Startup INVEST merges with SICTIC and hands over startup days

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19.05.2022
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Investor clubs Startup INVEST and SICTIC join forces. Startup INVEST’s activities, its angel investors and its large group of 32 institutional investors from Switzerland and abroad are merged into the non-profit association SICTIC. Furthermore, Startup INVEST is handing over the startup days conference to the company LINDEN 3L AG.

The Startup INVEST association decided at its general assembly in March 2022 to hand over the association's activities and to dissolve the association at the end of the business year 2022. As part of the merger, SICTIC will extend its startup verticals from primarily ICT and Fintech and also accept other technology-driven startups.

Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier and his partner Daniel Bermejo are devoting themselves to new challenges. Jean-Pierre comments: “After almost 20 years, it is about time for me to start the next journey of my life. I am very thankful for having been so privileged all these years and hopefully having contributed to the development of the Swiss Startup Ecosystem. I strongly believe in giving back, that is why I will be focusing on a social project in South Africa in the coming years.” Daniel Bermejo, co-managing director at Startup INVEST adds: “I feel grateful and honoured for the confidence and trust placed in me by our board, management and members and excited for the future ahead. Looking forward to many more years of Startup INVEST’s legacy under the SICTIC & LINDEN brands.”

This succession plan preserves the pioneering work done by Christian Wenger, Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier and Daniel Bermejo at Startup INVEST since 2003 and strengthens the Swiss ecosystem by consolidating complementary efforts into the Switzerland based investor platform.

SICTIC that has local and international angel investors and institutional investors in its large investor community of more than 500 investors. Dr. Thomas Dübendorfer, president and co-founder of SICTIC, welcomes the merger: “This merger allows us to better position Switzerland on the global map for startup investors by consolidating fragmented efforts into SICTIC that becomes a super strong Swiss investor platform with international visibility and a large investor base.”

The startup days are the leading networking platform for entrepreneurial topics in Switzerland. Every year, the conference gathers well over 1’000 relevant players of the startup ecosystem of Switzerland in Berne. The conference was organised by LINDEN already in 2021 and is now fully handed over to LINDEN. Representatives of the association's board will sit on the new advisory board and support the new owners of startup days with their know-how and network. Dominik Isler, Partner at LINDEN, is looking forward: "The startup attitude is the growth engine of the entire Swiss economy, in all phases of a company's life cycle. That's why, together with SICTIC and others, we continue to develop startup days into THE outstanding conference for personalities with an entrepreneurial attitude in Switzerland."

Christian Wenger, Chairman of Startup INVEST, concludes: “We’ve closely watched the strong growth of SICTIC and it was our favourite solution to merge with them as we truly share their values. The team at LINDEN has the power, network and experience to take the conference to the next level in the spirit of the association."

(Press release / SK)
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