Kickstart Innovation
Joanne Filbin is an accomplished finance and operations professional with extensive experience in startup environments. Currently serving as an Advisor and Fractional CFO & COO at Swijin, a female-focused technical sportswear startup, and as Founder & CEO at Vestir AI, Joanne is transforming the online shopping experience. As a Co-Founder at Globacap, Joanne has played a pivotal role in modernizing the securities landscape. Additional roles include Co-Founder, COO & CFO at Techstars, Startup Mentor at London Business School, and various coaching and advisory positions across several organizations. Joanne's background includes a Master of Business Administration from London Business School and professional qualifications from ICAEW, along with an undergraduate degree in Accounting & Finance from Kingston University.
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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.