The Venture Leaders Technology impress Silicon Valley investors
The Venture Leaders Technology roadshow 2021 brought 15 entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley. The selected startups strengthened their entrepreneurial network through exchanges with their peers in the team and benefited from valuable market exposure, pitch sessions with investors and experts, and hands-on business development.
The Venture Leaders—the Swiss National Startup Team members—envision themselves as global players and want to take the next step towards international expansion. Venturelab has been organizing international roadshows for the Swiss National Startup Teams for 16 years. The ambitious entrepreneurs and their promising startups are introduced to high-class investors and potential customers in leading technology hubs such as Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, China, Hong Kong, and Barcelona.The Venture Leaders Technology roadshow offers a one-week deep dive into the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. The trip includes several pitch sessions to US investors, expert workshops, and industry insights. The participants will not only build a strong network in the United States but also be part of a team of entrepreneurs who share the same objectives and challenges. Alumni comprise high-flying startups such as Lemoptix and Composyt Light Labs (acquired by Intel), Faceshift and Fashwell (acquired by Apple), HouseTrip (acquired by TripAdvisor), Kooaba (acquired by Qualcomm), Tastehit (acquired by Selligent), and Dacuda (acquired by Magic Leap).
Swiss technology startups connect with Silicon Valley investors and experts
The week-long roadshow in and around San Francisco included investor pitch and feedback sessions with Toni Schneider from True Ventures, Philipp Stauffer from Fyrfly Ventures, Gran Allen from SE Ventures, Ben Narasin from Tenacity Venture Capital, and Chris Kim from Union Labs.
“It was great to spend one week in the Bay Area with a diverse group of entrepreneurs, learning more about their ambition in an inspiring environment. Also, being directly exposed to globally leading corporations and VCs helped me to evolve as a person.” –Maximilian Groth, Co-founder and CEO of Decentriq 
Furthermore, the founders built their legal knowledge on setting up shop in the US and how to scale the team and their startup in expert workshop sessions. The group also participated in business development sessions with Google, Morrison & Foerster, Simon Kutcher, JJ Human Capital, and Swiss Business Hub USA.
“The Venture Leaders program was the perfect opportunity to present our startup to the American market. We got the chance to pitch in front of well-known Silicon Valley investors and participated in in-depth training around typical startup challenges. Thank you for a fun week with amazing coaches, inspiring personalities, and ambitious startup leaders who strive for the sky,” said Liliane Ableitner, Co-founder and CEO of Exnaton. 
“The Venture Leaders roadshow offers a unique opportunity ‘to get a foot in the door’ of the Silicon Valley ecosystem. The blend of valuable topic sessions with the opportunity to pitch Veertly to top-tier US investors as well as exchanging with other successful Swiss Entrepreneurs is simply perfect. This fantastic experience inspired me even more to think big in the long term, but it also gave me a very clear picture of the required steps to enter the US market and how to attract American VC firms for Veertly. Many thanks to the whole Venture Leaders team for making this possible!” – Alex Spahn, Co-founder and CEO of Veertly Mid-week, the Swiss National Startup Team pitched before an audience of Bay Area guests at swissnex San Francisco. The Swiss Startup Night was one of the very first in-person events since the COVID-19 pandemic in San Francisco and showcased Switzerland’s technology potential.
Stefan Steiner, co-managing director at Venturelab summarized the roadshow as follows: “Switzerland can be proud of the Swiss National Startup Team. The Venture Leaders Technology selection has excited investors, and I am convinced that we will hear about financing rounds shortly.”
The Venture Leaders Technology 2021 program is organized by Venturelab and supported by dpd Switzerland, EPF Lausanne, ETH Zurich, Intel, Kellerhals Carrard, Morrison & Foerster, Rothschild & Co, and the Canton of Vaud.
For a summary of the roadshow, check out some of the week’s highlights:
Good morning everyone. Discover the best impressions from the Venture Leaders Technology roadshow from last week: https://t.co/x8RUCbscBJ #VleadersTech @Aero41O @cysecsystems @decentriq @exnaton_tech @EyewareTech @SkribbleHQ @smarthelioIOT @Foodetective_ @veertly @xorlab
— Venturelab (@venturelab_ch) November 8, 2021
Learn more about the Venture Leaders Technology that traveled to San Francisco:
Aero41 SA: Ecoresponsible and inteligent (AI) crop protection UAV
Today, means of aerial treatments (in Switzerland - prohibited in Europe!) and on the ground are used, with corollaries known of the public and policies: exposure of the workers to the applied product... Read more
CYSEC SA: Securing space internet and satellite connectivity
CYSEC is a european cybersecurity company based in in Switerland and France, with additional locations in Italy and UAE. Since 2018, CYSEC has been providing world-leading organizations with high-per... Read more
dq technologies AG : Data clean rooms powered by confidential computing
Decentriq is an enterprise SaaS platform providing data clean rooms - allowing users to leverage data previously not possible. By enforcing compliance and control with advanced privacy technologies... Read more
Exnaton AG : The platform for renewable energy and sustainable lifestyles
The AI billing platform for the energy transition - Exnaton is a software provider and spin-off company from ETH Zürich that builds a platform for the energy market of tomorrow. Eager to pave the way ... Read more
Eyeware Tech SA: Attention Sensing with 3D Eye Tracking
Eyeware develops technology for understanding human attention in 3D environments with direct applications in multiple industries, including gaming, robotics, research, advertising, and more. We can ac... Read more
GenLots SA: Optimally purchase materials for industrial production
GenLots computes the optimal way to order external materials & components needed for production - in terms of timing, quantity, frequency - with proprietary AI across 5 factors: acquisition cost, orde... Read more
Nanocorp AG: Marketing automation for non-expert users powered by ML
Sasha Schriber is the CEO and founder of NANOS.AI, a machine learning company based in Switzerland. Nanos turns the process of creating and placing online advertisements into a simple, automated, and ... Read more
Pick8ship Technology AG: Shelf-less robot fulfillment (hardware+software)
Pick8ship Robot Fulfillment and Delivery system for e-commerce and B2B replenishment: (1) Smart Containers with no stacking and no shelves, but flexible storage of load carriers. (2) Automation with m... Read more
PowerAPI SA: Intelligent, Modular & Composable Commerce Platform & APIs
PowerAPI is the software builder that helps businesses with points-of-sales, simplify and unify their tech development through powerful low-code modules. Read more
SmartHelio Sarl: Doctor of solar plants
We are the doctor of Solar PV plants. We have developed a proprietary IoT sensor and intelligent software to keep solar plants healthy and generate more clean energy. Solar plants around the glob... Read more
Synthara AG: We design processors to enable AI applications on the edge
Synthara is a Zurich-based artificial intelligence (AI) company that provides system-level solutions for businesses to enhance their products or services with smart features Portable and wearable gad... Read more
Veertly SA: Building bridges to connect and collaborate anywhere
Veertly is a European technology company offering a flexible all-in-one platform for hybrid and online events, as well as digital collaboration, completely rethinking digital interactions. Veertly... Read more
xorlab AG: Redefining enterprise communication security
xorlab helps enterprises prevent communication and collaboration-based threats like e.g. ransomware, phishing, business email compromise with their machine-intelligent SaaS defense platform ActiveGuar... Read more
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