Venturelab sends 10 Startups to Silicon Valley
The Swiss National Startup Team will head to Silicon Valley in March. The roadshow will showcase Switzerland’s most-innovative technology startups to the industry’s leading investors.
This year’s Venture Leaders Technology roadshow to Silicon Valley is supported by Rothschild & Co Bank, Kellerhals Carrard, DPD, Swisscom, Canton de Vaud, EPF Lausanne and ETH Zurich. The ten innovative startups were chosen from more than 130 applicants, by a jury of professional investors and experts. The startups cover sectors ranging from agrotech and big data, to quantum technologies and the internet of things. The roadshow’s program of meetings with top-notch investors and industry leaders will accelerate the startups’ expansion into the U.S.-market and help them build global business networks.
For the last years U.S. investors were truly impressed by Switzerland’s high-tech startups. “Last year for example we had pitch sessions with Battery Ventures, Founders Fund and NEA, who all have several billion of assets-under-management. The investor agenda for 2019 is equally promising,” said Stefan Steiner, Venturelab’s co-managing director.
Dorina Thiess, chief executive and co-founder of Piavita, was part of the 2017 team. She won Silicon Valley investors through the Venture Leaders roadshow. “This was one of the most intense and most valuable weeks in my entrepreneurial journey so far. The network and visibility that I was able to create within this single week exceeded all my expectations.”
Several Venture Leaders Technology alumni were acquired by famous tech companies. Lemoptix and Composyt Light Labs (both bought by Intel), Faceshift (Apple), HouseTrip (TripAdvisor), Kooaba (Qualcomm) and Dacuda (Magic Leap).
carbon-fiber printing technology advances lightweight design by simplifying the use of high-performance materials.
is developing and commercializing novel, efficient, plant-inspired treatments against a broad range of plant fungal pathogens for post-harvest applications.
provides the market’s leading white-label system to launch and operate shared electric mobility systems.
provides street and satellite maps to businesses that need cartography integrated with their services. The software can process aerial and satellite imagery or geodata, and integrate customer-supplied data into the maps.
offers a novel technology for the production of microparticles and microcapsules used to protect active materials, such as drugs in medicine and fragrances in creams.
provides a brand-new CAD solution to make 3D design accessible, intuitive and faster. Mirrakoi? provides software that simulates real-world physical contact during the 3D digital modeling process and enables everyone with an idea to become a designer.
enables construction companies to reduce fabrication and installation costs by 75 percent. MOBBOT offers a fully digitalized process from a 3D scan of the open trench to custom-made concrete products made with additive manufacturing.
provides quantum sensors for applications where classical solutions are not enough. They develop solutions for their customers across a large range of applications from failure analysis of ultra- compact electronic systems to early-stage medical diagnostics.
provides video analysis algorithms for real-time object recognition and scene segmentation. With this technology, multi-camera robot setups can perform all traditional camera work tasks autonomously.
blends the internet-of-things, big data and social media to transform marketing in the beverage industry, and bring brands the closest to consumer's lips.
Follow the Venture Leaders Technology roadshow from March 24th to 29th using the hashtag #VleadersTech.
Meet the Venture Leaders Technology 2019 team in Zurich at the Startup Champions event at ETH Zurich on March 5th.
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