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Welcome to the INSPIRED x START Global Digital Pitching Competition! 🚀 Here's how to participate and collect votes for your chance to win CHF 10,000: 1. Create your Company Page: Start by creating your page using the Create Page button in the left side menu. 2. Join the START Global Community Space as your page: Once your page is created, join this space as your page rather than as an individual. You can switch between your personal profile and your page using the actor switcher in the app. 3. Post your virtual pitch: Post from your project's page here in the "INSPIRED Competition" Channel. This is your submission: share an intro video, a strong image, or both, and add a description of what you are building. 4. Collect votes: This is where it gets exciting. Voting is open to everyone. Share this link with your entire network, friends, and family so they can download the app and vote for you: 👉 app.inspired.ch/community/3md3v2jxdpj2o The more you spread the word, the more votes you collect. The startup with the most votes at the end of the voting period wins CHF 10,000. May the best startup win! 🚀

Celebrating impact that matters. 🌱 During START Summit, we were happy to announce the winner of the Swiss Sustainable Impact Award: Riverkin. By building real-time data infrastructure for rivers and watersheds, Riverkin enables better risk management, protects critical infrastructure, and unlocks more accurate, AI-driven water risk models. 🚀

European Dynamism Building Europe's first trillion-dollar company. What will it take to build a trillion-dollar company in Europe? Gianmarco Hodel, redalpine Dr. Robert Fink, Helsing Martin Kubie, Proxima Fusion 📍 Summit Stage 📅 Thursday, 19 March See you there.

The Alpine Axis is one of Europe’s most underestimated innovation corridors. At START Summit 2026, we’re putting it on the map with a dedicated Alpine Area that showcases the ecosystem across the Alpine region: ambitious founders, high-potential startups, and the enablers behind them. Because the Alpine Axis isn’t “regional.” It’s a concentrated hotspot of talent, research, and execution power, home to some of the most promising teams and some of the best students from the world’s top universities. Only one week to go until START Summit in St. Gallen. We’re hyped, are you? 🚀🏔️

The bar is set high. Our jury proves it. We are proud to announce an exceptional jury lineup bringing together expertise from tech, innovation, investing, unicorn building, and academia. With leaders from global tech and advisory firms, experienced founders and angel investors, and one of the leading minds in computer science and education, this jury brings exactly the kind of perspective ambitious builders need. Welcoming to the START Hack 2026 jury: - Alexander Finger | CTO SAP Switzerland - Daniel W. Dippold | Founder & CEO at EWOR, Investor - Dinkar Gupta | Group CTO at KPMG UK & Switzerland - Guido Salvaneschi | Professor & Director at School of Computer Science - HSG - Daniel Naeff | Entrepreneurial Boardmember, Angel Investor, ETH AI Center A lineup built to challenge ideas, spot real potential, and reward the teams pushing innovation forward.

Only 3 days to go until our first START Summit event. This Wednesday at EPFL, we are bringing together an exceptional panel for START Spotlight to discuss smarter early-career decisions: what to optimize for, how to avoid regret, and the traps to watch out for. With Bill Gurley joining virtually, and Edouard Bugnion, Florian Schweitzer, and Hannah Tassia Noll on the panel, expect a candid conversation at the intersection of technology, investing, and entrepreneurship. 👉 Join us online through the START Summit App and be part of the journey toward START Summit 2026.