Fundraising
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The Seed Round Guide: Is Big Always Better Than Small? (I/III)
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This is a guest post by Penny Schiffer a Zürich-based energetic woman, passionate by the startup and investment world. She’s currently managing the startup initiatives of Swisscom and in charge of the « Swisscom Startup Challenge » and also part of Swisscom Ventures and a member of the business angel club Go Beyond. In my…
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Why Switzerland needs the Swiss Investment Fund
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Daniel Poffet, now graduated (congrats, btw!), did a great research in explaining what the European Investment Fund (EIF) is. Basically, the EIF is a public-private partnership founded in 1994 aiming to allow a better access to (venture) capital. It is mainly owned by the European Investment Bank and by the European Union. The activity of…
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Apply to SICTIC Investor Day Lausanne!
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APPLY before Sunday 11th of October 2015, at 23:59:59! [button shape= »rounded » size= »regular » float= »none » href= »http://www.sictic.ch/#!sid22/c74u » title= »APPLY to pitch at SICTIC Investor Day » info= »none » info_place= »top » info_trigger= »hover »]APPLY to pitch at SICTIC Investor Day[/button] Investors and other people who want to participate can register until Friday 6th of November 2015, at 17h00.]]>
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2 Interesting (Swiss) Startup Awards
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The UBS Future of Finance Challenge The UBS Future of Finance Challenge is for (fintech) startups transforming the banking industry. UBS is looking for early stage fintech companies (<5years old, <3M turnover) disrupting the finance industry or at least, changing how banks fill the needs of their customers. Applying…
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Discover the 10 (+26) startups from Seedstars World Competiton
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6 degrees (Singapore) is a connected, self-updatingphonebook that helps you search your friends’ networks, get introductions to new people, shops & businesses. Busportal (Lima, Peru) is a online tool helping customers to find, compare and buy bus tickets in Latin America in a efficient way. Krowdpop (Seoul, South Korea) is the world’s first concert crowd…
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9 Learnings from The Swiss Venture Capital Report
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here. The total Venture Capital raised in Switzerland in 2014 (or at least, the fundraising deals that were published) reached CHF 457M, 10% more than in 2013. A big, huge success? Sounds so, but… there are a lot of learnings here, confirming what a lot of startup entrepreneurs are experiencing on the ground: The 5…
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Get Free Funding and Mentoring: the Hello Tomorrow Challenge
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Founded by French entrepreneurs Xavier Duportet and Arnaud De La Tour in 2011, Hello Tomorrow is a non-profit organization aiming at creating bridges between scientists, investors and entrepreneurs in all major technological fields. The challenge is open to anyone trying to solve major problems with technology in the following categories: Foods & Agriculture Materials &…
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Financing Your Startup: Use the Power of the Crowd
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Financing your startup: use the power of the crowd » in Biel/Bienne. It will take place at the local technology park INNOCAMPUS (it’s 5min walk from train station!). We will have two speakers presenting 2 aspects of the crowd-funding: Julien Pache: Managing Director of the participative investment platform investiere.ch; Marie-Sophie Pocha: responsible of crowd-funding and special…
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The magical word to raise money
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You may have heard that there are investors out there who write a check to cool founders with « just » a great idea. It’s time to get back to reality. Don’t dream, it doesn’t happen like this in the real world. Or it is extremely rare. It may have been possible some years ago (I’ve never…