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The tech giant Google, is offering grants to 31 universities and non-profit organizations to promote computer science (CS) education. They will develop CS programs for teachers to hone their skills, which they will pass on to their students. Zurich based startup We Are Play Lab is among the selected organisations.

The 3rd edition of the World VR Forum Annual Summit returns to Crans-Montana from June 6th to 10th. The event open to both the general public and professionals, is set to be very promising with 40 of the highest quality VR experiences and games, as well as 60 global speakers. Startupticker.ch had the opportunity to get a glimpse with Delphine Seitiee,...

The Zurich based GotCourts brings together the tennis community on one platform. Today, the startup has raised $1 Million in a seed round and aims to bolster its position in Switzerland and to expand its European footprint.

The Zurich based startup Luckabox has won the first European Supply Chain Start-up Contest. In addition LuckaBox received CHF 130'000 as winner at Venturekick and closed a pre-seed funding round of CHF600k. The startup enables retailers to arrange parcel deliveries to consumers quickly and conveniently.

Beim Startfeld Investorsforum treffen Startups aus allen Branchen auf Business Angels und Investoren. Am 6. Juni findet der nächste Anlass statt.

Temenos Community Forum has become one of the largest banking and financial conferences in the world. The public prize of the startup competition at the event went to Sonect.

Die Schweizer Physikerin Ursula Keller hat in der ultraschnellen Lasertechnologie Pionierarbeit geleistet und zwei erfolgreiche Startups gegründet. Nun ist sie für den Europäischen Erfinderpreis nominiert worden. Noch zehn Tage kann man im Rahmen des Publikumspreises für die ETH-Professorin und Gründerin abstimmen.

Food-Startups scheinen die Möglichkeiten des Digital Commerce besonders gut zu nutzen. Yamo (Bild) und Farmy, die beiden Startups, die gestern am Digital Commerce Award ausgezeichnet wurden, haben beide mit Lebensmitteln zu tun.

Noch in diesem Sommer soll die Banking App von neon Switzerland auf den Markt kommen. Das Fintech-Startup wird das Kernbankensystem der Hypothekarbank Lenzburg nutzen. Dank der Partnerschaft braucht neon beim Markteintritt zudem keine eigene Banklizenz.

ANYbotics, an ETH Zurich spinoff provides mobility and interaction solutions to enable robots to operate in different environments. Its four-legged robot ANYmal has won the Robot Launch Startup award in Brisbane, Australia.