Here’s to a Season of Networking and Growth
MassChallenge Switzerland
Accelerating high impact startups in collaboration with 20+ Corporate Partners & 400+ independent experts.
🍂 Autumn is in full swing — and with it comes a season packed with opportunities for our community! From our 10th Anniversary Awards Ceremony on October 30 in Lausanne, to the launch of two late-stage Challenges, and exciting partner events and programmes, there’s plenty happening for both startups and experts to connect, grow, and shine.
🎉 First Things First: You’re Invited to Our 10th Awards!
On October 30th in Lausanne, we’ll mark a decade of impact with our 10th Awards Ceremony — featuring an alumni exhibition, inspiring pitches, and special guests from across the innovation ecosystem.
📍 Location: Beaulieu Conference Center, Top Floor (Rome + Forum spaces), Av. Bergières 10, 1004 Lausanne 🇨🇭
🗓️ Schedule: 🔹 17:30–18:30 → Alumni Exhibition 🔹 18:30–20:00 → Awards Ceremony 🔹 20:00–22:00 → Networking Apéro
✨ Come connect with visionary founders, top experts, industry leaders, and innovation supporters from Switzerland and beyond.
Let’s celebrate 10 years of bold innovators — and the future we’re building together!
🚀 Applications are Open for the Sustainable Food Challenge and Sustainable Materials Challenges 2026!
The Sustainable Food Challenge has already enabled 250+ collaborations between startups and industry leaders. With the launch of the new Sustainable Materials Challenge, we’re excited to create even more high-quality connections in 2026.
This year’s edition is powered by 8 leading industry partners who are ready to work hand-in-hand with startups.
More than just a contest, this is a unique opportunity to: ✅ Co-develop with experts ✅ Validate products in real markets ✅ Build customer connections ✅ Explore strategic investments
If your startup is innovating in #Food, #AgTech, #sidestreams, #packaging, supply chains, #materials, or #circular #chemistry — we want to hear from you!
👉 Learn more and apply now:
🏆 Swiss Startups – The DSR Award – Innovation for a Sustainable Food System is Open for Applications Until October 15
Do you have an innovative project that makes our food system more sustainable, healthy, and inclusive? This is your chance to shine.✨
From reducing food waste, promoting health through better nutrition, improving access to quality food, or cutting the ecological footprint of food 🌱♻️ — we want to support you in scaling your impact. 👉 Don’t miss this opportunity to take your innovation to the next level! 🚀
📅 Apply by October 15 👉 https://apply.masschallenge.org/dsr-award-2025
📢 Swiss startups (Vaud) – SDSC Launches a Second Call for Projects in Data Science!
Are you an organisation – a small or medium-sized enterprise, an academic/industrial consortium, or a cantonal public administration entity – based in the Canton of Vaud? Are you leading an innovative project and seeking technical support and data science expertise from our team?
Whether your project relates to energy and sustainability, the health and biomedical domain, or societal and digital transformation, this call for projects could be a valuable opportunity to bring your ideas to life.
The selected projects will receive technical support and dedicated funding, aiming at transforming promising ideas into tangible solutions with a positive societal impact. We look forward to receiving your proposals!
💡Projects submission information 👉 https://www.datascience.ch/call-for-projects/call-for-vaud-projects – October 8, 2025: Deadline for submitting pre-project proposals.
INNOPEARL SCOUTING ALERT: Functional Ingredients for Chocolate
Mondelez International, a global snacking leader, is scouting with Innopearl for functional ingredients that make chocolate products both delicious and nourishing.
They’re looking for solutions that:
This is a unique opportunity to collaborate with Mondelez and scale innovations across global snacking categories.
Deadline: October 31, 2025. Apply now. Innopearl®
November 11 – Join the Swiss Health Valley 🇨🇭 community for the BioAlps Networking Day 2025, in Monthey, Valais.
BioAlps - Swiss Health Valley annual flagship event attracts each year around 300 key players from the Swiss Health Valley🇨🇭 region: representatives from academia, startups, government, and media gather to share the latest trends in life sciences and connect with each other.
More info and registration here: https://bioalps.org/events/bioalps-networking-day-2025/