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Vestr offering innovative analytics to gauge corporate sustainability
Zug/New York - The FinTech firm Vestr is integrating data from Clarity AI in its DELTA platform in an attempt to move closer to a sustainable future. Vestr is now in a position to offer analytics to asset management firms seeking to evaluate the risks and opportunities linked to investments.
Driverless bus delivered to Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen - The Swiss Transit Lab mobility initiative has taken delivery of its first automated vehicle. The self-driving minibus has been kitted out by the Finnish firm Sensible 4. From late fall onwards, it will be used as part of a pilot project for public transport services in Schaffhausen.
Model shows how learning organs develop
Zurich - Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have come closer to answering the question of how the brain develops from embryonic cells. Their work shows that there is no definitive blueprint. Instead, following the respective cell division process there are instructions for connecting.
First technology transfer centers prove their value
Villigen/Bettlach - The first two competence centers for technology transfer, ANAXAM in Villigen in the canton of Aargau and the Swiss m4m Center in Bettlach in the canton of Solothurn, have become the interfaces between the lab and industrial applications that the initiators had hoped for. More centers are now set to follow.
German marketing firm turns to the goTom AdTech platform
Zurich/Düsseldorf - Visoon Video Impact will from now on be using an administration solution developed by the AdTech platform goTom, based in the Greater Zurich Area. The goTom solution will enable the joint venture between Axel Springer and Paramount to handle customer support and order management activities for advertisers and agencies.
Spectroplast launches silicone 3D printer
Schlieren - Spectroplast has brought to market the world’s first 3D printer for silicone products. This can be used in the medtech industry, for example. The spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich has previously only offered silicone 3D printing as a service.
ETH receives up to 40 million Swiss francs from UBS
Zurich - UBS, a major bank based in Switzerland, will be supporting the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) with up to 40 million Swiss francs over the next ten years. The funds will be used to support innovation and entrepreneurialism as well as STEM subjects and a new building on the university’s Hönggerberg campus.
African startup integrates relario payment solution
Baar/Kigali - Augmented Future is integrating a payment solution created by the fintech relario in the Greater Zurich Area. The startup company from Rwanda develops digital games to support learning. Thanks to relario, users will now be able to pay for Augmented Future products without a credit card.
Conda.ch offers share register solution from Aequitec
Zurich/Baar - Conda.ch, an online crowd funding platform, is now offering its client base the automated functions of Aequitec’s share register. The digital register allows Conda issuers to manage their new shareholders in an automated and legally compliant manner.
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