Startups developing data driven battery solutions, sustainable fishing bait, integral service for enzyme immobilization technologies, and smart surgical platforms each win CHF 10,000
24.05.2022
Batterylog, Capt'n Greenfin, inSEIT, and Simulatory win Venture Kick's first stage of entrepreneurial and financial support. Their projects provide an ecosystem for battery-related data; aim to revolutionize the sportfishing industry sustainably, offer services focused on the screening, application, and scaling up of enzyme immobilization, and want to reimagine surgical simulation worldwide.
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 Batterylog team: from left to right, Ramun Hofmann (CEO), Lara Sütterlin (Software), Stefan Brönnimann (CTO), Florian Baumgartner (CIO), Remo Schläppi (Software), and Yves Wyder (PL)
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 Capt'n Greenfin: from left to right: Serge Bart, Olivia Bolliger, and founders Jonas Urwyler, and Damian Urwyler
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 inSEIT: from left to right, COO Gordon Honeyman, CEO and CSO David Roura Padrosa, President Advisory Board Francesca Paradisi
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 Simulatory's CEO and Founder Venkat Gourishankar and co-founder and COO Gayathri Venkat
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Batterylog: providing an ecosystem for battery-related data
The de-carbonization is in progress, batteries are a key technology for this transition. Batteries are a very expensive asset, and the lifetime of a battery is crucial for almost every business case. To enlarge the lifetime of batteries, a big economic and ecological gain is possible.
Batterylog's CTO Stefan Brönnimann from Berner Fachhochschule, CEO Ramun Hofman, and CIO Florian Baumgartner provide an ecosystem for battery-related data. They help their customers to manage batteries by providing algorithmics and engineering services in the battery domain which allows the implementation of batteries into their products faster and better. Based on a digital twin and sophisticated battery models, Batterylog analyzes a large amount of recorded data and boils it down to KPIs like remaining useful life for each individual battery. It addresses the needs of business customers that either produce, develop, or manage fleets of battery-driven applications. The ecosystem provides tools to estimate the remaining lifetime of a battery depending on the usage data and manage the battery through the various life cycles from production to a potential second life usage. The team also supports their customers to adopt their process in a battery-friendly way to enlarge the lifetime of the batteries, save money, and stay green. They target the non-automotive battery segment with products from small vehicles like e-bikes, and stationary systems to large machines with several tons of batteries. These niche markets sum up to 25% of the total battery market. The market for battery-related software is growing exponentially, the serviceable obtainable market (SOM) in Europe is USD 22 million per year in 2025 and USD 42 million per year in 2030.
Capt'n Greenfin: make fishing more sustainable
15 tons of plastic end up every year in our Swiss lakes and rivers through the loss of fishing baits. In the USA, it is ruffly 2'300 tons. After years under water these baits turn into microplastic that ends up in our food chain. Fish and other animals can die by eating the toxic and indigestible plastic baits. This has to change! We as a fishing community have to change if we want to keep doing what we love.
Capt'n Greenfin's founders Jonas Urwyler and Damian Urwyler created a new material for sustainable fishing baits and aim to revolutionize the sportfishing industry in a sustainable way. They are supported by Serge Bart (prototype engineer), and Olivia Bolliger (sustainability expert).
Alone in Switzerland over 150'000 fishermen could benefit from using the new 100% organic material that completely biologically degrades under water in a week. The developed material is so natural that humans and animals can eat it without any concerns. It has similar elasticity and strength as the plastic baits used so far. The potential is huge, and the impact it can have on our environment is priceless. The global sport fishing market is estimated at USD 12.6 billion in 2020, rising to 16 billion by 2027.
With the Venture Kick funds, they want to reach most Swiss fishermen within the first year and expand quickly to the EU marked and make fishermen around the world aware of the problem and minimize the plastic in the waters together. In addition, they will do more R&D in this sector to revolutionize other types of baits. A sustainable hard bait and alternatives to lead are being considered.
inSEIT: integral Service for Enzyme Immobilization Technologies
The need to move towards greener manufacturing is imperious these days. In this sense, enzymes have emerged as an incredible alternative to traditional synthetic methods. Nonetheless, enzymes on their own suffer from poor reusability and stability in industrial setups. Therefore, enzyme immobilization has proven to be an enabling tool to bring enzymes to their next level in industrial production. Nonetheless, the need for expertise in the field and the current trial-and-error approach, make it risky and costly for non-experts. This hampers the broad application of enzyme immobilization.
inSEIT's founder Dr. David Roura Padrosa, CCO Dr. Gordon Honeyman, and Key Advisor Prof. Francesca Paradisi from the University of Bern will offer services focused on the screening, application, and scaling up of enzyme immobilization to ensure the practical implementation in industrial setups. They have two main products: Immoscreen and CapiPy 2.0 The first one is a screening platform of immobilized enzymes, produced in-house, to be sold to companies and academic groups. Immoscreen will enhance reproducibility, and reduce the time and cost involved in the selection of immobilized enzymes. CapiPy 2.0 is a bioinformatics suite, licensed, and will provide a set of tools to enhance the predictability of enzyme immobilization.
The Venture Kick funds will enable them to develop the products and create a network that will ensure that inSEIT will launch with a solid base to compete in the Swiss market and the global market. inseit.ch
Simulatory: smart surgical platforms
The de-carbonization is in progress, batteries are a key technology for this transition. Batteries are a very expensive asset, and the lifetime of a battery is crucial for almost every business case. To enlarge the lifetime of batteries, a big economic and ecological gain is possible.
Batterylog's CTO Stefan Brönnimann from Berner Fachhochschule, CEO Ramun Hofman, and CIO Florian Baumgartner provide an ecosystem for battery-related data. They help their customers to manage batteries by providing algorithmics and engineering services in the battery domain which allows the implementation of batteries into their products faster and better. Based on a digital twin and sophisticated battery models, Batterylog analyzes a large amount of recorded data and boils it down to KPIs like remaining useful life for each individual battery. It addresses the needs of business customers that either produce, develop, or manage fleets of battery-driven applications. The ecosystem provides tools to estimate the remaining lifetime of a battery depending on the usage data and manage the battery through the various life cycles from production to a potential second life usage. The team also supports their customers to adopt their process in a battery-friendly way to enlarge the lifetime of the batteries, save money, and stay green. They target the non-automotive battery segment with products from small vehicles like e-bikes, and stationary systems to large machines with several tons of batteries. These niche markets sum up to 25% of the total battery market. The market for battery-related software is growing exponentially, the serviceable obtainable market (SOM) in Europe is USD 22 million per year in 2025 and USD 42 million per year in 2030.
They plan to use the Venture Kick funds of the 10’000 CHF Kick for sales activities and to optimize the website. batterylog.ch
Capt'n Greenfin: make fishing more sustainable
15 tons of plastic end up every year in our Swiss lakes and rivers through the loss of fishing baits. In the USA, it is ruffly 2'300 tons. After years under water these baits turn into microplastic that ends up in our food chain. Fish and other animals can die by eating the toxic and indigestible plastic baits. This has to change! We as a fishing community have to change if we want to keep doing what we love.
Capt'n Greenfin's founders Jonas Urwyler and Damian Urwyler created a new material for sustainable fishing baits and aim to revolutionize the sportfishing industry in a sustainable way. They are supported by Serge Bart (prototype engineer), and Olivia Bolliger (sustainability expert).
Alone in Switzerland over 150'000 fishermen could benefit from using the new 100% organic material that completely biologically degrades under water in a week. The developed material is so natural that humans and animals can eat it without any concerns. It has similar elasticity and strength as the plastic baits used so far. The potential is huge, and the impact it can have on our environment is priceless. The global sport fishing market is estimated at USD 12.6 billion in 2020, rising to 16 billion by 2027.
With the Venture Kick funds, they want to reach most Swiss fishermen within the first year and expand quickly to the EU marked and make fishermen around the world aware of the problem and minimize the plastic in the waters together. In addition, they will do more R&D in this sector to revolutionize other types of baits. A sustainable hard bait and alternatives to lead are being considered.
inSEIT: integral Service for Enzyme Immobilization Technologies
The need to move towards greener manufacturing is imperious these days. In this sense, enzymes have emerged as an incredible alternative to traditional synthetic methods. Nonetheless, enzymes on their own suffer from poor reusability and stability in industrial setups. Therefore, enzyme immobilization has proven to be an enabling tool to bring enzymes to their next level in industrial production. Nonetheless, the need for expertise in the field and the current trial-and-error approach, make it risky and costly for non-experts. This hampers the broad application of enzyme immobilization.
inSEIT's founder Dr. David Roura Padrosa, CCO Dr. Gordon Honeyman, and Key Advisor Prof. Francesca Paradisi from the University of Bern will offer services focused on the screening, application, and scaling up of enzyme immobilization to ensure the practical implementation in industrial setups. They have two main products: Immoscreen and CapiPy 2.0 The first one is a screening platform of immobilized enzymes, produced in-house, to be sold to companies and academic groups. Immoscreen will enhance reproducibility, and reduce the time and cost involved in the selection of immobilized enzymes. CapiPy 2.0 is a bioinformatics suite, licensed, and will provide a set of tools to enhance the predictability of enzyme immobilization.
The Venture Kick funds will enable them to develop the products and create a network that will ensure that inSEIT will launch with a solid base to compete in the Swiss market and the global market. inseit.ch
Simulatory: smart surgical platforms
Simulation training technology finds its way into surgical training routine but is unable to keep up with new advances in the field of spinal and neurosurgery. There are plastic dummies, cadaver and virtual reality (VR) simulators on the market but they all depend on the model of “training through repetition” and follow a “one-size fits all” training approach. They are not ideal for training surgeons who encounter different types of patient anatomies, pre-existing conditions, and cases in real life.
Simulatory's CEO and Founder Venkat Gourishankar and co-founder and COO Gayathri Venkat want to re-imagine and re-define surgical training and education for surgical simulation worldwide using their "Smart Simulation Platform". The Smart Simulation Platform is unique combination of true 3D Haptics, Machine learning and smart sensor technology to provide performance metrics and skill-based learning curve analysis. Simulatory wants to improve patient safety by providing patient specific training and education through our AI guided surgical simulations. Simulatory's first product based on Smart Simulation Platform: VRSpine is the world's first 100% Virtual Endoscopic ultra-minimally invasive spine surgery simulator. VR spine product improves training by proctoring the entire session. The results are then sent to the Surgeon / Head to be evaluated and certified. This minimizes the need for a surgeon to stand beside a resident and thereby giving the head surgeon time to perform more surgeries and help his patients have better care and access to quality life.
The Venture Kick funds will serve to complete the VRSpine simulator and integration with the Area9 platform including feedback integration and validation studies, but also to start R&D for the next product VRSkull in the field of neurosurgery, and finally for the completion of version1 of their patentable machine learning data analysis platform. thesimulatory.com