TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2020
Wednesday, September 9th, 2020, 17.30 - 22.00 Zürich, Switzerland
The 10th-anniversary edition of the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award celebrated Switzerland’s best startups: Cutiss (1st), Wingtra (2nd), and Piavita (3rd) were the top picks of the expert jury, while Acatena won the TOP 100 Public Voting. A selected audience of 100 startups, 100 investors, and key partners of the TOP 100 were present at the event, and for the first time, the award show was live-streamed. The 10th-anniversary edition of the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award was presented in partnership with Credit Suisse, SVC, Swiss Prime Site, SECA, and digitalswitzerland.
Within a decade, the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award has become a benchmark in Switzerland’s startup ecosystem. The award show connects the most promising Swiss startup CEOs with Swiss and international investors, executives, and journalists. What started with a first publication of the ranking in 2011 has turned into a comprehensive collection of events and activities, including an invitation-only Award Night, the Investor Summit that allows handpicked TOP 100 startups to pitch to selected Swiss and international investors, regional pitch events organized together with presenting partner Credit Suisse, and the scale-up ranking. The TOP 100 Swiss startups magazine covers all these events and news with editorial content in German, French, English, and Chinese
"It is a very special context to celebrate the 10th anniversary of TOP 100, with COVID-19 taking the spotlight," said Jordi Montserrat, managing partner at Venturelab. "On one hand, it impacts the celebration and the way we live; yet, on the other hand, when looking at tonight's line-up of startups, they truly embody the resilience and potential of Swiss entrepreneurs. I am even more convinced that they are ready to turn the challenges of the 21st century into opportunities and transform the future."
The evening’s keynote illustrated the potential of the TOP 100 nominees with the founders of Climeworks (ranked 11th in the first TOP 100 edition 10 years ago), which just completed a CHF 100 million investment round to accelerate the fight against climate change, and with AMAL Therapeutics, which was the largest European biotech startup exit in 2019. "Such role models illustrate that we are well prepared and can look ahead with anticipation to see how the TOP 100 startups will shape the next decade," said Stefan Steiner, co-managing director of Venturelab and TOP 100 director. "The fact that funding continues to flow at a pace similar to that of 2019, which was a record year, speaks for the quality of the Swiss startups."
We would like to give a special thank you again to our presenting partners and all event partners for making this great evening possible:
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