International startups selected for the Kickstart program

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08.07.2016

20 companies from abroad have been selected for the first Kickstart Accelerator. Most of them are from different European countries but there are also start-ups from the US, China and Rwanda on the list.

The Kickstart acceleration program is an 11-week program open to the best international early-stage startups with promising business ideas. 28 out of 850 submitted applications from all over the world out have been nominated in four different verticals. Seven in Food, Six in Smart and connected machines, nine in Fintech and Seven in Future and Emerging Technologies. Follow the link to find out more about the nominated Swiss startups.

All nominees will be working in the same office space enabling them to benefit from interdisciplinary exchanges going beyond their vertical.


Smart and Connected Machines

tio: based in the United Kingdom, the Tio team designs educational tech experiences that capture curiosity and foster creative play. Its first product is a robotic building block and playful app for ages 5 and up. This connected building block makes it possible for girls and boys to build and program their first moving robotic toys.

Viscopic: The Germany based startup provides communication solution for industrial services. Its mission is to capture knowledge of field service experts when it’s generated and make it available for when it’s needed.

BOTA: based in Greece, the Bota is a developer of mechatronic devices for automation and robotics applications.its vision is to make robots feel and manipulate the physical world as easily as humans do.

Drofie: headquatered in Latvia, the startup engineered and developed the world’s first Folding, Smart, Auto-follow camera for the pocket.

Minebox: wth offices in Germany and Austria MineBox provides infrastructure and services for efficient and secure way of protecting, accessing, storing and backing up data. The startup utilizes peer-to-peer networks to create a shared economy where storage can be converted into digital asset while data loss will be an impossible scenario.

 

Future and Emerging Technologies:

LastMile: the Germany founded startup builds an artificial intelligence that allows people to access a database via natural language in messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, Slack, Email or text. This radically simplifies the way how people can access data.

Tickey: is a mobile ticketing app for smart cities that allows passengers to use all means of urban mobility with their smartphones without need of cash or cards.

EntoCube: The Finland-based startup aims at fixing the broken food system with insect farming technologies in order to increase production efficiency and output. Its microclimate control system ensures rapid growth and higher yields, while automation reduces labour costs and fluctuations in production. With these technologies the environmental and culinary benefits of insects can be harnessed by the masses.

 

Fintech

James: owned by New York-based Crowdprocess, is a SaaS for risk departments. James allows risk officers to build, test and validate credit-scoring models, and is equipped with Machine Learning algorithms, techniques and validation methods.

Sureify: by California-based Sureify Labs, is a SaaS-based engagement platform that provides a solution to carrier’s ongoing problem of staying connected to their policyholders. Sureify specializes in life insurance products.

Mergims: is a Rwandan mobile commerce and payments app that focuses on remittances to African countries. Mergims allows for the payment of mobile topups, utility bills, but also links to critical services such as hospital, medicines, school and transports.

Lenditapp: a New York-based company, provides a a cloud-based business process and Customer Acquisition Management solution for sales organization and funders catering to the alternative small business lending community.

Surong 360: is a Chinese startup that provides a platform for peer-to-peer (P2P) lending. Targeted at university students and alumni, Surong 360 doesn’t intervene in the transaction, but instead, functions as a social network for P2P lending with flexible interest rates.

Notakey: enables users to securely and remotely notarise restricted operations such as user logon, VPN protection, payments, and approval to agreements (legally binding in EU starting July 2016).

Nivaura, formerly known as Crowdaura, provides a blockchain-based digital platform for execution and lifecycle management of small financial assets. The company targets investment banks, asset managers, brokers, reinsurers and exchanges.

 

Food

Dalou is an England based startup offers offices breakfast delivery services to companies. With a proposed subscription companies are able to make their breakfast orders.

FoPo Food Powder is a german startup striving to reduce food waste by drying fruits & vegetables and turning them into powder, extending its shelf life from 2 weeks to 2 years while saving nutrition by up to 90%.

Pantry Ace: The London startup PantryAce completely modernizes professional kitchens through efficient labelling technology, digital stocktaking and operations data analytics. The company’s cost-effective solution makes it possible to for instance eradicate manual errors and save up to 90% of time on food labelling with its 3 clicks label printing.

myAllergy: a UK based startu aiming at becoming the preferred online destination dedicated to the needs of food allergy sufferers, by connecting, informing and empowering them to better understand their allergies and freeing them from the stress and anxiety associated with trying to eat safely.

Scoodit: The Scoodit App revolutionizes the way people cook by using the latest photo recognition technology to pinpoint ingredients you have and generate healthy recipes based on only those items. Through its interactive, easy-to-use and fun approach, Scoodit finally breaks your bad dietary habits, saves you time and eliminates food waste.

(RAN)

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