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Although it is still quite uncommon for startups to be bi-national from the very start their number is slowly rising. Two such startups are Labster and Yukka Lab, who participated in this year’s Kickstart program. The accelerator helped them strengthen their presence and network in Switzerland.

SIX FinTech Ventures, the CHF 50 million corporate venture fund of SIX, has invested in vestr and Shift Cryptosecurity, two early stage startups, both of which aim to revolutionize the Swiss Financial Centre.

Sonect, the pioneer of a virtual ATM network has won two investors; Loomis, a global cash management specialist, and the fintech venture fund SixThirty. Sonect will leverage on Loomis’ expertise and customer-base to accelerate growth.

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The Swiss innovation acceleration program Kickstart culminates tonight with the announcement of numerous technological partnerships and Proof of Concepts between start-ups and established corporations and organisations. in 2019, a cybersecurity vertical will be added to the program.

The next IPO Day of Startup Invest will take place on 13 November at Technopark Zurich. 90 participants have already registered.

Eine Jury hat die acht innovativsten Technologieprojekte 2018 bestimmt. Die Sieger in den drei Kategorien werden am 22. November am Swiss Innovation Forum in Basel bekannt gegeben. Für den Anlass haben wir eine Freikarte zu vergeben. 

Fintech start-up Sygnum has founded a joint venture with Swisscom for the secure storage of digital assets. Furthermore, the venture capital arm of the Singtel Group, Singtel Innov8, supports Sygnum with an investment. Sygnum plans to build a solution to securely issue digital assets in partnership with daura.

The winners of the Swisscom Startup Challenge are back in Switzerland again. The start-ups not only gained important insights from the trip that they can use to advance their technology, they also made important progress in business development.

The corporate startup summit is a two-day conference on corporate startup engagement, collaboration and co-creation, incubation and acceleration and intrapreneurship. Players in the corporate world will meet to discuss and learn more on corporate innovation. The summit will also award the best corporate activities in four categories.