10 Venture Leaders China Winners Prepare for a 10-Day Roadshow in Chinese Innovation Hubs

Following in the footsteps of startups such as Cellestia Biotech, Flyability and Ava Women, the latest Venture Leaders team will showcase Switzerland’s innovative technology across mainland China and Hong Kong, and at the World Economic Forum's summer event in Dalian.

 

The ten-day tour, including intense pitching and networking sessions with China's technology investors and leaders in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Dalian and Beijing. It will be Venturelab’s 27th global roadshow with the Swiss National Startup Team. The program will offer the entrepreneurs multiple sessions with investors, and insights into doing business in the world’s fastest-growing innovation market.

 

From medtech to music application, a display of fast-growing Swiss startups

 

The winner are amazing entrepreneurs with global ambitions, who are active internationally and have already raised several million francs in investments. The ten startups are a reflection of the breadth of Switzerland’s technology leadership, representing innovation in medtech, drones, business and consumer software, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, IoT and nanotechnology.

 

“China is one of the most exciting, complex markets in the world, so we want to ensure that Swiss startups have the best chances there,” said Jordi Montserrat, managing partner of Venturelab. “After five years, we are extremely proud of the program’s track-record and alumni-successes.”

 

During last year's edition leukemia drug-developer Cellestia Biotech AG made connections that led to regional investors joining the company's $20 million round.

"Venture Leaders is a one-of-its-kind program that has been instrumental in helping me reach out to potential investors and potential business partners in mainland China, Hong Kong and Asia. These contacts led to having them join our Series A, which is a great asset for our future development. The meetings and program organized by Venturelab and swissnex China for this roadshow were just world class," said Cellestia's CSO Rahwinder Lehal.

 

Venture Leaders China 2019 is co-organised by Venturelab and swissnex China, and supported by: digitalswitzerland, EPF Lausanne, ETH Zurich, Gebert Rüf Stiftung, Canton Vaud, VISCHER, and Canton Zurich.

Venture Leaders China 2019 winners

 

Beekeeper AG | Daniel Sztutwojner | www.beekeeper.io

 

Two billion people in the global workforce don’t work at a desk and aren’t given corporate email addresses. Beekeeper’s mission is to transform the way these frontline employees work with a mobile-first communication platform that reaches every shift, location, and language through real-time one-on-one and group messaging.

 

Exploris Health AG | Peter Ruff | www.exploris.info

 

Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Cardioexplorer is the first simple, accurate, non-invasive, AI-supported cardiovascular test for detection / exclusion of life-threatening constrictions of the heart arteries, the main cause of heart attacks.

 

Flybotix | Samir Bouabdallah | www.flybotix.com

 

Mandatory inspections of oil and gas industry infrastructure are expensive. Flybotix is developing a drone, combining the flight-time of larger quadcopters with the maneuverability of smaller drones, to fly inside narrow shafts and ducts.

 

holo one AG | Dominik Trost | www.holo-one.com

 

Much of current augmented reality technology is trapped in expensive, custom apps. Holo|one has developed a standardized AR-platform, sphere, to encompass the most-common use cases that industrial manufacturers, OEMs and architects can integrate simply.

 

IDUN Technologies AG | Simon Bachmann | www.iduntechnologies.ch

 

IDUN Technologies is developing and manufacturing soft and stretchable dry electrodes for biometric and stimulation wearables. The patent-pending surface structure of these electrodes provides high quality signals with skin-friendly materials without electrolyte gel.

 

LORIOT AG | Yannik Kopp | www.loriot.io

 

The Internet of Things is disrupting every industry sector. LORIOT provides the secure, reliable and scalable LoRaWAN network servers IoT clients need to deploy more quickly and more cheaply.

 

Lymphatica Medtech SA | Marco Pisano | www.lymphatica.ch

 

More than 16 million people have chronic lymphedema, a common, debilitating and incurable side-effect of cancer therapies. Lymphatica has patented the first implantable system for chronic lymphedema treatment that replaces the draining function of the damaged lymphatic vessels.

 

Piavita AG | Dorina Thiess | www.piavita.com

 

Equine vets are stuck in the dark ages when it comes to monitoring and diagnosing their patients. Piavita has developed a diagnostic system that enables the remote, long-term and precise monitoring of horses' vital signs.

 

Tomplay LLC | Alexis Steinmann | www.tomplay.com

 

Learning an instrument can be a difficult process and paper sheet music doesn't meet musicians' needs. As a result, many learners give-up. Tomplay's interactive sheet music lets musicians practice accompanied by high-quality audio recordings, with an automatically scrolling on-screen score.

 

Touchless Automation GmbH | Maurizio Migliore | www.touchless-automation.ch

 

Touchless Automation invented a novel tool that can manipulate components of any material, without touching them. Based on this technology, the company builds industrial machine for the manipulation and inspection of photonics, MEMS and micro-optical components.

 

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