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How do you become an entrepreneur? How do you start a company? What new, innovative types of financing are out there? Tips and examples of young entrepreneurs who have founded a company in Switzerland or become self-employed. And how companies can remain innovative through developments such as crowdfunding.

Gruppenbild der SUP Challenge Gewinner 2019

18. November 2019

Picking up speed in Silicon Valley

The five winners of the Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2019 are back from Silicon Valley. In our highlight video, they discuss their experiences and what they…

Silicon Valley: Tips from 3 experts

How do Swiss start-ups assert themselves in the technology heartland of Silicon Valley? Advice from three people who know: an investor, a senior manager in…

The winners of the Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2019

Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2019: the winners

This year’s Startup Challenge Final was held in the Braingym in Bern, on the 22nd of August. The top ten Tech-Startups that were selected amongst the 280 competitors were pitching…

Nanja Strecker, Swisscom StartUp Challenge jury member and Managing Director of ESA BIC Switzerland.

‘Swiss high-tech start-ups reach for the stars’

Nanja Strecker takes high-tech Swiss start-ups into the stratosphere with ESA’s Business Incubation Centre and is a member of the jury for the Swisscom StartUp…

‘Swiss fintech start-ups are world class’

Johs. Höhener has been publishing the Swisscom Fintech Start-up Map for the past six years. He is an expert on trends and developments in the…

‘Worlds collide when you’re building an ecosystem’

autoSense is one year old. How are the ratings for the app? What goes into finding a balance between product development and sales? Is it…

Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2019: 289 applications

What happens to the applications now?

The application phase of the Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2019 is now over. A total of 289 start-ups from all over Switzerland want to travel to…

2019: New challenges & milestones for our StartUp Challenge alumni

2018, with all its highs and lows, is over – our StartUp Challenge alumni Eugenia Balysheva (Dotphoton), Sandro Schmid (Aaaccell) and David Gugelmann (Exeon Analytics)…

The announcement of the PoC during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Kickstart Accelerator with Manuela Disch, Patrick Veenhoff (both from Swisscom) and Teachy founder Christian von Olnhausen (from left to right).

When everyone learns from each other

How is it possible to find and exchange knowledge in a large enterprise? That’s the question Swisscom is investigating with the start-up Teachy in a…

Max Eichenberger, participant at the HackZurich hackathon

Max the “hacker”

Sitting in front of a laptop and programming for nearly 40 hours straight: why would someone do that to themselves? Max Eichenberger is one of…

‘Swiss fintech start-ups are world class’

Swisscom FinTech Start-up Map Februar 2019 — Februar 2019

Swisscom FinTech Start-up Map Juni 2019 — Juni 2019

Swisscom FinTech Start-up Map 2013 — Die erste FinTech Start-up Map von 2013

Swisscom FinTech Start-up Map 2015 — November 2015

Swisscom FinTech Start-up Map Oktober 2016 — Oktober 2016

StartUp Challenge 2018: Off to Silicon Valley

The finalists of the Swisscom StartUp Challenge pitched their ideas in front of the Jury on Aug 14th. Watch the video to see how they…

Founder interview: ‘Car was my first word as a child’

The digital vehicle assistant Autosense has been live for 50 days. CEO Jaap Vossen spoke with us about obstacles, pride and jitters during the founding…

The StartUp Challenge jurors all agree: ‘Like everything in life – the more you put in, the more you get out.’

On 14 August, a ten-member jury will select five start-ups to travel to Silicon Valley with Swisscom and Venturelab for a one-week business accelerator programme.…

Pitching: Vivien Fuhrer, founder and CEO of Swiss start-up EZYcount.

An accelerated start in the start-up scene

Sixty start-ups pitched at Kickstart Accelerator’s bootcamp in Zurich in early July for a spot on the mentoring programme. Comments and impressions.

‘We are looking for determined individuals with something special!’

The 2018 Swisscom StartUp Challenge is up and running. More than 250 start-ups are vying for a spot in the business acceleration programme in Silicon…

Helping drones to see

Autonomous drones are mostly blind when in flight. But Manu Lubrano and his start-up Involi are now looking to change this – with a network…

A game we call ‘nostalgia’: old games, new look

Business Talk

3 min 18. November 2019

Picking up speed in Silicon Valley

3 min 13. October 2019

Silicon Valley: Tips from 3 experts

2 min 30. August 2019

Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2019: the winners

8 min 21. August 2019

‘Swiss high-tech start-ups reach for the stars’

5 min 6. August 2019

‘Swiss fintech start-ups are world class’

How to sell your startup: Plan your exit right from the start

Selling a startup doesn’t just happen out of the blue – great startup exits are oftentimes well prepared for and guided by strong advisors. Finding…

StartUp Challenge 2018: 238 Startups Have Applied

238 startups have applied for our Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2018! In order to illustrate some of the key characteristics of our applicants, we summarized their…

8 Smart-City Start-ups and 1 Intrapreneur team will join the Kickstart Accelerator in September

This year’s Kickstart Accelerator boot camp took place in beautiful Zurich and Swisscom, as a partner of the Smart City acceleration program, is happy to…

«Running a start-up is a marathon»

A year is a long time in the life of a start-up. There is not much opportunity for reflection, but the ability to adapt to…

EcoRobotix, AlgoTrader and 1Drop Diagnostics: the last business year in brief

Although they work in completely different fields, Aurélien Demaurex (ecoRobotix), Andy Flury (AlgoTrader) and Luc Gervais (1Drop Diagnostics) had one thing in common in 2017:…

«Focusing on efficiency at an early stage helped us with scaling»

They originally wanted to create a dating app for ETH students, but now their communication platform for non-desktop workers is being used in over 100…

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