🇨🇭 Switzerland · 🚀 Startups / Venture
Founders, fundraising, VC, demo days. 74 upcoming across 8 cities, 71 in October 2026. ~10,595 attendees expected.
Women Get IT Done. A Te Toca × WiNZ hackathon, two evenings with a full week to build in between. Come join us! Te Toca is a Swiss women's health startup working on breast awareness and body literacy. A wearable bra with tactile guidance, an app, and workshops that 460+ women have been through. Women in Informatics Network Zurich (WiNZ) is the UZH ACM-W chapter, running academic, career, and commu
Next Frontier Robotics: Europe's Challenge for the next leap in multi-purpose robotics. SPRIND's Next Frontier Robotics Challenge backs exceptional teams with moonshot approaches that deliver true capability leaps in robotics. Teams can receive up to €7.2 million in non-dilutive funding across four stages. Together, we are building a modular, interoperable European robotics ecosystem ready for the
SWISSto12 est l’une des plus belles success stories de l’écosystème deeptech romand. Cette entreprise aérospatiale de premier plan développe des systèmes satellitaires avancés, des produits de radiofréquence (RF) ainsi que des technologies innovantes de fabrication additive. Dans le cadre du Swiss Deep Tech Roundtable, nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à une visite exclusive de son site de pro
Join a Claude Community Event, organized by local enthusiasts for everyone who loves building with Claude! The Claude Community Zurich is happy to announce the Claude Opus 5.5 Build Night! Presented by the your local Ambassador Karl Pilgram and special guest from Australia (with Swiss roots) Dominik Fretz, founder and Managing Director of Harbour Edge Intelligence. We'll get some first hand experi
Join us in Zurich for an evening about flow, voice AI, creativity, and more natural ways of interacting with technology. Fabian Dittrich, European Evangelist for Wispr Flow, connects freediving to 100 meters, years of working from the road, and the rise of voice-first computing through one question: what happens when unnecessary friction disappears? The evening includes a 30-minute talk, a live lo
Ever wondered what it's like to live and build inside The Loft, St. Gallen's invite-only hacker house where only a handful of builders get in? For this Hack Night we are opening the doors. Together with the hacker house, you get to spend the night at The Loft as if you were one of its residents: build, hack and pitch alongside the people who actually live there. It's also the first-ever Hacker Hou
Casual get-together where founders from our community meet in the heart of Zürich. No formal agenda: just founders sharing insights and creating opportunities together.
A technical evening exploring how retrieval, vector search, reranking, and generative models are evolving for the age of AI agents. Join senior engineers, researchers, and technical leaders from Nebius, NVIDIA, Tavily and the wider search community for a practical discussion about the systems behind modern agentic search — from low-level search primitives on modern GPUs, through advanced retrieval
Mohamed Aly Sayed, will start by introducing what Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is, share some use cases of where it is applied in industry, and provide some examples of how CFD is leveraged in F1 to improve performance. He finishes on a personal reflection — what matters more: the engineering challenge or the character of the individuals in the team. Mohamed holds a PhD in particle tracking
City views, complimentary drinks, and people worth knowing in Life Sciences. Less than a 5-minute walk from the Messe. Wind down with Life Sciences Tech Network - Switzerland and Visium for a relaxed and exclusive evening with leaders shaping and building AI in Life Sciences. We’re curating a mix of Pharma and Biotech professionals, Tech innovators, and Founders in a fantastic location overlooking
Convergence Sessions (Zug) Presented by Convergence Partners Wednesday, 7 October 2026, 18:00 – 22:00 Health Hub Zug, Grienbachstrasse 17, 1. Floor, 6300 Zug About "Convergence Sessions" introduces purpose-driven investors to high-impact start-ups and knowledge providers in the Human Flourishing & Longevity space. The evening will provide ample opportunities to network with like-minded individuals
Hoi IPZ-Community, Have you met the Teams of Swissloop Tunneling and Under Industries AG and learned about their "boring businesses"? No? Well, now is the perfect time: The Team from Under Industries and Swissloop Tunneling invite you and 15 other members to join them on their construction site. Under Industries AG will explain how they install underground utilities without opening the road. Imagi
Women Get IT Done. A Te Toca × WiNZ hackathon, two evenings with a full week to build in between. Te Toca is a Swiss women's health startup working on breast awareness and body literacy. A wearable bra with tactile guidance, an app, and workshops that 460+ women have been through. Women in Informatics Network Zurich (WiNZ) is the UZH ACM-W chapter, running academic, career, and community events f
Trust at Scale: Leadership, Governance and Accountability for Sustainable Growth AI Game Changers Club | Zurich Executive Leadership Exchange Hosted at IBM Zurich 8 October 2026 The conversation around AI is entering a new phase. Organizations are moving beyond experimentation. AI is becoming increasingly embedded in decisions, workflows, customer interactions, operating models and strategic choic
Your pitch taken apart in public Most feedback founders get is polite. This isn't that. Fly and ellipsis are coming together to give early-stage founders brutally honest feedback on their business idea and pitch. The things a VC thinks in a meeting but doesn't tell you. Between us we've backed 70+ startups. Both funds are run by ex-engineers and deep tech founders, so questions get technical fast.
Die Jobsuche auf Senior Level ist heute weniger eine Frage von Glück oder Timing, sondern von Methode. Wer als Fach- oder Führungskraft die nächste passende Position finden will, profitiert davon, die Jobsuche wie ein eigenes Projekt zu führen: mit klarer Strategie, strukturierten Etappen, den richtigen Werkzeugen und einer belastbaren Pipeline an Zielunternehmen. Genau hier setzt Career Intellige
📅 Date: Friday, October 9, 2026 📍 Location: Zoom Interested in applying to the next Visa Innovation Program Europe – Nordics & Baltics cohort? Or have you already applied and want to learn more? Join us on 9 October at 13:30 CEST for an informal online information session with the VIPE team. The program connects fintech startups and scale-ups with Visa and industry partners to explore business opp
Ride the Chain | Geneva Inaugural Ride Into crypto and cycling? Let’s ride. Join us on Friday, October 9 at 16:00 for the inaugural Geneva ride of the Crypto Valley Cycling Club. Led by Dimitri Granger, Co-Founder and COO of The Big Whale, we’ll set out from L’Horloge Fleurie for an approximately 25 km ride through Geneva and along the shores of Lac Léman. This is an opportunity to step away from
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