Discover the venture pitch winners !

Kunendo
Patrick Minder, a Ph.D. Student in Computer Science at University of Zurich, founded Kunendo.  The startup aims to harness the power of the ‘global brain’ by interweaving the cognitive capabilities of humans with the number crunching capabilities of computers. In particular, they design and run crowdsourcing solutions that reduce the processing costs of complex tasks (e.g., translation, data cleaning) by appropriately and efficiently crowd source the tasks to high-skilled freelancer, semi-professionals, common people, computer, and cloud services as well.
 
Skytarget
Bruno Magalhaes is actually in the scientific staff of the Blue Brain Project at EPFL. He developed Skytarget, an anonymous facial recognition and body tracking system that computes, collects, and gathers information about visitors’ trends, habits and general behaviour on public premises (retail, sports, gaming, events, high-security, etc.) and provides reports and analytics for the purposes of better management, advertisement, and security.
 
RAW
RAW has been founded by Miguel Branco, a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL. RAW is a database system that helps businesses get their facts right, by accelerating the process of discovering, querying and integrating data sources. RAW's goal is to enable a new generation of flexible Enterprise IT systems for big and small data.
 
Anyband
Yosef Akhtman, post-doc at EPFL, created Anyband. The startup will make hyperspectral imaging accessible and affordable across multiple domains of applications by introducing a new class of compact, lightweight and inexpensive sensors based on a novel, patented technological solution. Our cameras will be optimized for integration in small unmanned aircrafts, which will position Anyband to take the full advantage of the rapidly emerging $5 billion global market for airborne monitoring of vegetation.