CC Cardio wins the eighth edition
The Regional Jury has selected the ten finalists who will present their innovative projects at the Award Ceremony.
Mid-term 2025: The startups present their first pitches
Our seventh edition kicked off yesterday
The eighth edition of Boldbrain kicked off yesterday
Our seventh edition kicked off yesterday
20 projects selected for the 2025 edition
The expert committee has selected the 20 projects that will participate in the 2025 edition of our accelerator for early-stage startups and innovative ideas. The program will officially kick off on August 28 at the Suglio Business Center in Manno. This year, Boldbrain set a new record: 141 total applications, with 78 deemed eligible according […]
In Virtuo Labs wins the seventh edition
The Regional Jury has selected the ten finalists who will present their innovative projects at the Award Ceremony.
Here are the 20 projects of the seventh edition
The commission of experts selected the 20 projects that will participate in the 2024 edition of our accelerator for early-stage startups and innovative ideas, emerging from a total of 95 applications received, of which 61 were deemed suitable according to the criteria of the admission rules. The names of the selected startups are, in alphabetical […]
InfoDAY Boldbrain 2023: register now!
Do you have an innovative idea and would like to take it to the next level? Then Boldbrain Startup Challenge is the opportunity you were looking for!
To learn more about our startup accelerator program, register and attend the InfoDay on May 11 at the Hotel Luganodante: register here.
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Boldbrain will be at START Summit 2023
On Thursday, March 23 and Friday, March 24, Olma Messen in St. Gallen will host the 2023 edition of START Summit, the largest conference in Western Europe for entrepreneurship and technology.
Boldbrain will be exhibiting in the Switzerland Area, which will host some of the major players in the Swiss innovation ecosystem, with a booth that will also feature 2022 alumni Zario and GiPSy. Come visit us!
With the attendance of more than 4’000 startups, investors, companies and young talents, START Summit actively promotes innovation and offers an excellent networking opportunity. Whether you are an entrepreneur, business leader, or a person looking to improve your knowledge, START Summit 2023 is a must-attend event! Tickets for the event are quickly selling out. If you would like to attend, take advantage of the discount code from USI Startup Centre, a network partner of START Summit: by entering the code USIXSTART when purchasing tickets, you can receive a 30% discount.
AliperTherapeutics wins the fifth edition
At the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, the final of the fifth edition took place. Among the finalists, AliperTharapeutics, a start-up created as a spinoff of the Institute for Research in Oncology (IOR) in Bellinzona with the aim of developing pharmacological treatments for prostate cancer, won the first prize from the national jury. The audience prize was instead awarded to Revozona, which also won fifth place from the jury. Using a special ozone gas process to clean raw fabrics, it saves 90% in CO2 emissions and water use and reduces the use of energy and chemicals by 40%. In second place was AQUAtryp®, in third place ZARIO, and in fourth place GiPSy, which also won a special prize from Hemargroup. The Agire Foundation awarded its desks at the Tecnopolo Ticino, for one year, to FormidAbile, Revozona and Zario.
Announced the 10 finalists
The regional jury of the Boldbrain Startup Challenge has selected the ten finalists who will present their innovative projects at the Award Ceremony, scheduled for Tuesday, December 13th at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano.
The fifth edition of the Boldbrain Startup Challenge is coming to an end. The acceleration program that kicked off on September 1st has provided twenty selected innovative projects with an opportunity to develop and improve their initial idea thanks to five workshops and numerous coaching hours. On Wednesday, November 30th, the regional jury reunited at the West Campus of Uiversità della Svizzera italiana to evaluate the participating projects and select the ten finalists that will be on stage on December 13th.
The regional jury, co-chaired by Giambattista Ravano (President at Data and System Planning SA, former Director of Research, Development and Knowledge Transfer at SUPSI) and Michele Merazzi (Deputy Director at Chamber of Commerce of the Canton of Ticino) and composed of Thomas Billeter (Member of the Executive Board and Ticino Chapter Director at SICTIC), Riccardo Braglia (Chairman of the Board at Helsinn Group), Gianluca Colombo (Dean of the Faculty of Economics at USI and Director of the USI Executive MBA), Guy Giuffredi (Investment Director at Serpentine Ventures), Luca Mascaro (Founder and CEO at Sketchin), Jacqueline Ruedin Rüsch (Founding Partner at Privilège Ventures SA) and Daina Matise Schubiger (lecturer-researcher Centre for Management Skills and Entrepreneurship at SUPSI), examined the submitted documentation and listened to the pitch of each of the project teams, to then assess them based on the pre-established criteria.
The ten finalists selected by the regional jury that move to the next stage of the programme are (in alphabetical order):
AliperTherapeutics
AQUAtryp®
CRIMAGNO
FormidAbile
GiPSy
GreenPowerBox
LogisticLEV
PieceOfMind
Revozona
Zario
The finalists will present their projects at the Award Ceremony on December 13th 2022, starting from 18:30, at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano. The five main prizes of the competition are awarded by a national jury, while the sixth prize is assigned by the public voting conducted among more than 600 attendees expected at the Palazzo dei Congressi.
To participate in the award ceremony – an evening dedicated to innovation in the Canton of Ticino featuring a keynote from a special guest – it is required to register by December 4, 2022 by filling out the form available here.