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The Emaar Group erected the tallest building in the world and now, it is unlocking the potential of blockchain technology by launching the Emaar community token. The token will be developed by Lykke, from Switzerland.

Das Food-Delivery-Startup Earlybird liefert in der Stadt Zürich gesundes Essen an Arbeitsplätze. Um der grossen Nachfrage gerecht zu werden, hat Earlybird die eigene Fahrzeugflotte ausgebaut und hat sich dabei Unterstützung vom Elektrofahrzeughersteller Kyburz gesichert.

The partnership of Sygnum and Swisscom dates back to 2018. Today, Deutsche Börse Group has joined the two allies to build a trusted digital asset ecosystem to provide a listing and trading venue for digital assets in the Swiss market.

Honda plans to build a portfolio of energy management products and services offering for customers and service operators of electric vehicles in Europe. Honda has been working with ETH Zurich spin-off EVTEC to further develop its bi-directional Honda Power Manager technology that will help to stabilise the grid using the batteries of electric vehicles.  

The Share Dispenser enables anyone to buy any number of shares instantaneously from the website of a company. Alethena, Lexr and Ledgy teamed up for the development and the legal setup of the product.

Leadinvestor der überzeichneten Finanzierungsrunde des SaaS-Startups ist investiere, weitere Investoren sind Wayra UK und die Schweizerische Post. Die Mittel werden zur Fortsetzung der internationalen Expansion und der Weiterentwicklung der Technologie eingesetzt.

Zurich-based AlgoTrader is on a growth path. After a successful 2018, the fintech has onboarded the Berlin-based crypto-currency investment fund tensoralpha. AlgoTrader also hired Jakob Bosshard as its new COO in order to maintain the rapid growth.

Previously, Zurich based Momenta Partners has supported a diverse group of companies including the Swiss startups Dizmo, Parquery and Koubachi. The firm has now launched a second venture capital fund, «The LPWAN Ecosystem Fund» for start-ups active in the field of Low Power Wide Area Networks.

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) In San Franciso, Swiss startup game developers will not only participate in the pitching contest, two of them will take the stage to address the audience at the GDC conference.

Hardware- und Medtech-Startups stehen beim Pionierpreis im Rampenlicht. Ob 9T Labs, Dicronis, oder Optimo Medical gewinnt, entscheidet sich am 7. Mai.