SWISS ACCELERATORS SHOWCASE LIVE
Located at the heart of EPFL Innovation Park,
La Forge is an incubator for early stage start-ups in the region. It offers an unique environment for start-up projects and companies to refine their business model and to accelerate their growth
La Forge offers a flexible open space with a conference room,
several meeting cabins for your one to one or business and
sales calls, free internet, and a printer.
Associate Members
For startups: Get access to all the exciting workshops or presentations by experienced entrepreneurs to improve your skills and network, get part of the La Forge community!
- Brown Bag Lunch access
- Special workshop access
- La Forge Incubator partnerships services (5000 CHF on AWS, MathWorks…)
- Science2market.ch events access
FREE
Members
For startups: Get access to all the exciting workshops or presentations by experienced entrepreneurs to improve your skills and network, get part of the La Forge community, plus get your seat in the coworking space for your startup for 6 months for free! (renewable)
- Brown Bag Lunch access
- Special workshop access
- La Forge Incubator partnerships services (5000 CHF on AWS, MathWorks…)
- Science2market.ch events access
- Demo Day participation
- Coworking access 24/7 for your team, wifi (free)
- Conference room booking (free)
- Printer (free)
- Exclusive review boards for your project with the management team
- Free hours of mentoring with experts and investors
FREE
CRITERIA FOR MEMBERS
Entrepreneurs that have a link with academia by working, studying or being an alumni of a technical Swiss university, Haute Ecole or research centre with a continuous collaboration.
Entrepreneurs selected in recognized entrepreneurial trainings (Innosuisse, Venture…) and support schemes (Innogrants, Venture Kick, FIT…).
Start-up projects strongly connected to high tech (medtech/lifescience, ICT, engineering, cleantech …).
EVENTS/ACTIVITIES
Workshops/Brown Bag Lunch
Monthly exciting workshops or presentations by experienced entrepreneurs to improve your skills and network.
Progress review
Regular meetings with the team and coaches to help you grow and reach our next milestones!
Demo day
Twice a year, La Forge opens its doors to the public and local ecosystem to discover the start-up projects through pitches and face to face meetings at their stand
Expert meetings
Have a problem regarding IP, financing, or just need to get advices from experts? Come during their offie hours and meet them!
ACCELERATION
La Forge holds bi annual acceleration programs for start-up projects in different verticals such as
Medtech, ICT, providing them with increased support through coaching and a place to stay.
Interested? Sign up for our newsletter email list and get all the information when the next program starts!
PROJECTS
Alephium
Alephium is the first operational sharded blockchain bringing versatility, scalability, and energy efficiency to Bitcoin’s proven core technologies.
AlpsLogic
There has been an increase effort on reducing cost in the oil and gas industry due to fluctuating oil prices. We use artificial intelligence to make complex oil and gas market data more predictable.
ATREON
ATREON is the first digital biomarker for Rheumatoid Arthritis. It only requires the patient to take a picture of his hand to get a disease activity score and an overview of his evolution.
ClearSky
We design personalized, private and proactive artificial intelligence-based apps which reduce interactions of our mobiles with cloud services.
DuoKey
DuoKey enables you to encrypt your sensitive document directly at the endpoint with your encryption key and store it in Office365 or any cloud services while keeping the key under your sole control.
Eir Drop Biosciences
We provide an innovative, scalable, and patentable enzymatic platform for biomanufacturing of consistent, and compliant high-value therapeutics.
Evoly
We are making old gen energy meters smart, at a tenth of the price. We handle all steps from collection of data to its analysis via a solution combining both a Software and a Hardware approach.
ICON NGO
Bring trust & humanize the digital world ICON is a Non Governmental Organisation that federates an international community working on trust in cyberspace
KimboCare
Help millions of people living in underserved communities to have access to quality health
Knct
University platform to discover the people, and communities where we belong through interest-based collaborations and activities.
MinWave
MinWave provides 10 times smaller/lighter microwave devices through a patented technology for subwavelength engineering.
Ophthorobotics
We developed the first fully automated system capable of performing safe injections into the eye for chronic ophthalmic diseases worldwide.
Oryl Photonics
Simplified solubility measurement for better and effective medicine.
RockNow
RockNow Climbing is launching a mobile application giving access to the world’s largest database of climbing topos.
ShadeMe
We deliver decentralized anti-glare shading controllers to turn buildings greener and daylight comfortable.
SOGO CityParking
SOGO City Parking will help municipalities who want to optimize their income from public metered parking spaces by automating parking fee’s collection and ticketing in case of parking misuse.
Space4Impact
Space4Impact wants to maximize the positive impact of Space technologies on Earth by linking New Space companies to non-space markets.
Spirecut
Spirecut’s breakthrough: a safer hand surgery, no surgical incision, no dressing, no scar, immediate return to daily activities.
Sportunity
Sportunity digitalizes the sport organization and access, offering sport opportunities for everyone.
TANOS
Machine learning software for source code quality management.
VisOk
Online platform to connect medical institution and a patient in order to help patients use their time more efficiently, to decrease waiting time at ophthalmologists and to optimize consultation planning.
Virtuosis
AI-powered assessment based on video.
La Forge is more than a coworking space. It is a great platform for meeting people of the Swiss startup ecosystem: we were lucky to meet great people who ultimately became advisors, investors and employees for our company and contributed to its success. It is a great place to start if you are a first time entrepreneur who wants to explore the business potential of a high tech project.
Alexei Kounine, founder of TasteHit
