Venture Talks #13 Build your Winning Team

Arnaud Jacquemet, GSHC

🚀 Great Startup Needs a Great Team

You’ve got the research, the data, and maybe even a groundbreaking idea. But do you have the right people in your corner?

#12 - BRIDGE Grants

#11 - Proptech

January 26, 2026

Join us for our next Venture Talk, dedicated to the Bridge program (bridge.ch/en). This initiative helps transform excellent research results into successful innovations!

November 18, 2025

Come and meet Thibault Clément, who began his career in industry (defence, energy) before branching out into entrepreneurship, almost by chance. His career path took him from France to Vietnam, via Singapore and Switzerland.

POPETY.IO, the SaaS platform he co-founded in 2019, digitises the work of real estate professionals.

Since then, Thibault has been juggling the multiple roles of a tech entrepreneur, from coding to team management and product development.

#10 - Regulatory Affairs

#9 - Intellectual property

November 10, 2025

Speaker : Suzane Einmahl

For young healthtech and biotech founders, getting familiar with regulatory and medical affairs early makes a big difference.

This session will walk through the key things to know and simple first steps to take — so you can plan ahead, avoid surprises later, and set your project on the right track from day one.

October 28, 2025

Speaker : Zeeger Vink

Intellectual Property (IP) forms the foundation of commercial longevity and the main asset of modern companies. Whether it concerns branding, technology or design, active IP management is a strategic tool for executives and entrepreneurs to survive in the global marketplace.

This course will provide current or future entrepreneurs with the key IP reflexes to adopt, and practical advice on how to protect what makes them unique.

#8 - Biotech

#7- Venture Capital

September 30, 2025

For this post-summer break Venture Talk, we are delighted to welcome Dr Madiha Derouazi, a scientist and serial biotech entrepreneur with a remarkable journey from academia to biotech innovation.

May 20, 2025

Steve Salom, seasoned tech operator and startup veteran turned investor, will join us for an open and interactive conversation about his unique journey—from launching Uber in Switzerland to shaping the Swiss tech investment landscape with ACE Ventures.

#6- Finance for startups

#5 - Venture Fund

February 11, 2025

Learn from a visionary entrepreneur turned investor: come and meet Brynne Kennedy, co-founder and Managing Partner of Smart Society Ventures, a pioneering fund that invests in rapidly-growing energy and climate tech companies across Europe, the UK, and the US.

#4 - BRIDGE

#3 - Food Tech

December 10, 2024

Join the upcoming Venture Talks seminar on BRIDGE to maximize your chances for a successful application, with insider tips from 2 Evaluation Panelists: Prof. Karl-Heinz Krause and Prof. Stéphane Marchand-Maillet.

November 29, 2024

During this 3rd Venture Talks dedicated to Food Tech, Tomas Turner, co-founder of Cultivated Biosciences, will talk to us about his entrepreneurial journey and the challenges and obstacles he has overcome.

#2 - Venture Fund

#1 - Biotech

October 21, 2024

Flavia Wallenhorst, from Founderful Campus, will outline the key criteria early-stage VCs consider when evaluating startup investments.

September 23, 2025

Biotech entrepreneur David Pejoski will share his journey from the lab to startup success. Jake Pringle, a representative of the Nucleate Switzerland program, will discuss the resources and opportunities available for transforming groundbreaking research into thriving ventures.