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All our

verticals

Finance & Insurance

Based in one of the world’s leading financial cities, Kickstart is at the forefront of cutting-edge innovation in the finance and insurance sector.

Food &
Retail

Disruptive solutions tackling challenges in the Food and Retail sector to create positive impact on the current climate and health crises.

Health & Wellbeing

Innovative solutions that feed Switzerland's dynamic and rapidly developing startup landscape in the digital health sector.

Intrapreneur-

ship

We encourage, select and coach intrapreneurship teams of our partner companies to grow from prototype to a scaled solution.

New Work & Learning

Tackling the shifts that are influencing organizational work and the new cultures of learning by enabling innovative solutions and industry leaders for sustainable development.

Smart

Cities

Sustainable urbanization is key to successful development. Kickstart works to advance smart technology of businesses and cities.

New Work & Learning

The impact of new technologies like AI and rapid changes to the labour market has shifted the way how organizations manage their workforce and ways of working. It is estimated that 1 billion people will be reskilled by 2030.

 

The New Work & Learning Vertical wants to shape the future of workplace engagement with its partners to enable collaborative solutions for reskilling and upskilling organizations. Our mission is to work with startups and entrepreneurs who want to create opportunities for products and services to have a meaningful impact at scale. We want to empower organizations to become future-proof and sustainable for the continuous paradigm shifts in our work.

Collaboration areas

New Ways of Working

Human Resources

Corporate & Lifelong Learning

Vertical partners

AXA
Coop
ETH Zurich
IKEA Switzerland
PostFinance
Sanitas
Swisscom

Vertical board

Brigitte Lawler

Brigitte Lawler

LEGEND SA

CEO

Herbert Sablotny

Herbert Sablotny

Beekeeper

CFO

Sylvestre Lucia

Sylvestre Lucia

thirty3

Co-Founder

Your team

Anikó Ivanics

Anikó Ivanics

New Work & Learning Lead

Andrea Bianchi

Andrea Bianchi

Program Manager

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Case studies

PostFinance created a digital coaching program on the Cognician platform

PostFinance and Cognician’s PoC produced exciting results in helping learners reach predefined program learning outcomes. Agile collaboration was key in activating learners’ commitment and planning, to ensure they got maximum value from this blended learning solution. Read the case study here

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