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17/10/2024ByIn

Using the fire of a Crisis to start your Business

Often when a crisis hits, on a personal or global level, we are paralyzed, stop doing things, watch, hope, and mostly do nothing – however, these crises are an opportunity to change, to do better, to do something different while others sit and watch – for me this state has happened a few times, like...
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26/02/2024ByIn

Climate Tech Female Founders & Investors Dinner

Dive into the future of sustainability at the Climate Tech Female Founders & Investors Dinner, co-hosted with FELFEL!🚀🗓️ March 12, 2024 – 5pm to 9pm📍 FELFEL, Räffelstrasse 24, 8045 Zurich Join us for an evening of insights from an experienced sustainability-focused founder and investor, revealing the keys to successful angel investing in this impactful area.🌿 Yet, it’s not...
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29/06/2023ByIn

Starting Your Own Business: A Challenge Worth Considering

In today’s innovative and ambitious world, entrepreneurship has emerged as a path that offers both fulfillment and success. Choosing this journey is not just a career decision; it is a transformative experience that challenges you while providing an opportunity to positively impact the world through your business. Although entrepreneurship may entail uncertainty and risks, it...
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24/05/2023ByIn

Female Founders Investors Pitch Event

🎉 It was a blast: 22 female founders and 6 investors participated in our 5th edition of the female founders pitch event! #girlsjustwannahavefunds The event started with an inspiring fireside chat with Nadine Jürgensen from elleXX universe AG and Jennifer Webb from Swisscom Ventures. They talked about their fundraising experiences from the perspective of a female founder and an investor. A big thank...
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29/04/2023ByIn

Female Founders Pitch Event

Want to meet up with investors and fellow female founders in a safe space?✨ We are thrilled to announce that the 5th Female Founders Pitch Event will take place on Tuesday, May 16 at Google in Zurich! We will start out our event with two outstanding speakers: Nadine Jürgensen, Co-Founder of elleXX, and Jennifer Webb, Investment Director at Swisscom...
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11/03/2023ByIn

The Collective – the new platform for the promotion of female entrepreneurship

Another step towards diversity in Switzerland! 🤩 SICTIC and startup days have launched a new platform that supports organizations and initiatives aiming to narrow the gender gap in the startup scene. On their new website, they openly showcase them and also point to diversity events and resources. Thanks to SICTIC and startup days for this great platform. Check out the website: https://collective.startupdays.ch #collective #startupdays...
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10/05/2022ByIn

Female Founder Pitching Event

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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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01/02/2022ByIn

Switzerland: A great place to start your new venture … but for whom?

Once again, Switzerland has been ranked as being among the most supportive environments for entrepreneurship and innovation in the world. Yet, if we bring gender into the equation, everything changes.  Ranking high? Ranking low! Repeatedly, Switzerland is recognized for its institutional context that makes the starting and developing of new ventures relatively easy (GEM 2019/2020)....
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