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DirectoryBusiness & Technical ServicesTrade Fair & Event OrganizersSt. GallenSTART Global
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About the company

START Global is a student-run association that organises programmes and events to support young entrepreneurs. Its activities include the START Summit conference, the START Hack hackathon, the START Fellowship incubator/accelerator, and a global chapter network offering mentorship, workshops and networking between startups, investors and corporates.

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START Global

START Summit
Two-day startup conference with 120+ speakers, five tracks, side events, workshops, pitching competitions, START Fair and social events such as the Food Festival and Afterparty.
START Hack
36-hour entrepreneurial hackathon for tech students and business minds with real challenges, prototyping, mentors, access to experts, career opportunities and a team competition.
START Fellowship
Philanthropic incubator and accelerator programme for young entrepreneurs from Latin America and Africa with workshops, community activities, mentoring and funding opportunities.
START Fellowship Incubator
Seven-week online incubator programme from the first idea to the MVP with workshops, founder stories and community activities.
START Fellowship Accelerator
Four-month programme in Switzerland with mentoring, workshops, funding opportunities, network building and potential investments to scale a startup.
START Fair
Startup exhibition format at the START Summit for selected startups, with booths, visibility and access to investors.
Side Events
Events running alongside the START Summit, including Investor Day Zero, Founder Day Zero, Talent Day Zero, dinner and breakfast formats, and networking events.
Trust & reputation

ranQ Trust Score of START Global: 4.3 out of 5.0

Trust Score4.3/ 5.0

Very high

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Data basis 100% · As of October 2026

START Global scores 80.1 out of 100 points in the Reputation area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 42% of the weighting.
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CriterionValueWeight
  • Review quality: The average rating across all connected sources, smoothed against the industry mean. So 5.0 stars from three reviews do not outrank 4.7 from three hundred.80.124%
  • Review volume: The number of reviews across all sources. The scale is logarithmic: the first reviews count the most, and the maximum is reached at 50 reviews.88.110%
  • Review recency: The age of the most recent review. Two-year-old reviews deliberately sit in the middle, because that is normal for Swiss SMEs. Only after three years without a new voice does the value drop markedly.70.08%
START Global scores 81.2 out of 100 points in the Substance area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 28% of the weighting.
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  • Establishment: Years since founding or brand launch, logarithmic. The maximum is reached at 15 years.83.012%
  • Company size: The headcount band, researched by ranQ or stated by the company. It is scored in steps rather than by head count, because the data only provides bands.90.07%
START Global scores 86.7 out of 100 points in the Identity area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 22% of the weighting.
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  • Verification: Official register entry (commercial register with UID or professional-body record, 55 points), confirmed domain (20 points) and confirmed ranQ profile (up to 25 points, depending on completeness).86.722%
START Global scores 68.4 out of 100 points in the Visibility area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 8% of the weighting.
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  • Website authority: Ahrefs' Domain Rating measures, on a scale of 0 to 100, how strongly a website is linked from other websites. For Swiss SMEs the range up to 40 is typical; the maximum is reached at 35.100.04%
  • Media authority: Quality and number of editorial mentions, weighted by the importance of the source, plus the recency of the latest high-quality mention.36.74%
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START Global reaches a ranQ Trust Score of 4.3 out of 5.0 — rated «Very high». The rating draws, among other things, on 4.7 out of 5 stars from 31 customer reviews. As of October 2026.

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Aggregated rating
4.7
of 5

Aggregated from 31 reviews across all connected sources

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Press

Media

March 15, 2026Media
Beim Start Summit trifft sich die internationale Startup-Szene in St.Gallen
stgallen24.ch
May 1, 2024Media
Die internationale Wirtschaftsprominenz trifft sich in St.Gallen
leaderdigital.ch
March 20, 2024Media
«Der Wirtschaftsraum Ostschweiz ist unterbewertet»
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Location

Unterstrasse 6
9000 St. Gallen
Opening hours
Mon
09:00 - 18:00
Tue
09:00 - 18:00
Wed
09:00 - 18:00
Thu
09:00 - 18:00
Fri
09:00 - 18:00
Sat
Closed
Sun
Closed

At a glance

Legal form
Association
UID
CHE-456.973.974
Founded
2017 · 9 years
Last commercial register change
July 8, 2026
Employees
51 to 100
Legal form: Graded by liability and disclosure. The weight is kept small: a sole proprietorship is not a dubious company, it is just liable differently.
73.0
6%
  • Branch offices: Branch offices linked in the commercial register. Having none is normal and costs no points.70.03%
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