Six Venture Kick startups selected for the high powered business and financing roadshow “venture leaders China” 2017
21.04.2017
This year, Climeworks, Flyability, Lunaphore, Technis, Urban Farmers and ZuriMED will be part of the venture leaders China team with four other high growth Swiss startups, forming the “Swiss National Startup Team China”. Coined as a “flagship program” by the Swiss Ambassador in China, it will bring the startups to Beijing, Dalian, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, for the most intense journey so far. The startups will showcase Swiss innovation at the World Economic Forum in Dalian.
 Valentin Gutknecht of Climeworks
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 Xiaolin Briod-Wang of Flyability
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 Ata Tuna Ciftlik of Lunaphore
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 Wiktor Bourée of Technis
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 Roman Gaus of UrbanFarmers
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 Xiang Li of ZuriMED
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Climeworks, Valentin Gutknecht (Cleantech, ETHZ)
The 2010 Venture Kick winner Climeworks provides solutions for efficiently capturing CO2 out of ambient air. They offer a competitive and environmentally friendly CO2 supply to their customers. Their CO2 enables the production of carbon-neutral renewable fuels allowing for efficient storage of renewable energies.
Flyability, Xiaolin Briod-Wang (Electronics, mechanics, UAV’s)
The 2015 Venture Kick winner Flyability builds safe drones for inaccessible places. By allowing drones to be used safely in cities, inside buildings, and in contact with people, it enables new interactions and services with UAVs and solving the two most critical issues of one of the fastest growing industries: collisions and injury risks. The company’s first market is in industrial inspection where it avoids sending people in dangerous and confined spaces for the inspection of Energy, Heavy Industries, Oil & Gas and Maritime assets. It is also working with Search & Rescue to assess emergency situations without putting humans at risk.
Lunaphore, Ata Tuna Ciftlik (Micro- Nanotechnologies, EPFL)
The 2015 Venture Kick winner Lunaphore is disrupting tissue diagnostics field by fundamentally changing the time and resource driven nature of diagnostic assays on tumor sections. Just like the fast sequencing technologies have made genomics testing possible for everybody today, Lunaphore will make possible an order-of-magnitude higher number of tissue biomarker checks for each tumor.
Technis, Wiktor Bourée (ICT, Electronics, mechanics, EPFL)
The 2016 Venture Kick winner Technis revolutionizes one major aspect of facility management: activity monitoring. Staying true to its Swiss roots, Technis does so in the most discrete and precise way: through the flooring. By making the surface sensitive and by coupling this surface to powerful artificial intelligence, a real-time overview of the activity in your infrastructure is made accessible from any internet-connected device. Your personalized dashboard furthermore allows for external data crossing, thus allowing for resource optimization, queue management and activity prediction.
UrbanFarmers, Roman Gaus (Cleantech, Uni St. Gallen)
The 2012 Venture Kick winner UrbanFarmers is a global pioneer in urban farming, having established a global presence with operations in Switzerland, the Netherlands, US and Brazil. The company is a Swiss life-science champion with several prizes and awards and is poised to benefit from the global consumer trend towards more sustainable, locally grown food.
ZuriMED, Xiang Li (Medtech, ETHZ)
The 2015 Venture Kick winnerZuriMED commercializes a revolutionary device for surgical knee ligament reconstruction, the “Bone-Tendon-Bone (BTB) Conversion-Kit™”. The solution effectively converts a less painful hamstring autograft (a patient’s own tissue), or any other flexible graft, into a higher performance BTB-like graft.
The 2010 Venture Kick winner Climeworks provides solutions for efficiently capturing CO2 out of ambient air. They offer a competitive and environmentally friendly CO2 supply to their customers. Their CO2 enables the production of carbon-neutral renewable fuels allowing for efficient storage of renewable energies.
Flyability, Xiaolin Briod-Wang (Electronics, mechanics, UAV’s)
The 2015 Venture Kick winner Flyability builds safe drones for inaccessible places. By allowing drones to be used safely in cities, inside buildings, and in contact with people, it enables new interactions and services with UAVs and solving the two most critical issues of one of the fastest growing industries: collisions and injury risks. The company’s first market is in industrial inspection where it avoids sending people in dangerous and confined spaces for the inspection of Energy, Heavy Industries, Oil & Gas and Maritime assets. It is also working with Search & Rescue to assess emergency situations without putting humans at risk.
Lunaphore, Ata Tuna Ciftlik (Micro- Nanotechnologies, EPFL)
The 2015 Venture Kick winner Lunaphore is disrupting tissue diagnostics field by fundamentally changing the time and resource driven nature of diagnostic assays on tumor sections. Just like the fast sequencing technologies have made genomics testing possible for everybody today, Lunaphore will make possible an order-of-magnitude higher number of tissue biomarker checks for each tumor.
Technis, Wiktor Bourée (ICT, Electronics, mechanics, EPFL)
The 2016 Venture Kick winner Technis revolutionizes one major aspect of facility management: activity monitoring. Staying true to its Swiss roots, Technis does so in the most discrete and precise way: through the flooring. By making the surface sensitive and by coupling this surface to powerful artificial intelligence, a real-time overview of the activity in your infrastructure is made accessible from any internet-connected device. Your personalized dashboard furthermore allows for external data crossing, thus allowing for resource optimization, queue management and activity prediction.
UrbanFarmers, Roman Gaus (Cleantech, Uni St. Gallen)
The 2012 Venture Kick winner UrbanFarmers is a global pioneer in urban farming, having established a global presence with operations in Switzerland, the Netherlands, US and Brazil. The company is a Swiss life-science champion with several prizes and awards and is poised to benefit from the global consumer trend towards more sustainable, locally grown food.
ZuriMED, Xiang Li (Medtech, ETHZ)
The 2015 Venture Kick winnerZuriMED commercializes a revolutionary device for surgical knee ligament reconstruction, the “Bone-Tendon-Bone (BTB) Conversion-Kit™”. The solution effectively converts a less painful hamstring autograft (a patient’s own tissue), or any other flexible graft, into a higher performance BTB-like graft.