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At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) In San Franciso, Swiss startup game developers will not only participate in the pitching contest, two of them will take the stage to address the audience at the GDC conference.

Hardware- und Medtech-Startups stehen beim Pionierpreis im Rampenlicht. Ob 9T Labs, Dicronis, oder Optimo Medical gewinnt, entscheidet sich am 7. Mai.

Für viele Startups bildet die Rekrutierung den Flaschenhals beim Wachstum, während Studenten nach Berufserfahrung suchen. Future.preneurship bringt Verstärkung suchende Startups mit qualifizierten Studenten für ein Sommerpraktikum zusammen. Interessierte Startups können sich bis am 17. März anmelden.

Ab sofort kann man mit der Sonect-App kostenlos Bargeld im Volg abheben. Mit knapp 600 Filialen ist Volg einer der führenden Detailhändler der Schweiz.

The Financial Times, TNW and Techtour have each identified the most promising and fast-growing startups in Europe. Swiss IT and digital health startups with the potential to become Unicorns have secured a spot in the lists, making them the lighthouses of Switzerland. Beekeeper and Sophia Genetics appeared twice.

Das Zürcher Fintech LEND wächst stetig. 20‘000 Kreditnehmer sowie –Investoren benutzen die 2015 gegründete Crowdlending-Plattform. Im letzten Jahr konnte das ausbezahlte Kreditvolumen um 70 Prozent gesteigert werden. Nun soll ein hochkarätiger Beirat das Wachstum weiter beschleunigen.

Projects from HES-SO, HEIG-VD, HSLU and ZHdk have been awarded with CHF150k each by First Ventures, a programme of the Gebert Rüf Foundation which aims to increase the number of spin-offs from Universities of Applied Sciences.

NovaGo Therapeutics has closed a Series A financing round of CHF 10 million led by Pureos Bioventures and the strategic partner Neurimmune. It is the first investment for Pureos, the new venture fund of Bellevue Asset Management led by former Esbatech CEO Dominik Escher.

The fintech conference and awards night on 14 March will again bring together start-ups and established players, experts and practitioners. The four companies competing for the title of the best early stage and the best growth stage start-up have now been selected.

Verity Studios has completed more than 100,000 autonomous flights safely above people, across more than 20 countries worldwide during its drone shows. Now it offers its Failsafe solution to drone manufacturers as a standalone or complementary safety solution to guard against the most common cause of system-error crashes: propulsion system failures.