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1600 Vorschläge sind beim renommierten deutschen Grimme Institut für den Online Award eingegangen. 28 von ihnen wurden nominiert. Zu der kleinen Zahl der selektierten Firmen gehören mit Interactive Things und Politnetz gleich zwei Schweizer Start-ups.

Pour la 11e année les Trophées « PERL » (Prix Entreprendre Région Lausanne) ont récompensé des entreprises innovantes de la région. Le gagnant du 1er Prix, la start-up DomoSafety, a été primée pour la conception d’un système particulièrement ingénieux et complet de prévention d’accidents domestiques et médicaux des personnes âgées.

Appygraph, Citiviz, Faveeo, Fontself, Mobino, Prodibi, Skiioo and Wiine.me will present their companies at the first ICT Investor’s Day in western Switzerland.

The recent Go4Venture Advisers ‟European Venture & Growth Equity Market Monthly Bulletin” shows a high level of activity in the European venture market. And there is also good news for early stage startups. In their summary the authors of the Bulletin report about a surprisingly high number of Series A and B Investments.

Zuger Unternehmen können sich ab 3. Mai 2013 für den diesjährigen - mit 20'000 Franken - dotierten Innovationspreis des Kantons Zug anmelden. Bewerben können sich Firmen, die auf dem Wirtschaftsplatz Zug mit innovativen und volkswirtschaftlich, sozial oder ökologisch sinnvollen Modellen neue Arbeitsplätze geschaffen haben oder bestehende Arbeitsplätze erhalten konnten.

The US company CA Technologies has entered into a five-year partnership with the École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL) to help drive innovation start-up projects. Over this period, CA Technologies will make a six-figure sum available to the institution.

Filesharing ist ein heikles Geschäft, weil es immer wieder mit dem Urheberrecht in Konflikt gerät. Rapidshare, einer der grössten Filehoster weltweit, versucht nun mit einem neuen CEO das unproblematische B2B-Geschäft zu stärken. Das Unternehmen wurde 2006 im Kanton Zug gegründet.

WISeKey and GJC, Grupo Jaime Câmara, have entered into a Joint Venture Agreement, aiming at the creation of a new company with the name WISeKey Liber expanding WISeKey's global footprint to Latin America and Iberia. The partnership includes a strategic investment by GJC in WISeKey SA representing 5% equity stake.

Working for startupticker.ch we discover interesting articles about Swiss start-ups nearly every day. From today on we will publish press reviews on a regular basis. In our reviews you will find links to the best articles covering Swiss start-ups published over the last few days. If you read the articles recommended in our first review you will learn more about subjects like funding challenges, unemployment insurance or particularly active VCs.

The International Create Challenge is a free of charge, 3-week immersive super accelerator program that gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to drive their projects to a Minimum Viable Product. It is a unique program combining state-of-art technologies and cutting edge research, mentors-lead coaching, micro-seed investment and a star prize of more than CHF 100’000.- Registration is now open.

Uepaa sucht 100 Tester für die Beta-Version der Rettungsapp. Wer teilnehmen will muss sich bis Freitagmittag registrieren.

High-Tech Bridge, a leading Swiss information security company, is pleased to announce that sales of its new web application security service ImmuniWeb will start on the 15th of May 2013. ImmuniWeb enables users to evaluate their website security in a simple, fast, accurate and cost-affordable manner.

The SECA Yearbook 2013 is out. It is an interesting read for investors and entrepreneurs. The yearbook contains short profiles of the SECA members and several articles about important topics such as the valuation of start-ups or the requirements for a successful exit.

Biotechgate is celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year. With over 28’000 company profiles, 6000 licensing opportunities, 1500 deals and over 30 partners worldwide, it represents the largest online life sciences database of its kind. Biotechgate was created by the Swiss company Venture Valuation.

Von September bis Dezember des letzten Jahres durften die Studierenden der Universität Bern Unternehmerluft schnuppern. In dem vom IVE  Bern organisierten Workshop  erarbeiteten Studierende in Teams einen Businessplan der mit bis zu 4000 Franken prämiert wird. Nun fand die Preisverleihung statt.

Starting in September 2013, young innovators in Vaud will have the chance to cultivate their entrepreneurial spirit in the hotbed of innovation that is Silicon Valley.

Selexis SA, a company focused on drug discovery for lead identification and cell line development for scale-up and manufacturing of therapeutic protein drugs, announced today that it has closed an agreement with Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated to sell potential milestone and royalty payments for more than 15 biologic development programs from Selexis. This innovative financing solution allows Selexis to expand its SUREtechnology Platform.

SmartCardia is developing a new medical technology for remote monitoring of heart patients. The company, a spin-off from EPFL, was selected for the second Helbling Innogrant.

QualySense AG, is an EMPA-based start-up company that pioneers innovative grain and seed sorting technologies to set new quality standards in the food industry. It announces today that it has closed its third financing round and raised about CHF 1 Million of new equity mainly from its existing investors, which includes a selected number of well-known Swiss and international business angels.

Adello eröffnet mit dem neuen Büro in der ungarischen Hauptstadt Budapest bereits die 6. Niederlassung. 

Ein Drittel ihrer Umweltbelastung verursachen die Schweizer über ihre Ernährung. Mit dem CO2-Rechner des Zürcher Vereins Eaternity soll es bald möglich sein, zuhause und im Restaurant bewusst umweltfreundlich zu essen. Die Klimastiftung Schweiz unterstützt das Projekt mit 20'000 Franken.

Ernst & Young’s annual biotech report shows strong performance by major players but a challenging environment for the rest of the industry and an urgent need to focus on demonstrating value.

Kooaba announced today that it has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the report “Cool Vendors in Consumer Mobile Applications, 2013” by Gartner. Gartner is a leading information technology research and advisory company.

Das Colab Zürich hat seine Pforten geöffnet. Im Co-Working Space im Zürcher Kreis 3 stehen Arbeitsplätze für Software- und Internetspezialisten bereit. Ein Testtag ist gratis. Gelegenheit zum Schnuppern gibt es auch am Opening Apéro am 2. Mai.

YAAY announces the results of the “Out of Balance” competition by ARCH+ and the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau. The start-up from Basel founded in 2012 was awarded a 1st Prize. 180 entries by 499 participants from 18 countries have been submitted.