The MassChallenge Startup Summit is a yearly event awarding the most promising company graduating from the MC acceleration programs in Boston, London and Israel. This year to celebrate Switzerland’s entrepreneurial talent, and mark the start of MassChallenge Switzerland we have selected several Swiss MC alumni to take part. For this exclusive event, after a first round of selection, around ten startups will be allowed to pitch their projects to the audience composed of experienced entrepreneurs, investors and academics.
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About MassChallenge Switzerland
The accelerator will combine MassChallenge’s no-equity, competition-based model with the talent and potential of Switzerland’s startup ecosystem. Based in the Lake Geneva Region, the accelerator attracts startups from Switzerland, other parts of Europe and beyond, who want to understand and access Switzerland’s unique innovation culture and prowess in high technology. Four founding partners are supporting the MassChallenge Switzerland launch: Bühler Group, already a diamond sponsor of MassChallenge in Boston, Nestlé, Inartis Foundation and the Swiss Economic Forum. A high-profile supervisory board has been formed to launch MassChallenge Switzerland in 2016. Members include Stefan Catsicas, Executive Vice President Nestlé S.A., CTO; Calvin Grieder, Chairman of the Board of Directors & CEO Bühler Group; Benoît Dubuis, Director of Campus Biotech and President of the Inartis Foundation; Peter Stähli, Chairman of the Swiss Economic Forum Group; and John Harthorne, CEO of MassChallenge.
About MassChallenge
MassChallenge is the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet. It is a non-for-profit that takes no equity in the start-ups. They are obsessed with helping entrepreneurs from all industry sectors. The highest-impact startups share a prize pool of several million dollars in equity-free cash awards. Through its global network of accelerators in Boston, London and Jerusalem and unrivalled access to its corporate partners, they can have a massive impact – driving growth and creating value the world over. To date, the 835 MassChallenge alumni have raised over $1.1 billion in funding, generated over $520 million in revenue and created over 6,500 jobs. In December 2015, MassChallenge announced the expansion of its global accelerator network to Switzerland with a full accelerator programme in 2016.
For more information, visit www.masschallenge.org
About Lift
A Swiss based organization, Lift is one of the leading digital innovation conference attracting innovators from around the world. Its transdisciplinary platform fosters innovating thinking and explores new ways in response to current economic and social challenges created by the emergence of new technologies. Today, thanks to its different events, workshops and projects staged around the world, Lift creates impact and has become a true global innovation actor. Through the Lift Venture Night and the Bilan 50 start-up initiative, Lift has been supporting the Swiss start-up scene for many years now.