Venture Leaders Technology Pitch at ETH Zurich in Launch of Silicon Valley Roadshow
Venturelab welcomed the next generation of tech entrepreneurs to ETH Zurich last Wednesday, at the exciting launch event for the team of entrepreneurs about to depart for the Venture Leaders roadshow in Silicon Valley. The Startup Champions event highlighted the 10 Venture Leaders Technology startups that should be on your watch list along with prestigious keynote speaker Dennis Just, CEO at Smallpdf who shared his best practices.
The 10 ambitious entrepreneurs, selected by a jury from more than 140 applicants, met for the first time as a team during the afternoon's kick-off briefing ahead of the intensity of startup roadshow in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley.
After opening words of Thomas Dysli, VP of ETH Entrepreneur Club and Stefan Steiner, Co-Managing Director of Venturelab, about the dynamism of the Swiss start-up ecosystem, keynote speech by Dennis Just, CEO at Smallpdf inspired the audience. The serial entrepreneur founded Numbrs, the largest mobile banking company in Germany, and Knip, a mobile insurance company serving millions of customers. After making Forbes' 30 under 30 list, he joined Smallpdf as CEO in 2019. In his talk, he condensed 10 years of entrepreneurship into 9 actionable pieces of advice.
The 10 winners of this year's Venture Leaders Technology then pitched their ideas. They will roadshow in Silicon Valley as the Swiss National Startup Team. To select the group's captain, each of the Venture Leaders presented their startups' in lightning, two-minutes pitches to the supporters crowding the ETH.9 Startup Lessons by Serial Entrepreneur @DennisJust @venturelab_ch #SwissStartups #SUChamps #VleadersTech #innoupdate pic.twitter.com/bZURk8eEW4
— Maarten Korz (@korz) March 5, 2020
The public crowd selected the winner Reinout Oussoren from Skypull who will be the captain of the team during their roadshow from March 30th to April 3rd. Follow their journey using the hashtag #vleaderstechThe Swiss National Startup Team's roadshow to Silicon Valley is organized by Venturelab in cooperation with our partners Rothschild & Co Bank, Kellerhals Carrard, DPD, Swisscom, Canton de Vaud, EPF Lausanne and ETH Zurich.
Discover the founders and startups in the Venture Leaders Technology team 2020
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
Distran AG: Ultrasound leakage imaging
3% of all the methane extracted is lost into leaks - this represents 30B$/y in gas and a big contribution to global warming. Distran has developed a novel sensor that literally sees the leaks, in rea... 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
Nanoleq AG: The future of health-monitoring textiles
Nanoleq is a Spinoff of ETH Zurich committed to enabling the next generation of health-monitoring textiles. We combine know-how about innovative soft electronic materials, biosignal acquisition and te... Read more
Sevensense Robotics AG: Visual navigation for the next generation of service robots.
Sevensense builds the eyes and brains for mobile robots whose vision and intelligence empower manufacturers of manually operated vehicles to become providers of smart robots and enter the automation r... Read more
Skypull SA: Globally scalable renewable wind energy with tethered hybrid
Skypull is developing an airborne wind energy system with ground-based generator. With 95% less material than wind turbines but double their production capacity, it will produce renewable energy at lo... Read more
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