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The booking platform for travel experiences announced that it has raised $484 million in a Series E round led by SoftBank Vision Fund and joined by co-investors Temasek, Lakestar, Korelya Capital and Heartcore Capital. Previous investors such as Swisscanto Invest by Zürcher Kantonalbank continue to support the company. The funding will put the company's...

Gestern feierte der Zürcher Blockchain-Hub Trust Square sein einjähriges Bestehen und nutzte den Anlass, um die weiteren Wachstumspläne bekannt zu geben. Neben der thematischen und der geografischen Expansion strebt Trust Square auch eine engere Zusammenarbeit mit etablierten Unternehmen an.

The Viva Technology trade fair will kick off in less than two days in Paris. The platform will again gather more than 100’000 visitors including 9000 startups from all over the world to celebrate Innovation. A Swiss Pavilion and a show featuring a young couple and its use of Swiss technology in everyday life should generate attention.

Fünf Organisationen aus der Deutsch- und Westschweiz haben das «Swiss Startup Coaching Network» gegründet. Es hat zum Ziel, regionale Non-Profit Startup-Organisationen zu vernetzen, um Synergien zu nutzen und gegenüber staatlichen Institutionen als ein Ansprechpartner auftreten zu können.

The top 30 finalists of the newly redesigned >>venture>> competition have been revealed. Focusing on three categories Hardware, Health & Nutrition and Software & Services, the competition offers a cash prize of CHF 350’000.

Three nominees are competing for this year’s Swiss Medtech Award. CAScination from Berne, EPFL spin-off GTX medical and Swiss-Belgian Sequana Medical show the broad spectrum of medical technologies. On June 6th the winner will receive a prize of 50’000 Swiss francs.

Startup experts from swissnex San Francisco, Boston, New York, India and the Embassy in London will visit in Switzerland for a roadshow from May 23-29. They will provide insights about global opportunities for Swiss startups to help them accelerate growth.

The newly founded umbrella organization «Impact Hub Switzerland» bundles the activities of all five Swiss impact hubs and allows the hubs to launch nation-wide projects such as the incubation program Circular Economy Transition. The merger will be celebrated with events in all five cities.

Joachim Mansur, der ehemalige CEO der Zürich Schweiz, ist Anfang Mai dem Verwaltungsrat des Zuger Startups Helvetic Care beigetreten. Mansur bringt nicht nur sein Know-How ein, sondern beteiligt sich auch mit einem Seed-Investment an Helvetic Care.

In May Aon has launched a new digital wellbeing app which utilizes dacadoo’s digital health score platform. In total, dacadoo is working with 30 Life & Health insurance operators globally including the largest insurance company in the world. The Zuruch-based company with offices around the world counts now more than 80 employees and reports a revenue...