Plair and Graspeo won CHF 20'000 each!
15.04.2014
Two promising Swiss startups deserved the support of the venture kick jury and got awarded with CHF 20’000 each. One provides a web tool for teams and organizations that want to manage and collaborate on projects in a secure interface; the other develops real-time aerosol detectors for research, weather and healthcare institutions.
 Graspeo's team after winning the second stage of venture kick.
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 Denis Kiselev and Svetlana Afonina, Plair co-founders.
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Graspeo: After participating to the venture challenge program (venturelab), Dmitrii Shevchuk, a 3rd semester Master student in Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship at EPFL, founded Graspeo, a web tool to help teams and organizations to manage and collaborate in a secure interface. Privacy is achieved by using P2P protocol with end-to-end encryption.
Plair : Svetlana Afonina, Plair co-founder, holds a Master degree in Physics and is currently doing her PhD at University of Geneva. During the PhD program, she met Denis Kiselev and they launched this project. Plair developed a device that estimates optical and aerodynamic sizes, and asphericity of individual particles. This tool could be used for research, weather and healthcare fields concerned by air quality, contamination and pollution.