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About Kickstart Innovation

Investor type

Incubator & Accelerator

First check

N/A

Applications

In batches

Deal type

No deal

Program fees

N/A

Typical terms

We typically do not invest capital or take equity, instead providing startups with access to pilot projects, corporate partnerships, and potential grant funding through a zero-equity program.

Themes

learning management system
regtech
tech for good
digital-health
wealthtech retail
biomarker
finance
payment
impact
SDG
bank
food
insur tech
social
edtech
social good
banking
IVD
medical devices
future of work
underserved
telehealth
insurtechs
wellness
insuretech
sustainability
in vitro diagnostics
connected-health
healthcare
medical device
Sustainable Development Goals
wellbeing
finserv
healthier living
med device
medtech
longevity
bioimaging
well-being
insurance
lending
financial services
social impact fintech
therapy
learning
fintechs
health-tech
ehealth
proteomics
nutrition
LMS
fin-tech
health
mental health
diagnostics
e-health
healthtech
paytech
sustainable
tech-enabled health
connected health
insurtech
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Funding Stages

4. Scaling

Countries of investment

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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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