Startup Scene

  • Experiencing MoneyConf

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    Sébastien Flury

    Back to MoneyConf : more than 1,200 people came from 50 different countries. Mostly fromIreland and UK, but also from allo over Europe, as it can be seen on the following picture. The conference also gathered something as 120 speakers and 40 startups, among which 22 went on stage to pitch the jury (comprised of Rob…

  • 30 startups to meet on June 25th

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    Sébastien Flury

    to qualify for the European Venture Summit which will take place at the end of 2015. Startups come mostly from Switzerland, with an addition of 4 Italian startups and one from France. The conference is open ot anyone upon registration. And you can grab a 20% discount to AVHF by using this code startupolic15 INFORMATION…

  • 5 European Tech Conferences

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    Sébastien Flury

  • Meet 8 promising Swiss startups on May 11th

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    Sébastien Flury

    SICTIC Investor Day is taking place in Lausanne (15 of such events already happened in Zürich). The jury, comprised of Pierre Bordry (Capital Proximité), Alexandre Peyraud (aleCent), Pierre-Jean Wipff (Innovaud) and Sal Matteis (entrepreneur and investor), had a hard time selecting the best 8 startups that will have the opportunity to pitch. 22 high qualitative…

  • 5 Startup Events To Attend In Switzerland

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    Sébastien Flury

    My Events Selection, where I suggest some events that I find interesting and that you should consider attending if you’re in the startup/digital world. Switzerland is that tiny that I don’t focus on a specific location (you can reach almost every place in 2 hours, you know it), so you’ll find events taking place in…

  • Apply to ICC: The International Create Challenge

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    Sébastien Flury

    The International Create Challenge is back. This (free) 3 weeks intensive and immersive technology accelerator program will take place from 25th of August to 15th of September in Martigny. Started by the Idiap Research Institute and the Association for Interactive Multimodal Information Management, now also supported by Polytech Ventures, the challenge is like an extended…

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    5 Startup Competitions to Apply for in April

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    Sébastien Flury

  • The 7 startups of Startup Weekend Biel/Bienne

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    Sébastien Flury

    [/x_video_embed] [x_video_embed type= »16:9″ no_container= »true »][/x_video_embed] And then, the marathon really began… customer development, refinement of the project, desires to pivot to another project, re-focusing the idea… and developing the business model until late Saturday night. Sunday was then mostly dedicated to the pitches… even though many only started last minute to practice the pitch (or even…

  • The Waking Up of FinTech in Switzerland

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    Sébastien Flury

    advantage is definitely over. And that they are now forced to innovate, if they want to continue to compete with financial hotspots like New York, London or Singapore. To demonstrate the economic importance of the Swiss financial center in the country, here are 3 key numbers (source: SwissBanking): 105’000+ jobs 6’136 billions in assets under…

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    Learnings from emerging markets

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    Sébastien Flury

    Seedstars, a Geneva-based organization co-founded by Pierre-Alain Masson, Michael Weber and Adrien de Loës, aims to build and to grow companies. Seedstars World is one of their project, powered by Alisée de Tonnac, one of the few « women in tech » in Switzerland. Alizée and her team are travelling around the emerging world to discover the…