Venturelab reveals the Swiss National Team travelling to the Silicon Valley

A jury comprising investors and experts has nominated ten innovative startups from more than 140 applicants to build the Swiss National Team for the Venture Leaders technology roadshow to the Silicon Valley. The startups cover sectors ranging from agtech and big data to quantum technologies and the internet of things.

During the tour, from March 30th to April 4th, the startups will participate in different activities including meetings with investors and industry leaders to help them accelerate their expansion into the U.S.-market, build global business networks and raise capital from investors.

Aero41, Frederic Hemmeler, (Aigle) –  a drone dedicated to crop protection. It includes a flight controller which follows at low level the complex plots and a flexible and intelligent platform that integrates AI and collects data to make crop protection eco-responsible and sufficient to ensure the necessary yields.

Distran, Florian Perrodin, (Zurich) – a gas leak detection sensor that sees the leaks, in real-time and from a safe distance. Based on the ultrasounds waves leaks are creating, the hand-held device pinpoints the leaks in all industrial environments from up to 20m and independently from the gas type.

Eyeware, Serban Mogos, (Martigny) – an eye-tracking software for cars, smartphones, laptops and more. Eyeware's software products enable attention sensing in 3D for a wide range of applications, including driver monitoring, gaming and shopper research.

GenLots, participant undisclosed ( Lausanne) – developed an artificial intelligence technology to discover the optimal way to place an industrial company's orders through time, based on its material requirements forecasts, while taking into account real parameters and complexity (perishability, lead times, storage, evolutionary prices, supplier constraints), to minimise the total cost of ownership.

Kido Dynamics, Ignacio Barrios Baños, (Lausanne) – democratises Big Data, providing the most advanced insights to make cities smarter. Companies, governments and public institutions can know deeply understand people’s mobility patterns: where they come from and go to, the routes they take, and time and seasonal aspects.

L2F – Learn to Forecast, Aldo Podesta, (Lausanne) – L2F’s technology “Giotto” is a Python-based machine learning platform created and designed to address problems in complex dynamical systems by bringing mathematical innovation to machine learning pipelines. It provides data scientists with a unique library for all state-of-the-art data analysis tools.

Nanos, Sasha Schriber, ( Zurich) –  offers marketing automation for non-expert users powered by machine learning algorithms - an all-in-one solution to create, publish and optimise ads simultaneously on various search platforms and social media channels.

Nanoleq, Vincent Martinez, (Zurich) – if developing the next generation of elastic conductors for the textile industry. Their first two products are StretchOne, the first stretchable cables for textile integration and ElectroSkin, the soft dry electrodes with the best-in-class conductivity and performance.

Sevensense, Gregory Hitz, (Zurich) – the startup’s autonomy-in-a-box is a versatile autonomous navigation system for all types of ground robots for complex environments such as crowded supermarkets, train stations and airports.

Skypull, Reinout Oussoren, ( Lugano) – an airborne wind energy system with ground-based generator. With 95% less material than wind turbines but double their production capacity, it produces renewable energy at the lowest cost.

Meet the Venture Leaders Technology 2020 team in Zurich at the Startup Champions event at ETH Zurich on March 4th.

(Press release/ran)