InSphero AG

TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award

The TOP 100 Swiss Startup Ranking features the 100 most promising startups that are not older than five years and are selected by a jury of early-stage investors.

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Venture Kick

Venture Kick supports potential entrepreneurs with start capital up to CHF 150'000 as well as hands-on execution support and access to a nationwide network of investors and experts in the startup field. Multiple times per year, 8 selected projects get the opportunity to present their business ideas in front of a panel. The 5 most promising projects enter the support process. After 9 months at the latest, the startups incorporate and enter the market. Since 2007, Venture Kick has invested over CHF 58 million in over 1111 projects.

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Venture Leaders Technology

The Venture Leaders - the members of the Swiss national startup team- have a clear-cut goal. They envision themselves as global players and want to take the first step to their global expansion. The ten-day business development program is specifically structured to help them achieve this goal.

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ACES Awards

The awards gives public recognition to those researchers, engineers, professors, students and government officials in Europe who have done the most to foster a culture of enterprise on campus. This can be through taking the risk of launching a spinout company, developing a discovery into a marketable innovation (at the risk of the tenure-track publication record), or promoting policies that create a receptive environment for entrepreneurship on campus.

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CTI Start-up Label

CTI Start-up enables entrepreneurs to realize their innovative idea professionally.

In a process of three phases, over forty experienced coaches guide start-up companies on their way to enter the market successfully and attract financing. At the end of the coaching process, the most promising start-up companies have the opportunity to receive the prestigious CTI Start-up ’Label’. In addition, the companies benefit from the wide CTI Start-up network of industry experts, experienced entrepreneurs, business angels, venture capitalists and has access to foundations such as de Vigier, STI, FIT, Gebert, Rüf, etc.

Until today, CTI Start-up reviewed more than 1 800 projects, and awarded over 200 start-up enterprises with the CTI Start-up Label. Over 85% of these companies are still in business and some have shown remarkable growth, which is a sign that CTI Start-up guides them to sustainable success.

CTI also promotes the culture of entrepreneurship at universities, teaching hospitals, technical institutes as well as universities of applied sciences. CTI Entrepreneurship offers workshops to students on how to bring innovation to the market.

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ETH Spin-off

http://www.vpf.ethz.ch/transfer/firmgruend/spinoff_list/by_years/2009

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SLAS New Product Award (NPA) Designation

SLAS is the world’s leading scientific organization for screening and lab automation and recognized InSphero’s GravityPLUS system because it meets the urgent need for automation-formatted, highly biomimetic microtissues, suitable for use at all stages of in vitro pre-clinical discovery and predictive toxicology.

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TOP 100 Scale-ups

Being among the TOP 100 Startups in Switzerland has become a seal of approval for founders, and the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Ranking provides them with the recognition they deserve. As startups cannot appear in the startup ranking for more than five years after incorporation, the TOP 100 Swiss Scale-up Ranking has been introduced. A growth jury is asked to select the TOP 100 Swiss Scale-ups. These companies, aged five up to 10 years, show the greatest potential for further growth and represent the future Swiss unicorns

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UZH Spin-off

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Volkswirtschaft-Stiftung

Die eidgenössische Stiftung zur Förderung schweizerischer Volkswirtschaft durch wissenschaftliche Forschung bezweckt die Förderung des Technologietransfers. Jungunternehmen können sich für ein zinsloses Darlehen bewerben.

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