Stefan Kuentz introduced Rready and explained how a Silicon Valley-developed innovation method is scaling globally as a Swisscom Ventures spinout.

Stefan Kuentz, a partner at Swisscom Ventures, introduced Switzerland-based innovation management-as-a-service platform operator Rready. Dave Hengartner, co-founder and chief executive of the latter company, was unable to attend.

Rready was spun out of Switzerland-based telecommunications firm Swisscom’s Digital Business unit in May this year with the team that had built Getkickbox, the firm’s innovation tool that forms part of software supplier Adobe’s Kickbox innovation process. Swisscom holds a minority stake in Getkickbox through Swisscom Ventures.

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Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.