The Selection Event

A fast-paced evening of pitches, networking, dinner & awards | Special Venue at the Kunsthaus Ballroom

2 Startup Teams funded | 2 Forge teams competing

Congratulations to Winners at the Selection Event

Startup Track

6 Teams pitched their startup idea in biotech, competing for the grand prize of a CHF 25,000 Grant (non-dilutive funding) & admission into the BioIncubate Build Phase, which grants lab access and mentorship.

1st Place: UNOMR

CHF 25,000 funded

Unomr is an early-stage biotech research project from ETH developing an interface nanopore sensor platform and AI-based data analysis for next-generation single-molecule proteomics.

Team Members: Til Schlotter, Julia Wagner, Julian Hengsteler

Runner-Up: Fempatch

CHF 5000 funded

Fempatch is aspiring to help women & offer next-generation personalized medicine through modelling the female hormone cycle via aptamer-based patch.

Team Members: Damla Ortac, Salma Azer, Yassine Massoud, Kapil JAIN


Forge Track

6 Teams pitched their solutions to Lonza’s Challenge in Biomanufacturing. The top 2 teams were admitted into the Build Phase, where they will receive CHF 10,000 lab budget + lab access to prototype their proposal over 5months. In May 2024, the 2 teams will pitch their work, competing for the Grand Prize of CHF 30,000 Cash.

Team SensiCell

Proposing a novel solution to microbial contaminant detection using a reporter cell system.

Team Members: Irina Ferapontova, Ekaterina Maevskaia, Nathan Breuillard, Alisdair Stevenson, Paolo Fischer

Team Parallelized Microfluidics

Proposing a novel solution leveraging high-throughput microfluidics & droplet-based detection methods.

Team Members: Kathryn Petersen & Christian Metzner