Startup Champions Seed Night 2021 - 10th edition
Students, PhD, Postdoc, Academic Staff & Alumni, Entrepreneurs, Investors, Corporates, Interested in Entrepreneurship, International Participants
Biz Dev, Fundraising, Networking, International
29.04.2021
*Registration for startup competition is closed*
*If you want to attend the event as a viewer, please register HERE.*
The Startup Champions Seed Night is an annual startup presentation event bringing together the most promising entrepreneurs from EPFL and the Canton of Vaud, angel investors, mentors, industry leaders and scientists for an online audience of 900+ people. This year we celebrate the 10th edition of this event!
The objective of the event is to showcase fast-growing entrepreneurial projects to the community and educate the audience about seed investment.This flagship event is coming back on April 29th for a great night full of surprises.
“The Startup Champions Seed Night gave REA Test great visibility. If you’re looking to raise money in the near future, this is a must-go event for you.” - Loulia Kassem, Founder & CEO of REA Test, Winner of the 2020 edition
Program
17:00: Welcome
17:05: Startup pitch competition part 1
17:40: Keynote: Kamila Markram (PhD PH'06), Co-founder & CEO of Frontiers
17:50: Startup pitch competition part 2
18:30: Keynote: Alexandre Gonthier (SC'94), Founder & CEO of Trustly, Inc.
18:40: Winner announcement
18:45: End of plenary
19:00: 1:1 meetings with the startups and networking (reserved to investors only)
20:00: End of the event
You can watch last year's event on YouTube.
*For now the event is planned to take place online. We will evaluate in the current weeks to see how we structure it while maintaining everyone safe.*
Daniel Alpern, CTO & Co-Founder
We provide innovative genome-wide gene analysis solutions for the research and pharmaceutical industry focused at biomarkers and drug discovery.
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Bernard Revaz, CEO
AMIQUAM integrates quality monitoring systems in metal additive manufacturing machines that provide in situ, real time, and compliant information about the quality of the manufactured part. Our machine agnostic electromagnetic sensors have the unique property to probe the sub-surface region of the part, where the critical defects are located.
www.amiquam.ch
Maximilien Murone, CEO
Avrion Therapeutics is a new spin-off from EPFL, based on more than 10 years of research at the Brain Mind Institute & Campus Biotech Gene Therapy Platform (groups of Dr. Bernard Schneider/Prof. Patrick Aebischer and Prof. Brian McCabe). Avrion has developed new AAV (Adeno-Associated Virus)-based precision gene therapy solutions to tackle neurodegenerative diseases, with a primary focus on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Our vision is to bring precision gene therapies solutions to patients suffering from genetically defined neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS and others.
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Frank Bonnet, CEO & Co-Founder
We provide solutions to automatize the screening, sorting and pipetting of miniature biological models for a more rapid and ethical research.
bionomous.ch
Juliane Dervaux, Project Lead
Oncologists currently lack a simple non-invasive test to evaluate the risk of disease progression and metastasis in the therapeutic management of cancer.
Biopsomic’s innovative and patented liquid biopsy based on blood-sampled exosomes aims to revolutionize the life of millions of patients every year.
www.linkedin.com/company/biopsomic/
David Compain, Co-Founder & CEO
Helping hospitals and clinics to visualize and optimize devices management through our Internet of Things Technology and Artificial Intelligence Platform.
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Alex Horvath, CEO
Open a cleaner world with CleanMotion! We improve public health with our innovative self-disinfecting door handle which kills 99.9% of viruses and bacteria immediately after each use.
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Diarmuid Daltún, CEO
csquare is the most efficient collaborative MLOps Platform built from the ground up on HPC principles ensuring Data Scientists focus on training models and getting the best results while csquare looks after the rest. AND, all of this sustainably!
csquare.ai
Margaux Peltier, CEO
Enerdrape develops a panel-like cleantech that allows to turn any kind of new and existing underground infrastructures into renewable heat sources for the heating and cooling needs of buildings, unlocking the untapped potential of clean energy supply that lies underneath our cities.
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Alberto Mian, CEO
ExerGo proposes the most compact, efficient and cost-effective district heating and cooling network infrastructure, the CO2 network. Utility companies and Municipalities can effectively implement the energy transition and supply 100% renewable energy services in difficult to reach dense urban areas. ExerGo targets the Swiss and EU market, which is worth more than 200 BEUR and is expected to grow at 10.8% CAGR for the next 30 years.
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Patrick Biro, COO
We provide clean, lightweight and efficient power sources to off-grid industries (environmental, surveillance, telecom), for mobile (drones,etc) applications and backup and auxiliary with a total SAM of 4B CHF. Our patented technology allows solid oxide fuel cells miniaturization. Our compact design and the use of high energy density fuels allow us to be up to 80% lighter, with 20x more energy density than Li-batteries.
https://inergio.ch/
Jerome Thevenot, CEO
The Inmodi platform is a completely novel way of assessing joints during motion at any Point of Care, providing an estimation of joint integrity based on quantitative biomarkers linked to knee function. Our sensor system uses extracted objective data to help creating patient-specific treatment plan.
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Vito Cacucciolo, CEO
Omnigrasp is an electrical soft gripper that grasps an enormous range of objects. Silicone fingers conforms to the shape of the object and electroadhesion glues the fingers to the object when voltage is on. Omnigrasp makes pick-and-place automation approachable even with delicate and uneven objects.
omnigrasp.com
Pierre-Yves Bridel, Managing Director
OriginFood enables transparency & collaboration across supply chains, with a focus on product traceability, quality and compliance. Our blockchain based solution enables higher operational performance and better sustainability.
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Thibault Asselborn, CEO
Exploiting recent advances in machine learning, we help children improve their skills by delivering digital tools. Our patented method extracts rapidly and accurately dynamic features of handwriting that cannot be detected by human eyes allowing an objective, accurate deep and fast detection of handwriting difficulties. According to this handwriting profile, adapted activities are recommended to the child to practice handwriting on the skills he/she needs. Dynamico’s software is meant to be used at home, at school and by therapists.
dynamico.ch
Maël Fabien, CEO
40 million people in the world are blind, 3 million in Europe. Avoiding obstacles, finding objects, and navigating in new environments are often cited among the largest pains. SoundMap is a smart device that captures, maps and filters the environment in real-time to guide users in their environment.
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Nina Walker, Head of Operations
Space4Impact wants to maximize the positive impact of Space technologies on Earth by linking New Space companies to non-space markets. The goal is to internationally boost the growing New Space Economy in line with the UN SDGs through our online marketplace platform.
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Jean-Philippe Torgue, CEO
Swisscast SA was born from a consortium of four Swiss SME’s gathering together expertise and intelligence : Advanced Sport Instruments SA, MSO SARL, Pomoca SA, Furinkazan SA, Gaitup SA Founder.
Swisscast is a platform to track endurance outdoor events with 100% reliability and connectivity. The goal is to provide the highest level of security for race organisers and the ultimate interactivity experience with race athletes and followers.
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Juan Ramon Troncoso Pastoriza, CEO
Tune Insight B2B software enables organizations to make better decisions by extracting collective insights from confidential data collaborations, while they remain in full control of their own data. Our federated confidential computing powers collaborative analytics and ML in a data-driven world.
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Romain Kirchhoff, CEO
To maximize project approval rates and ensure the population has access to valuable information, Uzufly delivers ultra-photorealistic 3D digital models generated from aerial methods (such as drones) and integrates the designs of future constructions within their designated area. Those 3D models provide a realistic understanding of the volume and architecture of planned projects, with a project scope ranging from a single building to an entire city or canton. Furthermore, those highly detailed 3D models can be converted to technical drawings and topographic surveys to support architects and construction engineers in their work.
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This event is organized by EPFL Alumni, the EPFL Vice Presidency for Innovation and Venturelab.
Thanks to the support of: