The Venture Briefing | ArcoScreen and MATIS

The Venture Briefing event series is designed to help students with an intent to pursue entrepreneurship take their first steps towards building a successful company.

The event features Margaux Duchamp, Co-founder and CEO at ArcoScreen and Marie Eve Didier, Co-founder at MATIS.

Margaux is an alumni of EPFL, passionate about both science and entrepreneurship. The technology developed by her startup, AcroScreen, enhances medical research and alleviates the research of potential new cures for cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and even certain cancer types.

Marie has a dual background in Optics and Art and holds a PhD in Optics and Photonics from EPFL. Her startup MATIS proposes a new approach to the authentication of artworks. With the use of specific-image algorithms, they meet the growing needs of the art experts while cutting hardware costs.

They will talk about their startup and share details about their journey building a successful company. They will also help answer some of your questions during the Q&A session:

• How to become an entrepreneur? 
• How to validate my idea?
• How to fund my idea?
• How to find help to bring my idea to life?

• Blaze Accelerator (6-months accelerator program at the EPFL): https://www.epfl.ch/innovation/startup/students/blaze/
• Venture Kick (up to 150K pre-seed capital for business development): www.venturekick.ch
• InnoBooster (up to 150k grant to accelerate market entry): www.grstiftung.ch/en/area-activity/innobooster
• First Ventures (financial support and tailored coaching program for University of Applied Science students): www.grstiftung.ch/en/area-activity/first_ventures