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Redalpine, a venture capital firm supporting European seed- and early stage startups, announced the final closing of the third fund. Redalpine has now over 100 million francs under management. This enables Redalpine to support startups in scaling their businesses.

Im Rahmen des Digital Festivals ging am Wochenende der HackZurich über die Bühne. Zwei ETH Doktoranden programmierten eine Augmented-Reality-App zur Visualisierung von Gerichten auf der Speisekarte. Damit will das Team Pineapple nun durchstarten. 

CodeCheck, a Zurich based startup offering an online product compendium via an app, has today announce that it is introducing a personalization feature in the app. In the future each user can set their own weighting of the evaluation circle, based on their personal interests, needs and purchasing habits.

Im Kraftwerk wird an der Zukunft der Schweiz gebaut. Im geschichtsträchtigen ewz-Unterwerk Selnau in der Zürcher Innenstadt arbeiten Grossunternehmen, Organisationen, Startups, Selbständige und Kreative künftig in firmen- und branchenübergreifender Kollaboration an nachhaltigen Lösungen für die Herausforderungen unserer Zeit.

TOLREMO therapeutics’ aim is to prevent drug resistance in cancer therapy. The successful first financing round allows to advance drug discovery and development efforts. 

Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc., and Numab Therapeutics AG announced the achievement of a key milestone in their on-going development partnership – the selection of a multi-specific antibody construct targeting autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. This delivery triggers a payment to Numab that will bring the total payments for this project to CHF 11.5 million...

Stoff & so expandiert nach Zürich. Der erfolgreiche St. Galler Stoffladen eröffnet am Samstag, 16. September 2017 im Greencity Areal in Zürich eine Filiale. Angefangen hat Stoff & so im Keller einer der Gründerinnen.

The ten finalists in the SEIF Awards for Social Entrepreneurship 2017 have been revealed. Among them are four Swiss startups. The finalists will pitch to the jury and the audience during the seif award ceremony on 2. October at Volkshaus Zurich. This year five winners from five categories will be chosen and each awarded CHF 10'000. An Audience award will...

Swiss startup, Kitro, providing solutions for optimizing performance by reducing avoidable food waste, has been selected among the ten startups from the hospitality industry to join the three months program by Metro accelerator in Berlin. Startups will receive, among others, an offer of €120,000 worth of investment.

Swissnex India is leading a delegation of experts from India through a week-long tour in Switzerland from 23^rd to 26^th October 2017 in Zurich, Lausanne and Berne respectively. They will explore the Swiss startup ecosystem and meet with key players from the ecosystem to establish collaborations. Startups will also have the chance to meet them 1:1 in...