#vleadersChina 2017: Meet Raphaël of Bestmile
31.05.2017
Leaving to China on June 25 until July 4, this year’s venture leaders China forming the ‘Swiss National Startup Team China 2017’ reflect the impressive quality of Swiss startups, whose innovations come from the best universities and research institutes of Switzerland. Learn more about their growth objectives prior to the trip in our short interview series, running from May 30 to June 9 on venturelab.ch, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
 Raphaël Gindrat
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You can see the whole campaign on twitter.com/venturelab_ch searching the hashtag #vleadersChina.
Bestmile is a Swiss company with offices in Lausanne (Switzerland), London (UK) and San Francisco (USA), developing distributed and highly scalable cloud technology leveraging the full potential of autonomous vehicles to tackle global mobility challenges. Bestmile provides the first fleet automation platform allowing for the intelligent operation and optimization of autonomous vehicle fleets, regardless of their brand or type and managing both fixed-route and on-demand service types.
Why do you choose China as your business development destination?
Technologically speaking China is without a doubt the epicenter of state of the art innovative technologies. China is more open-minded and advanced in innovation, robotic and autonomous mobility than any other countries in the world. It explains the abundance of high tech companies and car manufacturers. In addition, China is directly touched by the mobility problematic Bestmile aims to solve as many of its cities are facing pollution concerns and demographic changes that are putting pressure into their already saturated transport infrastructures.
Bestmile is a Swiss company with offices in Lausanne (Switzerland), London (UK) and San Francisco (USA), developing distributed and highly scalable cloud technology leveraging the full potential of autonomous vehicles to tackle global mobility challenges. Bestmile provides the first fleet automation platform allowing for the intelligent operation and optimization of autonomous vehicle fleets, regardless of their brand or type and managing both fixed-route and on-demand service types.
Why do you choose China as your business development destination?
Technologically speaking China is without a doubt the epicenter of state of the art innovative technologies. China is more open-minded and advanced in innovation, robotic and autonomous mobility than any other countries in the world. It explains the abundance of high tech companies and car manufacturers. In addition, China is directly touched by the mobility problematic Bestmile aims to solve as many of its cities are facing pollution concerns and demographic changes that are putting pressure into their already saturated transport infrastructures.
What are your expectations and how will you utilize the opportunity to participate in venture leaders China to expand your business?
Bestmile's vision is to transform mobility and leverage the full potential of autonomous vehicles to tackle urban mobility challenges. In order to achieve this vision, it is essential not to act alone, this kind of events where innovating startups coexist is beneficial on all levels. Positive spill overs are common and we wish to bring further diversity into the mix. In addition, we believe venture leaders China, is a unique opportunity to meet with experts in our industry and also in the Chinese market.
Bestmile's vision is to transform mobility and leverage the full potential of autonomous vehicles to tackle urban mobility challenges. In order to achieve this vision, it is essential not to act alone, this kind of events where innovating startups coexist is beneficial on all levels. Positive spill overs are common and we wish to bring further diversity into the mix. In addition, we believe venture leaders China, is a unique opportunity to meet with experts in our industry and also in the Chinese market.
What aspect(s) of China would you like to decrypt/know more about, businesswise?
We would like to gain a better understanding of the specificities within the Chinese market whether it's legally, commercially or culturally speaking.
We would like to gain a better understanding of the specificities within the Chinese market whether it's legally, commercially or culturally speaking.