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EP #466 - Abouzar Rahmani: How One Company is Disrupting the Food Industry
Season 1 Ā· Episode 466
mercredi 1 janvier 2025 ā¢ 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 bachelorās degree in Business Administration and Management from UBI Business School, Brussels. He worked for a few years at Mani Foods Industry LLC, his familyās 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.Ā
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 ideasĀ
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 FoodYoungās 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
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EP #465 - Barbara Horvath: How to Give Robots a New Skin with Printed Electronics
Season 1 Ā· Episode 465
dimanche 29 dĆ©cembre 2024 ā¢ 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 - Inveelās fundraising strategy
33:38 - The money candle and the motivation candleĀ
This episode was produced in collaboration with startup days, taking place next year on May 14th 2025. Click ā hereā 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 Āµm linewidth wires and electrodes with low resistivity āĀ this what they term their āhigh precision electronicsā. 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 āskinā, full of ānerve endingsā, 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 āhandā, and can adjust the movements of their āhandā to prevent the egg from escaping their grasp.
If a robot bumps their knee, it is very easy for their whole balance to be thrown off and for them to fall over. If their knee is wearing an Inveel skin, the robot can react faster to the perception of having bumped it and more quickly readjust their body posture so as not to fall down.
If a robot needs to go up and down stairs, or walk in terrain where there are voluminous rocks, having an Inveel skin on the soles of their āfeetā will help them ascertain whether theyāre placing their āfeetā correctly on the steps of the stairs, and will help them quickly realize theyāve stepped on a rock, and again adapt their body posture so as not to fall over.
Inveel skins also give robots proximity sensors, which allow them to sense if a person (or object) is nearby. Currently, robots have cameras through which they perceive the presence of people, and when they detect people, they slow down quite a lot as a form of risk mitigation. Inveelās proximity sensors allow robots to remain fast even in environments filled with people, because they make them much quicker in reacting to the presence of a person and avoiding collision.Ā
Inveel is currently establishing pilots with big players and kicking their R&D into turbo mode in order to cater successfully to the robotics industry.
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EP#456 - Leonie FlĆ¼ckiger: Why Luxury Watches Need NFTs
Season 1 Ā· Episode 456
dimanche 24 novembre 2024 ā¢ 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 theĀ ā Female Founders Initiativeā .
About Leonie FlĆ¼ckiger:
Leonie FlĆ¼ckiger 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.
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EP #365 - Adrian Melliger: The Electromobility One-Stop-Shop
Season 1 Ā· Episode 365
mercredi 20 dĆ©cembre 2023 ā¢ Duration 35:27
Timestamps:
6:44 - eMobility back in 2008
7:39 - CO2 impact of electric vehiclesĀ
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.
Designwerkās turnover increased 11x ever since Adrian joined as CEO, and like any other scaling company, theyāve 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.Ā
In 2021, Volvo Group acquired a stake in Designwerk Group to complement its existing offering in the area of niche products and solutions.
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EP #364 - Reto Naef: Disruptive Therapies for Aging Diseases
Season 1 Ā· Episode 364
dimanche 17 dĆ©cembre 2023 ā¢ Duration 54:10
Timestamps:
13:03 - The birth of TOPADUR
18:07 - Leaving the cushy life for entrepreneurshipĀ
23:26 - TOPADURās drug developmentĀ
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.Ā
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, theyāve 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.
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EP #363 - Vivek Dogra, Arijana Walcott, Lukas AndrƩ & Dominique Gruhl: VCs on Stage
Season 1 Ā· Episode 363
mercredi 13 dĆ©cembre 2023 ā¢ Duration 40:42
Timestamps:Ā Ā
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 AndrƩ & 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 NestlƩ 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 AndrƩ 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.
Dominique Gruhl is the CEO of Serpentine Ventures, the investment arm of the Swiss Ventures Group and leading Swiss advisor for venture assets. She holds an MA in Applied Economics from HEC MontrƩal and an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Leeds. Dominique previously worked at A.T. Kearney and the Canadian Embassy in Bern before joining Serpentine Ventures in 2023.
During their chat with Silvan, the four spoke about the difficulties and intricacies of running a venture fund in Europe, exploring topics like how to manage investor relationships so as never to lose an investorās trust, why deeptech is what sets Europe apart, and how the sustainability sector is shaping up in the current fundraising climate.Ā
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EP #362 - Christian Fischer: From Building Skis to Building a Company
Season 1 Ā· Episode 362
dimanche 10 dĆ©cembre 2023 ā¢ 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 bCoresā¢, 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 ampliTexā¢ and power-Ribsā¢, 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 Ā· Episode 361
mercredi 6 dĆ©cembre 2023 ā¢ 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?Ā
20:37 - The Sparks IPO Academy
26:44 - Direct listing mistakesĀ
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 ZĆ¼rcher Kantonalbank and Credit Suisse.Ā
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, etcā¦
Swiss listings take 4 weeks to get approved, which helps you take advantage of your IPO window and derisk your project. In the US, however, you have to file with the SCC, handle the IRS, etcā¦
What are the requirements for going public in Switzerland?
At least CHF 2.5M in net equity;
A free float of 20%, and it has to be at least CHF 25M in market cap.
But wait! Not all that shimmers is gold. What are the disadvantages of going public?
You have to report twice a year on the state of your company;
You spend something like CHF 700K on the going public process itself;
You spend around 200-300K per year just for being listed: legal expenses, paying banksā¦
Of course, going public did indeed help ASMALLWORLD in acquiring more capital and gaining trust with potential partners, and the effort required to report publicly twice a year is something which Jan says helps you run your business better overall.
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EP #360 - Sarah Harbarth: Building Biobased, Biodegradable Materials
Season 1 Ā· Episode 360
dimanche 3 dĆ©cembre 2023 ā¢ Duration 17:21
Timestamps:
1:10 - Microplastics and food waste
5:25 - The kuori teamĀ
6:30 - Raising 2.3MĀ
8:30 - The biobased & biodegradable USP
12:23 - Fundraising through the Swisspreneur syndicateĀ
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 ā¬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 Ā· Episode 359
mercredi 29 novembre 2023 ā¢ Duration 43:07
Timestamps:
3:20 - Solo founding or co-founder team?
8:37 - āWhy are we doing this?āĀ
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-UniversitƤt 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 theyāre not always number one? If so, thatās not someone you want to partner up with;
Co-founding companies with relatives or romantic partners certainly isnāt 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 ā thatās perfectly normal;
As a startup founder, youāll rarely if ever have clear indication to pivot your product. Nay-sayers will always be telling you no, and itās hard to understand to what extent your traction is the result of pure luck. So you have to keep going and find out. One thing to consider here is: How long can you afford to do this, both financially and emotionally?
In the beginning of a startup venture, rules are your enemy. You have to break them to make your own path. But when you start scaling up, rules become necessary, otherwise your promising operation descends into chaos. Donāt be afraid to change things and set up proper frameworks.
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