Kickstart Innovation helps organizations succeed at becoming more sustainable and inventive by accelerating collaboration with established startups.

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Ensuring drug safety with blockchain technology.

Zurich Companies With Less Than $1B in Revenue

Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) FinTech Female Founded Companies

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Professional Services Companies With Fewer Than 100 Employees (Top 10K)

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. We bring together public and private organizations, startups, investors, and experts, with the shared ambition to deliver next-generation products and services and have a meaningful impact at scale. Each year, Kickstart engages 100 entrepreneurs to collaborate with key players for proofs of concept, pilot and commercial projects, and other innovation partnerships. Additionally, through the intrapreneurship program, Kickstart helps established organizations promote and accelerate internal innovation.  

Kickstart is a spin-off of Impact Hub Zurich and was launched in 2015 by digitalswitzerland. In 2023, Kickstart runs five verticals: New Work & Learning, Finance & Insurance, Food & Retail, Health & Wellbeing, and Smart Cities together with partner organizations across industries: AXA, Coop, Swisscom, La Mobilière, PostFinance, ETH Zürich, CSEM, City of Zurich, Empa NEST, Sanitas, University Hospital Zurich, Panter, SATW, Impact Hub Switzerland, Canton de Vaud, Santenext, Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE, Swiss Healthcare Startups, Growpal, Switzerland Global Enterprise, Ringier, Google for Startups, MLL, South Pole, WECOCO, Day8, HealthTech Cluster Switzerland, DealStation, MAVA, SwissLEAP, EPFL, IMD, gfm, START Global and more.

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Breaking down the barriers to ecosystem collaboration

Kickstart 2022 achieves more than 55 new innovation partnerships

Global Innovation Platform Kickstart Launches New Application Round for Startups

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Kickstart’s 2022 cohort includes 13 Swiss startups

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Kickstart’s Drive for Innovation: 53 Scaleups & Intra-Team Finalists will Develop Innovative Collaborations

1637: How Alliance Block is Bridging Traditional and Decentralized Finance

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