Kickstart 2021 is ready to kick off: 11 Swiss startups among the participants

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27.07.2021
The sixth edition of the Kickstart program is ready to kick off. A panel of 200 juries have selected 51 high growth startups and intrapreneurship teams from 20 countries to participate in a 10-week program. Eleven startups stem from Switzerland.

Kickstart, one of the largest European Innovation Platforms, promotes tech-driven businesses and innovations to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. In its 6th year, Kickstart is bridging the gap between startups, corporations, cities, foundations and universities to accelerate partnerships and deep tech innovation. Since 2015, Kickstart has supported over 200 startups and facilitated over 170 deals in the form of collaborations in over 40 countries, raising more than CHF 850 million in investments so far.

For the next round, over 200 judges selected 51 participants from 20 countries with a core focus on Circular Economy, sustainability and digitalization at the forefront of their focus areas including EdTech & New Work, FinTech & InsurTech, Food & Retail Tech, HealthTech, Smart City & Technology, as well as Intrapreneurship.

Eleven startups have their roots in Switzerland. These are:

EdTech & New Work 

Evrlearn – built a matchmaking platform to connect its community with curated re- and upskilling opportunities to build future-proof skills and to present the skills to get the jobs.

Mentessa – drives know-how exchange & connection in the new world of work. The startup is building a deep-tech matching for skill-based matching that connects the community for mentoring, diversity & know-how exchange, as well as through individual consulting projects.

FinTech & InsurTech

acodis – can convert any document in any language into valuable structured information in just a few seconds, thus reducing manual copy/pasting tasks.

CYSEC – provides ARCA Trusted OS, a software-based solution for protecting containerized platforms, applications and workloads in the cloud or in embedded platforms. The solution is being used to secure Finance, IoT and Space applications.

Helvengo – has the mission to become the most suitable and convenient insurance product provider for SMEs in Europe. Its modular products cover what's recommended in their AI-based risk assessment, tailor-made for each startup, SME and can be closed fully digitally and in real-time.

riskwolf – enables insurers to create simple, reliable products quickly to insure the emerging risks in the digital economy.

Food & Retail Tech

Tide Ocean SA –is a Swiss company collecting 100% ocean-bound plastic and turning it into a valuable raw material.

Yoordi – enables guests to scan, order and pay from company’s websites for delivery, take away and much more using their smartphone.

HealthTech

Clever.Care –  enables clients and their relatives to communicate and coordinate with their Spitex easily, directly and securely.

VAY AG – measure the velocity of specific human body parts to analyse movement speed and count repetitions using computer vision technology.

Smart City & Technology

Soobr – offers optimized and demand-oriented planning and execution of cleaning tours based on data and artificial intelligence.

Intrapreneurship nurtures sustainable cultural change in established corporations
Intrapreneurship can help accelerate both growth and innovation in organizations, recognizing talent and the bid for a big idea as a worthwhile investment. From the first selection, eight intrapreneurship teams will also be part of the 2021 cohort representing Swisscom, la Mobilière, Migros and PostFinance this year with possible additions from the second selection deadline of applications by end of August.

The Intrapreneurship teams are

INFRABOX, Swisscom (Smart City & Technology)

Life Sensor, Swisscom (HealthTech)

Miira, PostFinance (FinTech & InsurTech)

MI-Share, Migros (Food & Retail Tech)

MITA, Migros (EdTech & New Work)

Swiss Climate Challenge, PostFinance & Swisscom (Smart City & Technology)

TWINTECH, Mobiliar (Smart City & Technology)

XR Meeting, Swisscom (EdTech & New Work)

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Company profiles on startup.ch

Acodis AG

CYSEC SA

helvengo AG

Riskwolf AG

VAY AG

Yoordi AG

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