IMD Startup Competition reveals the 2022/2023 winners

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12.12.2022
IMD Campus Lausanne

The selection round for the 25th annual IMD Startup Competition has closed after the jury selected 30 startups from various sectors to work with the MBA and EMBA classes of 2023. The first program kicks off in January with the MBA class.

Known for its excellence in executive education, IMD offers early-stage companies with promising solutions and a dedicated team the opportunity to develop their strategic and business model and get insights from participants in IMD’s MBA and Executive MBA programs. From January to April 2023, the MBA class will invest at least 500-600 work hours supporting the startups in Lausanne. The EMBA class, on the other hand, will work with the startups and pitch their solutions to venture capitalists and angels in Silicon Valley in September or November. The startup founders will also attend the pitching sessions in person.

The winners of the 2022/2023 IMD Startup Competition include 15 early-stage startups in each of the two categories:

Early-stage startups working with full-time MBA class of 2023

AdVentura Works | Alexander Manolov
AdVentura Works is building a solution for remote driving of forklifts to help logistics and industrial companies tackle employee shortages, improve efficiency, and reduce product damage in the warehouse.

Avelo | Melanie Aregger
Avelo makes every breath count with its breath collector for better diagnosis of respiratory infections.

Bottneuro | Shane Feng & Bekim Osmani
Bottneuro is developing personalised 3D-printed multifocal electrical stimulation headsets for the treatment of Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases.

craftt | Iain Wise
craftt is a subscription-based platform for local craft beer.

FLYDESK | JB Pimenta de Miranda
Following the pandemic, the majority of companies are shifting towards hybrid work. FLYDESK is a hybrid work app & service helping companies with remote team & desk booking management issues. |

Haidi | Romain Blaser
Haidi helps midsized companies simplify their Supply Chain with AI & smart decisions, providing cutting-edge forecasting & network algorithms.

HeroSupport | Giovanna Dipasquale
HeroSupport is a Swiss healthcare company improving cancer treatments' effectiveness, safety, cost-efficiency and universal access with personalised patient-positioning medical devices and standardised workflows and services.

Isochronic | Dr Melvin Haas
Isochronic develops new pick & place industrial robot solutions for the 2D material processing industry that are capable of transporting multiple parts simultaneously, thus vastly increasing the throughput compared to existing solutions.

Kidstorie | Juliette de Rivoire
Kidstorie is an online platform for pre-loved designer children’s clothing.

KimboCare | Murielle & Franck Tiambo
KimboCare is a digital health platform that enables the traceability of medical services delivered to a healthcare provider

MycoSense | Stéphane Doutriaux
Using 3D image processing and Machine Learning, MycoSense AI develops technologies for harvest optimisation, increasing the efficacy of human labour in industrial mushroom farming, and helping producers boost yields by 30% with the same infrastructure.

PhenomX Health |Jérôme Michaud & Dr. Colleen Fogarty Draper
PhenomX Health is on a mission to empower women to take control of their hormonal health and aging wellness journey, providing personalised nutrition and access to an integrated digital solution that aims at reducing the frequency and severity of their menopause symptoms.

Pulse Incubateur HES | Caroline Widmer
Pulse is the incubator of HES-SO Geneva supporting innovative ideas and entrepreneurial projects that are building solutions for tomorrow

SIBIUS | Corinne AVELINES
SIBIUS uses artificial intelligence and patented Digitrack technologies to create the first objective marker for cognitive disorders.

Xilva AG | Tim Duehrkoop
Creating the world market leader in early-stage regenerative forest investments.

Early-stage startups working with EMBA classes of 2023

Acodis | Ralph Penny & Martin Keller
Acodis, with its Intelligent Document processing, enables enterprises across the globe to better use their data by fusing the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning technology.

Acthera Therapeutics | Thierry Fumeaux
Acthera Therapeutics is developing unique and innovative nanotechnology for the targeted delivery of drugs, to increase the efficacy and safety of therapies, with acute cardiovascular events as the primary clinical indication and a clot-lysing drug as the lead compound.

Bearmind | Tom Bertrand & Mathieu Falbriard
Is developing wearables and software for brain injury prevention and performance optimisation in sports.

Composite Recycling | Mitchell Anderson & Guillaume Perben
Composite Recycling is closing the loop for glass fibre-reinforced plastics using mobilised recycling units to recover reusable glass fibre and oil to make new composites and new plastics.

Condensation | Alex Mouradian
Condensation supports application makers with an open-source backend system capable of scale with low latency, traceability, and security, using efficient data processing on distributed edge devices.

Cultivated biosciences | Tomas Turner
Creaminess from GMO-free yeast. The indulgence plant-based dairy needs to appeal to flexitarians.

Grownate | Andrea Fritschi
Grownate is a new digital platform that enables corporates to deepen and leverage their sustainability initiatives and thereby engage and build trust with their customers.

Neology | Aris Maroonian
Neology enables the net-zero economy of the future, leveraging ammonia as the energy vector and unlocking the hydrogen eco-system through their proprietary ammonia-cracking technology.

machineMD | Phil Norris & Dominic Senn
machineMD is radically improving the early diagnosis of brain disorders with a unique combination of virtual reality and artificial intelligence.

Matchspace Music | Patrick Koller
Swiss-based Matchspace Music is the leading full-service music edtech platform that makes music accessible to everyone.

Qaptis | Theodore Caby
Qaptis is a spin-off from EPFL, building a CO2 capture technology. This technological innovation retrofits existing heavy vehicles and can capture up to 90% of their carbon emissions.

SightIn Health | William King
SightIn Health’s Machine Vision and Artificial Intelligence software enable anyone to operate, interpret and analyse point-of-care ultrasound without needing any prior training.

Swisspod Technologies | Denis Tudor
Swisspod Technologies is a deep-tech company that aims to accelerate the adoption of Hyperloop Transportation by developing the required technology building blocks.

Thinkgate | Dominique Henri
Thinkgate is developing highly accurate deep-learning-based crowd mobility prediction software to support optimal airport resource allocation, reduce waiting times and enhance the passenger experience.

Voltiris | Nicolas Webe
Harvesting crops and producing energy without compromise, with solar modules leveraging the sunlight not used by photosynthesis.

(Press release/RAN)

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