Startups Making an App for Artisans, Legtech for SMEs, Sweat-Analyzing Stress-Sensors, and Ultra-Advanced Chargers Each Win CHF 10,000
16.12.2019
The teams behind Aestico, CASUS Technologies, epyMetrics, and swistor win Venture Kick's financial and entrepreneurial support. Discover their projects for people in the building industry; more-affordable legal advice; wearables for proactive, personalized health; and nanotech that pairs the energy storage of lithium-ion with the speed, stability and lifetime of capacitors.
 Aestico, CASUS Technologies, epyMetrics, and swistor
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 Aestico co-founders Rafael Mottl and Giovanni Moscato
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 CASUS Technologies co-founders Céline Spillmann and Fabian Staub
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 EpyMetrics co-founders Edith Schmid and Yves Delley
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 swistor's Clara Moldovan
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Aestico: helping construction professionals price finishing work
Tradespeople planning and pricing manual work in buildings have to combine several tools to make their estimates. This is time-consuming and error-prone. Aestico is developing software to make it easier for professionals such as painters or tilers that are subcontracted to finish buildings. Co-founders Rafael Mottl and Giovanni Moscato have started pilot projects to refine their prototype, and plan market-entry in 2020. They see the potential to serve 440,000 artisanal companies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
CASUS Technologies AG: legaltech platform for SMEs
Céline Spillmann and Fabian Staub view the Swiss legal industry as characterized by inefficient workflows, low standardization and intransparent billing. They want to make legal services more accessible for small and medium-sized enterprises, via their legaltech startup that augments automatic document creation with personalized legal advice. The CASUS platform will enable SMEs to draft their own legal documents using a digital attorney, with the option to customize the legal service by connecting directly to a human lawyer for the final adjustments. The co-founding law-graduates from ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich and the University of St. Gallen aim to make legal advice accessible for all and more efficient for attorneys.
EpyMetrics: wearables to diagnose stress early
Heat stress reduces our ability to concentrate and perform physical work. When our bodies become too hot, we risk accidents, exhaustion and other severe health conditions. The UN estimates that heat stress caused by climate change may reduce global productivity by $2 trillion annually, as employees working in many outdoor and indoor industries suffer worse health. EpyMetrics co-founders Yves Delley, Edith Schmid, and Peter Seitz have developed a wearable to continuously monitor our bodies’ thermoregulation and detect heat stress earlier, without interrupting work. The team's comprehensive set of sensors and software models core body temperature and sweat data to keep workers safe.
Swistor: nanotech supercapacitors for greener, safer and faster charging devices
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.
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.