Startups developing AI-based nutritional tracking, decarbonized amonia production, a technology to uncover underground corrosion, restoration of soil health, and painless delivery of injectable drugs each win CHF 10,000
Summary
AlpineWell is founded by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from ETH Zurich: Jotam Bergfreund, food engineer, Raban Iten, expert in machine learning, Gommaar DHulst, health scientist, and Robert Schreiber, neuroscientist and business strategist. To realize their vision, the first round of Venturekick funding will be utilized for prototype enhancements, covering legal fees associated with financial, intellectual property, and patent rights, as well as networking expenses. At ETH Zurich, the TALPA Inspection team has developed an innovative technology based on electrochemical techniques to locate corrosion damage in buried engineering structures made of reinforced concrete (RC). The Venture Kick funds will help them to build customer contacts, improve their social media and webpage presence, and move on to the verification of the technology in pilot projects in collaboration with infrastructure owners such as ASTRA/FEDRO. Their innovation includes a cost-effective and clean pyrolysis reactor to transform agricultural residues into biochar, complemented by our digital monitoring system for high-quality carbon removal credits generation.