Two Venture Kickers nominated for the Pionierpreis 2016
30.03.2016
The Pionierpreis will be attributed on April 12. Among the three finalists are two Venture Kick alumni, IRSweep und Pregnolia.
 The team of IRSweep
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 Sabrina Badir of Pregnolia
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 The price holder of 2015, Nanolive, is nominated for the Vigier Award this year (May 19, 2016)
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Will one of them be tomorrow’s prize holder and win the “almost CHF 100.000 prize”, such as our alumnus Nanolive in 2015?
Laser light makes substances in gases and liquids visible
The ETH spin-off IRsweep develops unique spectroscopic sensors that efficiently examine the composition of gaseous and liquid substances. Compared to current methods, the technology enables a faster, more reliable and more versatile analysis of such substances. The innovation lies in the use of multi-colored and particularly precise lasers. The system is interesting for many applications in food, oil and pharmaceutical industries as well as for security solutions.
In December 2015, IRsweep won the final of Venture Kick: "We have brought our first products on the market in 2015, the so-called "IRcell”. Thanks to the Venture Kick prize, we are now able to push the commercialization of our spectroscopy system forward", says Dr. Markus Geiser, co-founder of IRsweep.
Reducing the risk of prenatal birth
Pregnolia is developing a diagnostic tool that measures cervical stiffness in pregnant women. Monitoring cervical stiffness allows to reliably identify women at risk of preterm birth, thus solving the long standing problem of preterm birth risk assessment and management in pregnancy.
The founder of Pregnolia, Sabrina Badir, will soon be in the Venture Kick final, after she won the second stage of our program in the light of candles in December 2015.