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Dec 4, 2024
KICKSTART 2024: New Milestones for Swiss Innovation - over 340 Deals Reached
Through its recent 9th Closing Ceremony, Kickstart announced over 30 impactful deals in Switzerland, after an 11-week program


Nov 25, 2024
Elevate your Scale-Up's Potential: How Foreign Companies Can Succeed in Switzerland
As part of a series by SGE, this article highlights why Switzerland is the perfect destination for business with an international footprint


Nov 12, 2024
The Future of Materials: Carbon-Negative and Impactful
Made of Air specializes in carbon-negative thermoplastics, transforming waste biomass into materials that sequester CO₂ .


Nov 12, 2024
Pioneering Vertical Solar Solutions for a Sustainable Urban Future
Over Easy Solar is a company revolutionizing solar energy with their innovative vertical solar solutions.


Oct 21, 2024
Driving Responsible Innovation: Improving Data Access and AI Development While Protecting Privacy
Today, we shine the spotlight on YData, a company transforming the data and AI landscape with their innovative synthetic data solutions.


Oct 3, 2024
Unlocking the Power of Biomass: A Conversation with Lixea’s CEO on Innovation and Sustainability
In the coming weeks, we will spotlight the journeys of various participants in Kickstart’s program. In our first feature, we highlight Lixea

Sep 30, 2024
Elevate Your Scale-Up's Growth Potential: How Can the Swiss Food Ecosystem Elevate Your Business?
As part of a series by SGE, this article highlights why Switzerland is the perfect destination for FoodTech companies and innovators


Sep 26, 2024
Pranay Jain: Data protection and regulation as the biggest challenges
An interview with Pranay Jain, CEO and Co-founder of Enterprise Bot, one of the 2024 Kicsktart Innvoation participants.


Sep 3, 2024
41 international startups in Switzerland to make deals in the coming weeks
Over six weeks, more than 170 experts selected 41 international startups for the 11-week Kickstart Innovation program in Switzerland


Jul 23, 2024
New EU Regulation: Paving the way for sustainable products
In a groundbreaking move, the European Union has introduced a new regulation aimed at making products more sustainable.

Jun 26, 2024
How food trends are contributing to a more sustainable future
Our current food system is far from sustainable. Adapting nutrition and consumption is an essential prerequisite for achieving the SDGs.

Jun 6, 2024
How a mobility platform brings about a sustainable change in transport modes: Nudgd Success Story
The digital platform Smart Nudges Mobility was developed by Nudgd, a Swedish startup.

May 22, 2024
Facilitating Sustainable Innovation: Coop and Kern Tec Success Story
A partnership between Coop and Kern Tec: introducing Apricot Kernel Milk to the Swiss market, now available at Coop stores.

Apr 18, 2024
Kickstart Program Launches 9th Iteration to Drive Collaborative Solutions and Investments
Press Release Over 40 renowned companies and organizations are creating future solutions with local and international startups for...


Feb 13, 2024
Transforming Men's Health: The Regimen and Sanitas Success Story
“Cooperating with Sanitas was a fantastic experience. The team was helpful, easy to collaborate with and solution-oriented, with their...


Jan 28, 2024
Eat your own AI (course)
Given the massive momentum of Generative AI, we invited our esteemed expert Cyrill Glockner for a hands-on LLM use-case discovery workshop.


Dec 11, 2023
Elevate Your Scale-Up's Growth Potential: Find Talents
Welcome to the fifth of our 5-part series on why you should choose Switzerland as a business location for your scale-up. In partnership...


Dec 8, 2023
Kickstart is not just a program
Kickstart is not just a program, it’s a myriad of individual stories. Stories of people collaborating to innovate, people bringing their...


Nov 30, 2023
Building Trust in Healthcare - we need less “egosystems” and more ecosystems
For the second year, Kickstart partnered with Building Trust in Healthcare, an event that took part in the brand new campus of...


Nov 28, 2023
Kickstart 2023: More than 40 new Success Stories & 310 Deals for Switzerland
MEDIA RELEASE (Download here ) Official announcement of partnerships between established companies and start-ups in Zurich Dominant...


Nov 23, 2023
Elevate Your Scale-Up's Growth Potential: Open Your HQ
Welcome to the fourth of our 5-part series on why you should choose Switzerland as a business location for your scale-up. In partnership...


Nov 20, 2023
Elevate Your Scale-Up's Growth Potential: Access to Ecosystem
Welcome to the third of our 5-part series on why you should choose Switzerland as a business location for your scale-up. In partnership...


Nov 10, 2023
Elevate Your Scale-Up's Growth Potential: Locate Investors
Welcome to the second of our 5-part series on why you should choose Switzerland as a business location for your scale-up. In partnership...


Oct 19, 2023
Kickstart Digest #2
Hello, Kickstart Family! It’s been an exhilarating fortnight for Kickstart! Leading the charge, our CEO & Co-Founder, Katka Letzing, took...
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