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Empowering Female Founders: Progress, Challenges, and Persistence in Switzerland and Beyond
In recent years, Switzerland has witnessed a remarkable surge in female entrepreneurship. Despite this, significant disparities persist.
Mar 7


Future Skills: How start-ups are redefining the world of work
The world of work is undergoing fundamental change.
Feb 27

Innovate Together: Unlocking Business Opportunities Between Egypt and Switzerland
In an era where global collaboration is key to innovation and economic growth, Switzerland and Egypt are forging stronger business ties.
Feb 26


KICKSTART 2024: New Milestones for Swiss Innovation - over 340 Deals Reached
Through its recent 9th Closing Ceremony, Kickstart announced over 30 impactful deals in Switzerland, after an 11-week program
Dec 4, 2024


Elevate your Scale-Up's Potential: How Foreign Companies Can Succeed in Switzerland
As part of a series by SGE, this article highlights why Switzerland is the perfect destination for business with an international footprint
Nov 25, 2024


The Future of Materials: Carbon-Negative and Impactful
Made of Air specializes in carbon-negative thermoplastics, transforming waste biomass into materials that sequester CO₂ .
Nov 12, 2024


Pioneering Vertical Solar Solutions for a Sustainable Urban Future
Over Easy Solar is a company revolutionizing solar energy with their innovative vertical solar solutions.
Nov 12, 2024


Driving Responsible Innovation: Improving Data Access and AI Development While Protecting Privacy
Today, we shine the spotlight on YData, a company transforming the data and AI landscape with their innovative synthetic data solutions.
Oct 21, 2024


Unlocking the Power of Biomass: A Conversation with Lixea’s CEO on Innovation and Sustainability
In the coming weeks, we will spotlight the journeys of various participants in Kickstart’s program. In our first feature, we highlight Lixea
Oct 3, 2024

Elevate Your Scale-Up's Growth Potential: How Can the Swiss Food Ecosystem Elevate Your Business?
As part of a series by SGE, this article highlights why Switzerland is the perfect destination for FoodTech companies and innovators
Sep 30, 2024


Pranay Jain: Data protection and regulation as the biggest challenges
An interview with Pranay Jain, CEO and Co-founder of Enterprise Bot, one of the 2024 Kicsktart Innvoation participants.
Sep 26, 2024


41 international startups in Switzerland to make deals in the coming weeks
Over six weeks, more than 170 experts selected 41 international startups for the 11-week Kickstart Innovation program in Switzerland
Sep 3, 2024


New EU Regulation: Paving the way for sustainable products
In a groundbreaking move, the European Union has introduced a new regulation aimed at making products more sustainable.
Jul 23, 2024

How food trends are contributing to a more sustainable future
Our current food system is far from sustainable. Adapting nutrition and consumption is an essential prerequisite for achieving the SDGs.
Jun 26, 2024

How a mobility platform brings about a sustainable change in transport modes: Nudgd Success Story
The digital platform Smart Nudges Mobility was developed by Nudgd, a Swedish startup.
Jun 6, 2024

Facilitating Sustainable Innovation: Coop and Kern Tec Success Story
A partnership between Coop and Kern Tec: introducing Apricot Kernel Milk to the Swiss market, now available at Coop stores.
May 22, 2024

Kickstart Program Launches 9th Iteration to Drive Collaborative Solutions and Investments
Press Release Over 40 renowned companies and organizations are creating future solutions with local and international startups for...
Apr 18, 2024


Transforming Men's Health: The Regimen and Sanitas Success Story
“Cooperating with Sanitas was a fantastic experience. The team was helpful, easy to collaborate with and solution-oriented, with their...
Feb 13, 2024


Eat your own AI (course)
Given the massive momentum of Generative AI, we invited our esteemed expert Cyrill Glockner for a hands-on LLM use-case discovery workshop.
Jan 28, 2024


Elevate Your Scale-Up's Growth Potential: Find Talents
Welcome to the fifth of our 5-part series on why you should choose Switzerland as a business location for your scale-up. In partnership...
Dec 11, 2023


Kickstart is not just a program
Kickstart is not just a program, it’s a myriad of individual stories. Stories of people collaborating to innovate, people bringing their...
Dec 8, 2023


Building Trust in Healthcare - we need less “egosystems” and more ecosystems
For the second year, Kickstart partnered with Building Trust in Healthcare, an event that took part in the brand new campus of...
Nov 30, 2023


Kickstart 2023: More than 40 new Success Stories & 310 Deals for Switzerland
MEDIA RELEASE (Download here ) Official announcement of partnerships between established companies and start-ups in Zurich Dominant...
Nov 28, 2023


Elevate Your Scale-Up's Growth Potential: Open Your HQ
Welcome to the fourth of our 5-part series on why you should choose Switzerland as a business location for your scale-up. In partnership...
Nov 23, 2023
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