L.E.S.S. wins Prix Strategis

The Prix Strategis has been awarded every year for more than 20 years by the association HEC Espace Entreprise. Prix Strategis was intended as a springboard for young enterprises that have a big potential. It was designed to promote promising start-ups at a key moment of their existence in a financial and strategic point of view. To make the 20th edition of the Prize special as well as the following ones, the organizers decided to open Prix Strategis to all start-ups throughout Switzerland.

L.E.S.S. is an emerging company that develops edge lighting devices that enable the design of thinner, low-power consumption displays, perfect for the growing market of tablets and ultrabooks. Light is not distributed through various LEDs placed successively, but by dispersing a radius no bigger than a hair. The system works much like a hose in which we would have made holes all along in order for the water to be distributed evenly. At a system level, our technology enables the manufacturers to provide tablets and notebooks with increased autonomy or faster processors with the same battery budget.

During the last months L.E.S.S. has achieved some important milestones. In January the company released a new product: The ShadowLESS illuminator, an ultra-bright, ultra-uniform ring of light dedicated to the quality inspection of products and components. In February L.E.S.S. announced a sales partnership with Hitachi High Tech for Japan, following recent successes in this market.

The two other finalists of this year’s Prix Strategis are DomoSafety and Newscron.