Engagement Migros cooperates with Venture Kick
As the first founding partner of the digitalswitzerland location initiative, the Engagement Migros development fund now supports the Venture Kick program. Engagement Migros is thus doing further pioneering work in supporting highly innovative business ideas and startups in Switzerland.
Engagement Migros is promoting the Venture Kick program as part of a two-year pilot. This promotes innovative business ideas from all sectors from the early stages to the founding of a company. Since its establishment in 2007, Venture Kick has developed a very successful process based on empowerment, acceleration and a competitive selection process.
Innovation Center Switzerland
Engagement Migros facilitates pioneering projects in social change, since 2015 also in the area of business. The focus here is on strengthening Switzerland as a center of innovation and boosting digital value creation in Switzerland. As the first partner, Engagement Migros also supported the pilot implementation of the Kickstart Accelerator, which recently ended in Zurich.
The support fund is endowed by the companies of the Migros Group with approximately ten million Swiss francs annually and thus enables around 50 pioneering projects. Engagement Migros has supplemented the Migros Culture Percentage since 2012.
Venture Kick, an initiative of the Venture Kick Foundation, is funded by: Förderfonds Engagement Migros, Gebert Rüf Foundation, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Fondation ProTechno, Fondation Lombard Odier, Debiopharm Group, Rising Tide Foundation, ESA BIC Switzerland, André Hoffmann, Hansjörg Wyss and Martin Haefner.
More details about funding programs can be found at www.venturekick.ch and www.engagement-migros.ch
