Two rocking startups win Venture Kick on stage 2
19.02.2016
Watch those startups, as they might be the big winners of tomorrow! Early February, the EPFL spin-off Intento and the startup project from the School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD) strong.codes won the second stage of Venture Kick.
 Andrea Maesani of Intento
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 The team of strong.codes
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When Intento won the first stage of Venture Kick, its CEO Andrea Maesani spoke to startwerk.ch about his startups project whose objective is to help severely disabled stroke patients to perform complex movements again. The young medtech, a spin-off of EPFL, has now the big final in sight, to maybe win another CHF 100’000. Intento is in the list of the 50 startups in which to invest in 2016 by Bilan magazine. You can get a feel of what their projects and objectives are here.
On the other hand, strong.codes, an HEIG-VD spin-off active in software, has developed a new product that integrates innovative software protection methods, such as code obfuscation and tamper-proofing, in one of the most powerful compilation frameworks of the moment. Our goal is to make software piracy much more expensive and complicated.
2015: an amazing year for Venture Kick startups
More than 896 million Swiss francs: this is the amount generated by investments in the 403 startup projects supported by the Venture Kick initiative since 2007. Out of these projects, 300 became high-tech companies which created 3’434 new and highly qualified jobs. These stories have one thing in common: the founders who received their first pre-seed capital from Venture Kick are all researchers from Swiss universities. Since almost ten years, the private initiative Venture Kick has granted over 16 million Swiss francs in pre-seed capital to promising startup projects, and plans to support 60 more startup projects from all over Switzerland in 2016 with a total of 2.7 million Swiss francs.
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