Located at the heart of EPFL Innovation Park,
La Forge is a co-working space offering a unique environment for starting
entrepreneurs to shape their ideas into companies.
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.
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 …).
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.
CleanMotion
Self-disinfecting door handles for public places such as restaurants and hospitals to avoid germ transmission among the population.
CLIC-Chat
Private and Customized Virtual Coach to Optimize Teams’ Performances
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.
DATECO
Production of environmental sensors and digital platforms to analyze environmental data.
Droople
Smart grid for water management
DiData
Web-based solution for clinical data management using cutting-edge technologies.
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.
ICON NGO
Bring trust & humanize the digital world ICON is a Non Governmental Organisation that federates an international community working on trust in cyberspace
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
Loygo
A revolutionary platform to reward sustainability
MEDICUD
Mechanical Empowered Device In Chronic Ulcers Disease
MicroR Systems
Developing ultra-stable lasers for space and sensing applications
Nagi Bioscience
The first “Worm-on-Chip” technology for drug/chemical testing
Neutrality
To secure the communications of the International Commitee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other at-risk organizations.
OneSwitch
OneSwitch provides ready to install smart homes with a focus on security and privacy.
Ouay
We bring home care service on demand.
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
Smeetz
Smeetz is a SaaS booking platform that helps leisure, sport and event organizers to increase their revenues and better reach their market.
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.
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
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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