InnoBooster
Funds Swiss deep-tech university spin-offs already in Venture Kick with up to CHF 150,000.
InnoBooster is one step in Gebert Rüf Stiftung's wider Kick Program pipeline, aimed at accelerating science-based deep-tech ventures that have already moved through Venture Kick and show high market potential. Grants of up to CHF 150,000 run for a maximum of eighteen months and pay only salaries and material costs directly tied to the project -- never infrastructure or overheads -- with the money …
InnoBooster looks for science-based deep-tech ventures already moving through the Venture Kick process that show high market potential and a clear plan for how extra R&D or design work would speed up market entry. The project and its founding team must still be based at a Swiss university or research institution.
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