Kickstart is an ecosystem innovation platform that bridges the gap between startups, corporations, cities, foundations and universities to accelerate partnerships and deep tech innovation. This requires unprecedented collaboration between established organisations and the most audacious entrepreneurs to solve humanity’s biggest challenges through innovation in science and technology.

Kickstart’s core program brings together these entrepreneurs with industry partners to collaborate on Proofs of Concept (PoC), pilot projects, commercial partnerships and other innovation opportunities.

Since Kickstart was founded in 2015, it has facilitated over 170 partnerships and supported over 270 startups in scaling in Switzerland through its program.