We select up to 20 startups per year from ETH Zürich, EPFL, the University of St. Gallen, and other Swiss academic institutions. To qualify, you need to have at least one co-founder who's enrolled in as Swiss university as a bachelor, master, MBA or PhD student, and you must be pre-incorporation, meaning that you didn't incorporate a company yet or have incorporated no more than 6 months ago. In terms of where you should stand, it could be anywhere between having just an idea, to already having a prototype and some early customer validation.
You can fill in the form, and we'll get back to you within 1 to 2 weeks, which will either be a call with one of our Student Partners, or a negative feedback if for some reason we feel like your startup is really out of scope. Generally, our process consists in 3 meetings until a selection decision. You won't receive any confirmation email upon submitting the form, but we will have received it.
You need to have at least one co-founder who's currently enrolled as a bachelor, master, MBA or PhD on that campus.
You will be our main touch point for your startup. Please have a co-founder who is a student from the campus as our main touch point. We only have fields for 3 co-founders below, so if you're 4+ co-founders, simply share the profiles of 3 of them.
Your answers will be read by our Student Partners to determine if your startup is on scope.
If you are pre-website, leave the field empty.
This would help us understand your startup. Please compress the PDF file under 10mb.
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