Lift goes into politics

Lift offers a platform to showcase upcoming projects (like in Lift15 or Lift China), connect entrepreneurs among them or with investors and provide opportunities to develop new ideas and create new projects, that might one day kick-off a new startup cycle, like for example with the Urban Data Challenge).

Now Lift is taking this support one step further. In a post on the Lift blog Abir Oreibi writes: “we will talk directly to the parliament deputies to raise awareness about the challenges and opportunities the key actors in the startup ecosystem are facing. As policy frameworks play a key role in supporting entrepreneurship creativity and long-term business successes, we want to stimulate an active discussion about it with the policy makers.”

In partnership with the startup parliamentary group, le réseau and Bilan, Lift is launching a series of events where current hot topics will be discussed and entrepreneurs, experts, investors, policy makers and politicians will be connected. These events will run in parallel to the parliamentary sessions and will be hosted within to the federal palace. While these events will be on invitation only, it’s planned to provide a number of passes for members to the Lift community. Please contact Lift, if you are interested to attend.

New Official Swiss Parliamentary Group for Startups
The “Lift sous la Coupole” initiative is supported by the newly created parliamentary Startup group, which brings together deputies from all political affiliations, including Thomas Aeschi (UDC), Guillaume Barazzone (PDC), Balthasar Glättli (Verts), Jacques-André Maire (PS), Fathi Derder (PLR).