Two Switzerland-based spinouts have each been awarded CHF130,000 ($131,500) in prize funding for passing all three stages of an initiative run by spinout-focused VC initiative Venture Kick.
The awardees are Skypull, a wind power technology spinout from ETH Zurich, and RetinAI, an eye care diagnosis platform based on research at University of Bern and Université de Lausanne.
Skypull is developing an airborne wind farming system that could harness gusts at more than 200 metres altitude, thus exploiting stronger winds than those encountered…
