Feb. 4–6 2015 – CICG, Geneva, Switzerland

Alp ICT Venture Night

LiftAlp ICTCTI start-upSGE and the Service de la Promotion Economique de Genève have teamed up again to promote Swiss entrepreneurship at Lift with the Alp ICT Venture Night.

This event has become one of the startup highlights of the Lift Conference attracting over 600 participants and numerous journalists. In 2015 the competition took place on Thursday February 5 and was once again a success.

Special Call to Women Entrepreneurs

Lift is known to be a tech conferences working hard to put women on stage. Lift was proud to announce that a special surprise around women entrepreneurs was featured in the program, the CTI women initiative, rewarding the best woman entrepreneur of the competition.

And our final start-up selection was...

Many thanks for your submissions for the 2015 Alp ICT Venture Night, it was a tough call for the jury again this year, but they finally made it!
Here we go, the final selection of start-ups is:

And the winners are...

Bestmile won three out of the four awards: 

  • The first prize, a one week CTI market entry camp.
  • Based on public votes, they grabbed the second prize, a 3’000.- CHF voucher to access SGE portfolio of services.
  • Finally, Anne Koymans, founder of Bestmile, had the honor to win the CTI women initiative, a special prize presented by CTI and Lift. Allowing her among others to host the women entrepreneur lunch on Friday 6th of February, with the women entrepreneurs, Jane Royston from CTI as well as Suzane LeVine, US ambassador.

EyeFitU was also awarded for the Nouvo prize, an in-depth video report to be broadcasted on RTS, as they recorded the highest number of votes on our partner’s platform. 

Thanks to the Partners