2024 FINALISTS
Congratulations to the 60 finalists of this year's competition!
Find out more about their startups below.
Business Verticals
Impact Vertical
FINANCE & INSURANCE
CLIMADA Technologies
Finance & Insurance
CLIMADA Technologies, a climate risk analytics company, has developed a scalable software solution to efficiently deliver forward-looking analysis for the exposed locations of a client, covering the most acute and chronic hazards and responding to everything from regulatory reporting and in-depth resilience assessments, through to the exploration of relevant adaptation measures.
Crowdtransfer AG
Finance & Insurance
CrowdTransfer provides a platform for fans to support their favorite clubs by crowdfunding tokens tied to transfers or existing players. Token holders receive social perks and can earn ongoing rewards based on the player's performance and can get a payout at the end of the player's contract. The transfer tokens can be traded with other fans on a secondary market.
Evorest AG
Finance & Insurance
Evorest revives unproductive rental deposits in Switzerland (~15 BCHF), allowing tenants to invest in ETFs, earning a return and countering inflation. Using the intuitive web app, tenants and property managers can open and close deposits with just a few clicks and within just 24 hours, increasing efficiency for both and replacing today's cumbersome bank process.
Infrabase
Finance & Insurance
Infrabase is trying to bridge the spending gap and attract foreign direct investments to countries where infrastructure investments are needed. They are building a SaaS syndication platform designed to leverage ML & AI to optimize the hit accuracy of the matching algorithm & provide a comprehensive investment readiness clinic for infrastructure projects.
IngageMe!
Finance & Insurance
IngageMe! is an innovative incentive-based underwriting simulator merging AI, gamification and Web3 technology. Designed for the global insurance industry, it helps attract, train and retain talent while promoting financial literacy. Users learn through captivating gameplay, receive AI coaching and exclusive NFT rewards.
MC² Finance AG
Finance & Insurance
MC² Finance blends blockchain and regulatory compliance, offering an automated platform for digital asset portfolios. Their solution meets the needs of modern investors looking for smart, flexible, and secure investments, with intent-based development, on-chain transparency, and cross-chain management.
HEALTH & NUTRITION
ArtemiX Biotech
Health & Nutrition
ArtemiX is a novel, patented drug delivery system to prevent stenosis of arteriovenous fistula (AVF). AVF is a routine surgery to enable haemodialysis for patients with kidney failure. Postoperative complications occur in up to 50% of the cases, leading to increased morbidity and costs. ArtemiX intends to prevent vein stenosis in AVF and bypass surgery.
Calico Biosystems
Health & Nutrition
Calico Biosystems is an experimental & digital platform that tests and reliably predicts the efficacy of all anti-cancer therapeutics on native patient tumors using multi mics profiling and proprietary scoring algorithm to predict the most effective combination of treatments through computational modelling.
Eviive
Health & Nutrition
Eviive provides a platform that significantly enhances the sensitivity and specificity of biomarker discovery, enabling early diagnosis, effective personalized treatment selection, and continuous monitoring of treatment response. Eviive specializes in extracellular vesicle (EV) biomarker discovery, utilizing high-dimensional single EV analysis and machine learning to revolutionize precision medicine R&D (immuno-oncology & neuro-immunology)
Healactively AG
Health & Nutrition
Healactively AG is launching a SaaS data platform, a foundation for AI services to revolutionize the self-management of persistent back pain with a low cost, highly scalable solution in the form of an app. The app acts as ‘your back wellness expert’ powered by AI, with a holistic approach to back wellness, evidence-based physiotherapy programs, and gamification.
Hestia Therapeutics
Health & Nutrition
Hestia provides a novel approach to profoundly impact the 70% of cancer patients that are not benefiting from current standard of care. Hestia's tri-functional assets enable immune killer cells to penetrate and infiltrate the tumor microenvironment via unique anchor, activator and engager capabilities.
NEOSENS
Health & Nutrition
NEOSENS provides a Point-of-Care AI-based Diagnostic Assistant to ensure newborns in Low and Middle-Income Countries receive the best possible start in life. Their solution helps doctors avoid 2/3 of unnecessary treatments by delivering accurate results within 30 minutes, saving an average of 38% in neonatal sepsis-related costs.
ICT
ICT
AUGMEDI AG
AUGMEDI provides two medical software solutions: "TechAnatomy" for medical students and "TeachAnatomy" for medical professionals providing a step-by-step learning experience for surgical procedures. Both applications are supported by AI which analyses users’ performances and provides individualized learning plans.
ICT
Besso Ltd.
Besso is building a novel trade compliance automation platform to reduce costs and provide certainty, by leveraging AI to build a single source of truth of trade regulations globally. This enables Besso to provide real-time compliance assessments across its clients’ supply chains, as well as powerful analysis and optimization tools.
ICT
Brightside AI AG
Brightside AI is a cybersecurity solution that enables SMBs to take control of the biggest problem in cybersecurity, without complex setups and management. Using the clients' employees publicly available data along with automatic and realistic phishing simulations, Brightside AI can create personalized and real-life simulations and then explain exactly how the attack was crafted to stop this from happening again.
ICT
ClimaLinks AG
ClimaLinks transforms weather forecasts into actionable insights for the built environment and early warning, aiming to safeguard communities and businesses. Their index translates complex weather data into clear, automatic insights, thereby enabling precise, predictive management, enhancing safety and operational efficiency across sectors.
ICT
Ex Nunc Intelligence SA
Ex Nunc Intelligence SA offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) that acts as a legal assistant. They offer legal professionals a suite of tools unique to the market and legal assistance to citizens. Their legal assistance not only responds to substantive legal questions, but also guides citizens through the procedural steps they should take and tells them when it's crucial to consult a lawyer.
ICT
irmos Technologies AG
Irmos is an ETH Spin-off that enables owners of infrastructure and buildings to safely maximize the service life of their assets based on sensor data and AI. Their software interprets building- and bridge vibrations due to wind or traffic into structural condition metrics for predictive maintenance planing.
ICT
Optiml AG
Optiml is an AI-driven software solution that supports real estate owners and consultants in making smart, cost-effective, and COâ‚‚-aware decisions. Their platform streamlines the planning of investments and renovations, empowering stakeholders to take strategic steps towards achieving Net Zero.
ICT
Planeto SA
Planetos' TESSA digitalises the design of district heating networks, using machine learning to slash time, cost and accelerate the energy transition. TESSA meets the needs of energy utilities and engineering companies, as they are obliged to provide sustainable energy for buildings and cities.
ICT
Rapidata AG
Rapidata provides massive amounts of scalable human feedback to improve AI models and outcomes.By distributing labeling tasks through mobile advertisement, they provide faster labeling services than the competition at a fraction of the price, with world wide reach and instantaneous and scalable access.
INDUSTRIALS & ENGINEERING
Industrials & Engineering
Borobotics GmbH
Borobotics develops an innovative drilling robot for geothermal energy drilling in tight spaces such as city centers. By bringing the otherwise 6m tall and 14t heavy drill tower inside the borehole and incorporating it in a 2m by 90mm tube-shaped drilling robot, they are able to decrease the space requirement by 90%.
Industrials & Engineering
Divea
Divea produces filters made from 1-atom thick layer of graphene, a Nobel prize winning material. The filters are installed at an industrial emitter's site to capture CO2 emissions instead of releasing it into the admosphere. The CO2 will either be stored permanently or used to create derived products. Divea plans to make carbon capture an economical viable solution for industries with the goal of making climate change a thing of the past.
Industrials & Engineering
Emissium AG
Emissium is building the most advanced and reliable granular tracking system for electricity emissions, combining public and private data, and using a scientfic-based approach to build high-quality models. Moreover, leveraging thousands of data points per second, Emissium is training and developing machine learning models with the capacity to forecast the profile of emissions.
Industrials & Engineering
Floating Robotics AG
Floating Robotics offers an integrated AI and robotics solution for greenhouses. They build robots that harvest and de-leaf in high-tech greenhouses, relieving farmers from labor availability and fluctuations.
All the picking, boxing and locomotion components are developed and tested in real environments.
Industrials & Engineering
inSEIT AG
inSEIT offers a transformative solution that can be retrofitted by harnessing the potential of enzymes empowering them to perform in industrial conditions through a technique called immobilization. Our uniqueness resides in the use of novel and tailored computational approaches that lead to a significant shift in the development landscape.
Industrials & Engineering
ReduCO2
ReduCO2 offers an industrial solution to bind CO2 as environmentally-friendly and durable graphite that can be used by other industries for production. They aim to become one of the first industrial companies that are truly net-negative in their carbon footprint whilst producing valuable goods.
Industrials & Engineering
RTDT Laboratories AG
RTDT Laboratories AG are a deep tech ETH spin-off developing technology for structural health monitoring and power performance optimization of wind turbines. They offer a SaaS solution, which significantly increases the profitability, reliability and clean energy production of wind farms. By combining real-time measurements from their patented sensor module Aerosense with their analysis methods, they create digital twins of wind turbines and deliver deep actionable insights into structural health, power performance and remaining useful lifetime of wind assets.
Industrials & Engineering
Swistor SA
Swistor SA is a Cleantech startup specializing in the development of innovative complete energy storage devices for various sectors, including consumer portable electronics, autonomous IoT sensor nodes, space applications, and future grid-scale renewable energy storage.
RETAIL & CONSUMER SERVICES
9 Meadows GmbH
Retail & Consumer Services
9 Meadows GmbH is focused on development, production and marketing of botanical non-alcoholic spirits alternatives. They seek out the finest botanicals and distill them in pure Swiss lake water to capture the flavour of the Alps, expertly blended with natural flavours to deliver a non-alcoholic experience.
Aiving SA
Retail & Consumer Services
Aiving develops and sells performance tracking solutions for sports, starting with figure skating. They develop algorithms and software to detect movements of interest, measure pertinent metrics and allow customers to interact with and understand data in an engaging and intuitive way
AMESCO AG
Retail & Consumer Services
AMESCO redefines wine as the new era of alcohol-free indulgence, crafted from wine grapes. Innovative processes promise an extraordinary taste.
Bergmobil
Retail & Consumer Services
Bergmobil is the first comprehensive electric solution for active families: allowing to effortlessly bring kids, pets, or cargo on runs, walks, and bike rides. Bergmobil's advanced control algorithm eliminates the external force required to move the trailer which makes it uniquely versatile, intuitive to use and adaptable to many different stroller brands and types.
Brian
Retail & Consumer Services
Brian is a an AI powered learning platform, that converts existing teaching materials into engaging and social learning environments on students’ smartphones. Their platform provides personalized 1:1 guidance to each student based on their teacher's course materials and individual learning levels.
goods club. GmbH
Retail & Consumer Services
goods club. sells remainder food items for very attractive prices in „Schnäppli“- vending machines. The food is sourced directly from wholesalers, who can no longer sell it due to the best-before date or overproduction. This would otherwise end up as food waste and wholesalers would have to pay for its destruction, even though the best-before-date is often still months away.
Wepot SA
Retail & Consumer Services
Wepot introduces ollas clay pots that efficiently deliver water to plant roots, conserving water and fostering healthier plants. They offer 5 sizes that cater to all needs, from indoor pots to gardens, planning to develop and deploy an irrigation model for arid regions worldwide.
Social & Environmental Impact
ALIEN Limited
Social & Environmental
ALIEN Limited provides an end-to-end solution to local communities to process an invasive alien species present in Swiss lakes: the Quagga Mussel that has negative environmental, social and economic impacts. ALIEN Limited transforms these mussels into eco-materials for a positive, impact-driven purpose and renewable energy to help local communities and diverse industries to meet the objectives of the Climate Plan.
askEarth AG
Social & Environmental Impact
askEarth uses satellite imagery to predict the future of planet Earth. Their software solution processes satellite images automatically and allows their customers to validate that there is no deforestation happening in vicinity of the commodities' origin before accepting any shipment.
Cotierra AG
Social & Environmental Impact
Cotierra helps net-zero committed companies, both within and outside agricultural supply chains, achieve their targets through permanent carbon removal and emission reduction. Their solution is perfectly adapted to the Global South and delivers reliable data to their clients. Cotierra partners with coffee traders and equips them with their robust reactors and their integrated control system. Cotierra helps the farmer store carbon in the soil whilst increasing the farmers margins.
Demetra
Social & Environmental Impact
Demetra is a blockchain platform that rewards people for responsible decisions and enables effective cooperation among all sustainability stakeholders. Using its interoperable digital assets (a stable coin, a crypto coin, an NFT) and through its tokenomic, many different stakeholders (institutions, for profits, social agencies, and others) can cooperate and fit their needs whether it is to fund social projects, or to report CSR, or promote sustainable food sale, or donate.
iEntreprene Association
Social & Environmental Impact
To address the pressing issue of women’s labor market participation, iEntreprene developed the She-IMPact program. The program aspires to bring women with innovative business ideas who are committed to launching their own ventures within the next year together with women who are already running established businesses.
Malaica AG
Social & Environmental Impact
Pregnancy related mortality is 100 times higher in Sub-Saharan Africa than in Europe. Malaica has developed a program which addresses this: remote midwives support women throughout their pregnancy and ensure they get care according to WHO recommendations. The program is running successfully in Kenya, with strong user and revenue growth. Malaica is driven by a team of doctors, midwives, engineers and serial entrepreneurs.
My Book of Signs
Social & Environmental Impact
Let the children learn sign language! Swiss children aged 6 and up will be able to learn their local sign language through a playful book available at school containing visual aids and QR codes linked to videos. The project aims to promote inclusivity through gamified learning.
Waste Flow
Social & Environmental Impact
WasteFlow's AI vision system boosts recycling rates and energy efficiency in facilities without replacing existing machines. By providing real-time essential KPIs, simplifying process operation, increasing energy efficiency, and increasing recycling rate their solution increases facilities revenue.