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25/02/2023ByIn

Sciencepreneurship Summer School

Are you a PhD candidate interested in learning more about: 🚀 how science can be directly valuable for society and scale from lab to market🧑‍🔬 how you get and choose the right team, investors, advisors, and legal setup❌ what the common pitfalls in this process are, and how to avoid them Then you shouldn’t miss the ETH Zürich and Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Sciencepreneurship Summer School 2023! Especially...
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11/02/2023ByIn

Portfolio Startup – Agrinorm

Introducing another amazing company from our portfolio: Agrinorm 🚀It’s a pleasure for us to co-invest in the company with QBIT Capital represented by Georges Khneysser, Thomas Dübendorfer as Business Angel and Cornelia Gut-Villa.  Agrinorm helps fresh food suppliers to exceed their customers’ expectations while reducing complaints and waste.  We are very proud of your progress Sharon Wulff and Daria Reisch! Keep up the good work!🔥
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11/02/2023ByIn

Get Inspired – Makou Event

Flashback to one of the events we were a part of in 2022! 🚀 Makou is a platform for female founders and women working in startups who think that by working together, we can advance ourselves. They connect women by providing a community of fellow Start-up women, empowerment, support, knowledge, and exchange.  Our very own Isabelle Siegrist was...
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30/09/2022ByIn

Convertible Loan Agreement – How to secure funds before the Summer Break

💥When to use a CLA? Here are some key takeaways from our event with Nina Portier Reinhart, SICTIC – Swiss ICT Investor Club and Karin Oberlin from MLL Legal: 📄What’s a convertible loan agreement?A convertible loan agreement is a financial instrument that combines debt instrument with an equity instrument. It’s important to mention that there’s a mechanism by which...
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10/05/2022ByIn

Female Founder Pitching Event

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04/02/2022ByIn

Smart-up x female founders luncheon – negotiation

We had an historic moment at our event: our first male guest speaker. Christoph Hauser, professor and head of the competence center management and law at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, gave the participants an insight into the topic “negotiating with investors”. The focus was on how to prepare for a negotiation,...
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01/02/2022ByIn

Smart-up x female founders luncheon – 1×1 of financing

At the end of the first season of the Smart-up x female founders luncheons, we addressed a very important topic: financing your own business. Marco Stutz, investment director and board member at various startups, enriched this event with his valuable inputs. What does the term “venture capital” actually mean and when is the right time...
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01/02/2022ByIn

Smart-up x female founders luncheon – branding & positioning

On april 29, 2021, another Smart-up x female founders luncheon took place. The event focused on the topics “branding & positioning”. Jennifer Bänziger, founder and partner of hurrah design studio, spoke about her journey to self-employment and what she learned along the way. She outlined the steps a startup should take to position itself, as...
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01/02/2022ByIn

Why addressing funding towards female founders makes sense

Female entrepreneurs are systematically conquering the world’s entrepreneurship scene and have recently developed into the fastest growing founder group in the world (Birkner, Ettl, Welter, & Ebbers, 2018). With innovative solutions, they do not only follow their male counterparts but increasingly venture into new areas of entrepreneurship. These female-led startups provide highly promising but oftentimes...
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01/02/2022ByIn

Biases and their impact on venture-investing-decisions

Modern theories increasingly investigate the question why people make irrational investment decisions and conclude that investment decisions are strongly influenced by psychological factors such as unconscious bias. Now, what kind of biases do we talk about when thinking about the startup scene? This question can best be answered when considering the male dominance in such...
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