The 21 winning ventures in the 15th IMD Startup Competition

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18.12.2012

Each year IMD searches for the most promising startups it can find in Switzerland, to work with the MBA students. Over the years almost 200 early-stage ventures have profited from this collaboration.

Below are the twenty-one startups that have been selected to work with the students in 2013. These 6 startups will work with the 66 members of the IMD Executive MBA class and accompany them to Silicon Valley in September 2013.
 
EELCEE SA
EELCEE develops, produces and sells composite preforms for structural parts making composites affordable for high-volume applications based on patented thermoplastic composite technology.

Faveeo
Faveeo is a web & social media discovery and monitoring tool. Our system discovers, filters and recommends relevant information according to the users' queries and interests.
 
Immersive Vision Technologies
IVT has developed a multi-camera system able to take 360° pictures and videos, using an embedded camera chip, which runs the proprietary image reconstruction algorithms/software.
 
KB Medical
KB Medical is commercializing a robotic system for more precise and efficient surgery. The initial focus is on high precision spine surgery.
 
LENR Cars
On-board electric generator to power zero-emission vehicles such as cars, trains, boats, airplanes, based on LENR thermal generator combined with an advanced thermoelectric converter.

L.E.S.S.
L.E.S.S. develops edge-lighting devices that enable the design of thinner, low-power consumption displays dedicated to the future tablets and ultrabooks.


The following 15 startups will collaborate with the 90 fulltime MBA students in 2013. 
 
c-crowd AG
c-crowd.com is the first Swiss crowdfunding platform, supporting local start-up companies and entrepreneurs by raising funds allowing them to implement their business models/ideas
 
Designergy SA             
Designergy’s goal is to develop an innovative solar building construction material that implements both solar (photovoltaic) energy exploitation and energy saving functions in a single element

Disintegra
Disintegra has 15 years of experience in grinding and homogenizing any material to result in nanoparticles and has a proprietary patent materialized by a nano-mill; apparatus embedding several innovations.
 
DistalMotion
DistalMotion is a medical device start-up providing an advanced surgical platform, the CO|DEX, that allows complex surgical procedures to be performed via a minimally invasive laparoscopic approach.
 
DNAwatch       
Developing for luxury watch industry a universal anti-counterfeiting solution. It consists of cover marking the watch glass with a nano-technology, which glows visible light when subjected to UV ray.
 
Emogen           
Speech technology that adds characters, emotions and expressions to any speech (natural or synthesized), making it useful for apps ranging from entertainment to medical domain.
 
Forensity
forensity supports forensic shoe track experts with an automated image comparison web-service and simplifies the detection of relations between crime scenes from different police departments.
 
Insight
Insight's computer vision based algorithms allow users to compose good photographic frames, by provding automatic suggestions of good compositions.
 
M7 Devices      
M7's “Trackcath” is a new medical device that allows the tracking of catheters inside the body during surgery without the use of ionizing radiations.
 
MN Signal Processing
MNSP has developed a binaural audio renderer allowing people to hear as if their ears were in a virtual environment. Potential applications include augmented reality, video games and teleconferencing.

Prevue Medical            
Prevue lets doctors make 3D printed models from patient data for surgery planning, diagnoses, and communication tools. Doctors make these models themselves, using our straight forward web tools.
 
SamanTree Technologies
SamanTree Technologies is a microscopy instrumentation company that develops and commercializes a new generation of imaging systems for clinical, diagnostic, biological and materials quality control.

SLYDE
SLYDE exists to create, develop, produce, sales, and marketing the first revolutionary touchscreen watch In the industry.
  
SpiroChem
SpiroChem is a Swiss company developing high-value-added small molecules and solutions for clients in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries worlwide.
 
VocaBoca
VocaBoca is a mobile and tablet application to effectively learn new vocabulary using some of the best available technologies.

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