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Swisspreneur Show

Swisspreneur

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Frequency: 1 episode/37d. Total Eps: 554

The Swisspreneur Show is a podcast series of in-depth, candid conversations with some of Switzerland’s most successful founders, business leaders and innovators. By getting to the heart of these leaders’ stories - their successes, their failures, their must-have advice and greatest regrets - we hope to both inspire and guide the next generation of Swiss entrepreneurs. Each episode deconstructs and showcases one person’s personal and professional background and provides advice and recommendations for existing and aspiring entrepreneurs in Switzerland.

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🇩🇪 Germany - entrepreneurship
08/04/2026
#98
🇩🇪 Germany - entrepreneurship
30/12/2025
#84
🇩🇪 Germany - entrepreneurship
28/11/2025
#89
🇩🇪 Germany - entrepreneurship
25/11/2025
#86
🇩🇪 Germany - entrepreneurship
23/11/2025
#96
🇩🇪 Germany - entrepreneurship
16/10/2025
#91
🇩🇪 Germany - entrepreneurship
22/06/2025
#85
🇩🇪 Germany - entrepreneurship
15/06/2025
#94
🇬🇧 Great Britain - entrepreneurship
08/06/2025
#93
🇩🇪 Germany - entrepreneurship
30/01/2025
#77

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EP #466 - Abouzar Rahmani: How One Company is Disrupting the Food Industry

Season 1 · Episode 466

Wednesday, January 1, 2025 • Duration 01:06:58

Timestamps:

1:34 - Over 100 years of family entrepreneurship

11:40 - Why start foodyoung?

17:34 - Changes in the food industry

29:12 - Expanding to the US

35:42 - European and American investors

About Abouzar Rahmani:

Abouzar Rahmani is the co-founder and CEO of FoodYoung, a consumer food innovation company developing high-quality, clean, and sustainable food solutions. He is originally from Iran and holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management from UBI Business School, Brussels. He worked for a few years at Mani Foods Industry LLC, his family’s business (which was founded in 1877), before starting FoodYoung in 2012.

Abouzar created FoodYoung for two reasons: firstly, because he wanted to provide entrepreneurs with the resources and support that he thought were lacking, and secondly because Abouzar himself saw a significant improvement in his health through a change of lifestyle, having lost 35kg.

FoodYoung develops and commercializes food solutions that are inflammatory oil-free, have no refined sugar, are additive free, non-GMO, gluten-free, organic, plant-rich, made with fairly traded ingredients, and packaged sustainably. Throughout his years at FoodYoung he has found that food trends tend to happen in reaction to overconsumption patterns: gluten-free is trendy in Italy, meat-free in Germany, dairy-free in Switzerland, and sugar-free in America.

At FoodYoung Abouzar works with 3 types of customers:

Big food retailers and large corporates looking for innovation, but without the inhouse capacity to develop it
Scaleups in the food space
New startups with revolutionary ideas

In the case of this last group, FoodYoung takes equity through their venture studio and helps them build their business. With the first two groups, there is an amount paid for FoodYoung’s services. In no case do they take a cut from the sales of their customers.

Resources Mentioned:

Remarkable notepad
Think again, Adam Grant
Zero to one, Peter Thiel

The cover portrait was edited by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.smartportrait.io⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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EP #465 - Barbara Horvath: How to Give Robots a New Skin with Printed Electronics

Season 1 · Episode 465

Sunday, December 29, 2024 • Duration 42:36

Timestamps:

10:34 - What is high precision electronics manufacturing?

17:52 - How to understand the problems of potential customers

22:03 - Giving robots proximity sensors

26:55 - Inveel’s fundraising strategy

33:38 - The money candle and the motivation candle

This episode was produced in collaboration with startup days, taking place next year on May 14th 2025. Click ⁠here⁠ to purchase your ticket.

About Barbara Horvath:

Barbara Horvath is the co-founder and CEO of Inveel, a startup providing technology for low-cost and high speed production of extreme-high resolution printed electronics. She holds a PhD in Materials Science & Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and worked as a researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science (Japan), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) and the Paul Scherrer Institut (Zurich) before starting Inveel in 2024.

Inveel fabricates 100 nm - 2 µm linewidth wires and electrodes with low resistivity — this what they term their “high precision electronics”. At first they struggled with finding a market, since the applications for their tech were very numerous, but eventually settled on robotics. Inveel adds value to a robot by basically giving it another layer of “skin”, full of “nerve endings”, which help the robot better understand how it is interacting with the world. For instance:

If a robot is holding an egg, having an Inveel skin is useful to know how much pressure to apply in order to maintain grip but not crush the egg. If the egg starts slipping, the robot will know because it will feel the egg in different parts of their “hand”, and can adjust the movements of their “hand” to prevent the egg from escaping their grasp.

EP#456 - Leonie Flückiger: Why Luxury Watches Need NFTs

Season 1 · Episode 456

Sunday, November 24, 2024 • Duration 42:44

Timestamps:

5:19 - Helvetia Insurance teams up with ETH Juniors

7:22 - Accessing the Swiss luxury watch market

10:45 - A business model for luxury watch NFTs

14:47 - Acquiring customers

20:15 - Why Leonie wanted her business to be acquired

This episode was co-produced with the ⁠Female Founders Initiative⁠.

About Leonie Flückiger:

Leonie Flückiger is a co-founder of Adresta, a company which creates digital certificates for luxury watches. She holds a MSc in Micro- and Nanosystems from ETH and previously worked for ETH Juniors and BCG before starting Adresta in 2019.

Adresta is a Swiss tech company redefining the ownership experience by creating digital certificates or NFTs for physical products purchased and owned by end consumers. The Adresta ecosystem embeds an end2end digital watch insurance process, enabling owners to get insurance for their watch in under 90 seconds. The NFT proves the product's authenticity and represents a tamperproof, scarce, and tradable asset.

The company was acquired in Autumn 2022 by Bucherer, one of the world's largest retailers of luxury watches and jewelry. While the Adresta CEO, Mathew Chittazhathu, stayed on, Leonie preferred to take a new consulting job at McKinsey.

The cover portrait was edited by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.smartportrait.io⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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EP #365 - Adrian Melliger: The Electromobility One-Stop-Shop

Season 1 · Episode 365

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 • Duration 35:27

Timestamps:

6:44 - eMobility back in 2008

7:39 - CO2 impact of electric vehicles

8:56 - Sourcing the minerals sustainably & ethically

15:58 - Life after death, for batteries

25:00 - Partnering with Volvo

About Adrian Melliger:

Adrian Melliger is the co-owner and CEO of Designwerk Technologies, an electromobility one-stop-shop. He previously worked for companies like Swissport and Ground Handling Team Holding before joining Designwerk in 2018.

Designwerk was founded back in 2008, after its founders went on a 80-day, all-electric world record circumnavigation with the specially developed Zerotracer cabin motorcycle. Ten years on, the founders invited Adrian to join them as external CEO because they felt a lack of business acumen in their engineer-only founder team.

Designwerk develops and constructs electric trucks, battery systems and chargers. Although their electric vehicles require more energy to produce (and therefore emit more CO2) than diesel vehicles, they make for it on the consumer side, since over their entire lifetime they produce up to 60-90% less CO2. They also often get used in other applications (like solar panels, for example) once their first life runs out (= 15 years), and can be shredded and have 92-96% of their raw materials be recycled.

Designwerk’s turnover increased 11x ever since Adrian joined as CEO, and like any other scaling company, they’ve had to deal with some growing pains: getting the right people on board, adapting the structure and processes, ensuring sufficient cash flow (especially in a capital-intensive business like theirs) and ensuring the availability of materials, especially during challenging times like the COVID pandemic.

EP #364 - Reto Naef: Disruptive Therapies for Aging Diseases

Season 1 · Episode 364

Sunday, December 17, 2023 • Duration 54:10

Timestamps:

13:03 - The birth of TOPADUR

18:07 - Leaving the cushy life for entrepreneurship

23:26 - TOPADUR’s drug development

30:36 - Financing pharma

38:08 - Sparks IPO Academy

About Reto Naef:

Reto Naef is the founder and former CEO of TOPADUR PHARMA AG, a biopharmaceutical company developing disruptive therapies for aging diseases. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from ETH and an MBA from UZH and previously worked for pharma companies like Sandoz and Novartis before starting TOPADUR in 2015.

TOPADUR develops dual-acting drugs that target the cGMP-Enzyme Regulation System to stimulate microcirculation, enable tissue regeneration, and avoid local oxygen deficiency. Based on this key invention, they’ve built a portfolio of drug candidates to treat aging-related diseases like chronic wounds, skin fibrosis, age-related macular degeneration, colorectal cancer, hair loss and skin aging.

TOPADUR recently participated in the Sparks IPO Academy as part of their journey towards going public. They estimate that an IPO will be possible around early 2025, provided that they successfully bring all the drugs in their portfolio to market. Reto decided to step down from his operative role in 2023.

EP #363 - Vivek Dogra, Arijana Walcott, Lukas André & Dominique Gruhl: VCs on Stage

Season 1 · Episode 363

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 • Duration 40:42

Timestamps:

6:29 - Looking for investors for your fund

13:08 - Managing investor relationships

19:56 - Deeptech in Europe

22:55 - Investing in very early stage companies

30:23 - Increasing legislation

About Vivek Dogra, Arijana Walcott, Lukas André & Dominique Gruhl:

Vivek Dogra is a venture partner at the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, the leading investment fund dedicated to growth-stage companies and projects within the European Bioeconomy. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh (India) and an MBA from INSEAD. He previously worked for companies like Heineken, Red Bull and Nestlé before joining ECBF in 2020.

Arijana Walcott is a co-founder and managing partner at DART Labs, together with former Swisspreneur guest Sophie Lamparter. DART invests in early stage startups from Switzerland and Europe and helps them test and scale their ideas in San Francisco. Arijana holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in General Management from HSO and previously worked as VP Innovation & Technology at Swisscom.

Lukas André is a managing partner at Redstone Digital, a Berlin-based Venture Capital firm that manages multiple corporate and institutional venture funds. He holds a MSc in Finance, Entrepreneurship & Computer Science from the University of Bern and previously co-founded 3 startups before joining the VC world.

EP #362 - Christian Fischer: From Building Skis to Building a Company

Season 1 · Episode 362

Sunday, December 10, 2023 • Duration 56:50

Timestamps:

8:37 - From building skis to building a company

14:55 - Losing half your co-founders

28:42 - Pricing materials

39:44 - Handling sales after the CCO leaves

45:56 - Doing an IPO on the SIX Swiss Exchange

About Christian Fischer:

Christian Fischer is the co-founder and CEO at Bcomp, a global leader in advanced renewable material solutions. He holds a PhD in Materials Science from EPFL and previously worked at the aluminum products manufacturer Constellium before founding Bcomp in 2011.

The company started as a garage project to create lightweight, high performance skis. The result was bCores™, which were launched and successfully adopted by some of the biggest names in freeride skiing. The founders, material science PhDs from EPFL, used flax fibers to reinforce the balsa cores and improve shear stiffness. Impressed by the excellent mechanical properties of flax fibers, they began thinking of other applications and a potential business case.

Nowadays they additionally produce ampliTex™ and power-Ribs™, whose proprietary natural fiber-based reinforcement technologies reduce environmental impact in a wide range of high-performance applications, from automotive interiors to the highest levels of motorsports, from luxury yachting to sports, infrastructure, aerospace and even space.

Bcomp recently participated in the Sparks IPO Academy.

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EP #361 - Fabian Gerber & Jan Luescher: From Startup to IPO

Season 1 · Episode 361

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 • Duration 46:59

Timestamps:

4:22 - Why do an IPO/direct listing?

9:15 - When should you pursue an IPO/direct listing?

15:39 - Where should you list your company?

20:37 - The Sparks IPO Academy

26:44 - Direct listing mistakes

About Fabian Gerber & Jan Luescher:

Jan Luescher is the CEO at ASMALLWORLD, an exclusive travel & lifestyle community. He previously worked as a Principal at Bain & Company and holds a MA in Strategy and International Management from HSG. Fabian Gerber is a Senior Relationship Manager at SIX Swiss Exchange, with a focus on IPOs. He holds a masters in Corporate Finance from HSLU and previously worked for Zürcher Kantonalbank and Credit Suisse.

ASMALLWORLD did a direct listing on the Swiss Stock Exchange in 2018, registering shares at a price of CHF 9.75 per share. During his conversation with Silvan, Jan shared his insights on the process of going public, and Fabian added his perspective as someone with inside knowledge.

So why do companies go public?

They need more capital, and have perhaps grown past the company size that is easiest for VCs to invest in;
They have stakeholders who want to sell their stakes in the company.

Where should you list your company?

Swiss listings are considerably cheaper than in the US, if for no other reason than because going public in the US also requires getting American legal and tax advisors, an American investment bank, etc…

EP #360 - Sarah Harbarth: Building Biobased, Biodegradable Materials

Season 1 · Episode 360

Sunday, December 3, 2023 • Duration 17:21

Timestamps:

1:10 - Microplastics and food waste

5:25 - The kuori team

6:30 - Raising 2.3M

8:30 - The biobased & biodegradable USP

12:23 - Fundraising through the Swisspreneur syndicate

About Sarah Harbarth:

Sarah Harbarth is the co-founder and CEO of kuori, a B2B enterprise providing eco-friendly alternative-plastic granules for fashion, outdoor equipment, tools, and toys. She holds a BA in Industrial Design from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, and was working there as a research assistant when she started kuori in 2021.

The idea for kuori arose out of a need to combat the issue of microplastics, which are non-biodegradable materials that pollute our waterways and end up in our food, while also tackling the problem of food waste. And so Sarah had the idea to upcycle food byproducts, like banana peels and walnut shells, to build plastic alternatives that are 5x more ecological while also preserving elasticity.

Since the start of the project, kuori has closed €2.3M in financing, which allowed them to upscale their production and their team. They are currently raising their next round, looking for 1.5M in dilutive money. Part of this money is being raised through the Swisspreneur Syndicate.

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EP #359 - Markus Witte: Building a Successful Founding Team

Season 1 · Episode 359

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 • Duration 43:07

Timestamps:

3:20 - Solo founding or co-founder team?

8:37 - “Why are we doing this?”

11:58 - Hiring in the early days

16:50 - Knowing when to pivot

26:47 - Early stage startups are falling apart

About Markus Witte:

Markus Witte is the chairman and co-founder of Babbel, the market leading app for language learning, as well as a partner at Wachstumsbegleitung, which offers coaching and consulting for scaling startups. He holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and previously worked as a university professor in Germany and the US before founding Babbel in 2007.

In his second conversation with our host, Silvan, Markus shared his thoughts on co-founder relationships and managing an early stage startup. Here is a summary of his takeaways:

Statistics tell us that solo founders tend to be more successful, but that might just because the sheer determination it takes to start something on your own is also very useful in seeing the project through to the finish line. Whenever possible, start ventures with 1-3 other people;
When looking for potential co-founders, watch closely for ego issues: does it bother this person if they’re not always number one? If so, that’s not someone you want to partner up with;
Co-founding companies with relatives or romantic partners certainly isn’t a setup Markus would recommend, but there are plenty of documented cases of people doing it successfully;
A founding team breaking apart with time is not a sign of failure. People develop other interests and move on — that’s perfectly normal;

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