Questli, provider of crowd-sourced smartphone quests, secured a second seed round with high profile Internet entrepreneurs, VC professionals and family offices from Switzerland and Germany. Redalpine’s portfolio company was founded in April 2011 in Zurich. Questli has a development team in Novosibirsk and a marketing team in San Francisco.
By acquiring CAVI VideoShopping Veeseo creates new opportunities to efficiently use online videos. Not just by increasing video views, but also by offering additional monetization through new supplementary shopping modules. CAVI offers the opportunity to sell or promote products directly in videos. Continue reading
Ebuzzing’s R&D department reveals its internal tools to help brands identify the most highly recommended content influencers on the net. Ebuzzing’s R&D section is comprised of over 80 experts. This department makes Ebuzzing the most qualified in Europe regarding innovation in the field of Social Media Advertising. The department which is known as “Ebuzzing Lab” is currently coming up with never before seen tools to help brands and agencies better understand the social web. Continue reading
Biognosys, a Swiss ETH spin-off and pioneer in proteomics, attracted venture capital from experienced investors including Syngenta Ventures, the venture capital arm of agro-chemicals leader Syngenta. Biognosys is the first company that can quantify every protein in biological samples fast and precisely. This is opening up entirely new options for precise diagnostics, personalized medicine and intelligent crop design. Continue reading
Redalpine’s Swiss portfolio companies performed excellently at the Best of Start-ups 2011 Top 100 Ranking: 3 were ranked among the Top 10, 5 among the top 15 and 4 among the Top 4 in Life Science. Continue reading
Standard Register, a recognized leader in managing critical information and communications for healthcare, and Poken announced today they have joined forces to launch a new product and service platform, pokenHEALTH™, which Standard Register will exclusively market to healthcare in North America. Continue reading
In September the ETH Spinoff Malcisbo Ltd. has successfully closed its seed financing round. The initial target of CHF 2.4 Mio. was substantially exceeded. Private investors, Business Angels, Zürcher Kantonalbank Startup Finance and Redalpine Venture Partners AG have invested in total a sum of CHF 3.6 Mio in the company. In parallel the company was granted a substantial research contribution by CTI. Continue reading
Our newest portfolio company Questli was announced as audience winner at TechCrunch Disrupt 2011. Questli provides a global web platform to build and play crowd-sourced games on smartphones. Founder and CEO Danil Kozyatnikov traveled from Siberia all the way to San Francisco to promote his start up and launch Questli at TechCrunch Disrupt. Being announced as audience winner supports Dan’s dream: “I wanted to build a company that would change the world”. Continue reading
Wikio Group, the leading Social Media Group in Europe that has a acquired Trigami earlier this year, is taking the name of its Social Media Advertising Platform: Ebuzzing. Ebuzzing has a team of 160, with offices in Luxembourg, London, Paris, Toulouse, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Basel, Milano, Roma and Madrid. Continue reading
Redbiotec has entered into a perennial collaboration agreement with an undisclosed large pharmaceutical company. Under the contract, Redbiotec will manufacture and re-supply a relevant viral protein complex using the rePAX™ technology. Continue reading
