CHF 40,000 for startups developing microengineered hybrid fibers, an API for sleep inertia, and mastering financial life
16.06.2021
Antefil Composite Tech, Galventa, and Kaspar& win Venture Kick's second stage of financial and entrepreneurial support. Their projects treat sleep inertia to adjust the sleep-wake cycle, hybrid fiber preforms to provide efficiency, quality, and sustainability for large-scale composite structures, and fill the missing possibility to easily build up wealth due to negative interest rates.
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 Antefil’s co-founding team from left to right: Paolo Ermanni, Christoph Schneeberger and Nicole Aegerter. Photo credit to Lea Ladner: www.lealadner.com
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 Galventa's founders: left to right, Dario Dornbierer and Sascha Fritsche
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 Kaspar&: from left to right: Dr. Lukas Plachel (investment strategies and processes), Dr. Jan-Philip Schade (project management and business development), Lauro Böni (process and systems management), Sebastian Büchler (technology and infrastructure)
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Antefil Composite Tech: transforming lightweight structures
Today’s greatest challenge in realizing energy-efficient structures from fibre-reinforced plastics lies in the capacity to manufacture high-quality parts quickly and cost-effectively. This limits their availability for high-volume production markets. To tackle this issue, co-founders Dr. Christoph Schneeberger (executive lead), Nicole Aegerter (operational lead), Prof. Dr. Paolo Ermanni (technology lead) and advisors Dr. Pierre Comte, Prof. Dr. Joanna Wong, Dr. Christian Fischer and Dr. Tomas Brenner are working together to provide a faster, more cost-effective and more sustainable solution. Antefil Composite Tech will revolutionize high volume composites manufacturing by providing textile preforms made from glass fibres that are individually clad in a meltable, recyclable plastic. Their mission is to expedite the transition of the global composites industry to a more cost- and energy-efficient future, helping previously untouched markets adapt advanced lightweight materials. To achieve these goals, they redefine the limits of cycle time, preform cost and laminate quality encountered in high-volume composites production.
The Venture Kick funds will be used to produce samples for pilot tests, develop a pilot marketing strategy and cover the costs of exhibitions and other marketing activities.
Galventa: reseting one's chronobiological clock
A large percentage of the population has difficulties getting up or staying awake due to sleep inertia. Sleep inertia is a state of impaired cognitive performance where an individual has a strong desire to continue sleeping after awakening (lasting for 15 minutes to several hours). The symptoms are severely present in non-medical populations, such as shift-workers, jet-lagged- or sleep-deprived people, and in medical conditions associated with delayed sleep phase syndrome or major depressive disorder among others. Galventa's founders Dario Dornbierer, and Sascha Fritsche, developed a patentable innovation based on micro-pellets that allows establishing time-controlled release systems containing an active substance. Their first nutraceutical product (The Swiss Caffeine Clock) is for those who seek to control their sleep-wake cycle and wake up with ease. It is the only scientifically proven food supplement that empowers you to control your wake-up process. Unlike stimulants, other sleep aids, or your alarm clock, The Swiss Caffeine Clock doesn't disturb your sleep but aligns your sleep-wake cycle to your lifestyle (based on patented, cutting-edge pharmaceutical technology). The Venture Kick funds will be used to conduct market tests and in order to develop their branding strategy.
Kaspar&: mastering financial life
Taking care of one's financial life can be a burden. Kaspar& is designed to provide seamless and comfortable access to professional financial services bringing a new level of financial wellness to their customers. For this reason, Kaspar&'s first mission is to solve one of the largest financial problems of our time: the missing possibility to easily build up wealth due to negative interest rates. Kaspar&’s team are Lauro Böni, responsible for process and systems management, technology lead Sebastian Büchler, Dr. Lukas Plachel, responsible for all investment topics and processes, and Dr. Jan-Philp Schade, leading the overall project management and business development. Sebastian Büchler is currently undertaking his Ph.D. studies at the University of St.Gallen within the field of AI. As investing is the only option to earn interest in today’s world, Kaspar& seeks to offer a radically accessible investment experience. They achieve this by creating a seamless onboarding process, eliminating minimum investments, emotionalizing investing through personal goals, and letting customers automatically save and invest the change money from their everyday payment transactions.
Kaspar& is planning to use the Venture Kick financing in two main areas: first for its further prototype development and second for its community-building program.
Today’s greatest challenge in realizing energy-efficient structures from fibre-reinforced plastics lies in the capacity to manufacture high-quality parts quickly and cost-effectively. This limits their availability for high-volume production markets. To tackle this issue, co-founders Dr. Christoph Schneeberger (executive lead), Nicole Aegerter (operational lead), Prof. Dr. Paolo Ermanni (technology lead) and advisors Dr. Pierre Comte, Prof. Dr. Joanna Wong, Dr. Christian Fischer and Dr. Tomas Brenner are working together to provide a faster, more cost-effective and more sustainable solution. Antefil Composite Tech will revolutionize high volume composites manufacturing by providing textile preforms made from glass fibres that are individually clad in a meltable, recyclable plastic. Their mission is to expedite the transition of the global composites industry to a more cost- and energy-efficient future, helping previously untouched markets adapt advanced lightweight materials. To achieve these goals, they redefine the limits of cycle time, preform cost and laminate quality encountered in high-volume composites production.
The Venture Kick funds will be used to produce samples for pilot tests, develop a pilot marketing strategy and cover the costs of exhibitions and other marketing activities.
Galventa: reseting one's chronobiological clock
A large percentage of the population has difficulties getting up or staying awake due to sleep inertia. Sleep inertia is a state of impaired cognitive performance where an individual has a strong desire to continue sleeping after awakening (lasting for 15 minutes to several hours). The symptoms are severely present in non-medical populations, such as shift-workers, jet-lagged- or sleep-deprived people, and in medical conditions associated with delayed sleep phase syndrome or major depressive disorder among others. Galventa's founders Dario Dornbierer, and Sascha Fritsche, developed a patentable innovation based on micro-pellets that allows establishing time-controlled release systems containing an active substance. Their first nutraceutical product (The Swiss Caffeine Clock) is for those who seek to control their sleep-wake cycle and wake up with ease. It is the only scientifically proven food supplement that empowers you to control your wake-up process. Unlike stimulants, other sleep aids, or your alarm clock, The Swiss Caffeine Clock doesn't disturb your sleep but aligns your sleep-wake cycle to your lifestyle (based on patented, cutting-edge pharmaceutical technology). The Venture Kick funds will be used to conduct market tests and in order to develop their branding strategy.
Kaspar&: mastering financial life
Taking care of one's financial life can be a burden. Kaspar& is designed to provide seamless and comfortable access to professional financial services bringing a new level of financial wellness to their customers. For this reason, Kaspar&'s first mission is to solve one of the largest financial problems of our time: the missing possibility to easily build up wealth due to negative interest rates. Kaspar&’s team are Lauro Böni, responsible for process and systems management, technology lead Sebastian Büchler, Dr. Lukas Plachel, responsible for all investment topics and processes, and Dr. Jan-Philp Schade, leading the overall project management and business development. Sebastian Büchler is currently undertaking his Ph.D. studies at the University of St.Gallen within the field of AI. As investing is the only option to earn interest in today’s world, Kaspar& seeks to offer a radically accessible investment experience. They achieve this by creating a seamless onboarding process, eliminating minimum investments, emotionalizing investing through personal goals, and letting customers automatically save and invest the change money from their everyday payment transactions.
Kaspar& is planning to use the Venture Kick financing in two main areas: first for its further prototype development and second for its community-building program.