IMD announces 19 Winners of the Startup Competition

For the 14th consecutive year IMD has had the privilege of analyzing a large number of early-stage ventures from Switzerland and nearby, and we are proud to announce this year’s 19 winners of the IMD startup competition.

The first 4 companies will be working with IMD’s Executive MBA class from January through September 2012, including the Silicon Valley Discovery Expedition.

Bcomp
Andreas Brülhart, Christian Fischer & Cyrille Boinay
BComp develops and sells natural fibre composite products, replacing aluminium, carbon- or glass fibre composites with natural fibre composites (flax) and to make structures more efficient in terms of weight, resistance, rigidity, shock absorption, and damping.
www.bcomp.ch

BioVersys AG
Marc Gitzinger
BioVersys develops small chemical molecules that specifically switch off bacterial resistance against antibiotics on a genetic level.
www.bioversys.com

MindMaze
Tej Tadi, Pim van Wesel
MindMaze uniquely combines Virtual Reality and real-time correlated brain activity measurements into a highly portable, easy and very patient-friendly upper-limb motor rehabilitation system.

Pix4D
Olivier Küng, Christoph Strecha
Pix4D's software solutions enable existing lightweight flying robots to become the new generation of aerial mapping and surveying tools.
www.pix4d.com

The following 15 companies will work intensively with IMD’s 90 fulltime MBAs from January through March 2012.

L'Accent
Olivier Salom
A new concept of franchise stores born from a strategic alliance between the boundless creativity of a Japanese Food Designer and the ancestral agricultural know-how of a French Alpine Village.
www.laccent.com

Aeon Scientific AG
Dominik Bell
Aeon Scientific develops a medical product for the best possible control of heart catheters in order to improve treatments of highly relevant arrhythmias such as Atrial Fibrillation.
www.aeon-scientific.com

Citizen Of Our World
Remy Siegrist, Alastair Coull
Citizen Of Our World is a non-profit organization funding development projects democratically selected by its web 2.0 social network community.
www.coow.org

eSMART Technologies
Fabrizio Lo Conte
eSMART is an EPFL spinoff with a smart-plug, enabling anyone to measure and control any appliance and reduce energy consumption.
www.myesmart.com

EUROLACTIS SA
Pierluigi Christophe Orunesu
Eurolactis was born in Switzerland and is the first vertically integrated supply chain entirely focused on Donkey Milk powder production.
www.eurolactis.com

HypoPlus - Online Mortgage Finder
Silvan Kaufmann
HypoPlus has the next generation mortgage platform; its online calculator helps mortgage seekers compare prices on an individual level, and offers – based on exclusive partnerships with banks and insurances – cheap mortgages.
www.hypoplus.ch

iNNutriGEL AG
Adrian Krahn
iNNutriGEL develops and commercialize the "iPads" of gum confectionary for various industries from sweets and neutraceuticals to animal care. Our animal free jelly gums are filled with liquids such as drugs or active ingredients and resist the hottest areas in the world.
www.innutrigel.ch

KOALA.CH
Valentin Cogels, Matthias Fröhlicher
KOALA.CH is the recently launched leader for online shoe shopping in Switzerland, providing a great selection of shoes and brands, combined with risk-free purchasing and 5-star customer service.
www.koala.ch

KP Benta
Sergiy Pylnov, Sergiy Konovets
KP Benta is a startup created in Switzerland by two entrepreneurs aiming to enter competitive EU cat litter market. The main product is cat litter produced from high-quality bentonite clay mined in Ukraine.

nanotion ag
Christopher Latkoczy
nanotion develops, produces and commercializes next-generation analytical sensors to monitor and ensure the quality and safety of nano-enabled consumer goods, and to optimize their industrial production processes in real-time.
www.nanotion.ag

Pandora Underwater Equipment SA
Chris Webb, Andy Sinclair, Christopher Glez, David Bonzon
SUBA, the world’s first switch in /switch out cruise control for scuba divers, to simplify dive management by providing automatic control of descent, ascent, level control and other functions according to established safety norms and safety processes.
www.yoursuba.com

QualySense
Francesco Dell'Endice, Olga Mykhailova
QualySense - Excellence in grains, seeds and beans sorting
www.qualysense.com

QUENTIQ – It’s All About You
Manuel Heuer, Peter Ohnemus
QUENTIQ is a secure health platform which inspires you to live a healthier life.
www.quentiq.com

Uepaa(!!) Swiss Alpine Technology
Mathias Haussmann
Uepaa's turns every smartphone into a rescue, monitoring and alerting device through a disruptive mesh-technology that allows to trace and find every person carrying a smartphone, even in areas without mobile network coverage...and even better, turns every smartphone into an avalanche rescue beacon.
www.uepaa.ch

Visiotrack
Joint development of Swisscom and SwissPost
Bertrand Späth, Henriette Wendt
Visiotrack – know anytime where your shipment is and what is going on with it.