The Switzerland Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Switzerland Fall 2024 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 13 companies were able to make it through.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Switzerland's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Switzerland program:
- Wanderz - A mobile app that help busy professionals easily book authentic, stress-free holidays using expertly crafted itineraries from top travel bloggers and tourism pros, saving time while generating new revenue for content creators.
- efides.io - Connecting commodity traders and banks, offering a business application that helps trade finance managers automate document processing and risk management in food trade financing.
- Miranna - A woman-to-woman mentoring and coaching app, leveraging AI to address specific female needs.
- Phronetiq - Streamlining retirement transitions for companies and employees through intelligent, employee-centric planning, with a focus on transparent, stress-free retirement journeys
- Weather It Is - Delivering precise crop-yield forecasts, empowering agricultural commodity brokers to confidently support financial payouts, driving increased food productivity and sustainability.
- hrtechventures by Viktoria Szalontai - Building Aspirio, a talent management platform where companies can acquire talent tokens that represent employee capabilities and tasks, integrated with dApps and digital twins.
- Truebrand - Helping companies and their supply chains achieve sustainability goals through an online platform that aligns suppliers with sector-specific ESG requirements.
- Omnia - Offering an AI-driven portal that guides employers through proven methodologies like constellation and systemic work, reducing burnout and workplace toxicity at scale.
- Choose & Cheers - Creating a subscription service that gives wedding planners instant access to venue offers and availability, eliminating out time-consuming email exchanges.
- Finexov - Developing an AI-powered software that leverages R&D data to identify public funding opportunities and streamline optimized application processes.
- Feelbox - A collaborative emotional gifting platform where participants create personalized, immersive digital experiences, turning shared moments into a multiday emotional journey.
- MaiTax - Simplifying tax filing for busy Swiss professionals by processing financial documents and providing ready-to-use data for completing their tax returns or using tax software.
- RobotiFAI - Developing an AI-powered, fully autonomous end-to-end finance solution for medium-sized businesses, offering a comprehensive approach that automates all financial processes.
The Switzerland Fall 2024 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
Join us at Switzerland Founder Institute Graduation Event on September 5th.
Switzerland Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Switzerland Founder Institute: Athanasios Ladopoulos (Co-Director, Founder Institute. Founder/CEO MemoryGarden. ), Eszter Olver (Partner, EJ Capital AG), Ingeborg Gasser-Kriss (Board Director, Innovation Advisor , FoodTech), Lilla Peczely (co-director, Founder Institute Switzerland - Israel chapter), Swiss Admin, Thomas Ackermann (Co-Director, Founder Institute Switzerland). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Switzerland that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Switzerland Fall 2024 program was supported by some of Switzerland's top technology organizations, including:
Some of Switzerland’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over $1.8BN.
After Graduation, the new Switzerland Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.
Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.
The next Switzerland Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/switzerland.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over $1.8BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/graduates.
