Global Sponsors

Google for Startups

Google is committed to empowering entrepreneurs around the world through programs, partnerships, and our products.

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud-based, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that gives startups a powerful solution for building, deploying, and operating their business-critical apps. The Heroku platform is fully-managed, meaning that we take care of servers, hardware, and infrastructure, so you can keep your team lean and focused on product. Heroku grows with your business — use a range of free services to get established and then scale up with increased usage.

Local Sponsors

eZürich

Working together to make Zurich a strong ICT location. eZürich is the platform for creative heads, ideas and projects aimed at promoting Zurich as an ICT and business location. The eZürich cooperation network includes representatives from research and education, from business, from professional and specialised organisations, as well as from politics and administration, who jointly develop project ideas and implement them in a collaborative spirit.

GINETTA

We create websites and mobile apps that set new standards in user experience.

Startup@UZH

Startup@UZH is the startup platform of the University of Zurich. We help students to found their own company and support them in the area of entrepreneurship. Startup@UZH offers a dense network of contractors, investors, UZH entrepreneurs and supporting associations.

Canton of Zurich

Office for Economy and Labour - Department for Economic Affairs of the Canton of Zurich The Office for Economy and Labour belongs to the Department for Economic Affairs of the Canton of Zurich and is focused on promoting economic development in Zurich. This includes giving guidance to company founders and businesses settling in Zurich, supporting resident companies, facilitating networking among forward-looking businesses and expediting administrative processes.

Nine Internet Solutions

nine is the leading provider of managed service solutions in Switzerland and offers full platform management in the public cloud, based on the AWS infrastructure or the private cloud, which uses the Swiss location. nine stands for highest availability, highest performance, 24/7 monitoring and full scalability.

Tamedia

Tamedia is the leading private media group in Switzerland. The divisions “Classifieds & Marketplaces“ and “Technology & Ventures” include start-ups such as Tradono and Book A Tiger, as well as established digital companies such as the scheduling tool Doodle or ricardo.ch, the largest marketplace in Switzerland. We see ourselves as growth engine of the entire company and it is our intent to continue accelerating digital progress.

DigitalZurich2025

DigitalZurich2025 is a cross-industry association created from the shared vision of its founding members to strengthen the Greater Zurich Area’s position as a digital hub and to project those benefits across the whole of Switzerland.

Google Zürich

Google Zurich brings Googlers together from 75 countries to work on some of the most challenging engineering problems around, making products used by millions of people.

IBM Zurich

Think you know IBM? Think again. We have gone beyond being the backbone of IT infrastructure to empowering entrepreneurs and start-ups by putting the Cognitive capabilities of our Watson technology platform together with newly-launched Quantum Computing, delivered via the IBM Cloud. IBM can give you access to a powerhouse of technology, developer resources, mentoring and support to allow you to bring your product to market fast –and you can start for free. IBM: Outthink challenges.

Kellerhals Carrard

Kellerhals Carrard, one of Switzerland’s largest business law firms, boasts a specialized and committed Startup Desk that regularly offers startups the legal support they need. We strongly believe in supporting innovative entrepreneurs in Switzerland and strive to contribute to their success from a legal point of view. Our Startup Desk comprises a core team of motivated and experienced lawyers. We offer professional, pragmatic and reliable services in all areas and phases of life of a startup.

Microsoft BizSpark

BizSpark is an innovative new program created to connect Startups with entrepreneurial and technology resources. With a common goal of supporting and accelerating the success of a new generation of high-potential Startups, use BizSpark to connect to a global community of resources. www.bizspark.com

SAP Switzerland

SAP: a platform company for startups and young entrepreneurs. SAP is offering a powerful program including a cloud development platform for startup companies. Build apps on SAP technology, sell through the SAP Store and gain access to more than 250.000 customers. In addition SAP is running a +2 million member ecosystem-community for companies to learn, share and collaborate. Let SAP help you to turn ideas into success. Have a look at the ‘SAP PartnerEdge program for Application Development’ (http://sapadpc.com).

Partners

Innosuisse

Innosuisse’s role is to promote science-based innovation in the interests of industry and society in Switzerland.

Association des Communes Crans-Montana

The Association of Municipalities of Crans-Montana (ACCM) is an association of public law, whose members are communes. In the case of the ACCM, the 3 members are the municipalities of Crans-Montana, Icogne and Lens. It is governed by articles 116 and following of the Law on the communes of February 5, 2004 as well as by its statutes.

IATA

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is the trade association for the world’s airlines, representing some 290 airlines or 82% of total air traffic. We support many areas of aviation activity and help formulate industry policy on critical aviation issues.

World XR Forum

World XR Crans-Montana Forum pushes further the excellence of the Swiss destination as a breeding ground for innovation and a major hub for interdisciplinary XR encounters. From the 5th of the 9th of September, join a program packed with content, intelligence and business opportunities.

ImpactHub Zurich

We are working towards a world that works for all, following Buckminster Fuller’s grand challenge “to make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone”. Together we can solve the challenge. Join us!

WomenWay

WomenWay – the Business Network for Women Entrepreneurs, Executives and Board Mebers. Expand your network in business and politics and build valuable relations on a national and international level. Gain new insights about career and economic topics from renowned speakers at our events. Find experienced mentors through our mentoring program.

angelsforladies

Angels for Ladies is a series of quarterly live pitch events in Zurich, Switzerland. It is for female founders looking for angel investors. Every woman with a business idea may apply to pitch. Eligible startups must not be older than 5 years, have to be founded or co-founded by at least one women, and the business idea has to be innovative or must add a female perspective to an existing product or service. The best six startups are invited to pitch at the live event.

seif

Social Entrepreneurship Impact & Finance (seif) supports and promotes individuals or teams seeking to apply innovative business ideas to respond to current social and/or environmental problems, otherwise known as “social enterprises”. We do so by offering companies programs, consulting, training and general support according to their needs and stage of development.

3wVentures

3wVentures invests in early stage startups mainly based in Switzerland with a portfolio size of nearly 50 startups. Concerning investment ticket size do we have a dual strategy, if the startup really meets our very expertise, for example lunchgate.ch, we may invest high 6-digit tickets and if the startup comes over the investiere.ch platform, which we are a co-owner of, we usually support it with a moderate 5-digit ticket in order to build up a very diversified Swiss startup portfolio.

Swisscom

Swisscom has launched a strategic initiative with Pirates Hub three years ago located in an open space office in Zurich. Pirates Hub collaborates with startups by combining assets of a corporate enterprise and the ones of early-stage and seed companies. The objective is to run open business innovation, in order to create new products and services. We want to strengthen Swisscom’s position as an innovative and open company.

MassChallenge

MassChallenge is the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet. No equity and not-for-profit, we provide startups with the access and resources they need to succeed - from free office space to mentoring, workshops and global network access. MassChallenge accelerates over 300 startups per year across our accelerators in Boston, London, Jerusalem, Lausanne, and Mexico City.

World Web Forum

The WORLDWEBFORUM is an annual thought-leadership movement in Zurich that attracts more than 1’500 guests, of which 85 percent of whom are C-level executives. Thanks to the deep relationship with influencers in Silicon Valley, China, Europe and top global academia, the WORLDWEBFORUM brings together the most forward-thinking business minds with the aim of inspiring the courage to drive change in Switzerland and across Europe.

WinConference

A pioneer in the field of professional women’s events and leadership journeys on a global scale WIN inspires leaders, to run companies and initiatives with noble values, and to fully live their own lives with beauty and enthusiasm.

Evernote Zurich

Evernote builds apps and products that are defining the way individuals and teams work today. As one workspace that lives across your phone, tablet, and computer, Evernote is the place you write free from distraction, collect information, find what you need, and present your ideas to the world.

Pirates Hub - Swisscom

Pirates Hub is supporting and enabling open innovation within Swisscom and building an ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship. It acts as community and innovation platform and expert within Swisscom as one of the biggest swiss companies as well as the swiss and international economy. The Pirates Hub takes the role as bridge builder to entrepreneurs, startups and experts. With an iterative, fast and agile innovation process it establishes collaboration between startups and Swisscom.

Uber - Zurich

Everyone's Private Driver. By seamlessly connecting riders to drivers through our apps, we make cities more accessible, opening up more possibilities for riders and more business for drivers.