Kickstart Accelerator wants to build Swiss Valley in Zürich
Kickstart Accelerator a Start-Up support programme started in Zürich. Target of the workshop is to position Switzerland in a top position in the international Start-Up areas.
Co-Opetition in the Branch
Kickstart Accelerator is an initiative of DigitalZurich2025 and lead by Impact Hub Zürich. It will bring promising ideas to Switzerland and increase the talent pool. International Start-Ups can benefit, because they can cooperate with Swiss leading Corporates. This can help tremendously entering the Swiss market.
Eric van der Kleij consults Kickstart Accelerator and sees the important advantage „Co-Opetition“, because leading Swiss Corporates will work closely together to push the Swiss market. That’s why Swiss banks like Credit Suisse or Axa Winterhtur as well as their competition are on board.
Swiss Start-Ups in the Kickstart Accelorator Program
This August 30 pre-selected Start-Ups participated at the Kickstart Accelerator Workshop in Zürich. The Start-Ups are assigned to one of the following four categories: Food, Smart & Connected Machines, Fintech, Future & Emerging Technologies. The following Swiss Start-Ups ended in the final selection:
- Faitron developed a heatbox which enables to heat your food anywhere in some minutes.
- Project-Aquawants to provide drinking water to people who hadn’t regularly clean water. Therefore they use an innovative concept called Micro-Sharing.
- Piomic Medicalenables a better wound healing with electromagnetic impulse. The treatment accelerates the wound healing.
- Biowatchfrom the western part of Switzerland develops a biometric identification system that is installed in a watch.The technology can identify veins of the wrist.
This blog is based on the article „Der Traum vom Swiss-Valley“ from Sira Huwiler and Stefan Mair.
