Venture Briefing @ ZHAW Wädenswil

Date

Monday, 12. December 2022; 12:00 - 13:00

Location

RA O1.01, Seestrasse 55, 8820 Waedenswil

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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 a keynote speech from successful entrepreneur Tomas Turner, Co-Founder Cultivated Biosciences


Tomas Turner is a Material Engineer from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL). During his studies, he encountered the concept of alternative proteins and directly recognized it could be part of the solution to answer the climate and health challenges we face. After an internship at Planted Foods, he continued exploring his interest at EPFL. He conceived the idea of producing creamy fat using yeast. He is now developing this solution further at Cultivated Biosciences with the mission of creating better products than factory farms.

About Cultivated: Today's reality is that dairy causes 4% of global green house gas emission. Plant-based alternatives, although gaining traction, don't appeal to many consumers, as they lack a creaminess for which the fat component is key.
Cultivated Biosciences wants to fix this. The company, a spin-off of ZHAW founded by Tomas Turner and Dimitri Zogg, develops a fat ingredient from GMO-free yeast which offers the creaminess needed for plant-based dairy and this ingredient has a clean label and sustainable production process. Cultivated Biosciences was founded in 2021 and already won two stages of Venture Kick, the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award, and raised USD 1.5 million from Wingman Ventures, Big Idea Ventures, Blue Horizon, Proveg International, the FoodHack syndicate, and business angels.
 
Tomas will talk about his startup and share details about his journey building a successful company. He 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?

You will also be introduced to different support programs available to new entrepreneurs:
  • Venture Kick: up to CHF 150,000 pre-seed capital for business development 
  • InnoBooster: up to CHF 150,000 grant to accelerate market entry 
  • First Ventures: up to CHF 150,000 financial support and tailored coaching program for University of Applied Science students 
***Note - as this is an event over lunchtime, we will offer food and drinks for all registered participants (free of charge)***

Thank you to the Gebert Rüf Stiftung for supporting this event.

        

And our local partner ZHAW Entrepreneurship

  

Get ready! Watch and get inspired:

About the startup Cultivated Biosciences



About Entrepreneurship at ZHAW



Meet other founders supported by Gebert-Rüf-Stiftung / Venture Kick



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