Kickstart Innovation
Christoph Birkholz is an experienced professional with a strong background in impact investing and entrepreneurship. Currently serving as President of the Board and Co-Founder at Impact Hub Zürich and Kickstart Innovation, Christoph focuses on accelerating deep tech partnerships and mainstreaming impact investing. Other board roles include Panter AG, Panter Consulting Company Ltd., and Alternative Bank Schweiz, among others. Christoph has a diverse educational background with a PhD in Impact Investing from the University of St.Gallen and executive education from INSEAD, alongside degrees from Universität Witten/Herdecke and IPADE Business School.
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Kickstart Innovation
Kickstart is one of Europe's largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms that runs a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate deep tech innovation. Science and engineering driven technologies have the potential to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. They require unprecedented collaboration between established organizations and the most audacious entrepreneurs out there. Thereby, Kickstart is committed to building an innovation ecosystem that brings high-growth startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities together. Each year Kickstart brings around 100 startups to Switzerland to collaborate with key players for proofs-of-concept, pilot projects and other innovation partnerships. The program provides exceptional access to the executives and decision-makers of Kickstart’s partners. Being an initiative of Impact Hub Zürich and launched by digitalswitzerland in 2015, Kickstart runs 5 verticals (New Work & Learning, Finance & Insurance, Food & Retail, Smart Cities and Health & Wellbeing), an Intrapreneurship Academy and the Circular Economy Initiative.