Kickstart Innovation

📍 Zurich, Switzerland🗓 Founded 2015👥 67 employees💰 Last funded Apr 2024
Program Development🌐 kickstart-innovation.com
Website LinkedIn
Kickstart is one of Europes largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms that runs a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate deep tech innovation. Science and engineering driven technologies have the potential to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. They require unprecedented collaboration between established organizations and the most audacious entrepreneurs out there. Thereby, Kickstart is committed to building an innovation ecosystem that brings high-growth startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities together. Each year Kickstart brings around 100 startups to Switzerland to collaborate with key players for proofs-of-concept, pilot projects and other innovation partnerships. The program provides exceptional access to the executives and decision-makers of Kickstart’s partners. Being an initiative of Impact Hub Zürich and launched by digitalswitzerland in 2015, Kickstart runs 5 verticals (New Work & Learning, Finance & Insurance, Food & Retail, Smart Cities and Health & Wellbeing), an Intrapreneurship Academy and the Circular Economy Initiative.
2
Total investors
1
Early stage
0
Mid stage
1
Late stage
2015
Founded

Investors

2 investors
All
Early stage
Mid stage
Late stage
Investor geography1 country
Switzerland
2
Frequently asked questions
Who invested in Kickstart Innovation?
Kickstart Innovation has 2 investors on record on gritt.io, including 1 early-stage backers and 1 late-stage investors.
When did Kickstart Innovation last raise funding?
The most recent investment in Kickstart Innovation recorded on gritt.io was in April 2024.
When was Kickstart Innovation founded?
Kickstart Innovation was founded in 2015.
What industry is Kickstart Innovation in?
Kickstart Innovation operates in Program Development. Find similar Program Development investors on gritt.io.
Where is Kickstart Innovation based?
Kickstart Innovation is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.