PXP Ventures accompanies Loxo

The small "Büssli" autonomously delivers goods from A to B, initially in a six-month trial project in Ebikon. Schindler employees can shop at Migros and have the goods delivered to their workplace by the "Loxo Alpha.

At 30 kilometers per hour, Loxo drives across pedestrian crossings, over traffic circles and past sidewalks, in the normal course of everyday traffic. The deliveries are monitored from an operations center, where an "operator" can intervene at any time if necessary.

Great potential

The potential of the startup, which grew out of the University of Applied Sciences Fribourg, is great. Several European countries are already interested, the application possibilities are diverse, flexible and above all correspond to the spirit of the times.

Startup accelerator PXP Ventures also recognized this in mid-2022: "We believe this is what the future of last-mile home delivery services will look like - Loxo simply solves problems," says Luc Holzach, co-founder of PXP Ventures. The accelerator is invested with marketing-related services, which are implemented by its sister company Partner & Partner in Winterthur. These include product design and branding, the website, various events, content marketing and numerous other services.

"With Partner & Partner, our technology gets a cool, contemporary branding and we have an experienced communications and marketing team on our side as a founding team," says Lara Amini, co-founder of Loxo.

"In a way, we provide Loxo's marketing department, because startups often can't afford the right resources or don't have the necessary know-how internally. And we wanted to take the opportunity to participate in this project. That's why we decided on this model together," says Luc Holzach.

PXP Ventures is also involved in other projects with similar models, such as Customer Metrics, which has recently been launched and offers standardized scoring models for measuring customer satisfaction - thus allowing conclusions to be drawn about internal and external areas for action in addition to benchmarking.