About us : STARTUP CAMPUS

About us

STARTUP CAMPUS offers a wide range of startup activities for aspiring entrepreneurs and established startups, startup coaches, investors, and business angels. STARTUP CAMPUS brings together the threads of various startup activities: Innosuisse Startup Trainings, individual startup coachings, coworking spaces, startup incubators, exciting startup events, awards as well as professional conferences on current entrepreneurial topics.

All these offers are only possible thanks to the strong strength of the consortium behind STARTUP CAMPUS. The consortium consists of universities, colleges, and techno- and innovation parks in the Zurich - Eastern Switzerland region.

This is the STARTUP CAMPUS team

Emanuel Lüthi

Course Manager Zurich
Innosuisse Startup Training
emanuel.luethi@startup-campus.ch

Nathalie Minder

Marketing & Community Builder
Innosuisse Startup Training
nathalie.minder@zhaw.ch

Dr. Ben Graziano

Co-Lead, Business Concept Course
Head Trainer, Innosuisse Startup Training
ben.graziano@zhaw.ch

Dr. Richard Bläse

Co-Lead, Business Creation and Business Grwoth Course
Innosuisse Startup Training
richard.blaese@startup-campus.ch

Beata Gruschka

Co-Lead Runway Startup Incubator
Innosuisse Startup Training
beata.gruschka@zhaw.ch

Melanie Binggeli

Co-Lead Runway Startup Incubator
Innosuisse Startup Training
melanie.binggeli@zhaw.ch

Merle Zur

Event & Projectmanager
STARTUP CAMPUS & Impact Hub Zurich
merle.zur@startup-campus.ch

Björn Ignell

Course Manager Lausanne, Innosuisse Startup Training (Social Entrepreneurship)
STARTUP CAMPUS
björn.ignell@startup-campus.ch

Bernd Schneider

Course Manager St. Gallen, Innosuisse Startup Training
STARTUP CAMPUS
bernd.schneider@startfeld.ch

Dr. Matthias Hölling

Team Lead Foundation Affairs at Foundation, TECHNOPARK® Zurich
STARTUP CAMPUS Advisor
matthias.hoelling@technopark.ch

Dr. Christoph Birkholz

Co-founder Impact Hub Zürich
Advisor STARTUP CAMPUS
christoph.birkholz@impacthub.ch

Dr. Matthias Filser

Head, STARTUP CAMPUS
Head, Center for Entrepreneurship (ZHAW)
Lead, Innosuisse Startup Training
matthias.filser@zhaw.ch

Some facts about STARTUP CAMPUS

Our coaches and experts

Mariana Christen Jakob

Founder/ Expert for Social Entrepreneurship

Expert for Social Entrepreneurship

Work experience 18 Years

Startup experience 9 Years

Experience in private economy

2011 - Today

Founder and CEO of SEIF GmbH

2013 - Today

Trainer and Coach for Innosuisse Start-up Trainings

2002 - 2017

Professor and Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Lucerne

1997 - 2000

Lecturer and Project Leader, Zurich University for Teacher Education

Berufserfahrung Academia

2017

Impact Investing Oxford, United Kingdom

2002

Executive Master of Business Administration, University of St. Gallen

1991

Master in Social and Economical Studies, University of Zurich

Phil Bachmann

Leiter Service Innovation Lab FH Graubünden

He is lecturer for human-centered innovation and project leader at the Swiss Institiute of Entrepreneurship SIFE at HTW Chur. As a certified Design Thinking Coach, he accompanies start-ups from problem definition through idea generation and validation to market entry.

Work experience 15 Years

Startup experience Years

Founding experience

elefantstudios.ch (Coach)

Experience in private economy

Since 2016

Digital Strategy & Design Thinking - Head of Service Innovation Lab University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur

2014 - 2016

Digital Strategy - Sr. Project Manager Strategy & Innovation/ Deputy Head Retail Digital Migros Cooperative Association

2012 – 2014

Strategy Consulting – Manager Deloitte Consulting AG

2011 – 2011