Three EPFL spin-offs among Europe's top 50 "super scale-ups"

© Alain Herzog - Four Swiss companies, including three EPFL spin-offs - Flyability, Kandou and Nexthink - will be featured among Europe's top 50 high-tech scale-ups at this year's Tech Tour Growth Summit. The Summit is an annual event where a panel of international investors selects the most promising young European businesses with the potential to become tomorrow's unicorns. The 50 winning firms are chosen out of a pool of over 400 and given center stage every year at the Tech Tour Growth Summit, an international conference bringing together fast-growing tech firms and their investors. These "super scale-ups" - which now include Flyability, Kandou and Nexthink - could one day generate millions of dollars in revenues and even become unicorns, that exclusive group of privately-held startups valued at over one billion dollars. Ambitious international expansion plans The 2020 Tech Tour Growth Summit will be held in Lausanne and Geneva on 26-27 March. At the event, Flyability, Kandou and Nexthink will be in the running for a Growth and Innovation Award - which another EPFL spin-off, Sophia Genetics, won in 2019. According to Patrick Barbey, the director of Innovaud, the Vaud innovation agency that spearheads the Scale Up Vaud program: "Having Vaud scale-ups in the Tech Tour Growth 50 reflects the strength of our innovation ecosystem here in Vaud, as well as in Switzerland as a whole.