Startup Stories & Drinks: Get to know successful founders as well as alumni from past Innosuisse Start-up Trainings who will talk about their personal startup stories (of success AND failure) and share their founding experiences with you. A real necessity for anyone who wants to take the plunge into entrepreneurship!
Do you want to realize your business idea? In this semester course, you will learn the most important basics for founding and managing your own startup. You get access to the Swiss startup ecosystem including all necessary tools and valuable personal contacts. At the end of the course, you will have a strong business concept in your hands that will convince investors and industry experts. Perhaps you will also meet your future co-founders in this course.
Do you have a business idea with a positive impact on society, the environment or any other area? No matter if you are about to start your own startup or have recently started a social business, in the Business Creation for Social Entrepreneurs course experienced startup coaches support you in challenging your business model. You will get specific answers to your most important business questions as well as useful tips for the first steps before and after founding. Deepen your knowledge, improve your strategy and guide your young startup towards the path to success.
Have you already founded a startup with which you can generate a positive social or environmental impact? The course Business Growth for Social Entrepreneurs will help you to develop your social business, focusing on growth-strategies such as systematic partner and customer acquisition, strategy, impact measurement, financing and internationalization. You analyze the barriers, opportunities and markets in your industry and gain useful knowledge about the processes and structures for the growth of your Impact Startup. Get ready to accelerate!
Are you or do you want to become a successful startup board member? During 4 afternoons the participants will be sensitized to the risks and challenges of a start-up board of directors – in interactive workshops, presentations, case studies, discussions and a final board due diligence including live pitching. This specialized training program is aimed at interested business angels, board members and investors who would like to learn first-hand practical tips and advice for the successful management of a start-up.
Trademarks, patents, copyright, trade secrets, contracts. As an entrepreneur without a profound legal education, you quickly feel overwhelmed by these topics. The short intensive workshops at Technopark Zurich provide some clarity and answer a few questions.
The Startfeld Investors Forum offers selected, innovative companies in the start-up and growth phase the opportunity to meet top-class investors. Together with Startup Invest, the leading Swiss financing platform, and SICTIC, Startfeld is hosting the Forum.
The AETP is a six-month, part-time entrepreneurship training program that takes place mainly in Zurich. The aim is to develop a business idea, then to network with suitable investors in Jakarta (Indonesia) and enter the Asian market.
The ieLab is the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lab of ETH Zurich and promotes, challenges, networks, supports and accompanies young entrepreneurs to entrepreneurial success.
Kickstart supports your startup in scaling your business in Switzerland. It is a yearly running acceleration program in Switzerland that brings together later-stage startups with corporations, foundations, universities and cities in order to foster deep tech innovation.
The Impact Academy offers you targeted support in crucial areas of the growth phase of your social business. The aim is to make your Start-up ready for impact investments through coaching and a supplementing online library.
In the RUNWAY Startup Incubator, we offer young entrepreneurs tailor-made coaching, excellent networking and consulting. In addition, incubatees profit from the physical coworking space and state-of-the-art infrastructure at Technopark Winterthur. Our goal: to accelerate you and your early-stage startup within a few months and make you ready to take off.
Through this platform, innovative startups and SMEs can assess their needs and identify the most qualified experts to join their Board, or Advisory Board. Accredited Board members can further improve their skills with exclusive and curated content as well as customized training.
“venture” is an initiative of ETH Zurich, McKinsey & Company Switzerland, Knecht Holding, the innovation promotion agency Innosuisse and the EPFL. The leading Swiss start-up competition supports young entrepreneurs in setting up their own businesses.
A Pioneer Fellowship is awarded to one or two individuals intending to independently develop a highly innovative product or service to be exploited commercially and/or for the benefit of society.
The Startup Accelerator is a professional online learning platform for startups with training content on entrepreneurial topics.
Founded in 2016, MassChallenge Switzerland has quickly become a leading driver of innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe by connecting startups with the experts and resources they need to grow.
With the UZH BioEntrepreneur-Fellowships, the University of Zurich provides funding, advice, and support to young researchers in life sciences and related fields who intend to start up a company based on their own research carried out at UZH.