FemBizSwiss Award honours six women digital shapers

Initiated by the Global Digital Women (GDW) – an international company of digital industry designers – the FemBizSwiss Award recognises female founders and designers from medium-sized companies or large corporations who are driving digitalisation in Switzerland. The second edition, held under the motto "beyond the next level" has awarded six women in six categories: communication, IT-Tech, Diversity, Innovation, Leadership and Digital Transformation.

Among the six winners are three females that are active in the Swiss startup scene. These are:

Olga Miler, CEO SmartPurse, category Communication
After 12 years in a corporate career at UBS, Millar has established her own businesses, bringing financial education initiative to women through Women & Money blog in collaboration with Watson News and the startup SmartPurse, an independent digital financial education toolkit that enables women to build their financial know-how in a simple, understandable and motivating way. The startup now reaches over 1'000 women in England and Switzerland.

Myriam Lingg CEO macu4, category IT-Tech
At Macu4, Lingg is developing innovative orthopaedic solutions by providing easy, fast, and gentle access to lightweight & breathable 3D printed devices based on parametric models. The startup’s first parameter-based design is a passive functional forearm prosthesis for children and adults. It is a customized solution with a focus on sports and recreational activities. The design was developed together with the users.

Xiao Jean Chen, CEO & Founder Venture Pole AG, category Diversity
As a business and technology hybrid, Chen founded VenturePole a venture investment platform and venture capital firm that builds smart tools to make venture capital faster, better and equitable with the aim of helping female founders and founders of colour raise funds. The platform is armed with smart tools like Investment Risk Rating, which uses machine learning to predict startup survival, alongside our Valuation Calculator and Company Strength & Weakness Analysis. VenturePole was selected for the Startupbootcamp China accelerator, the winner of the European Commission investment accelerator InvestHorizon, winner of the Mozilla Builders incubator, winner of the SIX F10 Fintech Accelerator, and winner of the Swiss PostFinance Innovation Co-work Award. The firm was also the finalist of the United Nations XPRIZE AI for Good Competition.

The three further winners are Jolanda Spiess-Hegglin, Managing Director #NetzCourage, in the category Innovation, Susanne Laurentia Häcki, Intrapreneur New Work & Mobility SBB in the category Leadership and Federica Suardi, Big Data Architect in the category Digital Transformation (Swiss Post).

(RAN)