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Incubator & Accelerator

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Themes

nutrition
finance
future of work regtech
tech for good
healthcare
connected-health
e-health
sustainability
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insuretech
paytech
edtech
Sustainable Development Goals
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healthier living
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longevity
social impact
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diagnostics
lending
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therapy
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well-being
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social good
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proteomics
IVD
food
wellbeing
telehealth
banking
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social
retail
learning management system
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mental health
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4. Scaling

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Who we are

Founded in 2015 Kickstart runs six verticals: New Work&Learning, Finance&Insurance, Food&Retail, Health&Wellbeing, Smart Cities with partner organizations like: AXA, City of Zurich, Coop, la Mobilière, MSD, PostFinance, Sanitas, Swisscom and more.

Funding Requirements

We accelerate startups in New Work & Learning, Finance & Insurance, Food & Retail, Health & Wellbeing, Smart Cities.

Kickstart is one of Europe's largest zero-equity open innovation platforms. Our mission is to build innovation ecosystems with purpose by fast-forwarding innovation. Kickstart brings together public and private organizations, start-ups, investors, and experts with the shared goal of developing next-generation products and services and creating a meaningful impact at scale. Each year, Kickstart engages 100 start-ups to collaborate with key stakeholders on proofs of concept, pilot and commercial projects, and other innovation partnerships. Additionally, Kickstart helps established organizations promote and accelerate internal innovation through its intrapreneurship program.

Value add

Since 2015, we have facilitated over 340 publicly announced commercial partnerships bringing added value to more than 100 organizations. Meanwhile we’ve supported more than 490 startups from over 80 countries in scaling. Our alumni have raised over CHF 2.8 billion.

Locations

Selnaustrasse 25, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland HQ

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