Swiss start-up scene attracts experienced business people

Die Umsetzung von Cleantech-Innovationen im Markt dauert oft bis zu einem Dutzend oder mehr Jahre. So ist es auch Flisom, einem Spin-off Unternehmen der ETH Zürich, ergangen. Firmengründer Professor Ayodhya Nath Tiwari hat seine Forschungen vor mehr als 30 Jahren gestartet. Am Energie- und Klimagipfel SwissECS auf dem Bundesplatz in Bern kündete nun Marcel Kaelin von Flisom diese Woche den Produktionsstart auf nächstes Jahr an.

Der Bundesrat anerkennt die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung von Jungunternehmen. Erleichterungen bei der Gewinnsteuer beurteilt er allerdings kritisch. Sie seien für die Firmen wenig relevant und würden gleichzeitig ein hohes Risiko für Einnahmeausfälle bergen. Dies schreibt der Bundesrat in einem Bericht, den er heute verabschiedet hat und damit ein Postulat aus dem Nationalrat erfüllt.

During the last weeks startupticker.ch reported about numerous financing rounds. There are a lot of top-class Swiss start-ups financing their growth with the help of investors. Other exciting companies are still looking for funding. No less than eleven start-ups presented themselves at the Swiss Venture Venture Day of CTI Invest on Wednesday.

Go Beyond Investing (GBI) has raised CHF 500’000 among individual investors and GBI network. The funds will be used to accelerate the growth of the company.

At the moment it is not clear how many jobs are created by successful Swiss start-ups or what is their impact on the Swiss economy. A new study aims at providing answers. A questionnaire will be sent out to 2000 selected entrepreneurs in the next few days.

Several African newspapers, TV and radio stations have reported about the start-up from Yverdon-les-Bains. In addition our press review features several articles in Swiss newspapers dedicated to young companies such as Bring!, why! open computing, Seedstars, and Credentis.

The goal of the World Summit Award is to select the world's most outstanding e-Content. On a biennial basis, it awards e-Content that contributes to a true knowledge society and promotes it at a global congress. This year Uepaa! is one of the winners.

GetYourGuide, Smixin, GENE PREDICTIS, PIQUR Therapeutics, Cytosurge and Swissto12 have been awarded with the CTI Start-up Label.

Die erste nationale Messe für Jungunternehmer steht vor ihrer ersten Durchführung: Die Standplätze sind ausverkauft - und die qualifizierten Startup Battle-Teilnehmer versprechen einiges an Spannung.

Beqom, a Swiss start-up founded in 2009, announced today that Bergerat Monnoyeur and Eneria, subsidiaries of the Monnoyeur Group, a distributor of capital goods and services for construction, industry and agriculture market with 5000 employees, have selected beqom’s Total Compensation solution.

Anergis, a company focusing on proprietary allergy vaccines, reported today that a Phase IIb study of its lead compound AllerT met the primary endpoint of reducing the combined symptom and medication score with AllerT 50 μg during the birch pollen season. Moreover, the vaccine improved the quality of life and symptom scores.

Das Schweizer Banking-Startup Numbrs gab gestern auf der FINOVATE-Konferenz in New York bekannt, weitere $ 3,8 Millionen Kapital durch Altinvestoren aufgenommen zu haben. Mit dem Investment wird Numbrs in New York ein Sales- und Marketing-Team aufbauen und im ersten Quartal 2014 auf den US-amerikanischen Markt expandieren.

Auf Kusuru.com lassen sich ab sofort Abenteuer buchen vom Bungee-Sprung in der Schweiz bis zur Safari in Afrika. Das Start-up kündigt einen forschen Expansionskurs an.

CTI Invest and Swisscom will be co-hosting an Innovation Round Table on the subject of Cloud Computing on the 18th November in Bern. They're currently looking for start-ups from across Switzerland who would like to present themselves as part of their ongoing Innovation Round Table series of events.

CeQur SA, a company focused on the development and commercialization of simple insulin delivery devices, announced the closing of a $27 million dollar Series B financing. The financing was led by two new private investors with the participation of all current shareholders, and will support manufacturing scale up for the CeQur PaQ simple insulin delivery device, which received CE Mark approval in November 2012.

300 Geschäfte nutzen bereits die digitalen Smartpone-Treuekarten von Poinz. Nach der erfolgreichen Lancierung in Zürich ist nun die Expansion nach Basel und Luzern geplant.

Das Luzerner Start-up BROTSEITEN plant ein digitales Magazin mit packenden Kurz- und Fortsetzungsgeschichten. Nach dem Gewinn des seif Award for Social Entrepreneurship 2013 konnte das Jungunternehmen einen weiteren Erfolg verbuchen: Die Albert Koechlin Stiftung wird Finanzpartnerin.

The CleanSpace One satellite has a new ally in its mission to clean up space debris. EPFL has entered into a partnership with Swiss Space Systems (S3). The company will invest CHF 15 million in the project and will launch the satellite into orbit.

Nexthink, the unique provider of End-user IT Analytics, today announced that Swisscom has launched a new service for SMEs named “Smart Monitoring” based on Nexthink’s technology.

Naviswiss, a company focussed on the development and commercialisation of innovative optical measuring, tracking and navigation systems for medical applications, is raising new capital to finish the development of its miniaturized, multifunctional 3D measurement and navigation system CLIPON. The start-up announced a first closing of its financing round.

Ab heute gilt es für Diamond Heels ernst. Das Team will in Zürich die ersten individuell gestaltbaren High Heels an die Frau bringen.

Genkyotex, the leading developer of NOX enzyme inhibitors, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application to begin a Phase II clinical study of GKT137831 in patients with diabetic nephropathy. Enrollment of patients into the multinational Phase II study is expected to begin during Q4, 2013.

Mit dem Herbst hat die Zeit des Pilzsammelns begonnen. Die App „Pilzkenner“ des Berner Start-ups IvoryCode hilft bei der Bestimmung von Pilzen und beim Wiederfinden ergiebiger Fundorte.

Auris Medical announced today positive results from the TACTT11 study, its second phase II clinical trial with AM-101 for the treatment of acute peripheral tinnitus. The study provided further evidence for the safety and efficacy of the treatment and supports the conduct of phase III confirmatory studies which are expected to start later this year.

WISeKey, a leading international mobile cybersecurity provider and a World Economic Forum Global Growth Company, announced today that it has closed additional fundraising as part of a third and last pre-IPO investment round. WISeKey intends to use the proceeds to enter the BRIC markets and relocate a significant number of its activities to the USA.

Koubachi’s WI-Fi Plant Sensor Pro measures light intensity, ambient temperature and soil moisture and in addition soil temperature and air humidity. The sensor comes with a Web App specifically for the requirements of professional gardeners and growers.

The NANOCLEANER NWC-1200 was nominated by the jury for this year's Label Industry Global Awards in the category Sustainability. The final winner will be announced on the evening of 24 September in Brussels.