Venture Kick

Venture Kick is a Swiss funding organization that provides up to CHF 1,000,000+ in staged funding to approximately 100 high-potential university spin-offs annually, starting before company incorporation. The program operates through a three-stage selection process with a 50% acceptance rate at each stage, offering CHF 150,000 Innobooster grants to stage 1 winners and additional funding opportunities for final-stage winners.

Every year about 100 new high-potential spin-off projects from Swiss universities receive funding from Venture Kick. The funding starts before company incorporation and can increase to CHF 1,000,000+. Participants are invited to present their startup project to the Venture Kick jury in three stages, with a 50 percent chance of selection at each stage. Winners of stage 1 can apply for a CHF 150,000 Innobooster grant. And the winner of the final stage will have access to additional funding of up to CHF 850,000 by Kick Fund.

Venture Kick offers much more than just money. Participants receive guidance for business development and fundraising, support for execution, and access to a network of successful entrepreneurs, industry partners, experts, and investors through structured entrepreneurial paths and kickers camps after each stage.

After 15 years, Venture Kick boasts a portfolio of over 600 successful and growing high-tech companies that have raised more than CHF 7 billion from investors around the globe and created 12,000 jobs. Ask former Venture Kick participants about their Kickers experience.