Venture Leaders South Africa 2020: 11 Swiss startups get ready to explore new market opportunities online
For the fourth year, and for the first time online, a team of 11 Swiss startups will discover the South African market as part of the Swiss Venture Leaders South Africa. The selection includes sciencepreneurs active in fintech, medtech, cleantech, and agritech.
The Swiss Venture Leaders South Africa program aims to boost the entrepreneurial know-how, growth potential, and exposure of Swiss sciencepreneurs by offering a unique online experience that connects entrepreneurs with the innovation hotspots of South Africa. The selection process for this year was so competitive that the program will include 11 Swiss startups for the first time.
From September 28 to October 2, the entrepreneurs will join an online market discovery program that includes workshops with local business experts and sessions with South African startups to support each other in defining local market entry in their respective markets. The Swiss and South African startups will also have the opportunity to pitch during the SA Innovation Summit.
The program takes place parallel to the advanced entrepreneurship training for the South African startups, a workshop culminating with the selection of the South African startup team 2020, which will attend an intense business development program in Switzerland early next year.
The program is supported by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, Switzerland (SERI) and the South African Technology and Innovation Agency (TIA). It is directed by the Leading House for South Africa - the University of Basel, national and international cooperation and operated by Venturelab.
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Congratulations to the 11 new Venture Leaders South Africa!
MEDICUD: Nonpowered vacuum-assisted closure device. We develop and commercialize a mechanically powered pump to be used in negative-pressure wound healing.
XIMMA: We develop sustainable information modeling solutions through local parametric investigation of microclimate, social, cultural, aesthetic, and vernacular contexts of participative spatial design.
HR Tech Ventures: HR business management tool that uses persona. The HR software is designed on blockchain technology. This analytics tool is built on top of existing databases and is located between business, marketing, and HR strategy... Read more
SWOXID: The technology is based on an innovative nanoporous aerogel composite filter which - upon solar irradiation - is able to render contaminated water safe by removing and inactivating infectious disease-causing biological agents. Read more
4bridges: 4cash.exchange - Disrupt or get disrupted!
4cash.exchange, Swiss cryptocurrency exchange, is accessible via any device which is connected to the internet. No download or installation required. Become part of the community. Buy, exchange, sell ... Read more
AgFlow SA: Agri trading analytics
AgFlow is a leading agribusiness market intelligence provider. The company’s comprehensive price discovery, supply & demand, and freight features offer smart and actionable insights to sector-wide sta... Read more
e-traid gmbh: Enable the world’s SMEs to connect to globabal markets
e-traid Mission: Enable the world’s SMEs to connect to global trade through e-commerce e-traid Services: e-traid helps SMEs build their e-commerce export strategy and launch into global markets via e... Read more
Evodrop AG: The Future of Drinking Water Treatment
Our specially developed and patented Evodrop nanomembrane can filter saline surface and groundwater efficiently and ecologically in accordance with Swiss drinking water quality (SVGW). Our technology ... Read more
Risklick AG: AI solutions enabling clinical trial risk analysis
Clinical trials (CTs) are used to determine whether an experimental treatment works well. Risklick AG is tackling the problem of high clinical trial failure (90%) which impose huge financial and ethic... Read more
Securaxis SA: Sounds analytics for smart cities
Securaxis turns sound into actionable insights for monitoring and exploitation of urban sound to improve cities' operations while saving money and to answer citizens' worries about privacy and sustain... Read more
SmartBreed GmbH: We offer insect breeders a complete breeding solution.
We offer insect breeders a local and complete breeding solution. We want to make the advantages of insects industrially usable and accessible for everyone. Therefore we offer stackable, fully automate... Read more
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