Red Herring announces European winners

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Stefan Kyora

22.04.2015

Red Herring announced this week the winners of the famous Red Herring Top 100 Europe. Among them are five Swiss start-ups.

The Red Herring Top 100 Europe Awards is given out yearly to the 100 most innovative and promising technology companies in Europe. The award is a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring’s editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.

The Top 100 Finalists for the 2015 edition of the Red Herring Europe award were shortlisted on the basis of their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. The awards for the best 100 companies were presented on 15th of April in an award ceremony held in Amsterdam.

Five Swiss start-ups are among the winners:

Bluetector: The Lucerne-based cleantech startup Bluetector addresses the steadily growing water market with an extremely competitive and innovative technology that is capable of cleaning various types of highly polluted wastewaters.

SelfiLogin, developed by OneVisage, is the first solution to run 3D facial modelling through standard smartphones, accelerating authentication processes for consumers. The service was unveiled at this year’s Mobile World Congress.

Qvanteq develops novel bioactive, coating-free stents to address and overcome the clinically adverse effects of today’s available stents. The Qstent has shown excellent in-growth and a low tendency to produce a thrombus or clot in pre-clinical studies and is now being tested on humans.

Terria Mobile has invented a system that increases the efficiency of developing, launching, updating and managing apps. For example, design updates and new functionality features can be added to all selected devices immediately, without users having to download a new version from the App Store.

VirtaMed develops and produces highly realistic surgical simulators for medical training. Surgeons use original instruments to train in a safe environment before performing surgeries on patients.


Apart from the start-ups two Swiss SME were awarded at the Red Herring 100: Jahia Solutions and Netstream. In addition CSEM, a Swiss company for applied research, has announced that a finnish start-up was awarded with a product based on CSEM's patented vital sign monitoring technology.

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