Gaia Turbine is developing and will commercialize an innovative plug-and-play hydroelectric turbine that achieves more than 90% efficiency in wide range of working conditions, much better than the conventional turbines. The capital raised will be used to install a pilot turbine at a hydroelectric power plant in Ticino and start the commercialization efforts.

Unicorns:

– Raised sooo much money

– Hedge funds turned VCs led every round past the B and drove the valuation to sky-high limits

– Hired and hired and hired

– 45 month payback

– Sponsored everything under the sun

– Valuation implied they’d get 100% market share and kill Salesforce and Hubspot within 5 years

– If they don’t 3x this year all is lost

– Even with $20M in the bank, only 10 months of runway left

– Beautiful creatures but not particularly durable

 

Donkeys:

 

– Bootstrapped till profitability then raised a nominal amount of funding

– Did one round and moved back to profitability shortly thereafter

-Kept the team lean and mean and used automation wherever they could

– 20% growth this year but profitable and sustainable

– 12 month payback

– Valuation implied they’re a solid company with durable enterprise value

– They’re profitable so if they don’t hit their growth target they still get to be a company forever

– Infinite runway

– They’re an acquired taste but they get the job done and make it to the top of the mountain

 

Date a unicorn. Marry a donkey.

 

Sam Jacobs

La Giornata cantonale delle startup ha l’obiettivo di rafforzare la messa in rete tra startup ticinesi e potenziali investitori. Questi ultimi avranno la possibilità di avvicinarsi al mondo delle startup grazie a diversi momenti di approfondimento.
Le occasioni di incontro e scambio saranno inoltre facilitate nella parte espositiva in cui una ventina di startup saranno presenti con i loro stand.

Innovazione, creatività, dinamismo, sguardo verso il mondo e il futuro: sono queste alcune caratteristiche delle startup, giovani aziende che rappresentano una grande opportunità di sviluppo per l’economia ticinese. Una tipologia di imprenditorialità che ha esigenze particolari, tra cui la ricerca di investimenti per poter lanciare i propri prodotti o servizi sul mercato internazionale.

Giornata cantonale<BR>delle startup – EVENTI DFE (DFE) – Repubblica e Cantone Ticino

Boldbrain Startup Challenge 2020 has selected the 20 projects that will take part in the only accelerator program in Ticino.

The 2020 edition attracted a total of 148 applications, of which 62 were examined by an evaluation committee .

 

The 20 start-ups selected for Boldrain Startup Challenge 2020 are:

4Devices (medtech) – Aargau

Excede (fintech/insurance tech) – Zurich

F-Helix (electronic and mechanical engineering) – Ticino

Finar Module Tech (electronic and mechanical engineering) – Italy

Lighthouse  (medtech) – Ticino

NATIVE (sport/leisure/tourism/lifestyle) – Ticino

Proxying (consulting and services) – Ticino

QM_Project (life sciences, IT diagnostics, data) – Italy

Secondo (consumer products and services) – Ticino

Smart Power Center (energy, cleantech) – Russia

SwicketLive (ICT, software & data engineering) – Ticino

TeachRemote (social entrepreurship, education) – Zurich

Trading Stratagem (fintech, insurance tech) – Ticino

TurboGas-5.0 (electronic and mechanical engineering) – Ticino

UNIVERSUS-OS (ICT, software & data engineering) – Italy

VMall (consumer products and services) – Ticino

voltWALL (energy, cleantech) – Ticino

WeSaidYes (sport/leisure/tourism/lifestyle) – Ticino

WYTH  (design, art, architecture, gaming) – Ticino

YSI (consumer products and services) – Italy