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“From ETH to SF: Building Companies, Backing Founders” Fireside Chat mit Erasmus Elsner & Antti Karjalainen
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Wednesday, 16 September 2026
18:15–20:00
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From ETH to SF: Building Companies, Backing Founders A fireside chat with Erasmus Elsner & Antti Karjalainen, hosted by ETH Center for Law & Economics in collaboration with S2S Ventures at the ETH AI Center. Two founders who took very different routes out of the ETH/European tech ecosystem. Erasmus, an ETH Zürich PhD, Co-founder, President at Inference Capital and founder of Sand Hill Road, a maker studio for early-stage startups in SF; and Antti, who built and exited the open-source automation startup Robocorp into Sema4.ai and Co-founder, CEO at Inference Capital. Sit down to talk about what it actually takes to build a company and what they both look for when backing them as angel investors. Agenda Fireside chat: from ETH research/first ventures to building and exiting companies, life between Zürich, Helsinki, and San Francisco Perspective shift to angel investing: what they look for in European startups, what they expect from founders Open Q&A + networking 📅 Wednesday, 16 September, 18:00–20:00 📍 Andreasturm, Zürich
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- Andreasturm, Zurich
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- ETH Center for Law & Economics
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- ~50 expected
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- 🌍 Open to all
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