TRIQBRIQ is »Start-up of the Decade«
Leipzig/Tübingen, 6 November 2026
TRIQBRIQ AG is one of five “Start-ups of the Decade”. HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and its partners presented the award on 5 November 2026 in Leipzig in front of more than 200 guests. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of the Public Value Award for Start-ups. Just one year after winning the Public Value Award 2025, the timber construction start-up is once again among the award winners. TRIQBRIQ was honoured in the dimension of economic viability, explicitly for its path towards full automation and internationalisation.
From around 2,000 applications into the top five
Since the award was launched in 2016, around 2,000 applications have been submitted. For the anniversary, all of the roughly 60 finalists from the past ten years were invited to apply for the title “Start-up of the Decade”. The jury wanted to know: how have the companies expanded their contribution to the common good since taking part?
Alongside TRIQBRIQ, Skyseed, Too Good To Go, Coffee Circle and Coldplasmatech hold the title. The jury also honoured each of the five companies for one dimension of the Public Value Scorecard. The scorecard asks whether a start-up solves a relevant problem, operates in an economically sensible way from a societal perspective, acts decently, strengthens cohesion and improves quality of life.
Laudation honours full automation and internationalisation
In its laudation, the jury emphasised that since its win in 2025, TRIQBRIQ has been producing its circular timber construction system fully automatically and opening up international markets. This places the focus on exactly the two topics that are currently shaping the company most.
Since June 2026, a fully automated production line at the Tübingen plant has been manufacturing the system’s timber building blocks, known as BRIQs. At the same time, TRIQBRIQ continues to work with social institutions such as workshops for people with disabilities in production and is further expanding this cooperation. The line is also the technological basis for the international licensing model: licensees produce and distribute BRIQs independently in their own markets. With TRIQBRIQ AT GmbH, the first licensee has started in Austria, and further markets such as Sweden, Portugal, Switzerland and the USA are in preparation.
Tailwind for the next growth phase
For TRIQBRIQ, the award comes at an important time. To further advance the scaling of production and internationalisation, the company would like to attract additional investors. Visibility as a “Start-up of the Decade” sends a strong signal in this regard.
A voice from the company
»A year ago, we won the Public Value Award. Now prevailing against around 2,000 applications from ten years and being among the five Start-ups of the Decade makes us incredibly proud. We are particularly pleased that the jury recognised our path towards full automation and internationalisation. With TRIQBRIQ Austria, we have proven that our model scales internationally. For the next steps, we want to bring further investors on board – and this visibility gives us real tailwind.«
About the Public Value Award
The Public Value Award for Start-ups was initiated in 2016 by the Chair of Economic Psychology and Leadership at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management together with EY. Since 2021, it has been run by the non-profit association Forum Gemeinwohl e.V. It honours founders whose business models make a measurable contribution to the common good. It is based on the Public Value Scorecard with the dimensions of task fulfilment, quality of life, cohesion, decency and economic viability. From 2027, the prize will be called the Public Value Award for Entrepreneurship and will also be open to scale-ups.
Photo credit: © Fabio Catoni
