These Experts Pick the TOP 100 Startups

Expert Company Description
Carole Ackermann
Diamondscull AG
Dr. Carole Ackermann is Co-Owner of Diamondscull AG, a private company financing Start-ups. She is CEO of the start-up company...
Flavio Agosti
IFJ Institut für Jungunternehmen AG
Responsible for venturelab, a high-tech startup training program in German-speaking Switzerland, the TOP 100 Swiss Startups,...
Domenico Alexakis
Swiss Biotech Association
Director of the Swiss Biotech Association.
Olivier Allaman
Fri Up
Director of Fri Up, the Freiburg-based center for entrepreneurs.
Regula Altmann-Jöhl
Kalaidos Fachhochschule
Dr. Regula Altmann-Jöhl is responsible for the Bachelor programmes at the department of business at the Kalaidos University...
Lukas André
Affentranger Associates SA
As managing partner, Lukas André is responsible for the daily operations of Affentranger Associates. He joined affentranger...
Thomas Bähler
Kellerhals Anwälte
Specialist at Kellerhals Attorneys at Law for private equity/venture capital, among other matters; co-founder and Member...
Peter Balsiger
Aventic Partners AG
Partner, aventic partners; executive management at AM-Tec Credit, Foundation for Promotion of SMEs as Part of Sector lusters;...
Brigitte Baumann
Go Beyond GmbH
Founder /CEO, Go Beyond business angels network; on the CTI Commission; President, EBAN (European Business Angel Network...
Nicolas Berg
Redalpine Venture Partners AG
Nicolas Berg, partner at Redalpine Venture Partners, Country Manager Xing Switzerland, serial entrepreneur, angel investor,...
Marc P. Bernegger
Next Generation Finance Invest AG
Marc, Master of Law UZH, is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor based in Zurich, Switzerland. Aged 20, Marc founded...
Thomas Billeter
Starnet Media und Tecstra Consulting
Many years of line experience as business-unit manager at Ascom, CEO at ISMM Interactive, various management and board functions...
Philip Bodmer
Bodmer & Partner Consultants AG
After a 19 year career in industry where I held various management positions, I founded Bodmer & Partner Consultants AG,...
Jan Bomholt
MeinEinkauf AG
Dr. Jan Bomholt is the CEO of MeinEinkauf.ch as well as a Co-Founder of BrainsToVentures AG (b-to-v). He still as a member...
Silvio Bonaccio
ETH Zürich Transfer
Dr. Silvio Bonaccio is Director of ETH transfer, which supports the ETH community in all questions relating to cooperation...
Jacques Bonvin
Tavernier Tschanz
Jacques Bonvin is a Partner with Tavernier Tschanz. As a business lawyer, he is specialized in corporate and commercial...
Diego A. Braguglia
VI Partners AG
Diego Braguglia is Partner with VI Partners AG. His areas of expertise are life sciences and biotechnology. He has more...
Peter E. Braun
Mountain Club AG
Peter E. Braun has 18 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur and in various senior and top management positions in...
David Brown
Go Beyond
Dave Brown is a startup CTO, serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He co-founded buy.at, an online affiliate network,...
Peter Brunner
Synthes GbmH
Peter Brunner is the Head of Innovation at Synthes GmbH. He has over 20 years of experience in medical device R&D in various...
Peter E. Burckhardt
BioValley Business Angel Club BioBAC
Dr. Burckhardt is CEO of EVA – the Basel life sciences start-up agency. EVA is an institution which supports potential entrepreneurs...
Gert Christen
Startzentrum Zürich
Gert Christen is the CEO of two Zurich based startup incubators, BlueLion Incubator and Startzentrum Zurich. He is also...
Henry Christen
Ernst & Young Ltd
Partner, Ernst & Young / Head of EOY (Entrepreneur of the Year) Award.
Ulf Claesson
BLR & Partners AG
Entrepreneur; partner @ BLR & Partners; board director/chairman; lecturer @ ETH; affiliated with CTI Startup
Pierre Comte
Sigma Professional Sàrl
Dr. Pierre Comte is a member of the board of directors of several high tech companies. He is expert at the European Commission...
Alexandre Coquoz
Innobridge SA
Alexandre Coquoz is Associate Director of Innobridge SA , which supports the companies in accelerating their innovation...
Alberto De Lorenzi
De-Lorenzi & Partners SA
Partner at De Lorenzi & Partners, business angels network; focus: ICT startups in Ticino and northern Italy; coach at CTI...
Benoît Dubuis
Eclosion SA
Benoit Dubuis is adviser at the EPFL and Director of Eclosion, a private start-up incubator and seed venture capital firm...
Pascal Dutheil
Andromede Consulting Sàrl
Founder, Andromède Consulting; focus: seed and early stage venture capital; coach at CTI Start-up.
Sven Eppert
b-to-v Partners AG
Sven Eppert is working as Principal at b-to-v Partners AG (b-to-v) – one of the leading networks of private investors in...
Claude Florin
A3 Angels
Mobile telecom and medtech expert, Business angel investor and mentor.
Sébastien Flury
Startupolic - investiere.ch
Entrepreneur, blogger @startupolic, deal sourcer for investiere.ch, previously startup mentor @Creapole, focus: ICT
Patrik Frei
Venture Valuation AG
Dr. Patrik Frei is founder and CEO of Venture Valuation AG, Switzerland. Patrik graduated from the Business University of...
Jan Fülscher
Business Angels Schweiz (BAS)
Start-up ambassador and expert in start-up matters. Connector. CEO of Business Angels Switzerland.
Frank Gerritzen
Careerplus Group SA
Frank Gerritzen is responsible Business Angels Switzerland's (BAS) activities in the Romandie as well as the founder of...
Eric Gisiger
SVC AG für KMU Risikokapital
Venture capitalist, SVC – AG for SME venture capital.
Gabriel Gomez
DEFI Gestion SA
Born in 1979, Gabriel holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Lausanne as well as a Master of Advanced...
Denis R. Grisel
Wirtschaftsförderung Kanton Bern
Head of Economic Promotion Agency, Canton of Bern.
Patrick Griss
Zühlke Ventures AG
Dr. Patrick Griss is an Executive Partner of the Zühlke Group. In the past, he held Management Positions in the Life Science...
Anton Gunzinger
Supercomputing Systems AG
Prof. Dr. Anton Gunzinger is Founder and Chairman of the board of Supercomputing Systems AG, a company specialized in computer...
Daniel Gutenberg
VI Partners AG
Nominated as Business Angel of the Year 2011, Daniel Gutenberg is General Partner, at VI Partners AG and started his career...
Rudolf Gygax
Nextech Invest Ltd
Ruedi Gygax, Ph.D, is currently partner at Nextech Invest and and is on the board of several companies active in the field...
Georges Haas
Global Life Science Ventures
Former Head of Research, Ciba-Geigy; business angel; expert at Global Life Science Ventures – Investing in the life scie...
Reto Hartinger
Erfa-Gruppe Internet Briefing
Reto Hartinger is a pioneer in the New Media. He was one of the first who sold CD-ROM's in Switzerland to the whole world....
Philipp Hasler
Emerald Technology Ventures AG
Based in our Zurich office, Philipp Hasler is an Investment Director with Emerald Technology Ventures and is focused on...
René Hausammann
Technopark Winterthur
Dr. René Hausammann is Managing Director of the Technopark Winterthur and the transfert center of the Zurich University...
Wolfgang Henggeler
Unitectra AG
Wolfgang Henggeler is head of the physical sciences group at Unitectra, the technology transfer office of the Universities...
Peter Hogenkamp
NZZ-Gruppe
Dr. Peter Hogenkamp has been active in starting companies ever since university. Has latest venture, Blogwerk AG, founded...
Matthias Hölling
ETH Transfer
Matthias studied electrical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (DE), participating in a joined European scheme that...
Patrick Hug
Zürcher Kantonalbank
Start-up Finance, Zürcher Kantonalbank.
Michel Jaccard
id est avocats sàrl
Michel Jaccard is the founder of id est avocats, a boutique law firm based in Lausanne, and a widely respected tech | media,...
Mario Jenni
BIO-Technopark® Schlieren-Zürich
Mario Jenni is President of the Biotech Center Zurich, Member of the Board of Directors at GHZ and managing Director glaTec...
Mark-Eric Jones
Leman Micro Devices SA
Mark-Eric Jones is currently Founder and CEO of Leman Micro Devices SA, a medical technology company based in Lausanne....
Fernand Kaufmann
Emerald Technology Ventures
Dr. Fernand Kaufmann is CEO and Chairman of HPL, a start-up active in the development of lithium ion batteries (sold to...
Cédric Koehler
Creathor Venture Management GmbH
Venture capitalist; Investment Manager at Creathor Venture; focus: ICT.
André Kühni
Aargauische Kantonalbank
Manager, SME Services/Start-up Consulting, Aargauer Kantonalbank.
Pius Küng
Dr. Pius Küng & Partner
Founder, Dr. Pius Küng & Partner; Chairman of the Board, IFJ Institut für Jungunternehmen; trainer at venturelab.
Stefan Kyora
Niedermann GmbH
Stefan Kyora is co-owner of Journalistenbüro Niedermann GmbH and writes since ten years about start-ups and innovation....
Maja Lalive d'Epinay
Partner at Redalpne Venture Partners AG, Former President of ICT Switzerland, ex-member of Swiss Parliament, Coach & Consultant...
Jean-Philippe Lallement
PSE Science Park EPFL
General Manager, Science Park EPFL; President, Swiss Parks.ch; coach at CTI.
Hervé Lebret
INNOGRANTS EPFL
Hervé Lebret is the Manager of the Innogrants EPFL and as such, responsible for the evaluation of innovative projects focusing...
Peter Letter
paprico ag
paprico AG; Investment Manager of the New Value private-equity company; focus: health care / cleantech.
Hansruedi Lingg
Technopark Luzern
CEO, Technopark Lucerne.
Adrian Locher
DeinDeal.ch - Goodshine AG
Founder & COO of DeinDeal, #1 Group Buying company in Switzerland. Passionate serial entrepreneur.
Pascal Marmier
Swissnex China
Pascal Marmier is the director of swissnex Boston, the Swiss science and technology Consulate, since 2008. Previously, he...
Jesús Martin-Garcia
Eclosion Innovation SA
Jesús Martin-Garcia holds a bachelor's degree in economics and law from Geneva University and an MBA from Harvard Business...
Dominique Mégret
Swisscom Ventures AG
Manager, Swisscom Ventures; co-founder, Kickstart Ventures.
Simon Meier
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Investment Director of Roche Venture Fund (RVF). Simon joined RVF in 2002, and is managing the RVF investments in in Addex,...
Didier Mesnier
Alp ICT
General Secretary, Alp ICT, western Switzerland high-tech cluster; coach at CTI.
Laurent Miéville
Université de Genève
After graduating in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Laurent Miéville completed a Ph.D....
Jordi Montserrat
IFJ Institut für Jungunternehmen AG
Jordi is active since 12 years in the high-tech entrepreneurship field. In several position ranging from start-up executive...
Michael Näf
Doodle AG
Business angel, founder and CEO Doodle.com.
Peter Niederhauser
Redalpine Venture Partners AG
A serial entrepreneur anbd business angel, Peter Niederhauser is a Partner at Masterinvest. He also is the Cofounder and...
Bruno Oesch
Neurotune AG
Bruno Oesch is co-founder of Malcisbo AG. He was also a founder of Neurotune AG as a spin-off from Prionics AG in 2005....
Markus Oswald
Innovationsstiftung der SZKB
Dr. Markus Oswald is CEO of the Foundation for innovation of the Bank of Schwyz and a Partner at Aventic Partners AG. He...
Alexandre Peyraud
Debiomanagement SA (Debiopharm Group)
Alexandre Peyraud is Private Equity Manager at Debiomanagement, in charge of investing in IT and Cleantech startups, and...
Eric Plan
CleantechAlps
General Secretary, Cleantech-Alps, Western Switzerland cleantech cluster; coach at CTI.
Jim Pulcrano
IMD
I'm an engineer by training, with an MBA from IMD. Early career was in the petroleum industry, but since then I've been...
Erika Puyal Heusser
Zürcher Kantonalbank
Manager, Startup Finance/Pioneers, Zurich Kantonalbank.
Jost Renggli
Venture Valuation AG
Master in business economics and finance from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Joined Venture Valuation in 2001....
Balz Roth
Go Beyond Ltd
Balz Roth is a member of the Go Beyond Ltd. management team. Go Beyond Ltd., an interna-tional Business Angel Network matching...
Jan Rothenberger
Startwerk.ch und Blogwerk
Jan is responsible for startwerk.ch.
Beat Schillig
IFJ Institut für Jungunternehmen AG
Beat started his entrepeneurial career 10 years ago. He grew his company IFJ from a 10% parttime job to a 25 people operation,...
Michael Schmitt
Go Beyond
Michael Schmitt is an angel investor. He has previously worked for Google since the days when it was a real startup. He...
Florian Schweitzer
b-to-v Partners AG
Florian Schweitzer is Co-Founder of BrainsToVentures AG (b-to-v) and has built up its network of private investors continuously...
Peter Seitz
ETH Zurich
Since early 2012 he has been building up the European applied research lab of Hamamatsu Photonics in Switzerland, and at...
Michael Sidler
Redalpine Venture Partners AG
Michael Sidler is Partner at Intro International, a corporate development and technology commercialization boutique and...
Jean-Marc Soustre
CTI Commission for Technology and Innovation
Former Chief Executive Officer at European TechTour, the leading platform for investment in growth technology companies...
Matthias Staehelin
VISCHER AG Anwälte und Notare
Dr. Matthias Staehelin (Treasurer of BioBac) is a partner in the law firm Vischer with offices in Basel and Zürich. He is...
Philippe Steiert
CSEM SA
Business angel; General Partner, Redalpine Venture Partners; Partner, Intro International; coach at CTI Start-up.
François Stieger
Eurofin Ventures SA
High-performing entrepreneurial leader with a strong executive track-record, François is highly respected and recognised...
Pierre Strübin
Fongit Seed Invest SA
Pierre Strübin is the Technical Director of FONGIT and is responsible for the Administration and the Logistic of the incubator....
Christian Suter
suterscience GmbH
Former president of BioValley Basel. Owner of Suterscience.
Colin Turner
greenTEK ventures Sàrl
20 years of experience in venture capital, operations, fund-raising and as legal counsel. Colin has worked across 5 continents...
Paul-André Vogel
CimArk SA
Paul-André Vogel is in charge of all innovation support services at Cimark. He has been coaching high-tech start-ups since...
Pascale Vonmont
Gebert Rüf Stiftung
Associate Chief Executive, Gebert Rüf Foundation; Delegate to the Strategy Board, venture kick; jury member, venture leaders;...
Josef Walker
HTW Chur
Manager, Entrepreneurial Management Program, University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland HTW Chur; expert at CTI;...
Harry Welten
Cytos Biotechnology AG
Harry Welten, MBA, joined Cytos Biotechnology in June 2010 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He has...
Roland Zeller
travelwindow AG
Founded Travel.ch, Switzerlands largest online travel agency. Also founded Travel.at and Travel.se. Was a previous investor...
Jürg Zürcher
Ernst & Young AG
Partner/Biotechnology Leader EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa), Ernst & Young.

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