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The technology of the Swiss start-up Faceshift, which Apple bought two years ago, plays an important role in the new iPhone X. TechCrunch reports about Teralytics, another spin-off from ETH Zurich. Climeworks’ world-changing machine is featured by Bloomberg. And The Next Web explains why you need to pay attention to Switzerland as a startup nation. Our...

Die Gebäude am Zürcher Sihlquai, in denen sich unter anderem der Impact Hub Zürich und der BlueLion befinden, können zwei Jahre länger genutzt werden als bisher geplant. 

Kenzen, an innovator of wearables for precision health, has two headquarters in San Francisco and Switzerland. The combination works well, the start-up raised $5 million from strategic investors. The team in Switzerland will now be expanded. 

Am 13. September öffnet das Digital Festival in Zürich seine Tore. Nach dem erfolgreichen Start im letzten Jahr mit über 2500 Besucherinnen und Besuchern, will das mehrtägige Event die Erfolgsgeschichte im Jahr 2017 weiterschreiben.

This month, SICTIC has organised 3 Investor Day events in Zurich, Geneva and Liechtenstein on the 21^st, 25^th and 27^th September respectively. SICTIC Investor Day is a match making event where tech startups pitch to find experienced investors and supporters. For each of the three events the jury has selected the startups to pitch before the investors.

The Swiss Federal Commission For Technology and Innovation, CTI, is funding a joint project by Carbon Delta and the Weather and Climate Risk Group at ETH Zürich to develop a tool for the assessment of current and future tropical cyclone risks. Such tools are required for a successful climate risk mitigation by governments, enterprises and investors.

Gestern wurde das diesjährige Kickstart Acclerator Programm in Zürich offiziell gestartet. Am Anlass wurde auch eine neue Partnerschaft des Kickstart Accelerator-Startup Veezoo mit der AXA bekannt gegeben. 

Swiss Startup Invest has completely redesigned its Swiss Venture Day to allow for one to one meetings, keynote speeches and startup pitches. The first Venture Day Romandie in the new format will take place on 19 September. More than 130 people have already registered.

La 7ème édition du TOP 100 des meilleures start-up suisses a eu lieu ce soir à Zurich en présence de plus de 700 invités. Les jeunes pousses au TOP 3 sont Ava (Zurich), L.E.S.S. (Lausanne) et Flyability (Lausanne). / Die Gewinner des Top 100 Swiss Startup Award 2017 sind Ava, L.E.S.S. und Flyability, Startups, die global expandieren und bereits mehrere...

The seventh edition of the TOP 100 Swiss startup ranking was disclosed tonight in front of more than 700 people in the old NZZ printing house in Schlieren. The broad spectrum of innovative high-tech startups attracted dozens of investors from abroad, and even from China. The 2017 ranking winners are Ava, L.E.S.S. and Flyability, startups which are expanding...