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-Israel Fall 2023 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 8 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:
- Oteero - a web platform to help B2B service providers collect payments as fast as possible using intelligent payment discounts.
- SheKnowsDeFi - a company making decentralized finance more accessible and inclusive.
- Frogs in Mugs - a solution that helps families bond and grow new skills through creative conversations.
- Self—Maestro: Automated Personal Branding Assistance - a tool for digitizing processes and supporting individuals in achieving both their professional and personal goals.
- Oocca - a B2B service company offering furniture rental solutions for urban and co-living enterprises.
- Tom Lopez Guitars - a company that is crafting custom-built, affordable electric guitars with innovative non-wooden materials.
- GOOD VLG world - a startup that innovates online entertainment and schooling and makes them fully monitored.
- Do Me A Favour Buddy - a mobile app that facilitates evidence-backed acts of kindness within local communities to improve wellbeing, foster human connections, and spread positivity.
The Switzerland-Israel Fall 2023 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 February 29
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-Israel Fall 2023 program was supported by these local partners:
Top startup mentors from Switzerland and Israel helped our founders in the program, including:
Marita Price, Stavros Pavlidis, Erika Darmstädter, Carolin Schneider, Jan Fülscher, Zur Feldman, Patricia Kastner, Max Itskovich, Frank Mertens, Eddie Laventman, Natasha Drapeau, Daniel Puerta Diaz, Chander Nagpal, Reginald Bien-Aimé, Antoine Mallard, Michael Dudli, Fiorella Erni, Ivo Ronner, Julia Devecchi Mas, Julien Lepetit, Ricardo Perez Font and many others
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 $1.75BN.
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 $1.75BN 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.
