Top 10: Swiss Startups
The top 10 Swiss startups to watch in 2013
Below is a list of top Swiss startups to watch in 2013, who know how to work it internationally:
#1 HouseTrip, partner of House & Hotel Magazine Follow House & Hotel Magazine on Facebook, a company that started in Lausanne and now also has offices in London and Lisbon, is one of the largest holiday rental websites in the world. The HouseTrip concept is similar to Airbnb and is considered to be one of the accommodation-booking websites’s strongest competitors in Europe. In October 2012, HouseTrip attracted a $40m Series C funding round led by Accel Partners.
#2 Cooala is a mobile and Facebook app that allows users to rate and share what’s really cool – subscribe to the brands you love and get product news, event invitations, samples, coupons, gifts and much more. cooala is founderd by Michael Schwede, who was a cofounder of Goldbach Interactive and has been working for major brands, such as Beiersdorf (Nivea), EA, McDonald’s, TUI, Swisscom and many more.
#3 GetYourGuide started in Zurich, moved to Berlin and now has an office in Las Vegas. Earlier this year, GetYourGuide raised $14m to become the go-to resource for finding and booking leisure activities. It is a booking platform for tours, attractions and activities, where professional suppliers can provide travelers with services and products.
#5 Playboard (42Matters) is an innovative app guide that allows users to get personalised recommendations for apps and games. Playboard content is powered by algorithms and editorial content by third-party users. In November 2012 Michael Breidenbrücker — founder of Last.fm – joined the Zurich-based 42matters team.
#6 HypoPlus is a local early-stage Swiss startup. It is a platform for private mortgages that offers a free comparison of a variety of mortgage banking and insurance options in Switzerland. The company has already formed partnerships with Swiss financial institutes like AXA, GENERALI, Swiss Life, Credit Suisse, UBS and many more.
#7 InSphero supplies organotypic 3D microtissue spheroids in a format ideally suited to drug testing. It also equips and trains its customers to produce their own specialised scaffold-free 3D micro tissue models. InSphero currently counts seven of the top 10 global pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies as customers.
#8 questli is a web and mobile game platform to play and create quests that partners with brands to increase brand awareness among existing and potential customers. This TechCrunch Disrupt winner is already partnered with Unilever, LTUR, GetYourGuide and Fashion Friends, with more deals to be announced.
#9 Silp uses Facebook as a talent pool – it matches jobs with your skills and Facebook’s social graph to find the best opportunities for candidates. It also aggregates users work experience from the web and updates their CV automatically to improve search results. Silp CEO Dominik Grolimund was previously founder and CEO at Wuala, acquired by LaCie in 2009.
#10 Squirro is a new startup from Dorian Selz, former CEO of local.ch, that claims to be a personal digital research assistant, which gathers and harvests content in a way that matches your exact interests. It connects to Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing and Google+ to get topical updates related to companies contacts, connections and companies of interest.
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