When
Wednesday, 21. May 2025
Where
University of Zurich, Room KOL-H-317, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich
Time
12:00-13:00
Topic
Venture Briefing @ UZH
Target Audience
Students, PhD, Postdoc, Academic Staff & Alumni, Entrepreneurs, Interested in Entrepreneurship
Why attend?
Coaching, Training, Fundraising, Networking
Program
***Note - as this is an event over lunchtime, we will offer food and drinks for all registered participants (free of charge)***The Venture Briefing event series is designed to help students with an intent to pursue entrepreneurship take their first steps towards building a successful company.
The event features a keynote speech from successful founder John Klepper of PIPRA.
About: A serial entrepreneur with 19 years founding and growing technology-based companies, John Klepper moved from US to Sweden and finally Switzerland. He holds several board mandates, is experienced in lean startup, and has raised multi-million financing rounds across several stages, as well as concluding two successful exits.
John's latest venture, PIPRA, is a digital health company helping hospitals to accurately identify patients at risk of delirium and alert clinic staff which patients require prevention, saving healthcare systems millions while improving patient outcomes. The product is certified as a medical device, fully automated, A.I.-driven and simple to integrate. PIPRA has raised more than CHF 5 million in financing and won prestigious partners (i.e. Stanford School of Medicine), is multi-award winning (i.e. W.A. de Vigier Award) and represented the Swiss National Startup Team 2023 on their roadshow to Boston.
John will talk about his startup and share details about his journey building a successful company. John will also help answer some of your questions during the Q&A session:
- How to become an entrepreneur?
- How to validate my idea?
- How to fund my idea?
- How to find help to bring my idea to life?
You will also be introduced to different support programs available to new entrepreneurs:
- Venture Kick: up to CHF 150,000 pre-seed capital for business development
- InnoBooster: up to CHF 150,000 grant to accelerate market entry
- First Ventures: up to CHF 150,000 financial support and tailored coaching program for University of Applied Science students
Thank you to the Gebert Rüf Stiftung for supporting this event.
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And our local partners
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Get ready! Watch and get inspired:
About the startup PIPRA
About BioMed Entrepren6eurship at UZH:
Meet other founders supported by Gebert-Rüf-Stiftung / Venture Kick
Register for free for the Venture Briefing: