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1 venturelab / venture kick Good-Practice- Workshop Berlin, 24. Oktober 2011 Flavio Agosti IFJ Institut für Jungunternehmen, St. Gallen, Schweiz flavio.agosti@venturelab.ch

2 Switzerland: From Startup-Desert to Paradise? Switzerland 2003: - Top patents per capita -Inventors of the WWW and PC -Only little startup activity What should we do? Switzerland 2011: -Leading in innovation rankings -All time high in new companies -Growing Spin-off activity -Start-ups with global reach and ambitions -Top VC-firms investing in Swiss Start-ups What did we do? 2 Only 5 years ago Switzerland was still a startup desert: Missing role models, academics preferred to work for banks and big industry Now: Startups have traction because of vibrant ecosystem International attention: Swiss National Startup Team is competing against US projects Swiss Startups attract Top Sillicon Valley VC firms Swiss Startups massively overrepresented in international Startup rankings (Techcrunch, Red Herring etc.) South african Biotech Startups and Saudi Arabian Hightech Startups are trained in Switzerland 2

3 Strong National Backbone (Public and Private) CTI CTI (Commission for Technology and Innovation) CTI Project Support R&D: Program for application oriented research and development. CTI Start-up: Coaching program for Start-ups CTI Invest: Platform for BA or VC-Financing venturelab CTI funded, mandated to private company (IFJ) Strategy workshops / events for growth start-ups 3000 participants per year / 360 workshop days venture kick Financed by private Swiss foundations Pre-seed financing for high-tech projects Annual financing of approx. CHF 2 m 3 3

4 Public and Private Support Efforts Basic research R & D Market entry Expansion CTI Project Support R&D CTI Start-up CTI Invest Available Funds Entrepreneurship- Education of students Colleges Universities Professional coaching of Entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas CTI-Start-up Label Support to find private Funding Money for Research Founders Money Seed Funding Business Angel Venture Capital (Years) 4 4

5 Seamless Swiss Start-up Ecosystem Tech-Transfer and Entrepreneurship-Courses at ETH / Uni / FH Competitions Technoparks venture training Growth strategy workshop for Hightech-Startups (5 days) venture leaders US-BizDev program for the Top 20 CH-Startups (10 days) venture ideas Kick-off-Events for entrepreneurial students venture challenge Semester courses at universities cross-country (14 half days) venture plan Businessplan workshop for high-potentials (5 days) CTI Start-up CTI Project Support R&D CTI Invest Business Angels Venture Capital 5 Get academics on the start-up track! Get start-ups on the fast track to success! 5

6 venturelab : reaching critical masses, building national momentum for entrepreneurship participants 400 course modules training days All Universities in Switzerland Continuous communication 6 6

7 venture kick: Getting out of the confort zone CHF CHF projects => 4 Pay to see 3 months 6 months Motivated entrepreneur Promising idea (no company) CHF in 3 steps Kickers camps 4 projects => 2 Pay to prove Team + Business case Achievements Kickers camps CHF projects => 1 Pay to boost Company A kick-ass plan 7 7

8 Venture Kick Figures applications 350 projects presented to a jury 189 projects supported with CHF 7.1 m 131 High-tech start-ups created > CHF 120 m raised > 1000 new jobs created 8 8

9 venture leaders: Swiss Startup National Team for global footprints venture leaders is a rare chance to train alongside 20 highly selected Swiss startups with the skills to succeed, the guts to go for it and to dream big. If you can blend into that group, then your own start-up just might make it! (Thomas Quinn) National competition 20 participants / year Multiple role models and strong impact : 8 out of 10 in the, Top 100 start-up Switzerland years impact: 115 companies, 210 mio raised, high tech jobs 9 9

10 venture leaders: Swiss Startup National Team Admission process and programme for venture leaders 1.Registration open until beginning of March 2.The best 40 applicants can present in front of a jury => 20 winners 3.Kick-off meeting 2 month before the official trip to Boston 4.Programme in Boston 10 10

11 venture leaders: Swiss Startup National Team Admission process and programme for venture leaders Intense dive into the US entrepreneurial scene and personal development thanks to a programme comprising: Start-up visits Knowledge workshops with experts in US business development, IP, corporate affairs,. Babson entrepreneurship training Execution workshops focusing on developing your company hand-on Group feedback sessions Multiple networking events with the high-tech entrepreneurs scene Flexibility for personal business development activities during the all stay 11 11

12 venture leaders: Swiss Startup National Team Strong partners in the US swissnex Boston Switzerland s Knowledge Network swissnex acts as a physical and virtual environment fostering closer ties between Switzerland, New England and Eastern Canada in academia, industry and society. Professors Les Charm and Ed Marram Training- and pitch sessions at Babson College 12 12

13 Thank you for your attention!

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Financing your Start-Up in Switzerland Seminar The Practice of Entrepreneurship Fall Semester 2009, Zurich University Jan Fülscher www.jan.fuelscher.ch Overview Introduction Organisations and Instruments