Startups developing a webapp to better treat depressive disorder, an AR software for instructive construction, a sustainable process to upcycle fashion, and a video platform for sports matches each win CHF 10,000
04.11.2020
DeepPsy, incon.ai, Recyclist Workshop, and We Play Sport win Venture Kick's first stage of financial and entrepreneurial support. Their projects help psychiatrists and hospitals lower the time until remission from their patient's depressive disorder, give humans robotic vision to create complex building construction, provide the fashion industry with a sustainable process for recycling cotton and, allow participants of any sporting event to broadcast, watch, analyze and discuss their sports matches.
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 DeepPsy: Data Scientist Mateo de Bardeci and PD Dr. med. Sebastian Olbrich
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 Incon.ai: Senior Researcher Abel Gawel, CTO Fadri Furrer and, CEO Timothy Sandy
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 Recyclist Workshop: Founder Sven Kannler and Student worker Jens Angels
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 We Play Sport:
Adam Scholefield - Project lead
Nathalie Maurer - Marketing and business development
Alejandro Lifschitz - Communication and content production
Lesly Houndole - Full stack developer
Richard Davis - UX lead
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DeepPsy: for a better treatment of major depressive disorder
Recyclist Workshop: upcycling fashion
The textile industry is one of the biggest producer of CO2 and and user of water. Yet, there is no sustainable process for recycling cotton. The fashion industry alone produces yearly about 80 Million tons of clothing, of which approximately 1/3rd are made of cotton. Less than 1% of this material is being used for recycling - it ends up in landfill or as insulation in construction.
Recyclist workshop's Founder Sven Kannler, PHD Student HSG and Co-Founder Lars Nüthen, Architect by education with a product focus, helped by student Jens Angele, designed a process that enables them to recycle clothing through a cradle-to-cradle process. It reduces the CO2-emissions and the water usage by 98%. However, they are not a fashion company, the fashion they produce is only to showcase that their product is working. They want to provide the fashion industry with a practicable alternative to make use of the massive amount of resources that are being wasted.
The Venture Kick funds will help them sell 2000 Pullovers in 2020 for continuous growing profits to be invested in R&D for 2021 with the development of high-end recycling facility. recyclistworkshop.de
We Play Sport: AI-driven video platform to broadcast, analyse and discuss your sports matches
Most sports participants have no viable way to watch, analyse and discuss their matches, with current video-based solutions being too expensive or time consuming for the vast majority of people. We Play Sport is developing an effortless way to record, view and analyse highlights of sports matches at a price point that anybody can afford.
The project team includes Adam Scholefield, an Olympian with a PhD in engineering, Nathalie Maurer, a sports marketing and broadcasting expert, Alejandro Lifschitz, an expert in sports communication and content production, Lesly Houndole, a full stack developer with previous App Store bestsellers and Richard Davis, a UX expert with a PhD in digital learning experiences.
The CHF 10,000 Venture Kick funds will be used to aide their market study and initial product release.
In psychiatry, opposite to most fields of medicine, the decision to choose a particular treatment is not based on any objective biological data. Instead, treatments are still being asigned by subjective opinions of physicians after only talking to the patient.
DeepPsy is a startup that helps psychiatrists and patients to enhance depressive disorder treatment decisions by analyzing brainwaves (EEG) and heart activity (ECG), reducing significantly the time until remission. DeepPsy’s technology relies on EEG/ECG peer-reviewed biomarkers and deep learning algorithms. The technology is available to physicians through a user-friendly web application. The team is composed by PD Dr. med. Sebastian Olbrich from University Hospital Zurich anddata scientist Mateo de Bardecifrom ETH Zurich.
The Venutre Kick funds will be used to finish the prototype and to obtain the medical device CE certification.
incon.ai: software for all measuring and working steps for complex construction
DeepPsy is a startup that helps psychiatrists and patients to enhance depressive disorder treatment decisions by analyzing brainwaves (EEG) and heart activity (ECG), reducing significantly the time until remission. DeepPsy’s technology relies on EEG/ECG peer-reviewed biomarkers and deep learning algorithms. The technology is available to physicians through a user-friendly web application. The team is composed by PD Dr. med. Sebastian Olbrich from University Hospital Zurich anddata scientist Mateo de Bardecifrom ETH Zurich.
The Venutre Kick funds will be used to finish the prototype and to obtain the medical device CE certification.
incon.ai: software for all measuring and working steps for complex construction
The building construction industry needs to improve productivity in the face of increasing demand and the growing complexity of building projects. Incon.ai develops augmented reality guidance software to allow builders to interact with 3d building models on the construction site.
Incon.ai's Co-founders are CEO Timothy Sandy, CTO Fadri Furrer and Senior researcher Abel Gawel. The three co-founders received PhDs from ETH and are currently postdoctoral researchers at ETH. Advisors are Prof. Marco Hutter and Michael Stucky. Leveraging their core technology which localizes devices within geometric models precisely and robustly, their mobile apps remove the need for 2d blueprints, avoid the loss of information in the translation of 3d building designs to 2d drawings, and improve the flow of digital data among the many actors in construction projects. They will provide their apps as fully-integrated add-ons to well-established building modelling software, giving us a unified path to the fragmented building construction market. Building construction is a $10 trillion industry and improving construction productivity has been estimated to be a $1 trillion opportunity.
They plan to use the Venture Kick funds to connect with potential customers in the construction industry and bring their first app for complex assembly tasks to market. incon.ai
Incon.ai's Co-founders are CEO Timothy Sandy, CTO Fadri Furrer and Senior researcher Abel Gawel. The three co-founders received PhDs from ETH and are currently postdoctoral researchers at ETH. Advisors are Prof. Marco Hutter and Michael Stucky. Leveraging their core technology which localizes devices within geometric models precisely and robustly, their mobile apps remove the need for 2d blueprints, avoid the loss of information in the translation of 3d building designs to 2d drawings, and improve the flow of digital data among the many actors in construction projects. They will provide their apps as fully-integrated add-ons to well-established building modelling software, giving us a unified path to the fragmented building construction market. Building construction is a $10 trillion industry and improving construction productivity has been estimated to be a $1 trillion opportunity.
They plan to use the Venture Kick funds to connect with potential customers in the construction industry and bring their first app for complex assembly tasks to market. incon.ai
Recyclist Workshop: upcycling fashion
The textile industry is one of the biggest producer of CO2 and and user of water. Yet, there is no sustainable process for recycling cotton. The fashion industry alone produces yearly about 80 Million tons of clothing, of which approximately 1/3rd are made of cotton. Less than 1% of this material is being used for recycling - it ends up in landfill or as insulation in construction.
Recyclist workshop's Founder Sven Kannler, PHD Student HSG and Co-Founder Lars Nüthen, Architect by education with a product focus, helped by student Jens Angele, designed a process that enables them to recycle clothing through a cradle-to-cradle process. It reduces the CO2-emissions and the water usage by 98%. However, they are not a fashion company, the fashion they produce is only to showcase that their product is working. They want to provide the fashion industry with a practicable alternative to make use of the massive amount of resources that are being wasted.
The Venture Kick funds will help them sell 2000 Pullovers in 2020 for continuous growing profits to be invested in R&D for 2021 with the development of high-end recycling facility. recyclistworkshop.de
We Play Sport: AI-driven video platform to broadcast, analyse and discuss your sports matches
Most sports participants have no viable way to watch, analyse and discuss their matches, with current video-based solutions being too expensive or time consuming for the vast majority of people. We Play Sport is developing an effortless way to record, view and analyse highlights of sports matches at a price point that anybody can afford.
The project team includes Adam Scholefield, an Olympian with a PhD in engineering, Nathalie Maurer, a sports marketing and broadcasting expert, Alejandro Lifschitz, an expert in sports communication and content production, Lesly Houndole, a full stack developer with previous App Store bestsellers and Richard Davis, a UX expert with a PhD in digital learning experiences.
The CHF 10,000 Venture Kick funds will be used to aide their market study and initial product release.