Kickstart Alumni Shine at the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Awards 2024
- sara9231
- Oct 3, 2024
- 2 min read
We are pleased to see several Kickstart Innovation alumni included in this year’s TOP 100 Swiss Startups, a recognition that not only highlights individual achievement, but also reflects broader developments in the Swiss innovation landscape. The 2024 list puts a particular spotlight on deep-tech, underscoring how Switzerland continues to evolve as a hub for applied science, sustainability, and scalable innovation.
Among the selected alumni are: Planted, Enerdrape, neustark, Moodtalk, irmos technologies AG, Unique, Calvin Risk, viboo, and Urbio. These ventures are developing solutions that tackle some of today’s most pressing challenges: whether rethinking the future of protein, decarbonizing the built environment, or enabling better mental health support.
Each startup brings a different perspective and set of capabilities to the table, but they share common traits: scientific grounding, user-centric design, and the ambition to drive real-world impact. Their inclusion in the TOP 100 speaks not just to traction in their respective markets, but also to the relevance and urgency of the problems they’re addressing.
We also want to acknowledge the founders behind these ventures:
Pascal Bieri, Christoph Jenny, Margaux Peltier, Valentin Gutknecht, Loris Niederberger, Panagiotis Martakis, Manuel Grenacher, Julian Riebartsch, Anastasia Movcharenko, Felix Bünning, and Nicolas Sommer. Navigating the startup journey takes persistence, clarity of vision, and the ability to build strong, multidisciplinary teams.
At Kickstart, we are proud to have played a part in their journeys by creating opportunities for collaboration between startups, corporates, and public institutions, and by supporting the scale-up phase through our programs.
We look forward to continuing our work with startups, partners, and the wider ecosystem to help bring more of these ideas to market.
Photo credit: Venturelab
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