Daniel Lepori, founder of Designergy, wants to cause a furore with the following innovation: instead of installing solar collectors on your roof, he wants to combine the two and as a result create a new building material. This not only increases future energy-efficiency, but also reduces the price-tag of the investment in question, as the photo-voltaic system starts to pay-its-self off much earlier.
A prototype developed at the University of Applied Sciences of Lugano (SUPSI/ISAAC) has already passed several tests in the context of a joint CTI research project and is poised to form the basis of a pilot-project which will start next year.
Designergy has won CHF130’000 at the venture kick competition. Daniel Lepori on the initiative: „What do you want more than to be professionally coached for free, while simultaneously having to continuously prove yourself? We wanted to make a big step forward by participating in venture kick. With the prize money we have won, we have even made a bigger one than originally planned! “
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The new Swiss Venture Capital Report was published on 26 January. It analyses 304 financing rounds closed in 2020 and includes further article such as an interview with Michael Hengartner, President of the ETH Board, and a list of Swiss "soonicorns". 
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