COMPETITION WINNERS
Launched in 1997, >>venture>> has been fostering winning business ideas for over 25 years. Competition alumni have gone on to successfully found over 1’500 companies and create more than 15’000 jobs here in Switzerland. Read on to learn more about the up-and-coming innovators that >>venture>> has supported over the years.
2023 Winners
Grand Prize Winner
Biosimo develops low-cost, bio-based, green chemicals,leading the transition to a fossil-free chemical industry and reducing the carbon footprint of everyday products.
Openversum GmbH
NPO Track
1st Place
Openversum empowers local entrepreneurs in Colombia and Ecuador to provide safe drinking water while creating employment and reaching the people in most need.
HEMLATA
NPO Track
2nd Place
HEMLATA is empowering young women from India’s lower socio-economic strata, through quality education, to step out of their cycles of poverty, and achieve gender equality.
Adaire Academy AG
NPO Track
3rd Place
Adaire Academy, in partnership with EPFL Extension School, enables qualified, yet un- or under- employed African adults to pursue remote tech careers in Switzerland.
