From a Pitch in Ottobrunn to the National Final

For ten months we worked on our idea at business@school, the education initiative of Boston Consulting Group, back then still under the name eReceipt. More than 1,000 students at around 70 schools took part this season, supported by around 400 coaches from business. For us, the year ended in June at the national final in Munich.

First place in Ottobrunn

First came the regional pitch event at Gymnasium Ottobrunn: six teams and a jury from business, academia and the Bavarian ministry of education. Our idea in one sentence: briefly hold your smartphone to the NFC device and the receipt arrives digitally within seconds, without an app, without paper and without changing the till system. The jury gave us first place and with it a spot in the final.

The final in Munich

Two weeks later, twelve teams from eleven pitch events competed in the national final. For us it ended after the preliminary round. The winner was FehlerFix from Leibnizschule Wiesbaden, an AI-supported learning app for spelling. Congratulations!

We did not go home empty-handed, though:

• “Technological Innovation” special prize, sponsored by BCG Platinion
• MakerSpace special prize: a scholarship for the MakerSpace of TUM in Garching
• Young Founders Network special prize: tickets to the Young Founders Conference 2026 in Berlin, which the network awarded to three teams in the final
• BMW Team Award

What comes next

The scholarship means that from July we can keep building the prototype at the TUM MakerSpace in Garching, with workshops for electronics, 3D printing and surface finishing. And the competition project eReceipt is now becoming a company: NFCeipt.

Thank you to the business@school team, to our coaches and to everyone who listened to our idea and took it apart. You can follow what becomes of the prototype right here.

Figures and results from the business@school announcements on the Ottobrunn pitch event and the 2026 national final (in German).