An unprecedented 66 alumni from Venture Kick clinched positions in the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Awards 2024 ranking, setting a new record

25.09.2024

Beginning September, Venture Kick celebrated a full evening of successes: 66 alums ranked at the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2024, marking a record-breaking number in the history of Venture Kick. This accomplishment underscores the innovative spirit that Venture Kick has nurtured within its alumni network, solidifying their position as forerunners in Switzerland's thriving startup landscape.

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Venture Kick alumni were highlighted in the thirteenth edition of the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Awards annual ranking, with alums sweeping the podium, as well as 9 of the top 10 positions.




9 Venture Kick startups ranked in the TOP 10

#1 DePoly
As a chemical recycling company, DePoly is tackling the plastic problem via its enhanced recycling technology that converts post-consumer PET plastic back to its main raw components, at room temperature, without any additional heat or pressure. The raw material can then be sold back to industry, so that new virgin quality PET plastic items can be made, creating a truly circular plastic economy.

#2 Corintis
Corintis is a provider of silicon-based microfluidic cooling solutions to enable 10x higher heat extraction from silicon chips versus conventional methods, with a 50-times higher energy efficiency.

#3 Planted
Planted combines proprietary structuring and fermentation technologies to produce meat from plant proteins, focusing on delicious taste, and meaty and juicy texture, while only using natural ingredients.

#4 HAYA Therapeutics
HAYA Therapeutics is dedicated to treating heart failure through the discovery and development of innovative first-in-class RNA-based therapeutics, with a specific focus on long noncoding RNAs.

#5 Voltiris
Voltiris develops the very first photovoltaic modules for glass greenhouses. This innovation allows for double-land use of greenhouses’ surface, generating electricity with no reduction of crop productivity. 

#6 Bloom Biorenewables
Bloom offers a sustainable alternative to replace petroleum in current products. With Bloom, customers can match the growing demand for nature-based products as well as make a big step towards meeting their sustainability goals.

#7 DeepJudge
DeepJudge utilizes its multilingual and proprietary AI to provide an intent-driven search engine tailored for internal document repositories.

#8 Flybotix
Flybotix develops professional drone-based solutions for the inspection and digitization of industrial confined space. It doubles the flight time of confined space drones to reduce costs, maximize uptime and reduce risks for humans and the planet.

#9 NanoFlex Robotics
NanoFlex develops a soft robotic system that allows the precise movement of specially-made catheters in the vasculature. Those catheters are softer, more manoeuvrable, easier to use, and safer than anything currently available.



TOP 11-100

12 Avelo
14 Tune Insight
15 Voliro
16 Enerdrape
17 Araris Biotech
19 Exnaton
21 Microcaps
22 WattAnyWhere
25 Seprify
26 Luya Foods
27 Ascento
28 FimmCyte
30 Isochronic
31 Artiria Medical
35 Adiposs
37 TYXIT (Sonix)
38 Synthara
39 FluoSphera
43 Recolony
46 Neurosoft Bioelectronics
48 EarlySight
49 Neology Hydrogen
50 viboo
52 BTRY
53 ENANTIOS
54 Antefil Composite Tech
55 CustomSurg
57 SoHHytec
58 apheros
59 InkVivo Technologies
61 Cultivated Biosciences
63 Terapet
64 Perseo pharma
66 Nu Glass
67 grape insurance
69 Almer Technologies
70 TWIICE
72 Limula
75 AICA
77 Nagi Bioscience
78 DPhi Space
79 sallea
80 Flink Robotics
81 ArcoScreen
82 Bottneuro
84 INERGIO Technologies
86 Plastogaz
87 Oxyle
89 RoomPriceGenie
91 qCella
92 irmos technologies
93 eightinks
94 HeroSupport
95 MARK Investment Holding
96 Synendos Therapeutics
97 Tandem Therapeutics
98 SolidWatts

Congratulations to all the 66 Venture Kick alumni for this outstanding recognition.

Eligibility for the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award is limited to startups that have incorporated in the past five years, so many of Venture Kick's older alum companies were featured on the experts' selection of TOP 25 scale-ups.

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