Startups Making Better Tumor Imaging, Smart Cameras for Manufacturing, Novel Cosmetics, AI for Software Engineers and WiFi-Over-Light Win CHF 10,000 from Venture Kick
13.08.2019
Five startup projects convince the Venture Kick jury. 4i Labs, Logic Flow, LYVIERE, NEURALSIGHT and Pi Lighting each win cash grants, entrepreneurial training and further support.
 Logic Flow, NEURALSIGHT, 4i Labs, LYVIERE, and Pi Lighting
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 4i Labs' Gabriele Gut
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 Logic Flow co-founders Sandro Schneider, Zhiying Cui and Lucas Fiévet
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 LYVIERE's Laura Grimmelmann
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 NEURALSIGHT's co-founders Filippo Fontana and Timon Heinis, with Jonas Conrad
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 Pi Lighting's Thomas Mérelle
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4i Labs: multiplex imaging for tumor boards
Founder Gabriele Gut's innovations help tumor boards' clinical decision-making. The researcher from the University of Zurich has invented 4i, to generate highly multiplexed images of biological samples that give more efficiently a deeper, more detailed molecular view of tumors than the current state-of-the-art. The technology promises to help scientists studying cellular processes for drug discovery, pathologists assessing cancers, and medtech companies implementing personalized treatment.
Founder Gabriele Gut's innovations help tumor boards' clinical decision-making. The researcher from the University of Zurich has invented 4i, to generate highly multiplexed images of biological samples that give more efficiently a deeper, more detailed molecular view of tumors than the current state-of-the-art. The technology promises to help scientists studying cellular processes for drug discovery, pathologists assessing cancers, and medtech companies implementing personalized treatment.
Logic Flow: automated code translation
Corporations seeking to stay digitally competitive are often struck by tech-debt and old architecture, inherited from past software projects. Before they can implement new and agile applications, companies first need to translate legacy software into modern coding languages and frameworks. Logic Flow has built an artificial intelligence which automates repetitive code translation tasks. Working with the team's bot allows migration projects to be completed with within a fraction of the time. Co-founders Lucas Fiévet, Sandro Schneider and Zhiying Cui will focus first on pilot projects before scaling-up for insurance, banking and tech clients.
LYVIERE: a novel approach to skin beauty
The $200 billion skin-care cosmetic market is set grow, as our interest in beauty and appearance increases. To keep pace, the cosmetics industry needs to identify new classes of cosmetics. LYVIERE's team are working on a novel approach to beauty products based on a unique biological mechanism to keep skin looking young, firm and wrinkle-free.
Human error causes 70 percent of quality problems in the manufacturing industry, so there's great potential for smart cameras using deep-learning technology to improve quality. Until now, the development of new applications was limited due to the high cost and missing expertise. NEURALSIGHT's co-founders Filippo Fontana and Timon Heinis want to help industrial companies apply deep learning technologies more easily, with a turnkey smart cameras. The ETH Zurich graduates see potential for their algorithms and hardware to support human-work in industrial processes such as product assembly, order picking and machine setup.
Pi Lighting: wireless data transmission, faster than 5G
As more Internet-of-Things devices need to communicate more, the radio-frequency spectrum (700Mhz to 5Ghz) is becoming crowded with 4G, 5G and WiFi data flows. LiFiX is a computer chip that transmits data wirelessly using IR and visible light (300 to 770 Thz) instead. Pi Lighting's patented design, allows integrated MiMo multichannel transmission as fast as 25Gb/s, and greater security than currently existing technologies.