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🙌🏼🚀 𝐀𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲, 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 2025 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 10𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲! Since our journey began in 2015, 𝐰𝐞’𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 400 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 in the form of  PoCs and commercial projects, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐫 500+ 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 3.1𝐁 𝐂𝐇𝐅 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞! 🎉 This achievement is a testament to the collaborative spirit, #innovation, and unwavering #dedication of our scaleups, partners, advisors and community — who have become part of our ever-growing Kickstart #family. This year we celebrated: 🌍 36 innovative scaleups and intrapreneurship teams from 14 countries including Australia and South Africa ⁠⁠💰 +245M CHF total funds raised by our startups this year (overall CHF 3.1B since 2015) 🤝 25+ deals, reaching the mark of 400+ deals total implementing AI & deeptech technologies ♻️ Solutions touching 15 out of 17 Sustainability Development Goals with many of the connected to circular economy solutions 🧠 Support from 100+ advisors and experts (overall 1000+ countries) 🌐 Engagement across 50+ countries (overall 80+ countries) 🙌🏼 300+ partners & ecosystem players (overall 500+) 🎤 100+ investors locally and globally (overall 350+) Special thanks to all 30 speakers that were engaged including: Andreas Schönenberger, CEO Sanitas Krankenversicherung, Thomas Dübendorfer, President of SICTIC, Katka Letzing, CEO of Kickstart Innovation, Lauren Lyons , Principle of vdot and former COO and Lead Starlink Development Engineer SpaceX ✨ We wrapped up the day with an unforgettable celebration alongside our #community -- the perfect way to close this special anniversary edition together. A heartfelt thank you to our incredible community for supporting us to #MakeItHappen And congratulations to our esteemed partners for driving innovation forward: AXA Switzerland, Stadt Zürich, Coop, die Mobiliar, MSD Switzerland, PostFinance VNTR | Innovation & Venturing, Swisscom, CSEM, Etat de Vaud ETH Zürich, IKEA Switzerland, Mondelēz International, Sanitas Krankenversicherung and others. Here's to continuing our journey of #innovation and #collaboration! 🌟 🚀 Read the press release on our Blog to know about the 2025 deals 👉 https://lnkd.in/dh6Yfms5 #kickstartinnovation #makeithappen