Challenges in Switzerland 🚫 No equivalent incentive program tailored for startups ↔️ UK (S)EIS 🚫 Focus on traditional finance ↔️ limited incentives for digital innovation. 🚫 High investor confidence but risk-aversion ➡️ limits early-stage funding.
Co-founder @ Fume | On-chain Fund Admin | (Digital) Asset Manager | Computer Science Engineer (EPFL)
🇬🇧 Venture Leaders Fintech 2024. Key takeaways: 🚀 The UK startup market belongs to another league compared to the rest of Europe. 💰 Switzerland should wake up and adopt tax incentives such as the (S)EIS program to boost our ecosystem. 🔥 Nothing beats the value and *fun* of connecting with other founders 🫕 Fondue > Fish&Chips What a week in London for Fume with fellow Swiss fintech founders: Leroy Bächtold from CrowdTransfer: Empower fans to fund and shape their favorite football clubs Tobias Wegmüller from hypt: Boost your sales with digital word-of-mouth Jan-Philip Schade, PhD, from Kaspar&: We democratize saving and investing for everyone! Julian Liniger from Relai 🇨🇭 : Europe's leading Bitcoin App - made in Switzerland! Thomas Krapf from Riskwolf 🐺 : If you can measure it. You can insure it. Olga Miler from SmartPurse - Fun, Financial Education for you and your workforce Sandro F. Zweig from tiun. Changing how the next generation will consume and pay for online content Thank you Venturelab and Swissnex for organizing, and EPFL, ETH Zürich, Walder Wyss Ltd for supporting. In particular, thanks to Jordi Montserrat, Raffael Kellner, Charlotte Chenu, Lutz-Peter Berg, and Mathilde Reyes of the Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom.
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