Discover Perfect Pitch
Entries are now open for the sixth edition of the Discover Perfect Pitch competition, a challenge with a twist giving fintechs from around the globe the opportunity to showcase their products and services to the Sibos community. The winners will be crowned on stage in a live final at Sibos 2025 Frankfurt on Wednesday 1 October.
The streams
This year fintechs will compete across three streams:
- Ambitious Adventurer - Being an adventurer is about your attitude, ambition, and values. This category will highlight those who excel in culture, people and teams. You’ll be able to demonstrate concrete success of brilliance and that you’re going somewhere not yet mapped out, because these are hallmarks of adventurers. The exact stage, funding and implementation of your ideas, products and services is not the priority. Net zero to maximisation of profits, this is about the heights you want to reach.
- Community Pioneer - Together we are stronger, the best Community Pioneers might have a revolutionary payments infrastructure, be totally focused on sustainability or deeply-integrated collaboration. What’s clear is that others need and want to be with you as you forge change for a community. It’s not about being different, it is about doing it together.
- Established Trendsetter - You may have proved the doubters wrong and built something that will scale. It’s not been easy, but you’ve solved a financial inclusion dilemma or created a new and improved solution to a known problem. Everyone now sees what you saw as obvious five years ago, but they didn’t take the risk. You did.
Qualifying entrants select the competition category best aligned to their business, values and principles, answer a series of questions and submit a pitch video.
How it works
- Complete the online qualification form with your company details by 11 July 2025
- Qualifying fintechs will then be sent a link to the competition form
- Select the relevant category from the following streams: Ambitious Adventurer, Community Pioneer or Established Trendsetter, and respond to six set questions
- Selected fintechs will then be invited to submit a pitch video
- Our expert panel will select finalists to present to our judges and audience in the live final. Live final participants will be notified by Friday 25 July 2025
The Perfect Pitch 2025 partners are Plug and Play, TechQuartier and Swift.
Fantastic opportunities and access for fintechs
The final at Sibos 2025 will feature jury and audience voting. The winner for each stream will be rewarded with an exclusive consultancy pack provided by our partners, introductions to contacts who can help transform their business, and promotion on Sibos TV, sibos.com and Sibos social media channels.
The prizes focus on boosting businesses by delivering access to people and markets. They’re designed to accelerate business development, with our partners providing access and introductions to the right people, valuable industry visibility and specialist business guidance.
Judges
Meet the judges who’ll help determine the winners.
Alice Rettig
Managing Director
TechQuartier
TechQuartier is one of Germany’s largest digital hubs and a key ecosystem builder in the Rhein-Main region. With a passion for driving transformation, Alice leads efforts to accelerate technological innovation and foster collaboration between 20 corporate partners and over 600 startups. Her background includes six years in academia, where she focused on corporate innovation and startup acceleration, along with programme management for a Berlin-based accelerator.
Alfredo Gomez Soria
Director of Corporate Partnerships,
Plug and Play
Alfredo has led Plug and Play Corporate Partnerships for continental Europe since 2018. Based in Germany, he connects leading corporations with best in class startups to establish pilots and explore strategic investment opportunities. He has developed key relationships with major corporations and worked with clients such as Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and Caixa Bank on their innovation strategies at a group level. Alfredo is an alumnus of MIT Sloan School of Management’s Corporate Innovation Executive Program on strategies for leveraging ecosystems.