These are the winners of the brutkasten Innovator of the Year 2026 award

Vezetői összefoglaló (AI)

• For the sixth time, brutkasten presented its Innovator of the Year Awards; in 2026, the awards were presented for the first time at the flagship event MOMENTUM in Vienna’s Palais Berg. Around 300 people from the startup scene, investment, corporations, politics, and business attended the invite-only event.
• In the Startups category, zone14 won, followed by Turn-Motion in second place and Tumbleweed in third. zone14 develops football video analysis, while Turn-Motion develops orthotics.
• In the Scaleups category, Helferline took first place, ahead of Emerald Horizon and Reploid; around 160 votes separated the top two. The companies work in technician placement, energy, and insect breeding.
• In Corporate Innovation, Sulejman Ganibegović, CEO of Keba Digital, won, followed by Andreas Kranabitl, Managing Director of Spar ICS, and Gerhard Dimmler, CTO of Engel.
• More than 25 nominees were voted on across three categories; category partners and brutkasten editor-in-chief Martin Pacher presented the awards.