Venture Kick alumni win the IMD Startup Competition in numbers

14.12.2017

Among the 27 startups selected by IMD, 16 Venture Kick alumni startups will get the opportunity to work closely with the institutes’ MBAs and EMBAs. Discover them below.

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Every year the business school for management organizes the IMD Startup Competition to select promising startups to work with their MBAs and EMBAs. The startup would then benefit from the experience and the insights from top business school students. This year, 12 companies were chosen to collaborate with the EMBAs and travel to the Silicon Valley to pitch their ideas to venture capitalists. 15 other startups will be receiving the support of the MBA class during the first semester of 2018.

Venture Kick is happy to announce that 16 of our alumni won the competition. Congratulations!
Read and follow their projects below:

Working with the EMBAs and travelling to Silicon Valley

Biognosys
with Oliver Rinner- Venture Kick alumnus and among TOP 100 Swiss Startups between 2011 and 2013. Proteomics solutions for the Biotech, Pharma and R&D Market.
certus molecular diagnostics
with Samuel Zuercher - 2017 Venture Kick alumnus. On-site detection of microbes such as Herpes or Influenza Virus within 30 minutes.
Creal 3D
with Alexander Kvasov & Tomas Sluka – Venture Kick alumnus. Compact glasses blending virtual objects into the real world.
Dotphoton
with Eugenia Balysheva, Bruno Sanguinetti & Christoph Clausen – 2017 Venture Kick alumnus. Image compression technology for professionals, reducing up to 10 times an image while preserving its quality.
Fixposition
with Zhenzhong Su & Lukas Meier - 2017 Venture Kick alumnus and incubated by ESA BIC-Switzerland 2016-2017. Navigation and high precision localization solutions for autonomous systems using satellite signals. 
Imverse
with Javier Bello Ruiz - 2017 Venture Kick alumnus. Photorealistic mixed reality software to create immersive experiences.
LiGenTec
with Michael Geiselmann & Michael Zervas - 2017 Venture Kick alumnus and incubated by ESA BIC-Switzerland 2016-2017. Silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (PIC) for telecommunication, filters, supercontinuum generation, spectroscopy, sensing, quantum optics and microwave photonics.
UrbanAlps
with Dr. Alejandro Ojeda - 2014 Venture Kick winner. Stealth Key, 3D metal printed highly secured key.
 
Project support by the MBAs

Avalia Systems
with Rodney Reis – 2016 Venture Kick alumnus. Software development evaluation and analytics platform for companies and private equity investors.
CoatChecker
with Joris Storskogen – 2017 Venture Kick alumnus. Device measuring the thickness of sealing layers used widely in the construction sector.
External Beam Ablation Medical Devices
with Adriano Garonna - 2017 Venture Kick alumnus. Noninvasive and automated heart arrhythmias treatments using proton beams.
Feeltronix
with Hadrien Michaud - 2017 Venture Kick alumnus. Stretchable and compliance rubber-based electronics.
Komp-Act
with Salvatore De Benedictis & Ross Fleming – 2017 Venture Kick alumnus. Lightweight and compact electrical motors allowing to reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs.
LuckaBox
with Aike Festini - 2017 Venture Kick alumnus. Delivery service aggregation platform connecting retailers, shoppers and carriers in Switzerland and in Europe.
nanoleq
with Vincent Martinez -  2017 Venture Kick alumnus. Unbreakable cable technology using innovative conductive materials.
OneSky
with Mélanie Guittet & Manu Lubrano - 2017 Venture Kick alumnus. Integration of drones in today’s air traffic.
TWIICE
with Marek Jancik & Tristan Vouga -  2017 Venture Kick alumnus. Modular and customizable exoskeletons for walking assistance that allows people with paraplegia to regain independence.

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