Foldcast wins the sixth edition and the Audience Award
Foldcast wins the sixth edition of our accelerator and also wins the audience award.
Here are the 2023 finalists
The Regional Jury has selected the ten finalists who will present their innovative projects at the Award Ceremony.
Our sixth edition opened yesterday
Yesterday the sixth edition of our accelerator officially kicked off with the first meeting between teams and coaches.
Selected the 20 startups who will participate in the 6th edition
Selected the twenty startups that will take part in the sixth edition of our accelerator.
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.
Don’t miss this opportunity, your success starts here!
Applications are open for the 2023 edition!
Applications are now open for the sixth edition of Boldbrain Startup Challenge.
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.
Join the 2022 Awards Ceremony!
On Tuesday, December 13, starting at 6:30 p.m., the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano will host the Awards Ceremony of the fifth edition of our accelerator program.
The ten finalist teams, selected by the Regional Jury (whose vote is expected on November 30), will present their projects to win one of five cash prizes, determined by a National Jury, to which will be added the prize awarded by the audience attending the event and other in-kind prizes.
After the official opening of the evening, featuring a speech by State Councillor Christian Vitta, the ten finalist projects will be called onto the stage for a final pitch and will compete for the prize awarded by the “popular jury” consisting of more than 500 spectators attending the event.
This will be followed by the awards ceremony and an aperitif which will conclude the evening giving spectators and competitors the opportunity to interact in an informal setting.
To attend the event, you must REGISTER HERE by Friday, December 2.