On May 4th and 18th, our digitalswitzerland Startup Bootcamps took off! With an inspiring and insightful first first bootcamp around the topics ‘Big Data Analytics: from AI to SaaS’ and ‘Robotics & Connected Machines’ in Lausanne and a second with a focus on ‘Fintech, Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies’ as well as ‘Mobility & Smart City’ in Zurich, this was only the beginning of a new success story in bringing forward the Swiss startup ecosystem.
My name is Matthias Zwingli and I am taking over the project pillar ‘Startup Enablement’ as the new Project Manager.
From now on I will be in charge to bring ahead the Swiss startup ecosystem and I am eager to get to know our members and stakeholders in the startup field. Here a short summary of our latest bootcamps editions, kindly provided by Startupticker.
The scale-up bootcamps from digitalswitzerland are a success. They show the progress that the Swiss ecosystem has made over recent years in building up collaboration between start-ups and large companies.
The scale-up boot camps were carried out this year for the first time by Venture Kick on behalf of digitalswitzerland. Fast-growing young companies meet representatives of corporates at three events in Lausanne, Zurich and Bern. The process of the meetings is always the same: first, a presentation by the large companies, followed by the start-ups; then there is the opportunity to exchange information in 15-minute one-to-one meetings with finally networking and conversations at the start-up booths. In addition to the Scale up Bootcamps for Swiss start-ups a Market Entry camp for start-ups from abroad will be held in the first week of June.
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The success is remarkable: 80 one-to-one meetings took place at the Bootcamp in Schlieren last week, for example. Each of the participating 20 scale-up companies was able to arrange between four and seven follow-on meetings throughout the day. The satisfaction of the young entrepreneurs was accordingly high:
“The benefits are huge. Although there are numerous good programmes for start-ups, Switzerland still lacks constructive programmes to support the growth of scale-ups. I’ve enjoyed every second of this bootcamp! Bravo to the team for the perfect organisation and the follow-up driven concept,” said Evelina Georgieva, co-founder and CEO at Pryv.
The entrepreneur addressed an important factor in the success of the bootcamps. The focus is on scale-ups that have successfully completed the first steps and in some cases achieved notable sales. In addition, many of them already have experience of working with large companies. All these factors make the scale-ups attractive partners for collaboration projects.
