Business Ideas
Module 1

Dr Daniela Marino is CEO and Co-Founder of Cutiss & winner of the Top100 Startup Award 2020. The biotech spin-off company of the University of Zurich enables personalised skin grafts. The innovative Swiss life science company is based in Schlieren and Zurich. In the Fireside Chat with Daniela Marino you can find out more about how the step from research to self-employment is possible and what you need to consider.

With Capacity, Valentina Velandia offers people with a refugee or migration background a start-up incubator with a seven-month mentoring programme. In this way, they learn to start their own business and develop their expertise into a business model. Born in Colombia, she is a migrant herself. She knows the challenges of new language, authorities and revoked university degrees. If you are interested in social and impact entrepreneurship, visit the Fireside Chat with Valentina Velandia.

Annina is the co-founder of Future.preneurship, an Impact Hub Zurich spin-off. Future.preneurship connects career starters with innovative companies for internships. Annina is a natural, warm-hearted connector, who strongly believes in the societal impact of healthy work environments and future-oriented occupations. Since 2013, she is part of the inspiring Impact Hub family. Breathing all this startup air made her grasp for a new challenge: starting her own organisation. Born was Future.preneurship!

Sandra Neumann founded Peripal in 2015. Through her previous career, Sandra possesses an extensive network in the medtech industry and thus recognized the need of many patients for an easy and safe way to perform home dialysis. Peripal financed the starting phase with its own start capital and with the help of seed money. The young company received additional funding from awards such as the W.A. de Vigier Prize 2016, the Venture Top Five, the Idee-Suisse Award and the Angels For Ladies sponsorship award. In addition, a financing round with ZKB and Aargauische Kantonalbank, as well as private investors, has so far brought a mid-single-digit million amount into the startup. Sandra herself is now one of the best-known female founders in Switzerland and was recently awarded with the Recognition Award by the Female Innovation Forum. The logical path for Peripal would be a takeover by a large medical technology group.