Kickstart Accelerator, one of Europe’s largest multi-corporate, zero-equity technology accelerators, has today announced its shortlist of 30 startups for its second cohort. The startups will take part in an 11-week programme, from 4 September to 17 November 2017, and will be divided into the four verticals based in Zurich – FinTech (10), Food (6), Smart Cities and Robotics (9) & Intelligent Systems (5).

Please see below for some key stats:

• 1,500 applications globally
• 60 startups invited to take part in the final part of the selection process (bootcamp) with 30 chosen for the programme
• 15 countries represented – 19 from Europe, five from the UK, three from Asia, two from Africa and one from Australia.
• Almost 50% are female led

Kickstart Accelerator offers startup-friendly benefits packages. Unlike other leading programmes, it takes no equity, provides no strings attached funding and gives access to some of the best known corporates locally and internationally, including AXA Winterthur, Coop, Credit Suisse, EY, Migros, PwC Switzerland, Raiffeisen Switzerland, Swisscom and UBS among others.