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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
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.
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...
Sep 5, 2023
How to Kill a Zombie Project
Life in general and titles of blog posts in particular should be positive. But let’s have an honest look at how bad ideas are separated...
Aug 16, 2023
Speeddating fürs Business
Anne-Barbara Luft hat es in ihrem, in der Bilanz publizierten Artikel, exzellent auf den Punkt gebracht: Speeddating fürs Business....
Feb 13, 2023
TrustRelay – a new startup founded by former Swisscom employees
Jorge Alvarado and Lukas Hohl, former Swisscom employees, founded the recently incorporated TrustRelay - a SaaS platform that enables...
Nov 11, 2022
Kickstart Spotlight: fin:marie
We are spotlighting this year's incredible cohort through the means of fun & quick interviews to gain further insight into their startup...
Nov 3, 2022
Kickstart Spotlight: eevie
We are spotlighting this year's incredible cohort through the means of fun & quick interviews to gain further insight into their startup...
Oct 28, 2022
Kickstart Spotlight: Urbanistic
We are spotlighting this year's incredible cohort through the means of fun & quick interviews to gain further insight into their startup...
Oct 21, 2022
Kickstart Spotlight: Purcell
We are spotlighting this year's incredible cohort through the means of fun & quick interviews to gain further insight into their startup...
Oct 14, 2022
Kickstart Spotlight: meersens
We are spotlighting this year's incredible cohort through the means of fun & quick interviews to gain further insight into their startup...
Oct 10, 2022
Kickstart Spotlight: Happy Bob
We are spotlighting this year's incredible cohort through the means of fun & quick interviews to gain further insight into their startup...
Jun 25, 2020
Circular Economy Interview with HEXAGRO - Accessible Urban-Vertical Farming
“Nature is a circular system that can provide abundance for everyone in a sustainable way. Hexagro develops its business and solutions...
May 26, 2020
Healthcare innovation now - how Roche is keeping the patients at the centre
Anne Nijs, Rare Conditions Transformation Leader at Roche, talks about her motivation to bring the best minds together to transform the...
May 25, 2020
Unlocking Coffee’s Health Potential with KAFFE BUENO
“Being founded in the early days of the Circular Economy (CE) movement, Kaffe Bueno is built upon fundamental CE values and it is...
Nov 6, 2019
“Start with Why” with Kickstart Advisor Oliver Durrer
Every year, Kickstart works together with a wide network of top-class advisors and experts, who support our startups and scale-ups with...
Jul 19, 2018
Intrapreneur Success Story: Rent’n’Share to be launched in Autumn 2018
This year, five (!) intrapreneur teams join us for the program – more than ever before. Meanwhile, there is a great update from one of...
Sep 23, 2016
‘Coopetition’: where one plus one can be greater than two
Major Swiss banks working alongside one another is unusual. Indeed, this is the aspect of the Kickstart Fintech Accelerator that most...
Intrapreneurship program / Hackathons / Team sprints / Expert sessions
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