Saturday, October 01, 2005

Top 100 Swiss startups (by Valerie Thompson)

Actelion, a biotechnology company, The Bee Company, a call center and CRM outsourcing company, and Mobilizone, a wireless gadget retailer and service provider, what do these three Swiss tech firms have in common?

Besides all being less than ten years old, they have all created employment, some 1678 jobs, if my math is correct.

This is just one nugget of information that can be found at Top 100 Swiss Start-ups.http://www.venturelab.ch/dt/top100.asp.

The list is still under construction and new entries can be added. It is being maintained by the people at «venturelab», the entrepreneur education organization funded by the Swiss CTI, a federal innovation promotion agency.

The main criteria for being "Top" is the number of jobs created, as opposed to financial performance or rate of growth. A pre-condition for entry is that these Start-ups founders took a risk to get the business off the ground. And that the firms are no older than ten years (founding year is 1995 or later).

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