The seventh year of the Swisscom StartUp Challenge saw a record 289 startups apply to win a week-long business acceleration program in Silicon Valley. Discover which of the ten finalists were selected by a jury of experts to travel to California this October.
CREAL3D, PXL Vision, People-Analytix AG, DeepCode and Gmelius are the winners of the seventh
Swisscom StartUp Challenge. All gave a successful pitch to the panel at the Swisscom Braingym in Bern. They will now travel to Silicon Valley for a specially tailored one-week Business Acceleration Programme.
is developing the future display of virtual and mixed-reality headsets and smart glasses. Our near-eye light-field projector creates hologram-like images with true optical depth, eliminating the eyestrain and nausea often caused by today’s devices, enhancing immersion, extending comfortable usage time and allowing conflict-less mixing of virtual and real worlds.
is a Swiss high-tech startup providing Daego®, a scalable software platform for the secure verification of digital identities, based on computer vision machine learning. Daego® provides maximum security with full automation and is helping companies to reduce fraud, lower the cost of customer onboarding and maximise sales conversion rates. PXL’s customers include Sunrise and SwissSign with the SwissID, among others.
combines a unique database, artificial intelligence and analytical forecasting methods to provide individuals and organisations with virtual career advice, skills gap analysis and relevant labour market trends. People-Analytix is making an important contribution to overcoming the upcoming challenges in today’s working world. The Zurich-based company was founded in Dec 2017.
is the platform for AI-powered code reviews. VC-backed ETH spin-off DeepCode brings the knowledge of the global development community to every software developer. The bot uses machine learning to process millions of commits in software projects and learns how to find many more critical bugs/vulnerabilities in your code than other tools.
transforms Gmail in your company’s workspace. Your inbox becomes a work hub for communication, collaboration and workflow automation with real-time syncing across all team members and devices, web & mobile. Gmelius is already trusted by more than 50k teams to manage customers and project pipelines from beginning to end.
Since the launch of the Swisscom StartUp Challenge in 2013, over 1,140 start-ups have applied to take part.