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The Swiss innovation platform Kickstart has selected 48 growth companies from 17 countries to participate in this year's edition. From Switzerland, 14 startups in five verticals made it into the program.

The American multinational company launched its first fintech competition with the aim to launch joint solutions with later stage startups and scale-ups. Among the four winners were the two Swiss companies Araneum Technologies and Squirro.

Das ETH Spin-off Futurae und Scalable Capital, Europas grösster Robo-Advisor, haben eine Partnerschaft bekannt gegeben. Futuraes Multi-Faktor Authentication Suite wird nun in die Scalable-Capital-Investment-Plattform integriert.

Isphero’s 3D InSight Human Liver Disease Discovery Platform is a breakthrough in 3D cell technology for drug discovery and safety testing. The platform fills the unmet need in the research community for fast, efficient screening of drug candidates to address liver diseases.

Venturelab has nominated the ten startups that will attend a 6-day business development trip in Hong Kong. The startups will get the opportunity to explore the booming market and meet potential partners and customers. The selected cohort has a wide range of solutions covering the entire fintech spectrum.

Over recent days, seasoned personalities with a track record of achievements have joined startups' management boards. Among them is Denis Just, the serial entrepreneur behind Numbrs, Knip, and Ergo. Just is now the new CEO of Smallpdf.

Last year, the UK's leading logistics company Hermes, deployed 4,000 smartphones loaded with the Scandit-powered application. The latter will now replace and retire 15,000 old barcode scanners with Scandit’s technology.

Die Startups DEPsys, Rqmicro, ShoeSize.Me, Bcomp, Mpower und Nexxiot haben vom Technologiefonds Darlehensbürgschaften erhalten. Derzeit befinden sich 73 Unternehmen und Startups im Portfolio des Technologiefonds, insgesamt wurde eine Bürgschaftssumme von über 100 Millionen Franken zugesprochen.

iKentoo, offering iPad-based POS systems has been acquired by the Canadian company Lightspeed POS Inc. The company, which raised a total of CHF6.8 million in 2017 will continue its development to serve its more than 3800 existing customers.

In August, the Zurich based medtech startup Caressoma will represent Switzerland at the Virginia Tech Global Entrepreneur Challenge in the United States to compete for a $25’000 prize money. The startup developed SonIt, an innovative solution to prevent injuries in athletes.