>>venture>> 2015: venturelab and Venture Kick alumni make it in the TOP 5
16.06.2015
Out of 95 business plans and 107 business ideas submitted, the Jury and Advisory Board members of the 2015 >>venture>> competition chose Zurich based startups CUTISS as best business plan and Prognostics as best business idea projects, at the award ceremony held on June 15th in Zurich. Many venturelab and Venture Kick alumni won their winning seat in this year’s competition, in both categories.
 ZuriMED CEO Xiang Li was in Boston pitching at the Global Pitch Fest with the venture leaders USA when the >>venture>> award ceremony was talking place.
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1st place - best business plan: CUTISS (UNI Zurich). Deep skin wounds heal badly, developing into debilitating, permanent, disfiguring scars that require intense medical and home care. CUTISS now offers individually customized, minimally scarring skin grafts bio-engineered from a small piece of the patient's skin. The start-up led by Daniela Marino (picture) wins CHF 60'000.
1st place - best business idea: Pregnostics (ETHZ) is developing a diagnostic tool that measures the cervical stiffness in pregnant women. Monitoring cervical stiffness allows identifying women at risk of preterm birth, thus solving the problem of preterm birth risk assessment in pregnancy.
Pregnostics is an alumnus of venturelab' Startup Essentials - Acceleration Workshops in 2015.
2nd-5th place business plan
2nd: Zurimed (ETHZ) Knee ligament injuries are among the most common and severe musculoskeletal traumas. ZuriMED is an innovative team specialized in orthopedic biomechanics and biomaterials that has developed a disruptive technology with potential to revolutionize anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Zurimed receives CHF30'000.
ZuriMED’s CEO, Xiang Li, is a venture leader USA 2015. He was in Boston during the >>venture>> award ceremony, pitching against American entrepreneurs at the Global Pitchfest with the 19 other members of the Swiss national startup team. ZuriMED is also getting ready for the big Venture Kick final which will take place in August this year (fingers crossed!).
3rd: Inositec (ETHZ) is a drug development project at the preclinical proof-of-concept stage with a small molecule for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection, a bacterial infection of the colon that has become the most common health- care-associated infection.
Alike ZuriMED this year, Matthias Ivarsson, Inositec CEO, was part of the Swiss national startup team in 2014. Inositec is also a Venture Kick alumus.
4th: Gamaya (EPFL) provides an integrated solution for large-scale monitoring and diagnostics of crops for precision agriculture. Gamaya acquires imaging data using sensors mounted on drones, and translates the data into actionable in- formation for farmers, such as optimum rates of application for fertilisers and crop protection chemicals, as well as early alerts for disease, pests and weeds. Gamaya is a Venture Kick alumnus.
5th: The microGauge project (ETHZ) aims at developping and commercializing next generation pressure sensors for industrial vacuum coating systems. The proposed high-precision, full-range sensor offers means to replace up to four state-of- the-art sensors with one single compact gauge.
2nd-5th place business idea
2nd: TapTools (ETHZ), a device developed for non-destructive testing. TapTools believes that their product will be the next key technology in quality control testing. The novel technology goes beyond visual inspection and ensures comprehensive material characterization in a hundredth of a second.
Clara Beck, TapTools CEO, took part in venturelab’ Startup Essentials - Acceleration Workshops in 2015.
3rd: Sun bioscience (EPFL) is a biotech company that provides next generation cell culture platforms. The startup specializes on making three-dimensional organotypic cultures faster, more efficient and more reproducible in order to develop better and new drugs and to define their efficacy in a patient-specific manner. Sun Bioscience is a venturelab alumnus (venture challenge courses).
4th: Sensetag (ETHZ) developed a class of patent-pending, smart, inex- pensive, ultrasmall DNA-based tracers able to measure a range of properties (temperature, oxidative stress, light, pH) in challenging commercial, industrial, research or clinical settings (e.g. deep underground, within live cells). Sensetag is a venturelab alumnus (venture challenge courses).
5th: FireHUD (EPFL) helps firemen to see through smoke and darkness by showing a thermal image overlay on an augmented reality mask. This increases their situational awareness and capacity to search for victims, therefore making their work safer and more efficient.
FireHUD is an alumnus of venturelab’ Startup Essentials - Acceleration Workshops in 2015.
1st place - best business idea: Pregnostics (ETHZ) is developing a diagnostic tool that measures the cervical stiffness in pregnant women. Monitoring cervical stiffness allows identifying women at risk of preterm birth, thus solving the problem of preterm birth risk assessment in pregnancy.
Pregnostics is an alumnus of venturelab' Startup Essentials - Acceleration Workshops in 2015.
2nd-5th place business plan
2nd: Zurimed (ETHZ) Knee ligament injuries are among the most common and severe musculoskeletal traumas. ZuriMED is an innovative team specialized in orthopedic biomechanics and biomaterials that has developed a disruptive technology with potential to revolutionize anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Zurimed receives CHF30'000.
ZuriMED’s CEO, Xiang Li, is a venture leader USA 2015. He was in Boston during the >>venture>> award ceremony, pitching against American entrepreneurs at the Global Pitchfest with the 19 other members of the Swiss national startup team. ZuriMED is also getting ready for the big Venture Kick final which will take place in August this year (fingers crossed!).
3rd: Inositec (ETHZ) is a drug development project at the preclinical proof-of-concept stage with a small molecule for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection, a bacterial infection of the colon that has become the most common health- care-associated infection.
Alike ZuriMED this year, Matthias Ivarsson, Inositec CEO, was part of the Swiss national startup team in 2014. Inositec is also a Venture Kick alumus.
4th: Gamaya (EPFL) provides an integrated solution for large-scale monitoring and diagnostics of crops for precision agriculture. Gamaya acquires imaging data using sensors mounted on drones, and translates the data into actionable in- formation for farmers, such as optimum rates of application for fertilisers and crop protection chemicals, as well as early alerts for disease, pests and weeds. Gamaya is a Venture Kick alumnus.
5th: The microGauge project (ETHZ) aims at developping and commercializing next generation pressure sensors for industrial vacuum coating systems. The proposed high-precision, full-range sensor offers means to replace up to four state-of- the-art sensors with one single compact gauge.
2nd-5th place business idea
2nd: TapTools (ETHZ), a device developed for non-destructive testing. TapTools believes that their product will be the next key technology in quality control testing. The novel technology goes beyond visual inspection and ensures comprehensive material characterization in a hundredth of a second.
Clara Beck, TapTools CEO, took part in venturelab’ Startup Essentials - Acceleration Workshops in 2015.
3rd: Sun bioscience (EPFL) is a biotech company that provides next generation cell culture platforms. The startup specializes on making three-dimensional organotypic cultures faster, more efficient and more reproducible in order to develop better and new drugs and to define their efficacy in a patient-specific manner. Sun Bioscience is a venturelab alumnus (venture challenge courses).
4th: Sensetag (ETHZ) developed a class of patent-pending, smart, inex- pensive, ultrasmall DNA-based tracers able to measure a range of properties (temperature, oxidative stress, light, pH) in challenging commercial, industrial, research or clinical settings (e.g. deep underground, within live cells). Sensetag is a venturelab alumnus (venture challenge courses).
5th: FireHUD (EPFL) helps firemen to see through smoke and darkness by showing a thermal image overlay on an augmented reality mask. This increases their situational awareness and capacity to search for victims, therefore making their work safer and more efficient.
FireHUD is an alumnus of venturelab’ Startup Essentials - Acceleration Workshops in 2015.