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 Swiss university, Hautes écoles and 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
Access Informer Security Solutions
Simplifies the reviews of access rights across key systems
Aeler
IoT-enabled sustainable intermodal containers
Aesyra SA
Wearable solution helping clinicians and patients in better managing bruxism diagnosis, monitoring and therapy
AgroSustain
Organic treatments against broad range of fungal pathogens
Alterna
Guides economic actors towards tailor-made sustainable alternatives
Aptus Hotels
Customer Centric Hotel Brand with Innovative Management Solutions
Aurora’s Grid
Enabling ageing aware integration of energy storage devices
Bloch Labs
Our gauge-on-a-chip disrupts vacuum measurement in nearly all semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
Cogniprise
Artificial intelligence tools to support companies during the various phases of the recruiting process
Elegon Sàrl
Innovative services and business models using web technologies
Exos Meca EPFL
Physics I App iOs and Android
INERGIO
Innovative energy systems
Largo
Short film distribution platform
Logmind
AI-Powered big data analytics platform for automated and smart insights into real-time log data
MEMBRASENZ
Production of composite materials used in electrolysis for the production of hydrogen, as a new energy carrier, and other energy conversion systems
MicroR Systems
Developing ultra-stable lasers for space and sensing applications
Mitra
One stop shop for distribution and CRO activities
Novamet
Artificial intelligence system to enhance the efficiency of the remelting process in Aluminium casthouses
ProxiFlash
App with interactive geotagged advertisment for local businesses
rb2.io
Self-driving robots to deliver food, groceries, and packages autonomously to users’ doorsteps
RELASYS
Expertise and testing services for on-board “sense & avoid” feature of the drones
SeedIMPULSE
Media platform for software aided surgical planning
Smatch
Smatch helps people find a sport partner
Summus
Brings the tools and security required for the cryptocurrency market to become a new mean of investment
ThinkEE
Platform to smartly process your data from your connected devices ecosystem
Volumen SàRL
Open solution for hosting and analysis of digital texts and images to perpetuate a shared digital heritage
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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