Swiss Start-up Factory and Young Entrepreneurs Club at University of St. Gallen join forces

The YEC Incubator provides students with the unique opportunity of founding their own startup over the course of one semester; get support from experienced startupers, developers and mentors; as well as the chance to present their prototype and business idea in front of leading business angels and investors. The first cohort of this project will start in the first week of March 2015. The Swiss Start-up Factory AG will be a strong partner during this project and provide the participating students with great workshops and mentoring throughout the whole program.

The YEC Incubator is a pre-stage program where students gather entrepreneurial experience and come up with a first very basic prototype. To provide the proof of concept and to take the startup to the next level students will need to win potential investors and/or incubators, such as the Swiss Start-up Factory AG.

Furthermore, the Swiss Start-up Factory AG will also support the Cofoundme platform, a joint venture of the YEC and the ETH Entrepreneur Club, that matches startups with potential cofounders/team members.

About the Young Entrepreneurs Club at the University of St. Gallen
Founded in 2013, the Young Entrepreneurs Club is here to turn the HSG into an entrepreneurship university. The goals of YEC are to raise awareness for entrepreneurship at HSG and to actively support founding students on every level of their entrepreneurial journey. The organisation is the foremost provider of complete entrepreneurial services at the University of St Gallen, with something to suit each stage of your entrepreneurial development.

About the Swiss Start-up Factory AG
Launched in 2014, the Swiss Start-up Factory AG is a Zurich-based incubator looking for thriving digital entrepreneurs: they provide exciting opportunities from day one, through their network in Switzerland and around the globe. The Swiss Start-up Factory AG runs a three month-long start-up accelerator program in which they provide a platform of services, coaching, mentoring and office space in the heart of Zurich as well as entrepreneurial network to achieve ambitious goals. Founding partners of the Swiss Start-up Factory are Mike Baur, Max Meister, Mark Berger and Oliver Walzer.