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Winner of the Helbling Venture Challenge 2025! “Mobility and Energy”

From 98 applications to 5 finalists

After six months of intensive preparation, the final of the Helbling Venture Challenge 2025 took place on September 18, 2025, in the event hangar of the Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich in Dübendorf.

Five outstanding startups made it to the final round and presented their visions of mobility and energy for shaping our future live on stage.

 

The jury selected Voltiris “Innovative solar technology by changing greenhouse agriculture worldwide – a combination of crop yields and energy production” as the winner.

With smart solar panels, greenhouses can generate renewable energy without affecting plant growth – a breakthrough that is already being scaled up with projects in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. 
First hectare-scale installation conducted at Meier Gemüse, a leading tomato grower in Switzerland.

The prize is a support package worth CHF 25,000, including consulting services in the areas of technology due diligence, product development, and business strategy at one of Helbling's offices.

A big thank you goes out to all the finalists, partners, and guests – and special recognition goes to last year's winner, Martin Hlavica from Rhovica Neuroimaging AG, for sharing his insights on stage.

 

 

Feedback from the winner 

Voltiris - Energy and crops, without compromise

The program was highly inspiring and enriching throughout its entire course: from the initial application stage, which allowed us to refine and update our corporate strategy, through the interim pitch that provided valuable recommendations, to the final presentation evaluated by an experienced jury whose pertinent and challenging questions elevated our thinking.

The overall organization was excellent, concluded in an enjoyable day in Zurich with Helbling experts who were both professional and approachable.

I strongly recommend this program, as its journey offers a valuable development opportunity for all future participating companies.

Thomas Meuriot
Chief Operating Officer

Feedback from the finalists

ALLIGATOR | Systeme

Meeting with members of the clean-tech mobility startup community together with Helbling and VentureLab was a great experience.
I appreciated that the event was both fun and highly professional at the same time.
Thank you, Helbling, for this inspiring day!

Michael Schacher
Founder

Feedback From the finalists

Twiliner

First of all, we would like to express our warmest thanks for the opportunity to participate in the HVC25 final. It was a great experience for us as a young start-up, and we truly appreciated the professional organisation, the generous time allocated to review our application, listen to our pitch, and provide such constructive and fruitful feedback from such a broad range of experts.

We especially valued how seriously the process was set up and how respectfully we were treated as a fresh company – this made the pitching experience both inspiring and motivating for us.

Joël Béla Bernauer–Bourgeois
Co-founder & Product Designer

Feedback der Finalisten 

qCella

The HVC25 jury’s insights gave us the push we needed to sharpen our GTM strategy and make our case more focused, ambitious, and compelling.

Murielle Schreck, PhD
CEO and Co-Founder 

Audience during the presentation of the finalists
Talks between finalist and jury
Talks between finalists, jury, and guests
Talks between finalists and jury 
Award ceremony – Finalists and jury 
Cocktail reception after the award ceremony

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