June 6, 2025

These are the finalists of the NN Social Innovation Startup Award – 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙍𝙪𝙗𝙞𝙤 –

After weeks of analysis, conversations, due diligences, and presentations, we’re proud to announce the 6 finalists of the NN Social Innovation Startup Award – 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙍𝙪𝙗𝙞𝙤 – who will take the stage at TNW on June 19th! 🎉

From 300+ applications across Europe and beyond, these mission-driven founders saw a broken system and decided to fix it because the world urgently needed their impact:

🚊 naext – For millions with sensory disabilities, public transport feels like an impossible maze. Victor van Dinten and Lukas van Delft are changing that reality with AI navigation that offers voice guidance, tactile paths, and low-stimulus routes. Freedom of movement for everyone.

🏥 Punto Health – When dementia hit Anna Muñoz Farré’s grandfather, it exposed how broken the care system really is. With 78 million people facing diagnosis by 2030, she and co-founder Jack Eckersley decided enough was enough. Now Punto shifts families from crisis mode to proactive support across the UK and Spain.

🧠 Morphoses Skills – Question: How do you prepare kids for an uncertain world where 1 in 5 struggle with mental health? Anna Natsvlishvili and Alexandros Pithamitsis’ answer: teach emotional intelligence and resilience through game-like experiences that actually work. Building stronger generations across Greece, Romania, the UK, and UAE.

🛡️ The Hacking Games – Here’s the reality: brilliant young minds often turn to cybercrime when traditional systems ignore them. Fergus Hay and his co-founders meet these digital natives where they are – gaming communities, online forums – and redirect that talent toward protecting our world. Global impact, one hacker at a time.

👶 iYoni App – Katarzyna Goch and Professor Krzysztof Jan Łukaszuk witnessed too many couples struggle with fertility in silence. With 186 million people affected by infertility yet 70% going undiagnosed, they created AI that detects conditions years earlier. Hope restored across 176 countries.

🩺 Juvoly – Thomas Kluiters, a practicing GP, was drowning in paperwork instead of caring for patients. So he and co-founder Maarten Timmers built AI that transforms doctor conversations into instant reports. Result? 650 Dutch practices rediscovered why medical professionals became doctors: to heal, not to file.

Congratulations to all our inspiring finalists! 🚀

🎟 Want to see them pitch live and who will be the winner of the NN Social Innovation Startup Award – 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙍𝙪𝙗𝙞𝙤 – 2025 edition? Join us on June 19 at TNW in Amsterdam.