Startups Developing Eggsorter for Labs, Force Sensing Solution for Robots and Ultra-Advanced Chargers Each Win CHF 40,000
29.04.2020
Bionomous, Bota and Swistor Teams win Venture Kick’s financial and entrepreneurial support. Their projects develop next-generation Eggsorter bringing automation to the lab, a force-sensing solution for robots and nanotech that pairs the energy storage of lithium-ion with the speed, stability and lifetime of capacitors.
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 Bionomous CEO Frank Bonnet
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 BOTA CEO Klajd Lika
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 Swistor Clara Moldovan
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Bionomous: Eggsorter bringing automation to the lab
www.venturekick.ch/Bionomous
Bionomous’ CEO Frank Bonnet has obtained a PhD at the EPFL and is currently employed by the EPFL as a Postdoc, working at 100% on the Bionomous project. Bionomous aims at bringing to the market new solutions that combines innovative micro-engineering design and machine learning methods to automatically count, screen, sort and dispense miniature biological entities like the egg of zebrafish Danio rerio which is a growing model in research and industry in genetics, development biology or toxicology. They plan to use the Venture Kick funds to finance the latest stage of development and manufacturing of the first versions of their product and for marketing material to be ready for sales by Autumn 2020.
www.venturekick.ch/Bionomous
Bionomous’ CEO Frank Bonnet has obtained a PhD at the EPFL and is currently employed by the EPFL as a Postdoc, working at 100% on the Bionomous project. Bionomous aims at bringing to the market new solutions that combines innovative micro-engineering design and machine learning methods to automatically count, screen, sort and dispense miniature biological entities like the egg of zebrafish Danio rerio which is a growing model in research and industry in genetics, development biology or toxicology. They plan to use the Venture Kick funds to finance the latest stage of development and manufacturing of the first versions of their product and for marketing material to be ready for sales by Autumn 2020.
BOTA: Force-sensing solution for robots
By 2023, more than half a million industrial robots will be collaborating with humans, and hence require force sensing technology. In contrast to existing industrial solutions, this requires tactile and force controllable systems. BOTA’s CEO, Klajd Lika graduated in Engineering from National Technical University of Athens (MA equivalent) has been working in Robotic Systems Lab of ETH Zurich. With his team, they developed an innovative plug and play force-sensing solution which is scalable, highly integrated and modular and can be integrated in systems like collaborative manipulators, service and household robots, or healthcare solutions. It make them sense the interaction force with their environment. The funds will be used for paying part of the engineers’ salaries and for the marketing to scale up the sales.
Swistor: nanotech supercapacitors for greener, safer and faster charging devices
www.venturekick.ch/swistor
Slow-charging batteries with limited lifetimes are a bottleneck to the development of mobile technologies. BRIDGE Fellow Clara Moldovan is using carbon nanotube supercapacitors to replace batteries in the $40 billion market for portable devices. Together with teammate Adrian Ionescu, the swistor project aims to build an energy storage device that charges in two minutes, with a lifetime 30 times longer than current batteries, using materials that are safer and less-polluting than traditional lithium and cobalt.