Swisspreneur Show

Timestamps: 09:59 – Stopping the Ideation and Building Something 24:55 – The Moment Beekeeper Found Its Real Market 41:54 – When Growth at All Costs Stopped Working 49:50 – The Road to the $1B Merger This episode is part of Growth Decoded, a format by Manoj Harasgama on the Swisspreneur Show and the podcast companion to our Scale-up Circle, Swisspreneur’s community and event series for founders wh...

Timestamps: 03:57 – Why Startup Funding Is Becoming More Concentrated 15:16 – What Sophie Saw at Y Combinator Demo Day 32:46 – Where the Real Bottleneck in AI Is 40:10 – Switzerland’s Innovation vs. Scale-Up Problem Episode description: Sophie Lamparter , Founding Partner at Vitamin°C , and Laurent Decrue , Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Holycode , return for another Swisspreneur Briefing to unpack what...

Timestamps: 02:57 – Why the Old Microsite Process Was Too Slow12:12 – Where AI Helps and Where It Doesn’t23:52 – What Changed After the New System37:12 – When the Website Becomes a Company Problem This episode is sponsored by Webflow. Webflow is the agentic marketing platform for modern marketing teams, helping organizations build and scale high-performing web experiences that drive predictable gr...

Timestamps: 06:02 – When Founder-Led Sales Stops Scaling 10:53 – What Founders Should Hand Over First 19:58 – Turning Sales Into a Repeatable Process 25:16 – When It’s Time to Build a Sales Team This episode was co-produced by Founders Hive, a community of successful startup founders, industry experts, and investors promoting entrepreneurship in Switzerland and helping early-stage business concept...

Timestamps: 10:00 – Why Vertical Market Software Works 20:29 – Cake Growers vs. Cake Dividers 33:12 – AI Is Melting the Iceberg 49:21 – What Winning Software Companies Will Do Differently Episode description: Marc Maurer is COO for Vertical Market Software at CHAPTERS Group , a publicly traded German holding company that invests in small and medium-sized software businesses and holds them for the...

Timestamps: 04:39 – 300 Factories Copying the Product 15:43 – 500 Reservations in Two Days 25:57 – Building a Company as Father and Son 37:10 – What Comes Next for Microlino Episode description: Wim Ouboter is the founder and CEO of Microlino , the company behind the micro scooter. Oliver Ouboter is the COO and Co-Founder of Microlino. Together, they have taken a family business that started with...

Timestamps: 04:14 – Why Context Management Matters 10:34 – How Compresr Works 20:07 – Getting Into Y Combinator 36:03 – What People Get Wrong About AI Episode description: Kamel Charaf is the Co-Founder and CPO of Compresr , a company helping AI teams reduce the amount of context they send to large language models. Instead of building another AI application, Compresr sits one layer lower: it decid...

This episode was co-produced by Founders Hive, a community of successful startup founders, industry experts, and investors promoting entrepreneurship in Switzerland and helping early-stage business concepts get ready for seed-stage investment. Founders Hive is a partner of the Entrepreneurship Training programme, empowered by Innosuisse, the Swiss innovation agency supporting SMEs, startups, resea...

Timestamps : 02:42 – Physical AI’s Moment 05:41 – Gravis Robotics’ CHF 200M Series A 19:39 – SWISSto12’s CHF 70M Series C 29:12 – Adaptyv Bio’s CHF 40M Series A Episode description: In this Swisspreneur Briefing, Sophie Lamparter , Founding Partner at Vitamin°C , and Laurent Decrue , Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Holycode , join Silvan to look back at an unusually active summer for Swiss startups. Afte...

This episode is part of the ⁠⁠ Swisspreneur Scale-up Circle ⁠⁠ content, our curated community of Swiss Series A + founders and operators where you can get operator grade insight. Episode description: Martin Keller is the founder and CEO of Acodis , a Swiss scale-up helping life sciences companies turn document-heavy processes into structured, usable data. What started with a mountaineering app ide...

This episode was produced by Founders Hive, a community of successful startup founders, industry experts, and investors promoting entrepreneurship in Switzerland and helping early-stage business concepts get ready for seed-stage investment. Founders Hive is a partner of the Entrepreneurship Training programme, empowered by Innosuisse, the Swiss innovation agency supporting SMEs, startups, research...

Timestamps: 00:45 – Building Mono on Top of the AI Giants 05:23 – Is Mono Just an AI Wrapper? 09:08 – Building in Public to Build Trust 25:25 – Growing Mono Through a Viral Loop Episode description: Jonas Kamber is the founder of Mono , an AI tool that brings different models into one place and helps users get the right model for the task. After years in product, UX and startups, including co-foun...

Timestamps: 00:24 – Buying a Business as a Founder Path 05:54 – Starting at One Instead of Zero 17:17 – Why Succession Deals Fall Apart 24:59 – The First 100 Days After the Deal Episode description : Lars Sager is the co-founder of ENEX , a company helping ambitious entrepreneurs take over established SMEs and navigate the succession process. He grew up around a family business that goes back to 1...

Timestamps : 00:34 – What Daphne Technology Does 04:09 – From the Navy to Physics to Switzerland 12:41 – When the Original Business Model Disappeared 31:50 – Scaling Too Early 42:23 – The Catch With Strategic Investors This episode is part of the ⁠⁠ Swisspreneur Scale-up Circle ⁠⁠ content, our curated community of Swiss Series A + founders and operators where you can get operator grade insight. Ep...

Timestamps: 00:45 – Petter’s Journey Into Startups 14:29 – Bringing More Founder Energy to Europe 24:26 – Europe’s Next Big Opportunity 39:24 – The Cost of Founder Obsession Episode description: Petter Made is a founder, operator and partner at EWOR. He has spent more than 25 years in payments, fintech and company building, including as part of the founding team behind SumUp. There, he helped buil...

Timestamps : 02:12 – Rahel’s Journey to Reilo 05:09 – Why Farmers Need Finance 07:53 –  How Reilo Works 17:08 – Building Across Different Markets Episode description : Rahel Guggenbühl is the Founder and CEO of reilo, a Swiss climate fintech working at the intersection of smallholder finance, nature-based solutions and carbon markets. Her path into entrepreneurship started on the ground, first in...

Timestamps: 02:24 – Becoming an entrepreneur 07:02 – Are founders born or made? 17:05 – Lessons from football 28:48 – Why domain expertise matters 35:05 – Luck, timing and success This episode was co-produced by EO Zürich . Check out their upcoming event, Entrepreneurs Summit 2026 . Jann Tadorian is an entrepreneur, investor, board member, Founder and CEO of Inplenion , Co-Founder of Solantic Grou...

Timestamps:  07:09 – Building a Startup With Seven Co-Founders 19:02 – Where Underwater Robots Create Value 26:16 – Why Zurich Works for Robotics 39:57 – Scaling Tethys Beyond Switzerland Episode description: Jonas Wüst is the CEO and Co-founder of Tethys Robotics , an ETH Zurich spin-off building robots for difficult underwater environments. The company started as a student project and has since...

Timestamps: 09:16 - How Emmi AI Reached an Exit in 18 Months 18:01 - Why They Raised €15M After Becoming Profitable 25:25 - Why Mistral Was the Right Buyer 46:49 - Can Europe Win in Industrial AI? Episode description: Dennis Just co-founded Emmi AI and served as its CEO, building an industrial AI company focused on complex engineering problems. Around 18 months after launch, Emmi AI was acquired b...

In this Swisspreneur Briefing, ⁠Sophie Lamparter⁠ , Founding Partner at ⁠Vitamin°C⁠ , and ⁠Laurent Decrue⁠ , Co-Founder and Co-CEO of ⁠Holycode⁠ , join Silvan to discuss what the latest developments in AI and funding mean for Swiss founders. They look at Europe’s dependence on American and Chinese AI models, why investors are becoming more cautious, and what falling seed investment could mean for...

Timestamps:  1:44 - Why Founders Build Again 4:20 - Turning Tech Into a Product 14:58 - How Founders Choose Focus 21:16 - From Hype to Real Execution This episode was co-produced with ⁠KickFund⁠ , a VC fund investing in the most promising Swiss deeptech startups. Episode description: Vincent Forster is the CEO and Co-founder of Nerai, a Swiss biotech developing a new generation of more precise and...

Timestamps: 5:22 - The opportunity identification 17:49 - Transitioning into a Scale-up 24:31 - How AI is impacting logistics 35-14 - The Swiss scalling problem This episode is part of the ⁠⁠ Swisspreneur Scale-up Circle ⁠⁠ content, our curated community of Swiss Series A + founders and operators where you can get operator grade insight. Episode summary: Yvette Körber is the CEO and Co-Founder of...

Timestamps: 08:55 - When to Form a Board 14:53 - Choosing the Right Board Members 20:46 - Working Effectively with Your Board 46:52 - Scaling the Board with Company Growth Episode description: Marc Stockli is an entrepreneur, investor, board member, and author of Make Boards Work . Over the course of his career, he has built companies, advised founders, invested in startups, and served on numerous...

Timestamps: 07:20 - Building a European Alternative in Cloud Services 14:02 - Leadership Style and Team Dynamics 18:01 - Navigating the Fast-Paced Cloud Industry 21:30 - Switzerland's Role in Europe's Digital Sovereignty This episode was co-produced with Innovaud , the innovation and investment promotion agency for the canton of Vaud. Episode description: Mathias Nöbauer is the CEO of Exos...

(English below) Florian Teuteberg, Mitgründer und CEO von Digitec Galaxus, empfängt uns im Logistikzentrum in Wohlen und erzählt die ganze Geschichte hinter dem grössten Onlinehändler der Schweiz: von drei Gamern in einem 25-Quadratmeter-Büro bis zu über 3 Milliarden CHF Umsatz. In dieser Swisspreneur Documentary erfährst du: - Wie drei Gaming-Freunde aus Leidenschaft für Hardware ein Milliardenun...