Ulf Grawunder was co-founder and CTO of 4-Antibody. In 2012 he started a new company called NBE Therapeutics. The new start-up has already secured seed funding.

Unter dem Namen oikos consulting haben Studentinnen und Studenten der Universität St. Gallen eine Unternehmensberatung gegründet. Das Team unterstützt schweizweit Start-ups, die nachhaltige Produkte oder Dienstleistungen lancieren wollen.

Kooaba is happy to announce the spin-out of its sister company Shortcut Media AG which will concentrate on marketing the Shortcut app to the print publishing and advertising industry. kooaba will focus on developing the technology business. Herbert Bay will take over as CEO of Shortcut Media. Till Quack will lead kooaba as new CEO.

End of July, greenTEG was recognized as best Swiss Climate Start-up receiving a voucher of CHF 24,000 in the Climate-KIC Swiss Venture Competition. They will represent Switzerland at the European Climate-KIC Venture Competition in October. Runners-up are MySollars and citiviz.

Der Start-up-Inkubator Ventureworks bietet in St. Gallen einzelne Büroräume auch für Jungunternehmen ausserhalb der Ventureworks-Projekte an. Geboten werden nicht nur Infrastruktur und Servicedienstleistungen, sondern auch Kontakt zu anderen Start-ups.

Das vergangenen Februar eingeweihte Gründerzentrum Freiburg Nord in Murten öffnet seine Türen für die ersten zwei Start-ups: Silver-Ranch und Jetztleben.

In immer mehr Ländern der Welt werden Shops für die neuartigen Luftkissenschuhe namens kyboot eröffnet. Dies nicht nur in Deutschland und Schweden, sondern auch in Asien.

The finalists have been announced for the Travolution Awards 2012. Housetrip is a finalist in two categories: “Best Accommodation Website” and “Best Use of Search Engine Marketing”.

Two pioneers of ultralight drones for civil use, senseFly and Parrot, have joined forces to further develop their respective markets. Parrot will bring 5 million Swiss francs into senseFly. This strategic investment will give senseFly access to Parrot’s high volume fabless industrial know-how, specialized UAV technology, and the cash to fund rapid growth and new product development. The senseFly office will remain in Ecublens, Switzerland, and its original management team will continue to lead senseFly.