Startup Scene

  • Startup Weekend Biel/Bienne is back on March 18th!

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    Sébastien Flury

    Startup Weekend is coming back to Biel/Bienne, the biggest bilingual city of Switzerland. And again, I’m deeply involved in the organisation, as Biel/Bienne is kind of my home city. You may have heard that Startup Weekend Lausanne just happened, on EPFL campus. Startup Weekend Biel/Bienne is different. Less students, more people active as manager, developers,…

  • GO WEST! 7 days to apply to Venture Leaders NYC

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    Sébastien Flury

  • Time to Lift!

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    Sébastien Flury

    Lift Conference is taking place again in Geneva. For thos who haven’t heard from it so far… that probably means that: you’re new on the startup scene (great, welcome!) you’re living on another planet (or at least, not in Switzerland ;-)…) Lift Conference is a great conference to get inspiration for top innovators from around…

  • startupolic.com turned 4… today!

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    Sébastien Flury

    first ever blog post. My initial idea was just to share knowledge and insights I was collecting in my startup journey. And get to know new people, connect them and bring my little contribution to the development of the Swiss startup scene. I committed to blog at least once a week (I know: I was…

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    Apply to the Swiss Fintech Award until Nov 30th!

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    Sébastien Flury

    explained earlier this year, the Swiss fintech scene is growing rapidly. And even more since then! A new award was launched end of September: « The Swiss FinTech Award ». The idea is to build a national ecosystem that helps Swiss fintech companies going forward, and gaining international attention. Initiated by Finanz und Wirtschaft Forum, the initiative…

  • 10 great things I did (not) see at TechCrunch Disrupt SF

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    Sébastien Flury

    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. Have you…

  • 4 Startups Conferences to Consider in September

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    Sébastien Flury

    taking a hard-earned break! Startup conferences are starting again and it is hard to make a choice. I’ve discovered new and valuable conferences that I want to share with you (of course, you cannot be everywhere so choose wisely! And don’t go everywhere, you have a startup to run!): VentureDays, Prague – 21-22 September: Venture…

  • Win CHF 10'000.- for your Fintech Startup

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    Sébastien Flury

    this and this post). Of course, because Switzerland (in a whole) is one of the biggest financial hubs in the world. And things are moving, and it’s great to see this happening! A few ago, a new fintech association is born, namely Swiss FinteCH. This new organization came out of the Fintech Meetups Zürich and…

  • Win a startup trip to Tel Aviv

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    Sébastien Flury

    Startup Manifesto to transform Switzerland into a real Startup Nation, initated by the association Le Réseau. It is still a long way to go to have a mature startup ecosystem in Switzerland (talking about web and mobile companies, not life sciences). The advantage is that Swiss startups know from day 1 that they need to…

  • Apply to Fintech Fusion: #1 Swiss fintech acceleration program!

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    Sébastien Flury

    Banks Mountains Watches Chocolate Less known for the quality of its startups, even if Switzerland is one of the most innovative country according to the Global Innovation Index (it’s probably not the right metric, but that’s another debate). And even less for fintech. Right now. Fintech is getting very hype everywhere and we feel it…