Venture Briefing Bern: How to Get Funded

Date

Wednesday, 16. November 2022; 12:00-13:00

Location

Room A-119 UniS Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3012 Bern

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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. In this session, listen to Carlos Ciller, CEO & Co-Founder of RetinAI.

The Innovation Office of the University of Bern, the Bern University of Applied Sciences and Venturelab cordially invite you to join us for a free lunch and learn about non-dilutive funding instruments for your spin-off or innovation project!

In the first part of the event, various financing options for spinoff and innovation projects will be presented.

In the second part, Carlos Ciller, CEO & Co-Founder of University of Bern spin-off RetinAI will share his experiences and advice on building his company and raising funding.

About: Carlos holds a PhD in Medical Imaging in Ophthalmology and Machine Learning (Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Fundus, OCT). He has +10 years of professional working experience in Research and Development and is the ex-president of the Innovation Forum Imperial College London.

He 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?

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
UniBE Venture Fellowship
BRIDGE: from reseach to innovation
BFH-specific instruments
Start-up Grants by the Bern Economic Development Agency

Thank you to the Gebert Rüf Stiftung for supporting this event and our Partners: University of Bern, BFH, Bern Economic Development Agency, BRIDGE.

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