All our
verticals
Finance & Insurance
Based in one of the world’s leading financial cities, Kickstart is at the forefront of cutting-edge innovation in the finance and insurance sector.
Food &
Retail
Disruptive solutions tackling challenges in the Food and Retail sector to create positive impact on the current climate and health crises.
Health & Wellbeing
Innovative solutions that feed Switzerland's dynamic and rapidly developing startup landscape in the digital health sector.
Intrapreneur-
ship
We encourage, select and coach intrapreneurship teams of our partner companies to grow from prototype to a scaled solution.
New Work & Learning
Tackling the shifts that are influencing organizational work and the new cultures of learning by enabling innovative solutions and industry leaders for sustainable development.
Health &
Wellbeing
The digitalization of healthcare is essential to ensure personalized, accessible, and cost-effective care for everyone. Kickstart’s Health & Wellbeing Vertical, co-founded by Swiss Healthcare Startups in 2019, identifies and supports innovative and sustainable digital health startups and scaleups with validated business models and the potential to significantly digitize and disrupt the healthcare industry. Our mission is to accelerate impactful solutions that help reshape the future of care while improving affordability and reducing healthcare costs. The vertical drives innovation across key areas such as mental health, healthy lifestyles, prevention, workplace wellbeing, care coordination, chronic conditions, and effective health data management. Recognizing that individual health needs evolve across different life stages - from preventive care to parenting and beyond - we are committed to advancing solutions that respond to these diverse and changing needs.
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Case studies
Online therapy for customers & employees
AXA started a first pilot project with Selfapy for B2B customers, offering online therapy for employees of SMEs. The aim was to prevent and detect absences from work because of psychological problems early. The successful trial phase convinced AXA of the program's positive effects on mental health. The situation with COVID-19 reinforced their decision to set up a new pilot offering together with Selfapy – this time also addressing B2C customers and AXA employees.