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Bilan Magazine: Here are the 50 startups in which to invest

24.02.2015

Earlier this month and for the third consecutive year, western Switzerland’s magazine “Bilan” published its selection of promising startups looking for investors. In total, 25 venture kick Alumni were part of the selection.

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At the beginning of the process, no less than 97 high-tech startups were pre-selected by Bilan’s editorial board and its partners. Then, a jury composed of experienced entrepreneurs, Lift Conference representatives and journalists analyzed and chose the 50 startups of this year’s edition.

Among the 50 young companies in the cleantech, IT, electronics, Internet, medtech, biotech and luxury sectors, 25 are venture kick Alumni. Furthermore, 35 have been supported by venture kick as well as venturelab, and many were part of the venture leaders’ adventure in Boston and New York as well as China. Some are part of TOP 100 Swiss Startups of 2014, too.

Bilan’ selection confirms that Swiss startups have a high growth potential, in Switzerland and abroad. Switzerland’s number one startup, InSphero, is for example in it. The ETH spin-off counts the world’s 15 most important pharmaceutical and biotech companies in its clients list. As per Bilan, it is looking for CHF 19 Mio to multiply its production sites in the United States and in Asia and develop its activity in personalized medicine.

Discover the 25 venture kick startups in Bilan’s ranking below (an online version of the magazine will soon be available):

CLEANTECH

eSMART, venture kick, venture leader China 2014, Alumnus venturelab, winner of the Swisscom Startup Challenge 2014:
IT

  • Geosatis, venture kick, Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2014, TOP 100 Swiss Startups #92, Alumnus venturelab:
  • - Read the article about Geosatis in the 2014 annual report of venture kick here
  • - Read the article "Swisscom invests in TOP 100 startup" here
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  • ELECTRONICS
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  • Bitspitters, venture kick
  • Flyability, venture kick, Alumnus venturelab, venture leader USA 2014
  • - Flyability is the winner of many prizes (p.ex. Hello Tomorrow, >>venture>>). It recently won USD 1M at the Drones For Good Award organized by the United Arab Emirates. Read the full news here
  • Gait Up, venture kick, Alumnus venturelab
  • Green TEG, venture kick, Alumnus venturelab
  • Scrona, venture kick, Alumnus venturelab
  • Xsensio, venture kick
  • - Read the interview of Xsensio's co-founder Esmeralda Megally here after winning the second stage of venture kick
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  • INTERNET
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  • Audiolize, venture kick, venture leader USA 2014
  • TawiPay, venture kick

    MEDTECH
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  • Aeon Scientific, venture kick, Alumnus venturelab, venture leader USA 2011, TOP 100 Swiss Startups #69
    • - Read "Aeon Scientific creams off the Swiss Technology Award" (2014) here
  • Calcisco, venture kick, Alumnus venturelab, TOP 100 Swiss Startups #38
  • G-Therapeutics.com, venture kick, venture leader USA 2014
    • - G-Therapeutics won many awards and prizes in 2014, such as the Hello Tomorrow Challenge in Paris and the Universal Biotech Innovation Prize. Discover how the EPFL spin-off helps paralyzed people walk again in an article and video here (in French)
  • Lunaphore, venture kick, Alumnus venturelab, venture leader USA 2014, TOP 100 Swiss Startups #35 (Lunaphore is the youngest startup of the ranking).
  • - The EPFL spin-off was ranked Nr. 1 at the PERL Prize and received CHF 100.000 from the Fondation pour l'Innovation Technologique (FIT) in 2014. It is also one of the 5 best startups of Western Switzerland
  • Medirio, venture kick
  • Nanolive, venture kick, venture leader USA 2013
  • - Nanolive recently announced having received more than 40 pre-orders of its revolutionary microscope, the 3D Cell Explorer. Read the article written by the French weekly magazine BiotechFinances about Nanolive (in FR) here.
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BIOTECH

  • InSphero, Switzerland's Nr 1 startup, venture leader USA 2010, Alumnus venturelab and venture kick
  • - Discover InSphero on page 13 and 14 of venture kick's 2014 annual report on http://www.venturekick.ch/report
  • PB&B, venture kick, venture leader USA 2014, Alumnus venturelab. In 2014, PB&B received the Innovation Trophy of the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG). It also raised CHF 300'000 at the end of 2014
  • SpiroChem, venture kick, Alumnus venturelab
  • Stemergie, venture kick, Alumnus venturelab, venture leader USA 2009
  • Versantis, venture kick, venture leader USA 2014
  • - Versantis won the final of venture kick early 2015. Find out how the ETH spin-off will be able to save lives here

LUXURY

  • Relish Brothers, venture kick, TOP 100 Swiss Startups #62
  • - Read our article about Relish Guitars and "Jane", their revolutionary electric guitar here
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