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.
Free access is given for a period of 6 months,
which can be renewed one time for another 6 months.
EVENTS
Brown Bag Lunch
Monthly exciting workshops or presentations by experienced entrepreneurs to improve your skills and network.
Café Croissant
Regular morning coffee and croissants breaks to exchange about progress, challenges and entrepreneurial lifestyle with all the La Forge teams.
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
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.
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Discover Tech4Trust
A 4-months startup acceleration program for companies developing innovative solutions to improve trust in an era of disinformation, cyberthreats and global misuse of our private and personal data.
PROJECTS
AICA
We provide solutions for robots to learn and work safely and accurately side by side with humans.
Alterna
Alterna guides economic actors towards tailor-made sustainable alternatives.
Artysco
Art rental for businesses.
CleanMotion
Self-disinfecting door handles for public places such as restaurants and hospitals to avoid germ transmission among the population.
Codex D.
Interactive app for visiting museums.
Datacie
Datacie implements state-of-the-art deep learning models that extract, clean and classify numeric and textual data from unstructured sources to provide fundamental data to financial professionals.
Deeplink
Software suite powering state of the art chatbot platforms
DiData
Web-based solution for clinical data management using cutting-edge technologies.
Equal Profit
The first sustainable pricing model.
Facedapter
A Single Identity Management Service with Face Recognition across Heterogeneous Domains
Fiduly
We reinvented the Finance Department using automation and machine learning to help SME’s save time on accounting and financial tasks
FoodHack
Digital ecosystem for food entrepreneurs.
GentleTouch
Transforming our conception of garment by producing thermoregulatory clothes, which fuse comfort, performance, style and sustainability.
ICON NGO
Bring trust & humanize the digital world ICON is a Non Governmental Organisation that federates an international community working on trust in cyberspace
Illumove
A sport analytics company.
Invision AI
Forward Collision Warning System For Autonomous Rail
IOD
A cooperative of top digital freelancers
Little Yeti
Little Yeti is an online platform that creates and publishes personalized story books for children and families
MEDICUD
Mechanical Empowered Device In Chronic Ulcers Disease
OneSwitch
OneSwitch provides ready to install smart homes with a focus on security and privacy.
Ouay
We bring home care service on demand.
P4
A chat-blogging and knowledge sharing platform.
Pindex
We offer to the public a beautiful app which allows them to make interactive tours of cities and museum but also to find activities they are likely to love in only a few taps on the screen.
Potland
Providing home-made food from different cultures.
Quantum Integrity
AI-powered Image forgery detection
Seculting
Machine-Learning based cyber-risks quantification.
SensArs Neuroprosthetics
Unique worldwide device restoring touch and movement sensations from the prosthesis of amputees.
SP80
A team of EPFL students and Alumni working together to smash the current world sailing speed record.
Teserakt
Secure communications for IoT
Theorissimo
Prepare your theoretical driving license test. Pass or get reimbursed twice
Trivert
TriVert is the first Information Technology platform which connects people/companies in order to facilitate and develop the recycling of waste.
Utluna
Monitor all your financial assets in one place. Understand what drives your performance & risks. Mitigate your behavioural biases. Perfect your investment decisions.
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.
Wakeit
Our app “Wakeit” helps young people to wake up in a good mood by increasing their motivation and avoiding tediousness unlike other conventional and boring alarms
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
CRITERIA
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 …).
