Venture Challenge #2: Raise the first round

Venture Challenge is a workshop series where you can meet successful entrepreneurs and hear about their experience and recommandations on a specific entrepreneurial topic. These workshops adress students with an innovative startup idea or who are interested in entrepreneurship.

Attendance is limited so make sure to register here. Note that this event belongs to a series of three workshops (see other dates below), based on a mission and challenge approach to enhance the validation and execution of your business case. 

Apply if you have an innovative startup project! Student, doctoral candidate, postdoc or member of staff at EPFL, or any other Swiss university carrying a solid high-tech startup project are also more than welcome to join. In case of questions, please don't hesitate to contact Calimna.

Venture Challenge #2: Raise the first round

Target audience: Students, PhD, Postdoc, Academic Staff & Alumni, Interested in Entrepreneurship
Why attend? Coaching, Training, Inspiration
Speaker: Samantha Anderson, CEO and Co-Founder of DePoly SA
About: After several experiences as Research Assistant at the University of Winnipeg, Queen's University and EPFL, Samantha successfully completed her PhD in Carbon Capture and Storage at EPFL in 2019. DePoly SA was founded with the mission to close the loop on PET plastic recycling. DePoly SA was listed in the Top 100 ranking of the Swiss startup Award in 2022. DePoly SA recently closed a financing round of 2.7 million CHF, as a "SERI-funded EIC Accelerator Grant" provided by the federal government, after numerous awards and nominations.


Other workshop:

Venture Challenge #3: Financing for startups

• Location: La Station, EPFL (between Migros & the SwissTech Convention Center), Lausanne
• Day/Time: 30.11.2022 / 16:00-18:00