Kandou Bus wins ACES Award
The ACES now in their fifth year are the only pan-European awards for enterprise in university and public research institutes. The winners of the ACES Awards 2013 were announced recently. Among them is Kandou Bus.
Kandou Bus is a semiconductor company specializing in the design of high-speed, pin-efficient, energy-efficient serial links, SerDes, and associated technologies. The company, founded in 2011, has developed a unique approach to serial link design that increases the bit-rate and the reach for a given physical communications link and reduces the power consumption. As a result, more bits can be sent per unit of energy, or less energy can be used to achieve a given bit rate. Kandou Bus has won the ACES ICT Award.
Kandou Bus is a spin-off from EPFL just like Osmoblue, the second Swiss finalist of the ACES Awards. The start-up provides a sustainable and profitable solution to industries to recycle their waste heat. Osmoblue is the Runner-up of the Energy and Environment Award.
The ACES Awards give public recognition to those researchers, engineers, professors, students and government officials in Europe who have done the most to foster a culture of enterprise on campus. This can be through taking the risk of launching a spinout company, developing a discovery into a marketable innovation, or promoting policies that create a receptive environment for entrepreneurship on campus. They draw nominations from all sectors, disciplines and countries in Europe, and are judged by the Science|Business Innovation Board, a leadership panel co-founded by Science|Business, business schools INSEAD and ESADE, in association with Microsoft and BP.
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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