Two Venture Kick alumni among the winners of the R&D 100 Award
24.11.2015
SwissLitho AG and Nanolive were announced among the winners of the 2015 R&D 100 award. This annual global award, the “Oscar of invention”, recognizes the top 100 companies with the most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year.
 The team of SwissLitho
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 The team of Nanolive
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Two Venture Kick alumni and TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award winners, SwissLitho AG and Nanolive SA, received an award at the 53rd R&D award in the categories Process/Protityping and Analytical/Test respectively for their innovation and development of high-tech products and processes in 2014.
SwissLitho AG was founded in 2012 as a spin-off of the IBM research Zurich and won in the same year the Venture Kick final. In 2013 the Startup was part of the Swiss National Startup Team, the venture leaders, in the US. The IBM research center is world-renowned for its expertise in micro- and nanotechnology. A new production method for three-dimensional nanostructures was developed there. SwissLitho is successfully commercializing this expertise and is currently building a global sales and distribution network.
The Venture Kick alumnus Nanolive, was as well part of the venture leaders US program 2013 and developed a microscope that enables comprehensive examination of intact cells. Among others, their 3D Cell Explorer makes it possible to document the effects of medications and chemicals on a cell. For this technology, which opens up new opportunities in the development of pharmaceuticals, Nanolive became the first company from western Switzerland land which received the ZKB pioneer prize in 2015.
R&D 100 Award is an annual award recognizes and honours leaders of the science and technology industries for their innovative, high-tech products and processes. Some of them major participants in the award are established fortune companies, federally financed research institutions as well as academic and government labs. Finalists and winners are selected from five major categories; Analytical/Test, IT/Electrical, Mechanical/Materials, Processing/Prototyping and Software/Services.