Five companies awarded with the CTI Start-up Label

With the 5 new companies all in all 22 start-ups earned the Label “CTI Certified” this year. The new Label companies are:

Aeon Scientific has developed a unit that, with the help of a magnetic field, allows doctors to navigate a catheter with great precision.

FemtoTools has just changed its business model slightly. It produces precision tools and systems for sophisticated micromechanical testing or the microassembly of small objects.

Sensima Technology SA is a fabless semiconductor company specialized in the design and distribution of fully integrated CMOS magnetic sensors.

Tweasy develops and operates a SaaS (software as a service) platform  that  makes  it easy for SME’s to interact with customers by email, by mobile and by the web without any prior marketing or IT knowledge.

Vcomm solutions creates products for cooperation in virtutal worlds and for 3D web sites. Its products are used for distributed online cooperation and for long-distance learning.

Companies awarded with the CTI Start-up Label are successful. Since CTI Start-up initiated coaching in 1996, over 243 companies with the CTI Start-up Label created over 3'500 new jobs. Of these label companies over 85% are still active in business. It is not by chance that the companies succeed. The entrepreneurs are supported with coaching that takes place as part of CTI Start-up. The process begins with a fundamental review of the business concept. If this hurdle is overcome, what follows is a four to six-week evaluation at the end of which a committee of independent experts conducts a review in what is known as “coaching acceptance.” If they reach a positive decision, the applicant is entitled to business coaching from a CTI coach that, depending on the needs, lasts from six months to two years. At the end of this coaching phase, the entrepreneur’s project earns the label “CTI Certified,” which is intended to help the company when it starts looking for capital.