📣 ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT: WELCOME #Kickstarters24! 📣
🎉 Meet Kickstart Innovation’s 2024 Cohort! We are thrilled to welcome 41 scaleups from 9 countries to Switzerland in September with over 200 partners.
#KeyHighlights:
Focus on Sustainability: Nearly half of the startups are working on sustainable solutions. 🌱
Future Topics: AI in healthcare, seaweed as food packaging, waste stream upcycling, alternative protein, fungi fermentation, medical data management, waste biomass processing, synthetic data, data storage and more. 🌐
Global Attractiveness: Proposals from over 48 countries for the 9th Kickstart Innovation program 2024
Powerful Partnerships: Collaborations with industry leaders! 🏢🤝
And the scaleups are….
📈Finance & Insurance: Multimodal, Keyless, NEUR.ON, hypt, Plumery, Billogram, Wequity, Enterprise Bot , YData
🛒Food & Retail: ProSeed.co, Nosh.bio, upgrain, B'ZEOS
🍎Health & Wellbeing: AllyWell, Spixii, teale, @Thryve, PlaynVoice, Lifen
📚New Work & Learning: HAPSTER, wyrd, Silatha, Interloom, Moodtalk
🏗️Smart Cities: Solskin by Zurich Soft Robotics, Zephr.xyz, Over Easy Solar, irmos technologies AG, Shayp, Thermosphr
♻️Climate Positive Mission - Circular Economy Initiative: Nature Coatings, Made of Air, BIOHM, Lixea
🤝Intrapreneurship
Enerjoy, AI Buddy, Opineo, VidaSense, Visenco, Protonica, Watchibia
♻️#CircularEconomy and sustainability were at the forefront of the decision-making process - with 50% of the final companies engaged in them, compared to 45% in 2023. Next to that the top trends in technologies were #AI & #Cybersecurity.
A big thank you to the 170+ judges, experts and partners who were involved in the final selection for this year’s program and over 100 additional partners globally who are championing innovation with us this year 👏🏼👏🏼
💡Kickstart continues to drive forward-thinking solutions, connecting startups with partners to foster internal and external innovation. The program has already facilitated over 310 business deals, supporting startups to secure more than CHF 2.5 billion in investments. 🚀
🎉Congratulations to all and looking forward to #makeithappen this year! 🚀
Read more on our website: https://lnkd.in/dtSiJkuP
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