venturelab startups Nanolive and SwissLitho awarded by the “Oscar of invention”

SwissLitho AG and Nanolive were announced among the winners of the 2015 R&D 100 award. This annual global award, the “Oscar of invention”, recognizes the top 100 companies with the most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year.

Two venture leaders USA (both in 2013) and TOP 100 Swiss Startups Award winners, SwissLitho AG and Nanolive SA, received an award at the 53rd R&D award in the categories Process/Protityping and Analytical/Test respectively for their innovation and development of high-tech products and processes in 2014.
 
SwissLitho AG was founded in 2012 as a spin-off of the IBM research Zurich and won in the same year the Venture Kick final. In 2013 the Startup was part of the Swiss National Startup Team, the venture leaders, in the US. The IBM research center is world-renowned for its expertise in micro- and nanotechnology. A new production method for three-dimensional nanostructures was developed there. SwissLitho is successfully commercializing this expertise and is currently building a global sales and distribution network.
 
Nanolive was as well part of the venture leaders USA program in 2013 and developed a microscope that enables comprehensive examination of living cells in three dimensions. Among others, their 3D Cell Explorer makes it possible to document the effects of medications and chemicals on a cell. For this technology, which opens up new opportunities in the development of pharmaceuticals, Nanolive became the first company from western Switzerland land which received the ZKB pioneer prize in 2015after stepping up on the 3rd march of the PERL Prize’s podium. Early December 2015, Nanolive’s revolutionary product and technology was chosen by The Scientist’s TOP10 inventions of 2015.

The U.S. based R&D 100 Award is an international annual award that recognizes and honors leaders of the science and technology industries for their innovative, high-tech products and processes. Some of them major participants in the award are established fortune companies, federally financed research institutions as well as academic and government labs.