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Investor type

Incubator & Accelerator

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Themes

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