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Flisom is ready for the global market: the company, a spin-off from ETH Zürich and Empa, has developed a unique roll-to-roll process for the cost-effective production of flexible and highly efficient thin-film solar modules. The first pilot plant on the Empa campus in Dübendorf was officially inaugurated and shown to potential customers and partners of the...

Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) is Austria’s leading corporate and investment bank and also very active in Central and Eastern Europe. Sonect was selected for the first accelerator program of RBI.

Three startups in the second batch at the Swiss Startup Factory have successfully completed the acceleration process: Joineer, Pure Swiss Air and WeaVr. Each pitched their business ideas before potential investors, partners and the audience and presented their achievements from the last three months. Registration for the next batch has already started.

Im August hat Redalpine ihren dritten Fonds geclosed. Insgesamt hat der Zürcher Risikokapitalinvestor nun deutlich über 100 Millionen Franken under management. Wir haben mit Peter Niederhauser (Bild links) und Michael Sidler, beide Gründungspartner bei Redalpine, gesprochen. 

Redalpine, a venture capital firm supporting European seed- and early stage startups, announced the final closing of the third fund. Redalpine has now over 100 million francs under management. This enables Redalpine to support startups in scaling their businesses.

Scandit, developer of software-based mobile data capture solutions, has released a new scanning application called Keyboard Wedge for Android, iOS and Windows. The Scandit keyboard wedge enables companies in retail, logistics and beyond to add to add enterprise-grade barcode scanning capabilities to any app without software integration effort.

Im Rahmen des Digital Festivals ging am Wochenende der HackZurich über die Bühne. Zwei ETH Doktoranden programmierten eine Augmented-Reality-App zur Visualisierung von Gerichten auf der Speisekarte. Damit will das Team Pineapple nun durchstarten. 

CodeCheck, a Zurich based startup offering an online product compendium via an app, has today announce that it is introducing a personalization feature in the app. In the future each user can set their own weighting of the evaluation circle, based on their personal interests, needs and purchasing habits.

Im Kraftwerk wird an der Zukunft der Schweiz gebaut. Im geschichtsträchtigen ewz-Unterwerk Selnau in der Zürcher Innenstadt arbeiten Grossunternehmen, Organisationen, Startups, Selbständige und Kreative künftig in firmen- und branchenübergreifender Kollaboration an nachhaltigen Lösungen für die Herausforderungen unserer Zeit.

TOLREMO therapeutics’ aim is to prevent drug resistance in cancer therapy. The successful first financing round allows to advance drug discovery and development efforts.