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MassChallenge Switzerland awards six highest-impact start-ups 2016

 

Uzwil (Switzerland), November 4 – As part of its commitment to entrepreneurship and collaborative innovation, the Bühler Group is a founding partner of the start-up accelerator MassChallenge Switzerland. On November 2, Mass Challenge Switzerland celebrated the achievements of the start-ups in the 2016 programme and gave awards to the six highest-impact start-ups 2016, in the presence of Bühler Group CEO Stefan Scheiber and CTO Ian Roberts.

 

MassChallenge Switzerland opened it 1000m2 co-working space in June this year in Lausanne, Switzerland. The innovation accelerator hosted more than 70 start-ups for four months since then. In the closing award ceremony on November 2, 2016, MassChallenge Switzerland announced the winners of the MassChallenge Switzerland 2016 accelerator program, awarding CHF 400,000 in total in non-dilutive grants to the six winners.

 

Stefan Scheiber, Bühler CEO, said at the award ceremony: “The ability to continuously innovate and reinvent ourselves is crucial, particularly in developed countries with high cost pressure. I’m impressed by the level of collaboration and entrepreneurial spirit of the start-ups present here.” Ian Roberts, Bühler CTO, added “We decided to act as sponsor of the original MassChallenge in Boston, USA, and founding partner of MassChallenge in Switzerland because innovation is a key pillar in our business strategy. In this fast moving and complex world, collaboration with partners, customers, and science partners has become essential.”

 

Innovation is at the core of Bühler’s strategy. The company invests 4 to 5% of its turnover in research and development every year. Bühler supports and fosters open and collaborative innovation initiatives, such as the MassChallenge Switzerland. More information about MassChallenge Switzerland: http://masschallenge.org/programs/switzerland

 

CHF 100,000 Winners (“Diamond”)

  • machIQ Industrial Services Inc., France
  • Versantis, Switzerland

 

CHF 50,000 Winners (“Gold”)

  • SwissDeCode, Switzerland
  • Taste of Kenya, UK
  • TwentyGreen, Switzerland
  • Xsensio, Switzerland
 
Image 1: MassChallenge Switzerland Participants on Stage
Image 2: MassChallenge Switzerland Ian Roberts
Image 3: MassChallenge Switzerland Audience
 

Media contacts:

Burkhard Böndel, Head of Corporate Communications,

Bühler AG, 9240 Uzwil, Switzerland

Phone: +41 71 955 33 99

Mobile: +41 79 515 91 57

E-Mail: burkhard.boendel@buhlergroup.com

 

Samuel Eckstein, Head of Internal & External Communications,

Bühler AG, 9240 Uzwil, Switzerland

Phone: +41 71 955 29 36

Mobile: +41 79 517 52 46

E-mail:  samuel.eckstein@buhlergroup.com

 

About Bühler

Every day, billions of people come into contact with Bühler technologies to cover their basic needs for food and mobility. With our industrial process technologies and solutions, we contribute significantly to feeding the world’s population, setting the focus on food security and safety. Global producers and processors of wheat, maize (corn), rice, pasta, chocolate, and breakfast cereals rely heavily on us. Furthermore, Bühler is a leading solution provider of die casting and surface coating technologies, with a focus on automotive and optics. As a leading technology group, Bühler invests up to 5% of its turnover every year in Research & Development. In 2015, its roughly 10,800 employees in over 140 countries generated a turnover of CHF 2.4 billion. The global Swiss family-owned company Bühler feels particularly committed to sustainability.