Four companies awarded with the CTI start-up Label

CTI Start-up enables creative entrepreneurs to realize their innovative business ideas quickly and professionally. Through a three-phase, firmly guided process lasting 6 to 24 months, a dedicated coach will help the venture’s project evolve. At the end of Phase III of the coaching process, companies can apply for the CTI Start-up Label. Only the best companies which had entered the process will get it. On Tuesday four new companies were awarded with the label.
 
Dynamic Devices, based in Zurich, has developed computer-controlled training robots for neuro-rehabilitation, physical therapy, athletic training and fitness. The first product is a user-centered training robot, the “Dynamic Leg Press” of which several units have been sold already. One of the first customers was the ice hockey club EV Zug.
 
Ethimedix, based in Nyon, is a medical device company developing a medication dispenser. The product called BTD3 is a controlled drug delivery device suitable for medicine in a drinkable form. It allows for safe and monitored use of strictly regulated or difficult to adhere drugs in both a homecare and ambulatory setting. The device aims to improve patient and legal compliance and prevent abuse, misuse and diversion while respecting prescription adherence.
 
The founders of Kandou have developed an algorithm that allows more efficient communications between processors and memory, printers or other peripherals – resulting in energy savings of up to 50%. Kandou's technology dramatically increases the battery life of mobile devices or substantially lowers heat dissipation and accelerates data throughput of graphics cards and server backplanes. In March the EPFL spin-off has closed an USD10m Series A financing round.
 
Created in 2005 in Vevey, Switzerland, Odus Technologies was originally responsible to run major R&D activities for Produits Dentaires S.A., its mother company which is a manufacturer of medical devices and pharmaceuticals for dental use. Odus Technologies S.A. is now developing and commercializing Satya Control, an independent system for acquisition, recording and analysis of sterilization cycles. Satya allows to ensure the traceability and control of the processes related to the reprocessing (washing, disinfection, sterilization) of dental and surgical instruments.