Kickstart’s 2022 cohort includes 13 Swiss startups

Kickstart is one of Europe's largest innovation platforms, bridging the gap between startups, companies, cities, foundations and universities to drive partnerships and deep technology innovation. Since its founding in 2015, Kickstart has supported more than 400 startups and delivered more than 200 deals in the form of pilots and commercial projects from over 80 countries.

The accelerator supports partners in identifying key themes and opportunities for open innovation. Each year the jury selects outstanding startups and scale-ups to participate in the ten-week programme to facilitate collaborative innovation partnerships and commercial deals to co-create in the form of Proofs-of-Concept, pilots and commercial projects with Kickstart partners, leading organizations and companies.

This year’s jury of 170 members has selected 43 scale-ups from 16 countries to participate in the program in Switzerland and Austria in September. Among them are 13 Swiss startups represented in all categories of New Work & Learning, Finance & Insurance, Food & Retail, Health & Wellbeing and Smart Cities.

New Work & Learning (7)

Get More Brain – developed a revolutionary Learning Experience Platform (LXP) for corporate learning.  The Get More Brain platform is the first full-scale digital learning ecosystem to enable employees' professional and career development.

Virtuosis – uses AI to analyze voices through video calls to predict mood and communication skills.

Further participants in the vertical: Leadbacker GmbH (Austria), Perfect Memory(France), SkyHive (USA), Workwolf (Canada) and Eevie(Germmany)

Finance & Insurance (12)

Aidonic – is is a blockchain solution for Social Fundraising and Last Mile Aid Distribution Technology, an ecosystem for humanitarian networks.

Boomerang Ideas – connected to all major social networks, allowing fully automated and targeted polling, opens up an entirely new channel for next generation market research.

Typewise – developed an AI Writing Solution that increases the speed, accuracy, and quality of written communication. The solution boosts customer service and sales productivity by 2-3x,

Unique – its AI-driven sales platform records and analyses sales conversations delivering real-time insights and coaching to sales teams helping them win more deals.

Further participants in the vertical: Bsurance(Austria), CyberSmart (UK), Doconomy (Sweden), Finmarie (Germany), Klimate (Denmark), Monkee (Austria), Surfly (Netherlands), The Climate Choice (Germany)

Food & Retail (6)

New Roots AG – uses traditional cheese-making techniques to produce plant-based cheese, and other dairy alternatives.

Further participants in the vertical: Ampliphi (USA) PlasticFri (Sweden), Purcell (USA), Nordic Umami (Finnland), SUPASO (Austria)

Health & Wellbeing (8)

Health Yourself AG – offers do-it-yourself healthcare products and services from testing to treatment.

Pro Aidants – is a Swiss advocacy organisation for family carers.

TOM Medications – developed the TOM app for medication management while ensuring data privacy

Further participants in the vertical: Deep Longevity (Hongkong), Happy Bob (Finnland), Keleya (Germany), Medicalmotion (Germany), Meersens (France)

Smart Cities (10)

AMP IT SA – offers electric vehicle drivers 100% renewable energy charging solutions

LEDCity AG – built a smart plug and play lighting system that uses AI-trained algorithms that control the light autonomously and dynamically to help reduce energy consumption by 90 percent.

Share.P – develops a plug-and-play system that digitalizes existing parking infrastructure and solves problems with parking cars and charging electric vehicles.

Further participants in the vertical: CTHINGS.CO (Poland), GRIN (Norway), MClimate JSC (Bulgaria), Naked Energy (UK), Nudgd (Sweden), Solar Gaps (Ukraine), Urbanistic (Germany)

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