Venturing Switzerland

This session with Louisa Clark of Rootbridge Capital was recorded on Teams on 31 October 2024. I learned about the ⁠securitisation structures⁠ available in Luxemburg. Her recommendations are as follows: ⁠The Diary of a CEO⁠ ⁠7 Habits of highly effective people⁠ Talk to ⁠Luis Huber⁠ of Qbit Capital Get the ⁠Rootbridge app⁠

This session with Deborah Pittet of Forestay Capital was recorded on Teams on 22 October 2024. I learned that Forestay is on the B-Flexion platform. Deborah recommends us to read Shoe dog (which has been mentioned here before!) and The Little Book of Deep Learning. She suggested we talk to Pedro Bados (Nexthink) and Alessandra Agnello (Ace Ventures). Finally, she introduced me to the concept of agentic AI.

This session with Andrea Buhofer of Equitypitcher Ventures was recorded via Teams on 9 September 2024. Andrea's recommendation is for the podcast In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen. She suggests to get in touch with Louisa Clark of Rootbridge Capital. There was a technical issue at her third recommendation for Elvie, which is why that had to be edited out.

This session with Eleonora Angeliniadis and Ben Robinson of Aperture was recorded on Teams on 26 April 2024 - the first session with two guests! Here's Ben's recommendations: Fintech Brainfood Matt Brown's Notes Net interest Invest like the best - I very much concur! His Airpods! Eleonora suggests the following: Shoe dog Power Law (of course!) Her Robo Vacuum! They want me to talk to Leva, Guillaume Dubray of Polytech Ventures and Godefroy Schrago of FiveT.

This special episode with Patrick Aebischer was recorded in person on 23 April 2024 in Basel, Switzerland. Patrick recommends following science journalist Fabrice Delaye on Heidi.news, a French language news website with a special anniversary offer at pixel time.

This episode with Andreas Iten of Tenity has been recorded on Teams on 23 February 2024. His reading recommendations were The Innovator's Dilemma and Exponential Organisations. While he's giving a pass on contact recommendations, he's discovered Beeline, a beautiful tiny navigating device for cyclists.

This episode with Andreas Bezner CFA of Stableton has been recorded on Teams on 26 July 2023. His enthusiastic recommendation is to study and follow Matt Mochary's The Great CEO Within, which has also been published as a book. There's also a free curriculum available of the Mochary Method. Andreas suggests to talk to Maximilian Derpa of tenity next. Lastly, he uses novel AI driven tools grammarly go and perplexity AI in his daily work.

This episode with Aleksandra Laska of Redalpine was recorded on Teams on 21 July 2023. She recommends following the MIT Review and the website of Andreessen Horowitz, both recommendations that I fully endorse as I have them in my daily feed. She suggests we talk to Simon Enderli of SEF and Stefan Mühlemann of Reichmuth. As a mother of two, she's discovered oioioi, a Switzerland based platform offering a subscription of sustainable baby clothes - very cool!

This episode with Olaf Hannemann of Crypto Valley Venture Capital has been recorded on Teams on 10 July 2023. Olaf recommends a brief reading indeed, namely Hedging against Disruption from Bertelsmann Investments. For conversation partners, he recommends the Swiss Private Equity and Corporate Finance Association, which is definitely a valuable source and crucial networking node. Olaf urges everybody to play with everybody's darling ChatGPT et al in everybody's specific space. He thinks LLMs are amazingly powerful, even though he has not identified a specific tool for the VC space, yet. He expects to see a voice to low code / no code platform for web3 to materialise before long.

In this episode recorded on 14 June 2023, we are talking to Jacqueline Ruedin Ruesch via a Teams call.  Jacqueline is recommending The Magic of Thinking Big, an art that many in our small country should study better. She very much likes the approach of the Dutch VC team 4impact - their website is definitely a looker!