The new incubator operational by April 2012 (Feb 22, 2012):
Fongit is expanding its start up accelerator by adding 100 work spaces for high tech ventures. This brand new venue is designed to provide outstanding work and creative environments to entrepreneurs. It is a One-Stop Shop for entrepreneurship tailored to stimulate the development of technological and industrial companies in the region. Fongit partners with Geneva’s departments for Trade and Industry that all committed to support the development of this initiative. Space is limited. Apply here.
François Gilardoni (FONGIT) will mentor at the next Startup Weekend Lausanne (March 2-4, 2012): it will take place at the Rolex Learning Center, on the campus of EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Startup Weekend are 54h events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and start up enthusiasts come together to share ideas, forms teams, builds products, and launch start ups! Attendees bring their best ideas and inspire others to join their team in a 60 seconds pitch. Over Saturday and Sunday, teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas, practicing LEAN Start up Methodologies and building a minimal viable product. On Sunday evening, teams demo their prototypes and receive valuable feedback from a panel of experts. Click here to register ! Start up Weekend is an affiliate of The Kauffman Foundation.
FONGIT attending the CleanTech Investing Seminar (Dec 7&8, 2011): Following our successful inaugural event, Campden Conferences is delighted to announce that the second annual CleanTech Investing Seminar will once again unite forward thinking investors with cutting edge cleantech companies seeking the vital investment they need to flourish in today’s continuously challenging economic climate. Along with a plethora of presentations from innovative cleantech companies and those all important one-to-one meetings for you to discuss new business opportunities, this year’s plenary and roundtable sessions have been comprehensively researched, updated and improved, focusing in particular on investment opportunities for significant families and their family offices. This unique event will unite family offices, private investors, blue chip corporations, and venture capital and private equity firms, presenting companies and will feature a stellar speaker line up of exceptional cleantech experts. Click on the below link to find out how you can become a delegate or innovative presenting company. Find out more about The CleanTech Investing Seminar.
The cleantech incubator is already underway (Nov 11, 2011). The brand new cleantech incubator – located at the Bluebox building in Plan-les-Ouates – is on schedule in the deployment of the technical infrastructure designed to serve 100 work spaces for new cleantech companies. Fongit has an instrumental role in the development of this business incubator fully dedicated to Cleantech. Fongit is partnering with Geneva’s departments for Trade and Industry, scheduled to be operational in the first quarter of 2012.
The cleantech incubator gets full support from the State Council of Geneva (Oct 4th, 2011). The State Council introduced Tuesday morning a bill that brings together the expertise of three cantonal agencies – FAE, Fongit and OPI, namely – to serve and sustain projects in the field of clean technologies. Geneva is fully committed to Cleantech by supporting the inception and expansion of a dedicated cleantech incubator that will be based in Plan-les-Ouates, in the outskirt of Geneva. The Bluebox building in Plan-les-Ouates will house 100 work spaces for new companies with the goal of developing the areas like urban mobility, waste management, energy efficiency and solar energy. The State Council intends to achieve an objective of the legislature. “This is an ecological and an economic opportunity,” said Unger. He said that Geneva can rely on its universities for research, its dense economic fabric and its legal framework favorable to start-ups. A pilot project of the Cleantech incubator is already underway. “Combining the Geneva Public Transport, Industrial Services of Geneva and the equipment manufacturer ABB Sécheron SA, the project “TOSA” aims to create electrical connections to bus stops to recharge”, said Jean-Luc Favre, CEO of ABB Sécheron SA. The incubator is scheduled to be operational in the first quarter of 2012.
Cleantech: a center of excellence for Geneva and Western Switzerland (Sept 20th, 2011). The department of regional affairs, economy and health (DARES) today unveiled the findings of an analysis report on the creation of a center of excellence Cleantech in Geneva and Western Switzerland. The analysis shows that Geneva and Western Switzerland have real assets to establish a competence center of international Cleantech. The main directions are the establishment of an incubator for applied research and development, the strengthening R&D activities, the creation of an international reflection on Corporate Policies on sustainable development and cleantech, the opening of the incubator to countries that do not meet the adequate framework conditions, including the creation of regional institutes, and the development of financial activities related to certificates of Cleantech and “carbon offset trading.
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