Large projects and large customers

Dear reader

Torqeedo, which is belongs to the German Deutz Group, is the world market leader in electric drives for boats, producing 50,000 motors per year. These are now connected to the cloud thanks to c.technology’s SaaS solution. This enables new services for boat crews, such as logbook evaluations, and also predictive engine maintenance and installation of updates.

However, young start-ups can also attract large Swiss companies with their products. Rivella, Helvetia, Swiss Post, CSS and Berner Kantonalbank already use hypt’s chatbot solution for recommendation marketing, and it has now completed a pre-seed financing round. And find out how Ruag, Planzer and STIHL benefit from the innovative products from Sphere, Typewise and Cyltronic in another article.

The eastern Swiss family-owned company Krüger + Co. has not bought a single product, but a start-up. It has taken over the the Ticino firm Innovida, which has developed an innovative heat pump that is particularly suitable for single-family homes.

Start-ups already established on the market are the target group of Innosuisse’s Swiss Accelerator. Companies can apply for direct financial support for innovation projects with above-average innovation potential, with support per project amounting to a maximum of CHF 2.5 million. Innosuisse launched the second call for the Swiss Accelerator this week – find out more in our articles in German and French.

Another current call from Innosuisse is not aimed at start-ups, but at service providers in the start-up ecosystem. Innosuisse’s start-up training programme is subject to the WTO Agreement and is therefore put to tender at regular intervals. This is the case again and the Swiss Innovation Agency has taken the opportunity of the call to partially redesign the training. For example, a new module offers digital content with the aim of raising awareness among a broad public about the potential career path of an entrepreneur. In addition, some of the modules for which regional proximity to the ecosystem is important will be tendered in six regions.

Next week you can meet me at the Top 100 Swiss Startup Award on Wednesday. Registration for the live stream is still open. ETH Industry Day will take place during the day on the same day – my colleague Ritah Nyakato will be there. The Swiss Fintech Fair will also take place in Zurich on 8 September.

A week later, the Tech4Growth Conference will take place in Lausanne. Our French-speaking Switzerland correspondent, Eugène Schön, will be there. I would also like to point out the deadline of  11 September for Venture Leaders Fintech; the winners will take part in a five-day Investor Roadshow in London.

Have a good weekend.
Stefan Kyora

Editor in Chief, Startupticker.ch