The Jury

José Achache

José Achache is the Founder of ALTYN, a consulting...

Gilbert Achermann

Gilbert Achermann engages in various mandates...

Thibaud Aguettaz

Thibaud is an Investment Partner at Joyance Partners...

Hans Albrecht

Hans-Martin is an active investor in several...

Teddy Amberg

Dr. Teddy Amberg is a Founding Partner at Spicehaus,...

Lukas André

Lukas André is the Managing Partner for Redstone...

Martin Angehrn

Martin Angehrn, entrepreneur, Am Geren AG. After...

Björn-Owe Aronsson

Björn-Owe Aronsson is Co-founder and CTO of Nano...

Rolf Auf der Maur

Dr. Rolf Auf der Maur is Partner at Vischer,...

Thomas Avedik

Thomas is a devoted #DigitalBanking, #Cybersecurity...

Daniel Bach

Venture capital investor in Life Sciences. Passionate...

Nathaly Bachmann

Nathaly Bachmann is an Entrepreneur and Investor....

Christian Bächmann

Founder and Shareholder of domando AG, a swiss...

Alexander Banz

Alexander is a seasoned executive with 25+ years...

James Barclay

James is an investment consultant to Efficient...

Michal Bartos

After three decades in senior leadership roles...

Andrea Basso

Andrea Basso, PhD (EPFL, Switzerland, Stanford...

Evgeny Bazarov

Evgeny is a serial entrepreneur and a venture...

Nicolas Berg

Nicolas Berg is Co-founder of Redalpine Venture...

Christer Bergstroem

In 2015 Christer co-founded Capital Rewards Partners...

Marc P. Bernegger

Serial entrepreneur. Angel investor with a focus...

Philippe Bernet

Philippe Bernet is a founding partner of Backbone...

Daniel Bertholet

Daniel is a venture capitalist and growth equity...

Jonathan Beuchat

As a Specialist in Finance and Accounting, he...

Thomas Billeter

Thomas Billeter is partner at Impact51. He is...

Kurt Biri

Kurt is an entrepreneur and technical consultant,...

Andreas Bittig

Andreas Bittig is founder and managing partner...

Philip Bodmer

Philip Bodmer is the Founder of Bodmer & Partners...

Luca Bolliger

Luca Bolliger studied at the ETH in Zürich graduated...

Philipp Bolliger

Serial entrepreneur, investor, and technologist...

Samuel Bond

Samuel Bond is a Swiss-American ex-entrepreneur...

Pascal Bösch

Dr. Pascal Bösch is currently heading R&D at...

Diego A. Braguglia

Diego Braguglia is Partner with VI Partners AG....

Daniel Brandenburger

After his EPFL studies, Daniel Brandenburger...

James Breiding

He is the founder of Naissance Capital, a Swiss...

David Brown

Founder BuyAt. Venture Kick jury member. SECA...

Peter Brunner

Peter Brunner is the new Head of aR&D/KTT at...

Marcello Campanelli

Business Angel and Advisor. Board member of Excellis,...

Isabel Casado

Isabel leads the of Startup Funding Programmes...

Danièle Castle

Genevensis Healthcare Communications
The...

Olivier Chappuis

Olivier Chappuis manages miLab, the maxon innovation...

Stefano Ciampolini

Stefano Ciampolini is Adjunct Professor of Imperial...

Ata Tuna Ciftlik

Deep-tech entrepreneur and CEO with more than...

Ulrich Claessen

Ulrich Claessen is a Member of the Board of Directors...

Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen has more than 20 years global...

Isabelle Cohen Solal

Isabelle Cohen Solal is the founder of COHerence&SOLutions,...

Kaspar Cottier

Kaspar Cottier founded the deep-tech start-up...

Frank Crittin

Senior Analyst at Mirante Fund Management, directly...

Andrea Crottini

Andrea is technology transfer manager at EPFL...

Benoit de Combaud

Benoit de Combaud iis a board member of Swiss...

Cristina de Mendieta

Cristina de Mendieta is an entrepreneur and investor....

Fatou Diagne

Fatou is a managing partner at Bootstrap Europe,...

Alexander Dixon

Alexander is a Co-Founder of MontBlu Capital...

Evgeny Dobrov

Evgeny graduated from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland,...

Daniela Doda

Daniela Doda is an Investment Manager at the...

Nelson Dumas

Nelson is a recognized stakeholder in the Swiss...

Pascal Dutheil

Founder, Andromède Consulting; focus: seed and...

Bettina Ernst

Dr. Bettina Ernst has 10 years of experience...

Jonno Evans

Jonno is a Principal at IQ Capital, investing...

Lisa-Marie Fassl

Lisa is one of the Managing Partners of Fund...

Michael Federspiel

CEO of FEDERSPIEL-MANAGEMENT and KURATH Engineering,...

Raluca Flükiger

Raluca Flükiger joined the Unitec office in January...

Mark Forster

Mark has been a Venture Kick Jury member and...

Vincent Forster

Dr Vincent Forster is an award-winning pharmaceutical...

Matthias Frieden

Matthias Frieden is an entrepreneur, CEO, chairman,...

Giacomo Frigo

With a diverse background spanning venture capital,...

Dieter Froehlich

Professional experience: 10 years with SAP AG...

Johannes Gemmingen

Johannes is passionate about technology and thrives...

Frank Gerritzen

Frank Gerritzen is past President of the Suisse...

Olivier Glauser

Olivier Glauser is a former Venture Capital investor...

Alexandre Gonthier

Alex spent 20+ years in Silicon Valley building...

Ulf Grawunder

Ulf Grawunder is an experienced Swiss Life-Science...

Patrick Griss

Dr. Patrick Griss is an Executive Partner of...

Caroline Gueissaz

MSc in Industrial Engineering (ETHZ), Caroline...

André Günter

Business-Architect. Passionate about building...

Daniel Gutenberg

Nominated as Business Angel of the Year 2011,...

Rudolf Gygax

Ruedi Gygax, Ph.D. looks back to 12 years as...

Julia Hall

Julia Hall is an investment manager of the Ernst-Göhner...

Philipp Hasler

Philipp Hasler has been an investment director...

René Hausammann

Dr. René Hausammann is President of Swissparks.ch,...

Flavio Heer

Flavio is a Co-founder and the CTO of Zurich...

Nicole Herzog

Nicole Herzog is Co-Founder of Haufe-umantis...

Beat Hodel

Beat Hodel, has a proven track record as a founder/manager...

Beat Hofstetter

Beat is a Co-founder of Zurich Instruments and...

Peter Hogenkamp

Dr. Peter Hogenkamp has been active in starting...

Bolko Hohaus

Bolko Hohaus is the CEO and founder of HCP, a...

Felix Holzner

Felix Holzner studied physics in Germany and...

Wanja Humanes

Wanja Humanes is Investment Manager at Swisscom...

Mattias Ivarsson

Mattias is a serial biotech entrepreneur, having...

Michel Jaccard

Michel Jaccard is the founder of id est avocats,...

Mario Jenni

Mario Jenni is President of the Biotech Center...

Regula Jöhl

Dr. Regula Altmann-Jöhl is responsible for the...

Cynthia Jurytko

Cynthia Jurytko works as Investment Manager Venture...

Meriam Kabbaj

Meriam Kabbaj holds a Pharmacy Degree from the...

Hannah Kamm

Kilian Kämpfen

Dr. Kilian Kämpfen is Chief Business Development...

Vincent Keller

Vincent brings a breadth and depth of experience...

Peter Kessel

After decades in private equity business and...

Georges Khneysser

Georges is the founder and Chief Vision Officer...

Geri Kirilova

Geri Kirilova is a Partner at Laconia, a NYC-based...

Hermann Koch

Hermann is an entrepreneur with a focus on business...

Marjan N. Kraak

Marjan is a senior executive with an extensive...

Olivier Küng

Olivier co-founded Pix4D, the leading drone mapping...

Thomas Kunz

Thomas Kunz has spent 32 years at Procter &...

David Kurmann

David is an investment consultant with EGS Beteiligungen...

Aydin Kurt-Elli

Having originally trained as a medical doctor...

Martin Kutter

Dr. Martin Kutter is Co-Founder and president...

Stefan Kyora

Stefan Kyora is co-owner of Journalistenbüro...

Loris Lanzellotti

Loris is the founder and Chief Executive Officer...

Christophe Lapaque

Christophe Lapaque is leading the expansion of...

Frederic Lauchenauer

Frédéric is an independent management consultant...

Giovanni Leo

Giovanni Leo is VP of R&D at St Jude Medical...

Victoria Lietha

Victoria is an Investment Manager at Swisscom...

Eric Lohrer

Eric gathered his work experience in the US,...

Dorian Loosli

Dorian Loosli is an Investment Manager at the...

Massimo Lucchina

Massimo Lucchina is currently Head of Europe,...

Wissam Mansour

Wissam Mansour is the founder and CEO of Neventa...

Pierre Marechal

Founder and Managing Director of the business...

Isabella Martini

Isabella joined Wyss Zurich in June 2022 as Community...

Marco Marugg

Marco is an Investment Manager at EquityPitcher...

Leonardo Massa

Leonardo is the Investment Director at MITO Technology,...

Pierre-Alain Mathier

Pierre-Alain Mathier graduated from the University...

Anne Mathieu

Anne Mathieu has extensive experience across...

Felix Mayer

Felix Mayer is Co-Founder and CEO of Sensirion...

Roman Mebert

Roman Mebert was a founding member of CAT Structured...

Simon Meier

Simon Meier is an active advisor, coach, connector...

Stefan Meier

Stefan Meier was founder of e-fon AG which offered...

Thomas Meier

Thomas is the Managing Partner at Lightbird,...

Ian Metcalfe

Ian has 25 years of experience in industry, including...

Peter Metzinger

Peter Metzinger is the Owner of business campaigning...

Thomas D. Meyer

Thomas D. Meyer is an experienced executive and...

Carole Miller

After a career at Crédit Agricole investment...

James Miners

Dr. James Miners is Senior Advisor at Fongit,...

Serban Mogos

Serban Mogos brings a multi-disciplinary background...

Thomas Möller

Thomas Möller has over 20 years of experience...

Bertrand Mueller

Bertrand Mueller is founding partner of DAA Capital...

Louise Muhdi

Louise Muhdi, MSc ETH Zurich and PhD ETH Zurich,...

Patrick Naef

Patrick Naef is the founder and CEO of ITvisor...

Emi Naganuma

Emi is the Founder and General Partner of Apprecia...

Harald Nieder

Harald is a Partner at early-stage Venture Capital...

Peter Niederhauser

A serial entrepreneur anbd business angel, Peter...

Fadi Noureddine

In 2013, Fadi co-founded Valquest Partners, a...

Natalia Novac

Natalia is a Partner at Delin Ventures. Prior...

Marc Ocskay

After a long-term international career in Corporate...

Magne Y. Orgland

Dr. Magne Orgland is Managing Partner at Norga...

Markus Oswald

Dr. Markus Oswald is CEO of the Foundation for...

Olivier Pajot

Dr. Olivier PAJOT is manager of i3, an Innovation...

Ivo Petrov

Ivo Petrov is a seasoned executive, entrepreneur,...

Andrea Pfeifer

Prof. Andrea Pfeifer co-founded AC Immune SA,...

Jean-Michel Pittet

Jean-Michel Pittet is the VP of Engineering of...

Sandro C. Principe

Dr. Sandro C. Principe is Head of Global Sales...

Jim Pulcrano

Jim is an independent consultant, teacher and...

Jean-Yves Raimon

Jean-Yves is an active Angel Investor, a member...

Arul Ramadurai

Arul Ramadurai is the Head of Business of Shire,...

Jan Reinhart

Jan Reinhart, is Managing Director at Reinhart...

Alexandra Richardson

Dr. Alexandra Richardson, CLP, heads marketing...

Bernhard Rinderknecht

Dr. med. Bernhard Rinderknecht is a passionate...

Corinne Rohner

Corinne Rohner is an entrepreneur and consultant,...

Raphael Rollier

Raphael Rollier leads the Smart City Program...

Maximilian Rothenberger

Maximilian invested and currently works as Chief...

Dennis Rubner

Dennis Rubner is an entrepreneur with over 20...

Jacqueline Ruedin Rüsch

Jacqueline is a Founding General Partner of Privilège...

Flavio Rump

Flavio Rump is a tech entrepreneur with a BSc...

Odile Rundquist

After earning her Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Odile...

Filippo Sarti

Filippo is Co-Founder of MontBlu Capital and...

Luc-Alain Savoy

Luc-Alain Savoy has obtained his PhD at the University...

Massimo Schäppi

Massimo co-founded DD Venture Capital - a Swiss-based...

Johann Schlieper

Johann Schlieper is CEO and owner of Zollikonsult,...

Georgette Schmid

Georgette Schmid is a Swiss investment professional...

Hans Schmotzer

Dr. Hans Schmotzer is senior partner and...

Manuela Schneider

Dr. Schneider has a scientific background, holds...

Susanne Schorsch

Olivier Schuepbach

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Thorsten Schulz

Thorsten Schulz is a VC and PE investment specialist....

Corina Schütt

Dr. Corina Schütt is Managing Director of "Hochschulmedizin...

Florian Schweitzer

Florian Schweitzer is married and father of two...

Alessandra Scotti

After graduating in law, Alessandra started her...

Reza Shahrbabaki

Senior transformation executive with 30+ years...

Bin Sheng

Bin Sheng served as the managing Director of...

Michael Sidler

Michael Sidler is Partner at Intro International,...

Katrin Siebenbuerger Hacki

Katrin is an experienced Medical Device professional...

Pedro Júlio Silva

Senior executive, with 20+ years’ experience...

Ben Simon

Ben Simon is the founder of VAY (exit to BowFlex...

Inderpreet Singh Wadhwa

Inderpreet S Wadhwa is a successful entrepreneur...

Massimo Soriano

Massimo Soriano joined Rothschild & Co Bank in...

Anna Stetter

Anna Stetter is an Investment Manager at High-Tech...

Alex Stöckl

Alex is a Founding Partner having co-initiated...

Alexander Stoeckel

Alexander has an academic background in international...

Adrian Stolz

Adrian is a Business Angel and invested in various...

David Studer

David Studer is Co-Founder and CEO of Xovis AG,...

Steve Swinson

Dr Swinson is currently Chairman of the Board...

Albert Szabo

Entrepreneur and independent private investor....

Antoine Trannoy

Antoine runs the Swiss operations of Jolt Capital,...

Jean-Philippe Tripet

Jean-Philippe Tripet, CFA, is a Managing Partner...

Fabrizio Turdo

After completing his formation in construction...

Steve Tyldesley

Steve is the Co-Founder of MontBlu Capital SA...

Christina Ulardic

Christina Ulardic heads the Market Development...

Casper Urhammer

Passionate senior executive with more than 20...

Jeroen van den Oever

Jeroen is an experienced executive and board...

Gretchen van Steenwyk

A passionate investment professional with over...

Pascal Vanluchene

Technology scout, strategist, originator, venture...

Yasmin Venema

Yasmin Venema is the Associate and Impact Officer...

Davide Verda

Davide is an investment professional with over...

Heiko Visarius

After 25 years of a career in major Life Science...

Paul-André Vogel

Paul-André Vogel is in charge of all innovation...

Peter Vogel

Peter Vogel is Professor of Family Business and...

Daniel Vonder Mühll

Dr. Daniel Vonder Mühll is managing Director...

Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier

Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier is the Managing Director...

Lucian Wagner

Lucian has a truly global outlook with an extensive...

Marcel Walker

During his studies at the University of St.Gallen...

Christine Weber

Christine is founder of Venturize, her company...

Thomas Weber

Thomas Weber is a founding and managing partner...

Andreas Weckherlin

Andreas is a non-executive Director, angel investor...

Stephan Wehrli

Stephan Wehrli is Investment Principal at Zühlke...

Karen Wendt

Karen Wendt is the founder of Eccos Impact, a...

Klea Wenger

Klea Gorgievski is Investment Manager at Swisscom...

Christian K. Winkler

Co-founder at asc impact, an independent owner-led...

Patrick Zehil

Patrick is an investment specialist focused on...

Lu Zheng

Lu Zheng is an Investment Associate at RV Invest,...

Jürg Zürcher

Retired EY partner who spent most of his career...