Swisspreneur

Geri Kirilova says no warm intros 🙅♀️ Why does this partner at Laconia prefer cold emails to warm intros? Well, for two reasons: ▪️ Warm intros ain't what they used to be. “Hey, this person I worked with before is the smartest person I know, and they’re raising funds for their company” has become “Hey this person I know is raising funds for their company”. ▪️ Geri has often found significant overlap between the deals coming in through emails and through intros. Were Laconia to rely on cold emails alone, they'd be pretty well-served. Check out our chat with Geri to find out the 3 key aspects that motivate Laconia's investment strategy and the 5 questions that help Geri evaluate deals! The episode is available on our website and wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was co-produced with Deep Tech Nation Switzerland . Click the link in the comments to learn more about them. - #swisspreneur #startup #entrepreneur #podcast #deeptechnation #deeptechnationswitzerland #vc #venturecapital #venturecapitalist #fundraising #seedstage #invest #investor #investment

Skiing is freedom in motion! ⛷️ 🌟 After two rainy years in a row, the weather gods finally blessed the Scaleup Slopes with some glorious sunshine. And what a day it was! There was skiing, snowboarding, a B2B sales workshop with the SalesPlaybook, lots of delicious local food and a fireside chat with Manuel Grenacher (Founder & CEO, Unique) on pivoting your business to success. Thanks to our partners, Unique, LAAX Meetings & Events, Google Cloud and properti, for making this event possible, and also to our incredible events team for coordinating it! Dominique Kunz Maria Eduarda Branco Hyeyoung Eléonore S. - #swisspreneur #startup #podcast #entrepreneur #scaleupslopes #scaleupslopes2025 #laax #skiing #snowboarding #pivot #pivoting #unique Lars Stegmann Silvan Krähenbühl Stefan Velikov Helena Hlasová Pascal Sollberger Samuel Marchant Nicola Flückiger Julia Moll

What's an American VC doing in Switzerland? 🤔 🇨🇭 Truth is Geri Kirilova moved here just because she thought it would be a nice place to live. And regardless of where she's based, she remains a partner at Laconia, a seed stage fund focused on B2B software companies. If you'd like to know the 3 key aspects that motivate Laconia's investment strategy and the 5 questions that help Geri evaluate deals, then check out her chat with us! The episode is available on our website and wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was co-produced with Deep Tech Nation Switzerland. Click the link in the comments to learn more about them. This cover portrait was edited by smartportrait. - #swisspreneur #startup #entrepreneur #podcast #deeptechnation #deeptechnationswitzerland #vc #venturecapital #venturecapitalist #fundraising #seedstage #invest #investor #investment

This is probably the best example of getting the timing right that we've ever had on the show... ⌛ Just as Wendy Jordan was building her marketplace solution to buy and sell properties (among other things)... the Panama government started providing incentives for foreign investment! It was like the universe was giving Wendy the go-ahead 😍 Check out her chat with us to learn more about how she built Encuentra24 throughout 20 years and made it a publicly listed company. The episode is available on our website and wherever you get your podcasts! This episode was co-produced with EO Zürich. Check out their upcoming event, Entrepreneurs Summit 2025, by clicking the link in the comments. - #swisspreneur #startup #entrepreneur #podcast #eo #entrepreneursorganization #entrepreneurssummit #marketplace #panama #centralamerica #bootstrap

If you liked Melanie Gabriel's episode with Scandit's Christof Roduner, then you'll LOVE the masterclass we've got coming up... 🤭 Stay tuned! 🤩 - #swisspreneur #podcast #entrepreneur #startup #masterclass #freemasterclass #followthegradient Cecilia Molina Viviana Gropengiesser Talent Kick

Go Unique!! 🥳 Now we're twice as glad that we're about to catch up with Manuel on the Scaleup Slopes 😉 🏔️ See you there! - #swisspreneur #startup #entrepreneur #podcast #fundraising

When life DOESN'T give you lemons... you still somehow make lemonade? 🍋 At least that was the case with Wendy Jordan, co-founder of Encuentra24. When she and her husband wanted to buy an affordable home in their country, Panama, they discovered that there was no adequate marketplace solution to do so. So...(you can guess where this is going)...they built it themselves! Fast forward 20 years and Encuentra24 is a publicly listed, successfully exited company, as well as THE leading marketplace business solution in Central America. Check out our chat with Wendy to learn about how she built Encuentra24 and why it was bootstrapped for the first 10 years. The episode is available on our website and wherever you get your podcasts! This episode was co-produced with EO Zürich. Check out their upcoming event, Entrepreneurs Summit 2025, by clicking the link in the comments. This cover portrait was edited by smartportrait. - #swisspreneur #startup #entrepreneur #podcast #eo #entrepreneursorganization #entrepreneurssummit #marketplace #panama #centralamerica #bootstrap #properti properti

The clock is ticking... only 24 days left until our next founders dinner! 🍝 This time we're headed to St Gallen. If you're attending the START Summit, and also if you aren't, we'd like to top your night off with an amazing dinner among fellow founders and investors. Who knows whom you might meet? Maybe your next partner or stakeholder! Click the link in the comments to apply to attend. We hope to see you there 👋 And thanks to UBS for making this event possible! - #swisspreneur #startup #entrepreneur #podcast #ubs #event #startupevent #network #networking #networkingevent #foundersdinner #stgallen #startsummit START Global

How can a father hand over his business to his son? 👨👦 For Willy Michel, one of the inventors of the insulin pump, it was quite simple. He prepared the team at Ypsomed AG 2 years in advance about the fact that Simon Michel would be joining, he had Simon join as a Business Development Manager of Diabetes Care, and then, as Simon rose through the company ranks, Willy began to let go of his control over the company. Years later, Simon is fully in charge and his father is happy to have it so. Check out our chat with Simon Michel to learn more about Ypsomed's decades-long journey — it's available on our website and wherever you get your podcasts! This episode was created in collaboration with startup days. Head on over to their website to learn more about the event taking place on May 14th. - #swisspreneur #startup #entrepreneur #podcast #ypsomed #pharma #medtech #insulin #diabetes #ipo #startupdays

Simon Michel wears many hats 🎩 Ypsomed AG CEO, head of Swiss Startup Supporters, member of Switzerland’s Nationalrat... We don't actually know how he finds the time for it all! But he does. After his father, one of the inventors of the insulin pump, invited him to join Ypsomed, Simon rose steadily through the ranks and became CEO in 2014. Since then, the company has gone public and its stocks have 7x. On Switzerland's National Council, Simon works tirelessly to maintain Swiss excellence in education and innovation and to make the Swiss political system faster and more capable of handling the challenges of our time. Check out his chat with us, available on our website and wherever you get your podcasts. This cover portrait was edited by smartportrait This episode was created in collaboration with startup days. Head on over to their website to learn more about the event taking place on May 14th. - #swisspreneur #startup #entrepreneur #podcast #ypsomed #pharma #medtech #insulin #diabetes #ipo #startupdays