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After more than ten years, the event format of the Swiss Venture Days has been completely revised. The first of the new Swiss Venture Days will be held in Zurich on 5 April. Start-ups can already apply.

More than 100 startups applied for the AI Bootcamp of the Deutsche Telekom and the incubator hub:raum in Berlin. One of the selected companies was Spitch, a Swiss provider of solutions based on Automatic Speech Recognition, Voice User Interfaces, and natural language voice data analytics.

Three Swiss startups in the sports industry have won the ISPO Award, a globally recognised award in the sports industry. On’s new running shoes cloudflash are among the 5 global products of the year 2017/18, selected out of 500 applications from around the globe. Two additional Swiss startups received awards from other categories.

The four finalists for the Swiss Fintech Awards 2017 have been nominated. The two finalists of the early stage startup category have the chance to win CHF24’000.

The Summerpreneurship program is again open for application. This program brings impact driven startups together with talented students for a summer internship from June to August in Zurich and Geneva. Registration for startups is open until 19 February, 2017.

Zum Netzwerk der Schweizer Impact Hubs gehören Grossunternehmen wie die SBB genauso wie Startups. Synergien liegen auf der Hand. Dies will die SBB nun gezielter nutzen und hat einen Call für Startups aus dem Impact Hub Netzwerk gestartet.

Flexpoint Sensor Systems, Inc. and Switzerland-based YouRehab AG announce the continued collaboration and commercialization of "YouGrabber." The product is a key component of the YouRehab advanced suite of medical rehabilitation technology products.

Das Förderprogramm Venture leaders schickt regelmässig Gründer und CEOs von jungen Technologiefirmen ins Silicon Valley. Im März geht’s wieder los. Auf der einwöchigen Roadshow wird die Schweizer Delegation Investoren und Experten treffen. Nun sind die zehn Teilnehmer bekannt.

Das Insurtech Startup FinanceFox setzt auf die Kooperation mit Brokern. Dieser Bereich soll in Zukunft noch weiter gestärkt werden. Nun hat die Versicherungsplattform einen neuen Leiter der Abteilung Partner Services berufen, die für das Management und die Akquise von Broker-Partnern zuständig ist. Hugo Pfister bringt 20 Jahre Erfahrung in der...

The early stage investing platform Go Beyond and a fintech incubator and accelerator F10, have joined hands to work on a number of initiatives. Members of Go Beyond will share their know-how and evaluate investor pitches of startups in the master class on investor pitching.