Alex Ilic

S2S Ventures is a fully student-led VC fund from Switzerland, backed by some of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs. We provide bold student founders with a first check of CHF 25,000 to kickstart their startups and work closely with them to raise their pre-seed round. Our team mirrors the founders we support—students, aspiring investors and entrepreneurs, eager to drive our fund to new heights. Building something epic? Excited to join our team? Or looking for top-tier deal flow? Let’s talk!

Aquired by Advertima Vision: https://www.linkedin.com/company/advertima-vision-ag/

The next generation of processing systems for communication, IoT, wearable and XR have aggressive energy-efficiency and performance requirements. To meet these goals, integration of in-memory compute capabilities is inevitable. However, this can be complex and slow. We solve this problem.

Strong Network delivers a self-hosted platform that allows organizations to manage the first secure Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). They use secure CDEs to provide access to their developers to ready-to-code linux development environments with native data security. CDEs are spurring the fastest DevOps transformation trend today with the entire cloud-native development effort moving to this technology. They also recently became a new Gartner technology category where Strong Network is recognized as one of the vendors. Strong Network’s CDE platform delivers business benefits by: - Accelerating application delivery by improving developer experience and making development more productive - Reducing IT costs and management inefficiencies around development environments with standardization and centralization - Protecting intellectual property (PII, GDPR-sensitive, source code, ML models, etc) that is used and created during development

VAY has been acquired by Nautilus Inc. in September 2021 (as of November 2023, BowFlex Inc.). As the BowFlex Center of Excellence, we are still open for collaborations with strong partners who do not want to miss out on our world-leading camera-based motion analysis. VAY effortlessly digitizes human movements through human motion analysis, to make your products more competitive, immersive, and intelligent. You can provide your users with real-time tracking and audio feedback from any device and camera. In addition, we provide state-of-the-art solutions that track the range of motion to functional movements, for physical therapy, rehabilitation, and digital health apps, to achieve better health outcomes.

The ETH Entrepreneur Club is a student initiative at ETH Zurich to bring entrepreneurial-minded people together and to foster entrepreneurship among students. Through startup events and our community, we provide a platform to develop ideas, build teams and exchange experience.

The AI House is a not for profit platform for industry leaders, tech pioneers, research, companies, investors and policy makers to discuss the impact of AI on the world.

Talent Kick is a highly selective, cross-university programme that will help you get hands-on experience in the entrepreneurial career path during your studies. At Talent Kick, we enable you to form an interdisciplinary team, develop a direction and first ideas, and convince your first supporters. During the entire journey, you will receive 1:1 personal coaching and get a broad overview and deep connections into the Swiss start-up ecosystem. We will support you in broadening your network, forming synergies with your studies, and navigating the ecosystem to prolong your runway. If you show great momentum, you will convince first supporters and receive first funding. Our application portal is now open! Head to our website to apply! Follow the journey #talentkick

S2S Ventures is a fully student-led VC fund from Switzerland, backed by some of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs. We provide bold student founders with a first check of CHF 25,000 to kickstart their startups and work closely with them to raise their pre-seed round. Our team mirrors the founders we support—students, aspiring investors and entrepreneurs, eager to drive our fund to new heights. Building something epic? Excited to join our team? Or looking for top-tier deal flow? Let’s talk!

The ETH AI Center is one of the worlds largest hubs for research in artificial intelligence comprising a faculty of over 102 professors. The center spans all 16 departments and brings together over 1500 researchers from AI foundations, AI applications, and AI implications. Our vision is to enable the path towards trustworthy, accessible, and inclusive AI systems. We believe that this requires a novel interdisciplinary approach where AI foundations are co-evolved together with application areas. With a dedicated physical space over almost 1000sqm, we also create an environment for serendipitous collaborations, an incubation space for start-ups, and companies that want to stay at the cutting-edge of AI.

ETH Zurich – Where the future begins Freedom and individual responsibility, entrepreneurial spirit and open-mindedness: ETH Zurich stands on a bedrock of true Swiss values. Our university for science and technology dates back to the year 1855, when the founders of modern-day Switzerland created it as a centre of innovation and knowledge. At ETH Zurich, students discover an ideal environment for independent thinking, researchers a climate which in-spires top performance. Situated in the heart of Europe, yet forging connections all over the world, ETH Zurich is pioneering effective solutions to the global challenges of today and tomorrow. Some 530 professors teach around 20,500 students – including 4,100 doctoral students – from over 120 countries. Their collective research embraces many disciplines: natural sciences and engineering scienc-es, architecture, mathematics, system-oriented natural sciences, as well as management and social sci-ences. The results and innovations produced by ETH researchers are channelled into some of Switzer-land’s most high-tech sectors: from computer science through to micro- and nanotechnology and cutting-edge medicine. Every year ETH registers around 90 patents and 200 inventions on average. Since 1996, the university has produced a total of 380 commercial spin-offs. ETH also has an excellent reputation in scientific circles: 21 Nobel laureates have studied, taught or researched here, and in international league tables ETH Zurich regularly ranks as one of the world’s top universities.