A global stage for Swiss innovators

Smartest Learning – Nvidia Inception, US
Edtech startup Smartest Learning combines computer vision with natural language processing to automatically turn study materials into interactive exercises. The app allows users –learners and teachers – to create personal, playful learning experiences from their own materials with just a few clicks, and track their progress effortlessly. This reduces the amount of manual, often tedious hours it takes to create engaging study materials to mere minutes. By joining NVIDIA Inception, which helps startups during critical stages of product development, prototyping and deployment, Smartest Learning will receive support to build its AI-powered digital learning assistant, and the opportunity to collaborate with industry-leading experts and other AI-driven organizations.

AMF Medical, Selmod and Big Blue People– MassChallenge US
Three Swiss startups made it into the MassChallenge program in Houston, Rhode Island and Austin in the United States. AMF Medical developed Sigi, a plug & go insulin patch pump, for closed-loop - offering: a simple, better life for people with Diabetes while Selmod invents and develops innovative antibiotics against infections by microorganisms resistant to established therapies. Big Blue People from Luzern is offering a trustworthy marketplace where people can offer/book services through an app/web platform, changing the way services are offered today.

Zaphiro –ENGIE Innovation, France
Cleantech startup Zaphiro is one of the winners of ENGIE Innovation’s Call for Projects to develop new solutions for power quality (PQ) assessment within medium voltage grids that gives the opportunity to execute the project in a real-life test case at Windnet Oost-Flevoland. The startup is responding to the “Measurements Strategies for PQ Monitoring” to analyze and solve PQ problems during operation with a fully time-synchronized measurement technology. Its SynchroGuard allows to continuously monitor PQ parameter (harmonics, slow/fast voltage variations) over different time ranges (from sub-second events to hourly trends) and cross-correlate PQ events in different places of the grid to understand the source of the PQ problem.

Smart Helio – AWS Clean Energy Accelerator program
The panel from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Freshwater Advisors selected ten startups for its inaugural AWS Clean Energy Accelerator program designed to help address the crucial need for cleantech innovation and collaborative solutions to address the global climate and clean energy challenges. Smart Helio, a deep-tech clean energy startup using proprietary Edge sensors and intelligent software to make solar plants live longer and greener, is one of the ten selected startups. As part of the five-week program, the cohort will receive technical, business, and go-to-market mentorship from AWS clean energy experts, up to $50,000 in AWS Promotional Credit through AWS Activate, and collaboration opportunities with AWS energy customers, industry leaders and members of AWS Partner Network (APN) looking for clean energy solutions.

Novigenix – Felix Burda Award in Medicine & Science, Germany
The Felix Burda Award in Medicine & Science recognises individuals and teams having made outstanding contributions to the prevention and early detection of colorectal cancer. Swiss biotech Novigenix won the category ‘Innovation in Immuno-Transcriptomics for Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer’. Novigenix is a precision medicine biotech providing a new understanding of the human host immune response to cancer. Novigenix's unique Immuno-Transcriptomic platform enables an accelerated identification of disease-specific mRNA signatures of immune cells, which combined with machine learning and predictive algorithms provide precision solutions for detection of disease and response to therapeutic intervention.

Domosafety – Alperia Startup Factory III, Italy
With its Safety @home solutions which offer 24/7 technical emergency support, DomoSaftey improves the quality of life of elderly people and their relatives. Thanks to its innovativeness, the startup has won a prize in the Alperia Startup Factory III award competition for solutions in the energy sector. Alperia is the eletricity company of South Tyrol. The four winners - selected out of 189 applicants from all over the world - are now implementing their projects in collaboration with Alperia.

Menu Technology – Food and Beverages Technology Review Award
Selected by the jury for the Food and Beverages Technology Review, MENU Technologies is among the TOP 10 companies that are at the forefront of tackling customer challenges. The Zug based startup developed an advanced digital restaurant platform that enables customers can now place orders for dine-in, takeout, delivery, curbside or drive-thru catering. The modular ecosystem with a central data hub enables ordering via direct channels (web, mobile, kiosk) and third-party delivery marketplaces, Google & social media channels. Aiming to eliminate manual processing of meal ordering and payment, MENU empowers restaurants to cover diverse order types and integrates with numerous payment processors, POS systems, delivery and dispatching service providers, analytic tools, marketing automation & CRM apps. More than 1000 restaurants worldwide including global brands like Burger Kind, Dominos or Dean & Davids already rely on MENU to enhance their customer experience and boost growth.

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