From: Jean-Michel Pittet < >
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 00:44:35 -0700
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I agree with you that there are many of those uptight jobs available. The
important point for us (at least for me and please disagree if I'm missing
something) is that there ARE cool startups with "hot" jobs.

I know it is only starting in CH but the fact remains that there are a
lot of Silicon Valley (SV) style startups. And it is those that I think
are of greatest interest those of us with an eye back over that little
pond behind New York.

InAlp was mentioned, Inmotion is another one, Nanosurf.ch .... Here a few
news snippets of of VC's pumping money into Startups located in CH.
As in SV that money is spent on people ... good time to give the a call :)

xemics got $5.4M 11/5/99
albert-inc.com got $12M 4/5/00 (PR says Geneva, web says France ??)
upaq.ch got $8M 3/27/00 in Second Round (Details below)

There is also a series of VC companies who's portfolio has a few Swiss
startups:
  index.ch: genebio.ch,
  venturepartners.ch: (15 companies): ecag.ch/go-zap.com, mediaphonics.ch ...
And there are other funds (seca.ch is the association)

These are just a few of the companies I know of. So there are startups
and they are looking for people, at least some of them.

Other sites I've found useful in search of startups is http://www.innonet.ch

So why don't we share information about these companies through the list?
Why don't you ... yes you reading these words ... send out the name of
4 startups you know about?

To reduce the mailing list traffic, I'll volunteer to collect the list of
companies if you send me their web address, a 5 word description, and a
possible category like bio, medical, networking hardware, B2B, ... I'll
send out a summary when the input dies (or won't bother if no-one actually
participates). Any VC's that should be added? Any cool sites about Swiss
startups?

Finally we can put the list up on the swiss-list and/or swissbrains websites?

Cheers
JM

P.S. Here the detailed messages that went out on the Venturewire news mails.
_____________________________________________

o Swiss Semiconductor Firm Gets $5.4-Million Second Round

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland -- Xemics, a fabless
semiconductor company developing low-power
systems-on-chips, said it raised a second round
of CHF 8.3 million ($5.4 million) from Banexi Ventures
Partners, Cantonal Bank, and TAT Capital Partners.
Xemics will use the funds to expand its markets in
the U.S. and the Far East.
http://www.xemics.ch
_____________________________________________

o Swiss Firm Albert Gets $12 Million Round, Enters Alliance

NEW YORK -- Albert, a Geneva, Switzerland-based
provider of natural language interface products,
said it completed a $12 million second round of
financing. New investors Bryan Garnier and Cie investment
bank, an investment bank based in London and Geneva,
Norwegian company Fast Search & Transfer, Switzerland-based
Pictet, and previous investor TAG Finance participated
in the round. The funding will be used for marketing,
commercial development, technology development,
and for the launch of company products in Europe
and the U.S. The company's first two products are
the Albert Searcher, a natural language search interface,
and the Albert Interfacer, a natural language front-end
search engine interface for use in individual Web
sites. Both products are multilingual. The company
also entered a strategic alliance agreement with
Fast Search & Transfer to co-market an integrated
natural search engine.
http://www.albert-inc.com/
_____________________________________________

o Swiss Firm UPAQ Receives Over $8 Million in Second Round

ZURICH -- UPAQ, which provides digital asset services
for business-to-business e-commerce, said it received
CHF14 million ($8.6 million) in its second-round
financing led by Ventis AG, a Swiss venture capital
firm, and completed by Tumbleweed Communications
and Chase Capital Partners. The investors have the
option to contribute an additional CHF5 million
to the company. The funds will be used to expand
UPAQ's service offerings across Europe and for sales,
marketing, strategic partnerships, and product development.
http://www.upaq.com/

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