Startup Champions Seed Night 2024
THE EVENT IS FULLY BOOKED. YOU CAN JOIN US ONLINE. Please register through the link to watch the event live online
EPFL Alumni, EPFL Startup Launchpad and Venturelab are delighted to announce the 13th edition of the Startup Champions Seed Night at the Forum Rolex at EPFL on Thursday, April 25th 2024!
This annual event is designed to introduce you to the most promising entrepreneurs from EPFL and beyond. Prepare to be captivated by a live pitch of only 90 seconds!
Join us in exploring innovative startup exhibitions and engaging in insightful conversations with founders before the main event, and continue these discussions around the aperitif following the pitch competition. You will have the opportunity to exchange ideas and insights on their fast-growing entrepreneurial projects. The event also offers a unique opportunity to connect with angel investors, mentors and scientists, encouraging a dynamic ecosystem of knowledge and collaboration.
We welcome you from 5:30 pm to discover the startups exhibition and enjoy a quiet moment to discuss with the founders before the event.
Book your seat below and join us to vote for the best startup!
You can register here. Registrations will close on 25 April at 9:00 am or when the maximum of 450 attendees has been reached.
If you are unable to join us on-site, please register through the link to watch the event live online.
Program:
- 5.30 pm - Doors opening and startups exhibition
- 6.30 pm - Beginning: Welcome speech
- 6.45 pm - Pitch startups - part 1
- 7.15 pm - Keynote: Ata Tuna Ciftlik (PhD MT'13) and Diego Gabriel Dupouy (PhD MT'16), Co-founders of Lunaphore: "The Journey from Lab to Exit"
- 7.30 pm - Pitch startups - part 2
- 8.00 pm - Pitch startups - 4 finalists
- 8.15 pm - Panel: Nicolas Weber, Co-founder of Voltiris and Gaëtan Marti, Board Member and Director
- 8.25 pm - Winner annoucement
- 8.30 pm - Closing words, buffet networking and startups exhibition
The event is kindly supported by :
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| Keynote Speakers - Diego Gabriel Dupouy, CTO & Ata Tuna Ciftlik, VP, Lunaphore "The Journey from Lab to Exit"
Panel: Nicolas Weber, Co-founder of Voltiris and Gaëtan Marti, Board Member and Director "One Year After Winning the Startup Champions Seed Night"
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Startups pitching at the event:
 | AeroSpec - Dr. Nikunj Dudani | AeroSpec’s technology measures the chemical composition of air pollution - providing detailed analysis on its source, its makeup, and potential health effects. We provide comprehensive and actionable data that empowers research labs and environmental agencies to improve air quality and global health. |
 | Consulto - Basem Higazy | Consulto.ch is a platform aiming to bring holistic and personalised care to patients with complex health conditions. The platform hosts independent doctors, generalists, and specialists, who connect and work as a team on a specific patient – no matter where they’re based. |
 | Biped.ai - Mael Fabien | Biped makes the world accessible for blind and visually impaired people, using AI. The harness, worn on the shoulders, leverages advanced robotics and cameras to detect obstacles, provide indoor and outdoor navigation instructions, and describe the scene. It makes any place accessible in minutes. |
 | DemoSquare - Victor Kristof | Few aspects impact businesses more than regulation. However, navigating public affairs is a tedious and costly process for companies. On a mission to democratize democracy, DemoSquare's artificial intelligence empowers executives by predicting the future of legislation. |
 | DPhi Space - Aziz Belkhiria | DPhi Space offers shared satellites to make space access simpler and more affordable. Addressing the complexity of traditional launches, DPhi's satellites increase payload capacity and empower them with cutting-edge computers in orbit, democratizing access to space for wider applications. |
 | ECHO - Kevin Turani-i-Belloto | EVS Echo Verse Solutions have developed a new chemical catalyst made from sustainable materials which transforms ammonia liquid into hydrogen gas – this catalyst is cost-effective opening possibilities for heavy industry powered by green power (heavy mobility, off-grid power supply). |
 | FindeX - Anna Timonina - Farkas | The demand for AI-enabled information retrieval is experiencing a surge, however the exponential growth of available content poses a challenge to achieving swift and high-quality search results. FindeX addresses the need for enhanced due diligence, delivering relevant content in a fraction of a second, by relying on our custom technology for ranking and AI-powered semantic search. |
 | HepaVue Dx - Maxime Nachit | Over 2 billion people – more than a quarter of the world population – suffer from chronic liver disease. Today, the needle biopsy remains the only diagnostic option. HepaVue has developed the world’s first virtual liver biopsy which will make liver disease diagnosis affordable, painless, safe and more accessible. |
 | Magnetfab - Milan Ćalić | Magnetfab’s disruptive innovation consists in producing thousands of integrated magnets on wafers. Our micromagnets are as small as a grain of sand, and they are made of the most powerful existing magnetic material. We have the ambition to build the world's first micromagnet foundry and to become a key player in the supply chain of the MEMS industry. |
 | MIROS Technology - Fabio Zuliani | MIROS technology makes adaptive spaces using moving robotic surfaces to redefine how we build living spaces for humans. The vision is to create reconfigurable rooms to optimize the use of space for living and more. The unique opportunity brought by this vision is to create completely interconnected, interactive and adaptive living spaces. |
 | NanThermix - Evgenii Glush | NanThermix, based at the EPFL Innovation Park, has developed a Diamond Heater-Thermometer (DHT) - a breakthrough technology, that enables an exciting new dimension in biology and medicine. Thanks to it researchers from both academic labs and industry can for the first time ever have full control over the thermodynamic state of living systems at the nanoscale, using a compact plug&play device that can be added to any existing optical microscope. |
 | Navintis - Lucio Pancaldi | Navintis is dedicated to saving lives by empowering clinicians with the world’s smallest microcatheter and providing a new treatment modality for intracerebral hemorrhage: a devastating disease with no effective cure that affects 20 million people worldwide. |
 | NEOSENS - Mateo Hamel | NEOSENS offers a platform AI-based Diagnostic Assistant for rapid health assessment in newborns, initially focusing on early sepsis detection. |
 | NovoViz - Andrada Muntean | NovoViz is a fabless semiconductor company which designs and manufactures single-photon cameras with on-chip computation. Our focus is on hardware acceleration for edge computing. We create easy to integrate systems that access the full potential of single-photon technology. Our goal is to make this technology available to the everyday user. |
 | PhenomX Health - Dr. Colleen Fogarty Draper | PhenomX Health SA is a Swiss startup that is on a mission to improve the wellbeing, vitality and longevity of 1B menopausal women. We are disrupting scientific wellness with a personalized digital platform that empowers peri to post menopausal women to optimize their health and businesses (CPGs, HCPs…) to improve efficiency and product performance. |
 | PitchMe - Sébastien Le Fouest | Vertical-axis wind turbines are quiet, fauna-friendly and need only a third of the space required by traditional windmills. Their deployment is hampered by low efficiency and short lifetime. PitchMe provides data-driven blade pitch control software to unlock the full potential of these turbines. |
 | Protonica - Benoit Truc | Protonica is dedicated to advancing the future of cancer care by reinventing the imaging system of proton therapy. Our EPFL-developed detector enables a 100x faster monitoring rate and precise characterization, unlocking unprecedented insights into proton beam behavior for more effective and efficient cancer treatment. |
 | R2HOME - Yohan Hadji | Extreme weather events are rising. Access to precise weather predictions is vital to civil security. Our approach: collect higher resolution atmospheric data vital for climate resilience by deploying reusable radiosondes. This data will provide improved forecasts to any industry impacted by weather. |
 | TheraMe! - Ngoc-Hien Du | TheraMe! AG, a spin-off from EPFL, is a MedTech startup based in Lausanne that provides personalized cancer therapy recommendation before treatment starts. We employ proprietary microfluidic technologies to test the efficacy of cancer drugs on freshly isolated patients' tumor cells to determine the best therapy for each patient. |
 | TofuPilot - Julien Buteau | TofuPilot is the workspace for hardware innovation, improving team collaboration to deliver better products faster. |
REGISTRATION CONDITIONS
For paid tickets, there will be no refund in case of cancellation. To avoid abuses and an important quantity of food waste, please make sure to register only if you are sure to come or cancel your ticket.
EPFL Alumni contributing members benefit from a special discount (for a ticket price of CHF 30.- instead of CHF 50.-). (Your contributor status will be carefully checked upon registration). More information about EPFL Alumni benefits.
EPFL students, PhD and postdocs: the event is free. Please mention the SCIPER number that matches your name to benefit from a free ticket below. Your number will be verified by the organizers.
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