Venture Kick

Venture Kick – CHF 3,200,000 to kick Swiss startups to global markets
The philanthropic initiative Venture Kick provides up to CHF 130,000 to seed stage startups. In addition, it offers a well-structured entrepreneurial path towards building a winning business. Startups present in front of a jury at three different stages to obtain funding as well as direct feedback and access to an international network of successful entrepreneurs and investors.

Since 2007, 530 Swiss startup projects have received CHF 21.66 million from Venture Kick. This has resulted in more than 414 incorporated companies creating 4,748 jobs. Startup companies supported by Venture Kick have attracted CHF 1.808 billion from investors so far, and 55 startups from Venture Kick have made it into the TOP 100 Swiss Startups 2017.

In 2018, Venture Kick will pay out CHF 3.2 million to idea-stage startup projects to bring Swiss science to global markets. More information in the Venture Kick annual report.

The Venture Kick Foundation is supported by Gebert Rüf Stiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Fondation Lombard Odier, Debiopharm Group, Fondation Pro Techno, Rising Tide Foundation, European Space Agency, Engagement Migros, Swisscom, André Hoffmann, Hansjörg Wyss, Martin Haefner and Igor Fisch.

www.venturekick.ch