EPFL and digitalswitzerland to support Fusion’s LifeTech accelerator

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05.07.2017
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Fusion’s LifeTech accelerator will focus on personalised medicine. La Mobiliere joined as first corporate partner, EPFL supports as academic partner & digitalswitzerland as ecosystem enabler. Applications for the LifeTech accelerator are officially open from today.

FUSION, operating Switzerland’s First Fintech Startup Accelerator Fintech FUSION, announced further plans regarding of its first LifeTech Accelerator – first announced in March 2017. LifeTech Fusion is opening in September of this year,  in Geneva with La Mobiliere as first founding partner with support from Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as academic partner & digitalswitzerland as ecosystem enabling organization. With the launch of the new LifeTech Vertical, Fusion is moving strongly towards its goal of becoming a global platform that supercharges innovation.

Startups are invited to apply now
The LifeTech accelerator is to focus on technologies that bring innovations in the areas of digital health, IOT, wearables, Personal Data Analysis & Mgmt, Biometrics, Machine Learning, Genomics and NanoTech.

Applications for the LifeTech accelerator are open from today. International and Swiss startups with a strong product and early customers (B2B, B2B2C & B2C) within LifeTech can apply until July 15th. The selected startups will be invited to Geneva from September to November 2017. They are provided with hands-on resources for a value of over 300K CHF, a large network of corporate partners, coworking-space at the Fusion Campus as well as access to a broad network of investors, experts, mentors and business partners. Furthermore, all startups have the chance to win funding of up to CHF 2M thanks to the Fusion syndicate with Polytech Ventures as a key partner,  angel investors and corporate partners .

Lifetech is accelerating
Over the next 10 years personalized health technologies are poised to positively impact millions of  lives. FUSION is targeting world class innovators seeking to positively impact people’s ‘Life’ with direct personalized health solutions and improve the industry’s pace of innovation with B2B solutions that enable corporations to further accelerate their developments.

Sal Matteis CEO at FUSION: “Lifetech & IOT are digital technologies which – via direct and continued interaction with individuals – enable betterment and extension of life. LifeTechs open up unparalleled opportunities for Health, Nutrition, Medical, Wellness, Fitness and Insurance providers to deliver new products & services that impact life.

We are witnessing an acceleration in the speed to market of technologies that are set to improve & extend people’s lives. We believe Switzerland is the perfect test bed for many of these technologies given its reputation as one of the best healthcare systems in the world & the presence in the Lemanic region of the top Bio, MedTech and Health corporation and research centers.”

Building a Stronger Ecosystem
Home to the world’s best healthcare infrastructure, Switzerland is a strong hub for research & innovation in lifetech and perfectly placed to extending its leadership as one of the leading startup & innovation hubs in the world in the field of personalized health.

Guillaume Dubray, Managing Partner at Polytech Ventures & Founder of Fusion: La Mobiliere gives a strong signal to the market of their forwardness in anticipating trends and seeking to build solutions that benefit their customers. EPFL brings their depth in expertise in research (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Big Data & Virtual Reality) to enable a thriving ecosystem. digitalswitzerland brings their unparalleled reach in governmental bodies as well as industry connections to further enhance the local ecosystem

Over the coming months FUSION will be bringing additional partners to join our lifetech accelerator ecosystem and identifying the first batch of Startups from all over the world.

(Press release)

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