Kickstart Innovation
Katerina Klezlova is an experienced business development expert and founder based in Zürich, Switzerland, with a diverse background in strategic consulting and innovation. Katerina established Fortuny Consulting GmbH in 2017 to empower SME leaders across Europe in accelerating business growth. As a Healthcare Innovation Expert and Health & Wellbeing Vertical Lead at Kickstart Innovation, Katerina supports innovative startups aiming to enhance the healthcare ecosystem. Katerina also serves in various roles, including Business Development & IRM at CANNAVIGIA, Board Member at Capacity Zurich, Expert & Judge at MassChallenge Switzerland, and Co-Founder at TecHouse7. Previously, Katerina played key roles in DealStation, Konsälidön, Pepins, and Axialent, contributing to business development and project management strategies. Katerina holds an MBA from IE Business School and has additional qualifications in corporate finance and management.
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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.