Venture leaders 2009
swissnex boston is excited to partner with the venturelab and to organize the 9th edition of the venture leaders (formerly NETS) program. Like every previous edition, the 20 entrepreneurs selected this year will have a full program in Boston from June 9th to 19th. They will visit local high tech companies, receive academic training from Babson College-Professors, interact with experts and most importantly network with local entrepreneurs, investors and other members of the high-tech community. Ernst & Young joins the program as partner this year and will put together an afternoon session as well.
You are invited to join us on Thursday June 18th at swissnex boston - starting at 6:30 pm - to welcome these venture leaders to the Boston area. During this reception, they will pitch their ideas or business plans and will be available for discussion afterwards in one of the 5 "entrepreneurial zones" (Biotech, Hightech, Medtech, Software and Web). Please RSVP if you would like to join this event.
You can access the individual profiles of the participants by clicking on their names. If you click on the industry, you can download all profiles for this group. Finally, all profiles can be downloaded in a single document.
| Biomedical: | |
| Antoni Philipp (Biognosys AG) | We develop a MRM platform to find specific protein levels in tissue or blood and further establish a protein biomarker discovery and verification program. |
| Clément Virginie (Sternergie) | Stemergie provides an innovative direct and non-toxic technology to propagate, identify and purify cancer-initiating cells (CICs) from human tumors. |
| Friedrich Michael (Aïmago SA) | Aïmago develops and markets non-invasive and contactless medical diagnostic instruments to visualize microcirculation, the capillary blood flow. |
| Hahn Friedrich (MedDrop Technology AG) | Efficient local pain therapy by transporting active substances directly through the skin using a special application system that is empowered by oxygen. |
| Nagy Zoltan (Femlo Tools GmbH) | Design and fabrication of high quality measurement and handling instruments for the micro and nanodomain. |
| Social Networking: | |
| Bernard Arnaud (Housetrip) | HouseTrip is a website on which property owners will be able to auction short-term rentals of their properties and correlatively users will be able to bid for a stay. |
| Briner Raphael (HyperWeek) | Social networks, social websites, social widgets, that enable web publishers and marketers to drive deeper customer relationships, and grow online audiences. |
| Gerhardt Dania (Amazee AG) | Amazee empowers individual users and small groups to start global initiatives. Users collaborate in open or closed projects, which they set up themselves |
| Hirsig Christian (Atizo - Open Innovation GmbH) | Atizo connects innovative companies with bright brains over the internet. We develop a web based innovation method and build an innovator community |
| Software: | |
| Florey Gilles (KeyLemon S.A. | KeyLemon is a software company which offers simple, fast and convenient computer access solutions, based on face and speech recognition, for all internet users with a webcam. |
| Gamard Stephane (SALSAdev) | SALSAdev solutions allow to create, catalog and use DNA maps of contextual documents, which capture the meaning of corporate knowledge. |
| Sala Matthias (Gbanga) | Pervasive location-aware massively multiplayer trans- reality game for mobile phones |
| Weder Juergen (NeuroPie Solutions AG) | Innovative and proven approach to manage time-critical, intertwined systems, organisations and processes in real-time. |
| Internet: | |
| Hoffman Franz (FONTSELF) | Fontself proposes a radical approach to create, distribute and display a new breed of fonts. |
| Rizzotti Sven (Syndicate) | Syndicate allows anyone to customize the web to his own needs without installing any software. Web pages can be reduced, rearranged, or combined with other web pages into a new, personalized experience. |
| von Rickenbach Pascal (Streamforge) | We provide our customers in the media business with a new solution to distribute their audio and video content over the internet. |
| Nanotech/Hightech: | |
| Halim Samuel (Nanograde GmbH) | Nanograde is specialized on the customized production of nanoparticles and the development of products by the use of such nanoparticles |
| Milyutin Evgeny (Piezosens) | Piezoelectric resonators for high-performance sensors in bio and medical applications. |
| Voegeli Mario (Arktis Radiation Detectors Ltd.) | Arktis Radiation Detectors is developing a new technology that detects radiological and explosive threats in cargo containers |
| Wayenberg Alexandre (AgoraBee S.A.) | AgoraBee provides a complete platform for active RFID (Radiofrequency Identification) and location-aware WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) |
Venture leaders 2008
swissnex boston is excited to partner with the venturelab and to organize the 8th edition of the venture leaders (formerly NETS) program. Like every previous edition, the 20 entrepreneurs selected this year will have a full program in Boston from June 10 to 20th. They will visit local high tech companies, attend a course at Babson College, interact with experts and most importantly network with local entrepreneurs, investors and other members of the high-tech community. Ernst & Young joins the program as partner this year and will put together an afternoon session as well.
You can access the individual profiles of the participants by clicking on their names. If you click on the industry, you can download all profiles for this group. Finally, all profiles can be downloaded in a single document
Biotech: Alexis Bosman (HESC) / Samuel Constant (Epithelix) / Bettina Ernst (PRECLINVentures) / Marc Gitztinger (CallidoSens) / Sai Reddy (NanoImmune) / Pierre-Jean Wipff (HelvaLab)
Hightech: Martin Bartholet (Celeroton) / Mark Blum (Optotune) /
Sadik Hafizovic (ZuerichInstruments)Medtech: Patrizia Fischer (PearlTec) / Stefan Tuchschmid (VirtaMed) / David Weill (PRIMEQUAL)
Software: Maël Guillemot (Klewel) / Roberto Vitalini (BASHIBA) / Christian Vögeli (Dybuster) / Barbara Yersin (MingleMakers)
Web: Stéphane Doutriaux (Poken) / Vincent Schickel (Prediggo) / Paul Sevinç (Doodle) /
Remo Uherek (Trigami)
Thinkswiss
ThinkSwiss is a US wide program that highlights and showcases Switzerland as a global, knowledge-based country full of talent, high-tech opportunities and creativity. Its goal is to foster an even stronger network of long-term relations in education, research and innovation between the United Staates and Switzerland.
Please visit the website at thinkswiss.org.
Technology Transfer Fellowship Program at Boston University
swissnex boston is very delighted to announce the opportunity for a senior tech transfer officer of a Swiss university (including Swiss universities of applied sciences) to spend a 3 months Technology Transfer Fellowship 2007 at the Office of Technology Development of Boston University.
For further information about the program please contact directly Pascal Marmier, Senior Advisor Education and Academic Affairs, swissnex boston.
Venture leaders 2007
swissnex boston is excited to partner with the venturelab and CTI to organize the 8th edition of the venture leaders (formerly NETS) program. Like every previous edition, the 20 entrepreneurs selected this year will have a full program in Boston from June 10 to 20th. They will visit local high tech companies, attend a course at Babson College, interact with experts and most importantly network with local entrepreneurs, investors and other members of the high-tech community. Ernst & Young joins the program as partner this year and will put together an afternoon session as well.
You can access the individual profiles of the participants by clicking on their names. If you click on the industry, you can download all profiles for this group. Finally, all profiles can be downloaded in
single document.
Biotech: Corinne John (Redbiotec AG) / Ulrich Kessler (PiKe Pharma GmbH) / Dieter Naeher (Immutrace) / Max Wiki (CallidoSens)
Information Technology: Herbert Bay (Kooaba) / Patrick Maillard (MIG Technology Sàrl) / Jochen Mundinger (RouteRank) / Silvia Santini (MicroEnv) / Marianne Starlander (MedSLT)
MedTech: Andre Mercanzini (Aleva Neurotherapeutics) / Marc Thurner (Delta Robotics)
Nanotechnology: Robert Grass (YanaCo) / Samuel Sonderegger (Twinckle Tech)
Electronics: Frederico Angiolini (Structured Interconnects)
Materials: Martin Bäuml (Concretum)
Sensors: Christian Broennimann (Dectris) / Giovanna Davatz (Arktis radiation detectors)
Robotics: Pierre Bureau (Social Robotic Companion)
Energy: Sylvain Lemofuet-Gatsi (EnAirys Power Tech)
Holophony: Renatio Pellegrini (SonicEmotion)
Transplantation Fellowship Program
A transatlantic collaboration program between American and Swiss institutes involved in transplantation research. Regular videoconferences at SHARE with laboratories in Switzerland.
Time frame:
March 2005 - 2008
Partners & Sponsors:
Novartis, Swiss university hospitals, Massachussetts General Hospital

