On December 8th, join us for a virtual pitch event with Swiss Startups in Los Angeles!
We are partnering with Swissnex for a unique virtual pitch event featuring a selected group of Startups from their 2022 Startup California Bootcamps.
Swissnex in San Francisco connects tomorrow by empowering the next generation of innovators to collaborate and create futures in which the planet and society thrive. In 2021, Swissnex in SF presented 5 programs in collaboration with Swiss partners for more than 50 leading next-gen innovators from Switzerland. The program participants included entrepreneurs, students and researchers, artists and designers, policy-makers, and corporate innovators. Swissnex empowered them in San Francisco’s network of over 60 experts in the USA, spanning five industries.
December 8th, 9:00 AM PT
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List of Startups Pitching
Yu Zhang, Founder and CEO of Fitworld
Pre-seed/Seed
“Pelotonize” regular gyms with LiveBox and connect them into a platform providing all-live pro fitness content worldwide.
Insights:
- Having paid gym chain in Germany Prime Time fitness.
- Attracted angel investment of $100k and strategic investment of $200k.
- Supported by Innosuisse (Swiss Federal Innovation Agency).
- Pre-order from US private fitness clubs.
- Talking to a major gym chain in China.
Caroline Matteucci, Founder, and CEO of Cryfe
Seed
Not being able to identify the real intentions of your interlocutor makes you make bad decisions. Thanks to Cryfe, its profiling techniques, and its AI, the only one to identify authentic answers, you will save time, and money and, who knows, save lives.
Insights:
- Onboarder in Microsoft for Startup
- POC in cosmetics realized and defended at ECRO 2021
- POC’s in progress in medicine. Psychiatrist and suicidal adolescents and teleconsultations
- First clients using Cryfe (assessment, coaching, and profiling)
- Revenue 2022 CHF 80’000
- Winner of the Swiss Digital HR Award
- Winner Swissnex pitch and 2nd round Websummit and Collision
- First contacts for white-label Canada
- First round investment (350’000 raised)
- Support from the Berne Economic Development Agency and the STI Foundation (200’000)
- Over 600 people trained in profiling
Following the onboarding of their first customers, they set up specific offers, including training coupled with using Cryfe.
The consent process has been automated. So as soon as you create an interview, the person accepts the process easily.
Machine learning is currently increasing performance.
The timeline in Cryfe analysis has new filters allowing the user to see the key points of the interview easily.
They are in discussion for new market segments with large companies (market research / medical)
Antoine Herzog, Co-Founder and CEO of Parithera
Seed
Over 90% of cancer patients pass away due to the acquisition of resistance to the treatments. Today, there are no diagnostics for that specific purpose. Parithera is providing the first solution to address this unmet clinical need in a fully integrated and scalable manner.
Insights:
- Investment from former SVP at Foundation Medicine and former Global Head of Regulatory Affairs at Roche & Genentech
- World-class advisors: Doron Lipson (CSO at Ultima Genomics), Prof. Parikh (in charge of liquid biopsy at Mass General)
- Advanced discussions for pilots with large biopharma & diagnostic companies
- Ethic protocol for first validation approved at CHUV (world’s top 10 hospital according to Newsweek Hospital Ranking)
- Approval of 900k$ grant for industrialization of microfluidic chips to serve biopharma customers by Q4 2023
Mario Leoni, CEO of Nobank
Seed
Nobank believes in the promise of web3, which is a fairer, more inclusive, and ownable internet – based on blockchain technology.
To access Web3, you need a wallet. But today, existing wallets are too complicated, too technical, and just not fit onboard the next billion users.
Nobank tackles this problem by offering a next-generation wallet: a smart contract-based wallet that allows super simple interactions and transactions on a blockchain.
With Nobank, everyone can invest in digital assets without intermediaries and interact with everything that Web3 has to offer: NFTs, gaming, art, digital identity, and much more.
Their wallet offers the most advanced security measures in the industry, and their onboarding is so simple that everyone can create a wallet without the technical know-how required.
Nobank is live on two blockchains – Polygon and Harmony.
Insights:
They have:
- created >1500 wallets in the last two months
- 500 monthly active and 250 daily active users
- 2 partner projects live: a blockchain-based loyalty program for a Swiss retail company and an NFT-based winery collaboration
- a partner pipeline of >15 partners that will collaborate with us over the coming months
Nobank is expanding on two fronts:
- they are adding more blockchains (ETH coming soon) and more DeFi products that diversify a portfolio or generate yield
- they are working on expanding our B2B(2C) offering for their partners.
Marcos Monteiro, CEO of Veezoo
Series A
Veezoo empowers any business user to easily get fast answers from data just by asking in plain English, without having to know SQL or bother the data team.
Insights:
- Achieved the world’s highest accuracy in Q&A systems using AI and NLP
- Roughly 2’000 active users ask over 40’000 questions a month.
- A profitable company making over $1 Mio. in ARR
- The largest customers include AXA and Zurich Insurance
They are experimenting with different go-to-market channels and testing new geographies, in particular, resellers and integration partners in Germany and Brazil.
Kevin Schawinski, CEO of Modulos
Seed
Modulos is going to help global enterprises to identify the sources of errors, noise, and bias in their data to empower them to build fair, accurate AI applications in line with AI regulations, particularly the upcoming EU AI Act and US AI Bill of Rights.
Insights:
- Customers in the EU, USA, LatAm, Asia
- Applications include medical apps, aerospace/defense, and financial services
- Ongoing exchange with leading financial services institutions concerned about upcoming regulations
- Close exchange with experts and insiders working on AI regulation, especially the EU AI Act, to anticipate needed features.
Program / Pacific Standard Time (PST)
9:00 am – Welcome & Intro
9:20 am – Startup Pitches
10:00 am – Networking
10:30 am – Event ends
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