News

Climate Kic accelerator team is looking for scalable and technologically promising startups with ideas that have a high impact on climate change. In three stages of the 18 months program, selected candidates will benefit from a wide array of offers including an equity free support package of worth up to €95,000, coaching and access to an extensive relevant...

Fennex developed an augmented hearing app used in combination with Apple Airpods. Exactly one year after the company launch, Fennex has achieved two important milestones. The startup has reached 100,000 users of which 30,000 are active on the app monthly. And a second version of Fennex with substantial usability and technical improvements has been...

Am 12. Januar kürt die Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) den Schweizer Student Entrepreneur 2018. Der nationale Gewinner erhält nicht nur 5000 Franken und weitere Unterstützung, sondern qualifiziert sich auch für die internationale Ausscheidung. 

Neben bestehenden Investoren unterstützt nun auch der Schweizer Technologiefonds CodeCheck. Mit dem frischen Kapital wird die erfolgreiche Online-Plattform für den gesunden und nachhaltigen Einkauf unter anderem ein innovatives CO2-Feature auf den Weg bringen.

By harnessing AI-based customer journey analysis through advanced attribution models, the Windsor.ai platform drives sales revenue without a need to increase marketing expenditures. European companies such as AMAG or lastminute.com already use the platform. The start-up will use its new Singapore office as a base from which to target other countries in the...

Wood is not just a conventional material, it also has great innovation potential as a high-tech component and raw material for chemistry. This is one of the conclusions of the National Research Programme "Resource Wood" (NRP 66), which is nearing its end after five years of research. The research resulted in 227 publications, more than a dozen CTI projects...

Ein vor kurzem gegründetes Spinoff des Paul Scherrer Instituts und der ETH Zürich hat ein neues bildgebendes Verfahren zur Erkennung von Brustkrebs entwickelt. Damit will das GratXray-Team, das im PARK INNOVAARE arbeitet, den neuen Goldstandard in der Mammografie schaffen.

The modum team and the Communication System Group at the University of Zurich have received funding from CTI to complete a research project on blockchain based temperature monitoring in medical drug distribution.

Hackathon and Startup Weekends offer a platform for developing new and creative solutions to real questions or challenges on a given topic within a certain period. The compilation below provides an overview of events with open registration.

The growth of Blockchain has provoked antagonism between corporates and startups. At the 2^nd Blockchain Summit on 26^th April the two parties take the stage to defend their positions in an “Old versus New” format and discuss new approaches of building solutions with distributed ledger technology. Six startups will present in the panel.