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COMPETITION WINNERS

Launched in 1997, >>venture>> has been fostering winning business ideas for over 25 years. Competition alumni have gone on to successfully found over 1’500 companies and create more than 15’000 jobs here in Switzerland. Read on to learn more about the up-and-coming innovators that >>venture>> has supported over the years.

 2024 Winners

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CLIMADA Technologies

Finance & Insurance
CLIMADA Technologies, a climate risk analytics company, has developed a scalable software solution to efficiently deliver forward-looking analysis for the exposed locations of a client, covering the most acute and chronic hazards and responding to everything from regulatory reporting and in-depth resilience assessments, through to the exploration of relevant adaptation measures.
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Cultivated Biosciences

Health & Nutrition
Cultivated Biosciences is a foodtech company that aims to disrupt the $916B dairy market by providing an alternative to dairy using a creamy fat obtained from the fermentation of non-genetically modified yeast to bring dairy mouthfeel to animal-free products.
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Optiml AG

ICT
Optiml is an AI-driven software solution that supports real estate owners and consultants in making smart, cost-effective, and CO₂-aware decisions. Their platform streamlines the planning of investments and renovations, empowering stakeholders to take strategic steps towards achieving Net Zero.
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Borobotics GmbH

Industrials & Engineering
Borobotics develops an innovative drilling robot for geothermal energy drilling in tight spaces such as city centers. By bringing the otherwise 6m tall and 14t heavy drill tower inside the borehole and incorporating it in a 2m by 90mm tube-shaped drilling robot, they are able to decrease the space requirement by 90%.
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Bergmobil

Retail & Consumer Services
Bergmobil is the first comprehensive electric solution for active families: allowing to effortlessly bring kids, pets, or cargo on runs, walks, and bike rides. Bergmobil's advanced control algorithm eliminates the external force required to move the trailer which makes it uniquely versatile, intuitive to use and adaptable to many different stroller brands and types.
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ALIEN Limited

Social & Environmental Impact
ALIEN Limited provides an end-to-end solution to local communities to process an invasive alien species present in Swiss lakes: the Quagga Mussel that has negative environmental, social and economic impacts. ALIEN Limited transforms these mussels into eco-materials for a positive, impact-driven purpose and renewable energy to help local communities and diverse industries to meet the objectives of the Climate Plan.
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Crowdtransfer AG

Finance & Insurance
CrowdTransfer provides a platform for fans to support their favorite clubs by crowdfunding tokens tied to transfers or existing players. Token holders receive social perks and can earn ongoing rewards based on the player's performance and can get a payout at the end of the player's contract. The transfer tokens can be traded with other fans on a secondary market.
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Eviive

Health & Nutrition
Eviive provides a platform that significantly enhances the sensitivity and specificity of biomarker discovery, enabling early diagnosis, effective personalized treatment selection, and continuous monitoring of treatment response. Eviive specializes in extracellular vesicle (EV) biomarker discovery, utilizing high-dimensional single EV analysis and machine learning to revolutionize precision medicine R&D (immuno-oncology & neuro-immunology)
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Planeto SA

ICT
Planetos' TESSA digitalises the design of district heating networks, using machine learning to slash time, cost and accelerate the energy transition. TESSA meets the needs of energy utilities and engineering companies, as they are obliged to provide sustainable energy for buildings and cities.
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qCella AG

Industrials & Engineering
qCella is developing energy-efficient heating solutions for applications such as heated car seats, vehicle interiors, apparel, footwear and pain relievers. Their shape-customisable, flexible, paper thin heating mats offer uniform, durable heat distribution.
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Brian

Retail & Consumer Services
Brian is a an AI powered learning platform, that converts existing teaching materials into engaging and social learning environments on students’ smartphones. Their platform provides personalized 1:1 guidance to each student based on their teacher's course materials and individual learning levels.
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InvestConservation®

Social & Environmenta Impact
InvestConservation® protects irreplaceable biodiversity by making conservation investable. 1 IC®Token represents 50 years of carbon & biodiversity rights linked to one hectare.
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MC² Finance AG

Finance & Insurance
MC² Finance blends blockchain and regulatory compliance, offering an automated platform for digital asset portfolios. Their solution meets the needs of modern investors looking for smart, flexible, and secure investments, with intent-based development, on-chain transparency, and cross-chain management.
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Procavea Biotech

Health & Nutrition
Procavea Biotech will bring a protein-based drug delivery platform to the market, to solve the problem of delivering RNA-based drugs to non-liver tissues.
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Rapidata AG

ICT
Rapidata provides massive amounts of scalable human feedback to improve AI models and outcomes.By distributing labeling tasks through mobile advertisement, they provide faster labeling services than the competition at a fraction of the price, with world wide reach and instantaneous and scalable access.
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RTDT Laboratories AG

Industrials & Engineering
RTDT Laboratories AG are a deep tech ETH spin-off developing technology for structural health monitoring and power performance optimization of wind turbines. They offer a SaaS solution, which significantly increases the profitability, reliability and clean energy production of wind farms. By combining real-time measurements from their patented sensor module Aerosense with their analysis methods, they create digital twins of wind turbines and deliver deep actionable insights into structural health, power performance and remaining useful lifetime of wind assets.
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Wepot SA

Retail & Consumer Services
Wepot introduces ollas clay pots that efficiently deliver water to plant roots, conserving water and fostering healthier plants. They offer 5 sizes that cater to all needs, from indoor pots to gardens, planning to develop and deploy an irrigation model for arid regions worldwide.
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Malaica AG

Social & Environmental Impact
Pregnancy related mortality is 100 times higher in Sub-Saharan Africa than in Europe. Malaica has developed a program which addresses this: remote midwives support women throughout their pregnancy and ensure they get care according to WHO recommendations. The program is running successfully in Kenya, with strong user and revenue growth. Malaica is driven by a team of doctors, midwives, engineers and serial entrepreneurs.

Past winners

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Adaire Academy AG
Adaire Academy AG

2023

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NPO Track
ClearSky Sarl
ClearSky Sarl

2023

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ICT
Frigg AG
Frigg AG

2023

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Finance & Insurance
Ascentys Sarl
Ascentys Sarl

2023

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Finance & Insurance
Clever Forever Education AG
Clever Forever Education AG

2023

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Retail & Consumer Services
GirlsCodeToo
GirlsCodeToo

2023

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Audience Award NPO Track
Bermind SA
Bearmind SA

2023

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ICT
DIATHERIS
DIATHERIS

2023

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Health & Nutrition
HEMLATA
HEMLATA

2023

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NPO Track
Biosimo AG
Biosimo AG

2023

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Industrials & Engineering
EMPATH
EMPATH

2023

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ICT
Lighthouse Tech Sagl
Lighthouse Tech Sagl

2023

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Health & Nutrition
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