4 promising startups receive their first kick !
25.06.2014
Eight projects were selected and had the opportunity to present their business ideas in front of a jury of successful entrepreneurs and investors. CellSpring, milKit, Motiv.com and Mikro Trees got the first stage kick and won CHF 10’000 of pre-seed capital. In the next stage they have the chance to get CHF 20'000.
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Cellspring
CellSpring, founded by Chrisopher Millan from ETH Zürich, will offer 3-Dimensional Cell Culture solutions for high-throughput creation of functional microtissues. Utilizing a pending patented technology, the products will shorten the time required to create 3D microtissues compared to other methods, and increase the accuracy of in vitro tests used in early stage drug discovery.
milKit
Actually employed at ETH Zürich and passionate about entrepreneurship, Pius Kobler founded milKit, a product that makes measuring the remaining sealant in a tubeless bike tire and refilling it easy and safe.
Motiv.com
Motiv.com, a web-based platform launched by Jean Hennebert, helps organisations to increase their efficiency through the understanding and the management of staff motivation. It is innovative as it monitors in real-time the level of staff motivation, based on the collection and treatment of internal as well as external information and automatically suggests improvement measures to the management or the HR department.
MIKRO TREES
MIKRO TREES brings the best of biodiversity conservation, finance, technology, social entrepreneurship and community building into the first global movement fighting deforestation of tropical forests and other environmental destructions. Supporting each other through a one-stop web / mobile platform for people who want to do good, day after day, by protecting the environment, helps saving animal species. This is the goal of Luca Baldassarre and Jonathan Rascol, co-founders of MIKRO TREES.