A strong start for Swisscom’s spin-off ‘rready’ Startupticker.ch | The Swiss Startup News channel
Summary
Founded in 2021 by Dave Hengartner, Ralph Hartmeier, Reto Wenger and Vinzenz Leuenberger, rready AG is a provider of B2B SaaS solutions for innovation methods to engage corporate employees in innovation processes in a scalable and active manner. Help2Type, which enables people with sight impairments to feel keys on a touchscreen, is just one of over 700 employee ideas that have been developed and implemented at Swisscom. Forty additional solutions have emerged from the program and currently, more than 20 companies including Roche, Siemens Energy, LGT, SBB Post Luxembourg, Implenia or ZF Friedrichshafen among others are benefiting from the service. With FEEDBACK we have an application, where employees can get quick feedback for ideas and prototypes from members of their organization.” Financially well-placed The financing round led by FYRFLY Venture Partners, based in California and Switzerland, involved the two institutional investors Equity Pitcher and Verve Ventures, as well as the entrepreneurs and business angels Felix R. Ehrat, Bernd Schopp, Jürg Stucker and Roland Schönholzer, who all have many years of management experience in executive positions in various business fields. And not just within companies, but also in partnerships comprising several organisations, for which rready supplies an easy-to-use, motivational platform for the global market, which delivers measurable results.” Rreadya next milestone is to turn the GETKICKBOX product into a multi-product company and enter additional markets in the EU and US.