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Swiss Innovation Essentials is your daily digest curating the most insightful news hand-picked by top trusted experts in the industry.

Top news of the week: 28.01.2021.

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#Swistor
#IsabelleMusyAward
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Swiss Innovation

@startuptickerCH shared
On Jan 25, 2021
RT @venturekick: A new cohort of top-potential university spin-offs win CHF 10,000, set to innovate sleep, orthopedics, personal finance & data traffic. Welcome to Venture Kick: Galventa, inmodi, Kaspar&, Spirecut and @VersicsETH: https://t.co/ksEKdzzwPW #VentureKick #SwissStartups https://t.co/93WktdUoRh
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Startups developing an API for sleep inertia, a platform to assess knee, mastering financial life, improving postoperative results, and...

Startups developing an API for sleep inertia, a platform to assess knee, mastering financial life, improving postoperative results, and...

Galventa, Inmodi, Kaspar&, Spirecut and Versics win Venture Kick's first stage of financial and entrepreneurial support. Their projects treat sleep inertia to adjust sleep-wake cycle, ...

@eugen12 shared
On Jan 26, 2021
RT @startuptickerCH: The #corona pandemic has affected risk capital events in Switzerland. #Investment in 2020 in technology-driven young companies fell by 7.4% to about CHF 2.1 billion. For more information visit https://t.co/jTTCK1tVwi | The Swiss Startup News channel https://t.co/h36jDsJ9XZ https://t.co/bnDy5vp4bp
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CHF 2.1 billion for start-ups: Stabilised at a high level

CHF 2.1 billion for start-ups: Stabilised at a high level

Investment in 2020 in technology-driven young companies fell by 7.4% to about CHF 2.1 billion, as shown in the current Swiss Venture Capital Report from the online news portal …

@FIT_fund shared
On Jan 27, 2021
RT @startupEPFL: 🏆✨ Clara Moldovan, the founder of #Swistor, and Margaux Duchamp, the founder of #ArcoScreen – both determined young EPFL graduates – are the two winners of this year’s #IsabelleMusyAward. Congratulations!! Full article: https://t.co/dS6bfywUtu
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Two young female entrepreneurs from EPFL win the Musy Award

Two young female entrepreneurs from EPFL win the Musy Award

Clara Moldovan, the founder of Swistor, and Margaux Duchamp, the founder of ArcoScreen – both determined young EPFL graduates – are the two winners of this year’s Isabelle Musy Award. ...

@swissnexChina shared
On Jan 25, 2021
RT @venturelab_ch: "The mountains help me get a fresh perspective and recharge" Venture Leader Dorina Thiess, CEO of TOP 100 Swiss startup @PiavitaVet shares insights on recreation, productivity, and what's most rewarding about founders life. Read: https://t.co/S0LnD3NyiG #TOP100SSU #VLeadersTech https://t.co/OUzsl5jOmV
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Piavita CEO Dorina Thiess: ‘The mountains help me get a fresh perspective and recharge’

Piavita CEO Dorina Thiess: ‘The mountains help me get a fresh perspective and recharge’

Dorina Thiess participated in our series about Switzerland’s most inspiring entrepreneurs: As the co-founder and CEO of Piavita, she transforms veterinary care with innovative digital ...

@SOPHiAGENETICS shared
On Jan 27, 2021
RT @ScaleUpVD: The three scale-ups @SOPHiAGENETICS, @kandoubus and @lunaphore enter the TOP 20 of the largest fundraising rounds in Switzerland in 2020 > https://t.co/2WIUxq72ll #VDTech #SwissTech #funding #ScaleUpVD cc @startuptickerCH https://t.co/0ToGnIiB8R
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2.1 billion for Swiss startups

2.1 billion for Swiss startups

Despite this, five Vaud startups together managed to raise CHF 272 million in 2020: SOPHiA Genetics (CHF 110 million), Kandou (CHF 84.1 million), Polares Medical (CHF 37.9 …

@EPFL_Park shared
On Jan 28, 2021
RT @startuptickerCH: Venture Kick running at full steam despite Covid-19 pandemic https://t.co/jTTCK1tVwi | The Swiss Startup News channel https://t.co/e14q8Y7fbA https://t.co/26EJigsqcI
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Venture Kick running at full steam despite Covid-19 pandemic

Venture Kick running at full steam despite Covid-19 pandemic

In 2020, Venture Kick supported 80 projects with CHF 5 million. “We kick startup ideas to global success with all the necessary support for the founders to advance their …

@venturelab_ch shared
On Jan 26, 2021
RT @venturekick: CHF 5 Million to apply Swiss precision to chemical engineering: @MicrocapsAG, a spin-off from @ETH Zurich, raises seed funding to commercialize its production of microcapsulates. Co-Founding CEO Michael Hagander about the great news: https://t.co/kWgeWp1bvh #VentureKick https://t.co/dbgBH1bmFs
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Microcaps closed a CHF 5 Million financing round to enable product commercialization and business expansion

Microcaps closed a CHF 5 Million financing round to enable product commercialization and business expansion

Microcaps, developing formulation, processes, and equipment to generate precision microcapsules, announced today that it has closed a CHF 5 million seed financing round co-led by Helvetica ...

@startuptickerCH shared
On Jan 28, 2021
RT @venturelab_ch: CHF 3.7 Million for fast and certified food safety: @SwissDeCode raises funding from @VVNPsg and @EITFood. Congrats to the ambitious team of Venture Leaders Gianpaolo Rando, and Brij Sahi! Read our exclusive interview: https://t.co/BKI0QZAVqv #TOP100SSU #VLeadersChina #FoodSafety https://t.co/gYMrDhlIx6
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SwissDeCode raises CHF 3.7 million to accelerate the technology for real-time certification of food authenticity and quality

SwissDeCode raises CHF 3.7 million to accelerate the technology for real-time certification of food authenticity and quality

SwissDeCode, a TOP 100 Startup and Venture Leader China, has closed its first venture round, raising CHF 3.7 million from VisVires New Protein (VVNP) and EIT Food (Europe’s leading food ...