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The EU has granted CHF 1.7 million to the new project called 3BrainScreen-, which complements a Swiss project of CHF 1.5 million and will be coordinated by 3Brain, the Swiss brain-computer company.

Nach einer gründlichen Marktrecherche hat das amerikanische IT Security Unternehmen Lynx Technology Partners LUCY-Server in sein Produktportfolio aufgenommen. Das Produkt des Schweizer Startups Lucy Phishing ermöglicht die Simulation von Cyberattacken.

Three Swiss startups have been nominated among the Top 16 finalists of the Digital Marketing Innovation World Cup. The finalists will pitch their ideas before the audience of more than 50’000 visitors at the 2017 dmexco trade fair in Cologne, Germany. The winner will be announced and crowned as the “Digital Marketing Hero”.

Der Schweizer Cloud-Speicher «SecureSafe» wächst kontinuierlich. Im Juli 2017 hat der Dienst die Grenze von einer Million Nutzern durchbrochen.

During summer several blog posts and articles about the Swiss Startup ecosystem were published – by outsiders as well as by insiders. They provide a lot of insights and raise thought-provoking questions: Are Swiss founders not ambitious enough? Should more Swiss startups leave the country?

Kuros Biosciences has concluded an overallotment option granted to Zürcher Kantonalbank. In total, the company raised CHF 16.9 million from the sale of 1,351,606 shares in the rights and share offering. These sale was based on the issue price of CHF 12.50 per share. The funds will be used in preparation for the commercialization of Kuros’ products in the US...

Die Aduno Gruppe baut ihre Beteiligung am Schweizer Fintech Start-up Contovista aus. Die Angel Investoren verkaufen ihre Anteile an Aduno. 30 Prozent der Anteile verbleiben im Besitz des aktuellen Managements, das weiterhin für das operative Geschäft verantwortlich bleibt.

LuckaBox is an innovative city-logistics start up revolutionizing the way urban e-commerce shoppers experience delivery. The startup provides on-demand urban bike delivery services to online retailers via a state-of-the art data-science-driven and customer-centric web platform. Aike Festini CEO and co-founder of LuckaBox shared the progress of LuckaBox.

Polyphor received a first 0.6 mCHF milestone payment from the Wellcome Trust under a Seeding Drug Discovery Award of total up to 2.3 mCHF granted in February 2017. Neurotune was selected for a Wellcome Trust Pathfinder Award.

Software startup iRewind has delivered personalised finisher video clips for the junior athletes participating in the 2017 UBS Kids Cup. Over 1800 clips were produced each day. The startup will again deliver a video clip for each participating kid in the Swiss final.