Ai4Privacy
Open-source dataset and Chrome extension to safeguard user privacy when using AI.
Cognitive Inspect
AI-powered software for predictive monitoring of industrial equipment.
Decentralized Energy Corporation
A platform for buying and selling solar energy from shared installations.
EauRoot
Irrigation system combining traditional and modern technologies for better efficiency.
Foldcast
Software for designing recyclable paper formworks, reducing concrete use.
Innovative desalination process
Water desalination technology using complex sound frequencies.
Jobelink
Marketplace streamlining the matching of professional service providers and clients.
myDoctorAngel
Virtual oncology center delivering diagnostic and therapeutic services at home.
POND-50
Multifunctional active seating system to prevent and treat back pain.
Securified
Secure cloud-based data analysis system with multiple security mechanisms.
Skills: Business Strategy, Leadership / Team, Marketing & Sales, Pitching
Industries: Consulting & Services, ICT / Software & Data Engineering
Multinational company Senior executive for 25+ years; since 2007 Business Angel and Mentor, here to boost your Funding Strategy, Business Development, Go to Market Plans and ready to share my network.
Executive with 30+ years of international experience in Strategic Planning, Corporate Finance, M&A, particularly in banking, fintech, and medtech. Active for years in the startup arena, I am an expert at Innosuisse. In addition, I give university lectures on finance, fintech and strategic innovation.
Seasoned and enthusiast manager and entrepreneur with diverse experiences across industries, company sizes and cultures, I will challenge you and help you to refine your business proposition and understand what it really takes to go from a brilliant idea to a viable company.
Graduated at the ETH, I hold management and BoD positions. Mentor Innosuisse, business angel and startups coach, I bring strong entrepreneurial skills to support startups in their way to success.
Leveraging 8 years of Venture Building and Entrepreneurial experience within Startups and SMEs, I'm here to help you refine your business plan, organise your fundraising strategy, enhance your pitching skills and define your governance.
20+ years of Corporate Finance experience in international contexts, I also founded a digital company. It will be a pleasure to support you in redefining your Business Plan and Pitching activities.
Skills: Business Strategy, Finance, Leadership / Team, Pitching, Value Proposition & Business Model Design
Industries: Consulting & Services, Electronic & Mechanical Engineering, Sport / Leisure / Tourism / Lifestyle
Chairman of the board and former CEO, I have focused on mentoring, coaching through Innosuisse, USI and Boldbrain in the past three years. I will challenge your strategy & business model but not only.
Experienced entrepreneur, innovator, industry manager and CEO of medical device startup. Coached startups in medical, cleantech and ICT with product, go to market, business plan and pitching.
Thanks to 15+ years activity in tech-product development and 90+ startup projects advised and brought to live, I can bring your idea to reality and help you identify your strengths and weaknesses!
After an executive career in luxury and fashion, I earned a PhD in ICTs and transitioned to academia, lecturing internationally. I'll help you market your vision, values, and project effectively. Let's win together!
Skills: Business Strategy, Finance, Market Analysis, Marketing & Sales, Value Proposition & Business Model Design
Industries: Consulting & Services, Consumer Products & Services, Fintech / Insurance Tech
With a background in VC, corporate venturing and development I can assist you in formulating and implementing commercial and financial strategies.
Experienced entrepreneur, engineer, consultant, manager and mentor ready to help you start a great ICT, cleantech or medtech business and get it funded. Dream it. Believe it. Achieve it.
Skills: Business Strategy, Engineering, Marketing & Sales
Industries: Fintech / Insurance Tech, ICT / Software & Data Engineering, Sport / Leisure / Tourism / Lifestyle
Seasoned mentor with 8+ years in multinational & startup marketing. Secured $1.5M funding in 2020. Expertise in marketing, pitching, investor relations & business development.
I am a lawyer helping startups in matters related to their corporate structure, as well as bringing my wide experience in the use of blockchain, AI, Web 3.0 into the startup business model.
Transforming startups into compelling powerhouses on stage. As a pitching expert and startup owner, I'm passionate about helping you blend logic and emotion in your pitch to win over any audience.
Leveraging 20+ years of Sale & Marketing experience within multinational companies, I'm here to help you refine your Business Model, your Business Plan and to develop new revenue streams hypotheses.
Regional Jury
Sketchin is a strategic design studio working globally to anticipate the experience of the future. Founded in Switzerland in 2006, today it interprets the latest technologies to drive digital transformation and evolve new businesses, anticipating the human experience and creating sustainable value over time.
The SUPSI Master's in Business Administration is an educational program that aims to develop in-depth and specialized skills in the design, planning, evaluation, implementation and management of change and transformation processes in organizations at the strategic and operational levels.
The Helsinn Group is a fully integrated global biopharmaceutical company with more than four decades of business experience, a leadership position in therapies to support cancer patients worldwide, and a strong focus on oncology and rare diseases.
FEMTOprint is a Swiss high-tech contract development and fabrication company specializing in high-precision 3D microfabrication in glass. With its innovative proprietary FEMTOPRINT® platform, it serves major industrial companies with feasibility studies, rapid prototyping, pilot and wafer-level industrial series production.
The Center for Management Skills and Entrepreneurship (CMI) operates with the intention of offering support to local companies, entities and institutions in addressing the increasingly complex challenges posed by an ever-changing reference environment.
Privilège Ventures SA is a Swiss venture capital firm licensed by FINMA with headquarters in Lugano and offices in Zurich and Boston. The company invests in seed-early stage startups, active in a variety of sectors, and with a focus on the Swiss market.
National Jury
SICTIC connects investors with Swiss seed and early stage startups in the ICT sector. SICTIC is a nonprofit association that has a strong investor community and organizes matchmaking of startups and investors online and at pitching events.
Leadership Lighthouse accompanies startups over the long term and equips them with the skills and support they need to achieve resilient CEOs and strong teams.
Aare Ventures connects selected early-stage startups with an active business angel community in the Bernese Mittelland region. Aare Ventures organizes four events a year, giving 40 startups the opportunity to present themselves. In the past three years, this has resulted in more than 15 investments per year.
Business Angels Switzerland (BAS) has been the leading network of business angels in Switzerland for more than two decades, with chapters in French-speaking Switzerland and Zurich. BAS organizes 20 events and 60 startup presentations per year. These events lead to more than 10 investments per year and are appreciated by members and startups for their friendly atmosphere.
NLS Pharmaceutics is a NASDAQ-listed clinical-stage biotech based in Switzerland. Its R&D focus is based on a strong scientific understanding of neurobehavioral and neurocognitive disorders. It develops innovative treatments for central nervous system (CNS), rare and/or neurodegenerative diseases.
The Gebert Rüf Stiftung was founded by entrepreneur Heinrich Gebert as a foundation for science and innovation with the aim of strengthening "Switzerland as an economic and living space." With an annual budget of 15 million francs, it promotes entrepreneurial science, innovation and education projects throughout Switzerland.
The activities of the Office for Economic Development (USE) focus on three macro-themes - promotion of entrepreneurship and innovation, development of the tourism sector, and repositioning of peripheral regions - and aim to foster lasting and sustainable economic growth that enhances the territorial peculiarities and the network of academic and business excellence in our territory.
BancaStato is the bank of reference in Ticino. It promotes the economic development of the Canton and offers Ticinese people the opportunity to invest their savings in a safe and profitable way. The Bank supports hundreds of Ticino companies, associations and organizations engaged in sports, cultural, charitable and research activities.
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