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Who stands behind Venture Kick
Venture Kick was selected as a program line of digitalswitzerland’s startup enablement program. digitalswitzerland is structured as an association and a foundation. The digitalswitzerland foundation, along with its independent foundation fund Venture Kick, is hosted by «Fondation des Fondateurs» (FdF). As an umbrella foundation, FdF is monitored by the Swiss Federal Supervisory Board of Foundations.

The Venture Kick Foundation gave a mandate to IFJ Institut für Jungunternehmen for the operation of the initiative. With its mandate, Venture Kick has an experienced management team with Beat Schillig and Jordi Montserrat from Venturelab. They report to the Strategy Board.

The Strategy Board defines the medium- and long-term goals and direction of Venture Kick. The Strategy Board consists of Igor Fisch (Selexis SA), Suzanne Schenk (ERNST GÖHNER STIFTUNG) and Pascale Vonmont (Gebert Rüf Stiftung).

More about Venture Kick
We are working in close collaboration with all Swiss universities and relevant organisations in the field of hightech entrepreneurship. Our jury, consisting of more than 150+ investors and entrepreneurs, plays a major role in the highly competitive selection process. Over Venture Kick’s 10 years excistence more than 600 startup projects have been supported and we keep kicking even further.

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A philanthropic initiative of a private consortium
Ambitious vision
Venture Kick was launched in 2007 with the vision to double the number of spin-offs at Swiss universities, to accelerate the time-to-market and to raise the attractiveness of these young companies to professional investors. Venture Kick offers a nine month kicking process in order to effectively support young entrepreneurs with high-potential business ideas on their journey from science to market. We identify, structure and promote promising businesses with a unique approach and program. The focus on business development, which means that we focus on customers and not technology, and the tightly structured program, results in flourishing development of the entrepreneurs.

Closing the gap in the Swiss innovation chain
Being private and independent, we understand our role to also be one of an agenda setter and catalyst. We initiate innovation, progress and discourse within the Swiss ecosystem by enabling the untried, daring the unpopular and focusing on existing and future gaps. Starting small in 2007, we had a big vision and believed in the business potential of great science at Swiss universities. With this mindset, from the first day we built Venture Kick as an independent organization with a structure and governance designed for growth. This mainly means welcoming an increasing number of collaboration partners to step in and be an equal part of our successful initiative.

Meanwhile, Venture Kick is supported by 12 private partners, foundations, private individuals and corporates, all sharing the same vision of supporting the next generation of successful entrepreneurs for the prosperity of Switzerland’s economy and society: