Female Innovation Forum: six startups nominated for two awards

Organised by the Swiss Ladies Drive, the annual Female Innovation Forum, which aims to shine a light on female innovators, takes place for the fifth time at the BMW Experience Center in Dielsdorf. The event brings together female innovators, investors, founders, networkers, and business angels to exchange knowledge and grow their network.

Alongside workshops and keynotes, the event will host an award ceremony to award prizes in six categories. The main award categories – “Female Innovator of the Year” and the “Recognition Award” – reward female entrepreneurs that contribute to strengthening the Swiss econony with their innovative and sustainable solutions. The event’s partners will also honour four other female founders in the areas of “Diversity & Inclusion”, “Digital”, “Social”, and the Newcomer of the Year. The list for the total of six awards is accordingly diverse and includes 40 startups (co)founded by women that made it onto the long list. The jury comprises 22 female founders, entrepreneurs, business angels and journalists.

Nominees for the Female Innovator of the Year are:

Stefanie Flückiger-Mangual CEO Tolremo – aiming to prevent drug resistance in cancer, Tolremo developed a proprietary drug discovery engine that identifies novel drug resistance regulators and the development of small molecule therapies against non-mutational drug resistance. The company’s drug candidates complement standard cancer therapies to offer better response rates, longer survival and improved quality of life.

Anastasia Hofmann & Naomi Mackenzie, Co-founders Kitro SA – the startup helps restaurants, canteens, hotels and medical centers reduce food waste by up to 60%, thanks to an automated food waste management system.

Paulina Grnarova, Co-founder and CEO DeepJudge – founded as the first ETH AI center spinnoff, DeepJudge developed an AI platform that automates legal document processing to enable law firms, courts, and legal departments to save time.

Nominees for the Recognition Award are:

Penny Schiffer, Co-founder CEO of Raized – offers a self-learning AI-powered engine to select the best startups to invest in, making venture capital more intelligent, data-driven and automated.

Natalie Moral, CEO and Co-founder of Clima Now – the company mobilises dormant capital, finance climate solutions, showcases them and democratizes decision-making with the community. Every cent received goes directly into climate projects.

Judith Häberli, CEO & Co-founder of Urban Connect AG – built a multimodal sustainable mobility platform that offers companies an ecosystem of low-emission, shared vehicles.

Registration for the event on 7 July is open. Visit the website for further information.

(RAN)