, the IT club has been honoring solutions with the sol.IT Award. We are looking for the “Excellent Customer Solution”, the application with the best customer benefit.

This year, we have been nominated by the jury among the top 6 applicants and will have the chance to present our solution and MindPort during a pitch.

XR Today, one of the leading magazines about virtual and augmented reality, listed MindPort among 12 companies as top XR arts & entertainment vendors for 2023.

"Designed to help companies quickly produce Virtual Reality content for a range of use cases, MindPort assists with everything from immersive training to product demonstrations. The company’s core solution, the VR Builder, is a platform intended to save businesses time and money when developing immersive content using Unity technologies. The VR development toolkit simplifies complex processes, assisting businesses with creating events, demonstrations, and artistic experiences in the metaverse. The MindPort team also works alongside clients to assist with everything from evaluating use cases, to global launch strategies."
https://www.xrtoday.com/mixed-reality/top-xr-arts-entertainment-vendors-for-2023/

Through the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, which covers over 3 790 000 startups and scaleups globally, they identified 1390 virtual reality startups. Among those, they selected 10 you should watch in 2023, and listed MindPort for VR Builder and it's prototyping capabilities.

"VR Builderenables rapid prototyping by allowing app developers to make 3D assets interactable in VR. Once the user defines the VR app’s logic, the plug-in guides the user on how to build the app and prototype it in VR without writing any code. This level of rapid prototyping enables businesses to create VR training apps, games, and other immersive experiences quickly. With MindPort’s solution, businesses save significant time and resources while delivering high-quality VR content at scale."
https://www.startus-insights.com/innovators-guide/virtual-reality-startups-to-watch/

Every year, the Unternehmerpreis Südwestfalen recognizes extraordinary achievements in four different categories. This year, our founder and CEO David Lähner has been nominated and selected among the top 3 for category "founder" by an independent and interdisciplinary jury.

The final decision will be made during the awards ceremony on 16 November.

We are Invest förderfähig! This means that private investors get very attractive financial support by the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control when investing in us.

We convinced the jury of the DIGITALHUB accelerator and joined it in July 2023. They now support us for six months and will help us closing our seed investment round.

In September 2023, the Deutsches Innovationsintitut für Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung (DIND) honored us as with the "Top Service" award.

In September 2023, the Deutsches Innovationsintitut für Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung (DIND) honored us as with the "Fairness First" award.

In August 2023, the Deutsches Innovationsintitut für Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung (DIND) honored us as an "Arbeitgeber der Zukunft" (employer of the future).

In 2022 we participated at JU DO!, the biggest pitch competition for startups in our region. We took home 2nd place along with 3.000€ in price money.
‍https://www.judo-sw.de/

The Ministry of Economics, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of North Rhine-Westphalia recognizes our innovative idea and supported us with the "Gründerstipendium NRW" start-up grant.

We convinced the jury of the ONE SMALL STEP - BOOST accelerator of Startpunkt57 - Die Initiative für Gründer. They now support us with coaches, mentors, seminars, and their great network, in addition to providing us with a great office space at the Siegener SUMMIT!