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Saving Water, Saving the Planet: How Shayp is Revolutionizing Building Water Management with AI
In 2024, water scarcity and conservation became increasingly critical global challenges, with buildings consuming 70% of fresh distributed water. Yet despite this massive consumption, over 95% of building leaks go undetected, wasting precious resources and causing significant property damage. Shayp is changing this reality through intelligent water monitoring.
Jul 15


From Waste To Value: Upcycling Fruit Pits into a Global Food Innovation
As part of our Open Innovation Program, we showcase the journeys of our participants and alumni. Today, we’re highlighting Kern Tec, a pioneering food tech company dedicated to transforming the way we think about waste, by turning discarded fruit pits into valuable, sustainable ingredients.
Jun 25


Empowering Healthcare: Data, Wearables, and Prevention
As part of our Open Innovation Program, we showcase the journeys of our participants and Alumni. Today, we’re highlighting Thryve, a pioneering health tech company dedicated to transforming preventive healthcare through wearable technology.
Apr 28


Revolutionizing Packaging with Seaweed-Based Solutions for a Circular Economy
BZEOS’s mission is to decarbonize supply chains by replacing single-use plastics with eco-friendly materials
Mar 26


Future Skills: How start-ups are redefining the world of work
The world of work is undergoing fundamental change.
Feb 27


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.
Nov 12, 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 21, 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
Oct 3, 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 26, 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.
Jan 28, 2024


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 30, 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...
Sep 5, 2023


Speeddating fürs Business
Anne-Barbara Luft hat es in ihrem, in der Bilanz publizierten Artikel, exzellent auf den Punkt gebracht: Speeddating fürs Business....
Aug 16, 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...
Feb 13, 2023


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 11, 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...
Nov 3, 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 28, 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 21, 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 14, 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...
Oct 10, 2022


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...
Jun 25, 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 26, 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...
May 25, 2020
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