Testimonials

Just a few words of Congratulations! This tour proved again that the original idea of Sven was, and is really great. Thanks Sven for making it happen. The implementation of the Swiss TT was really very well done. Thanks Jan and Simone and to all the Team for making the organization so smooth and the program so interesting.

- Daniel Borel, Chairman, Logitech International, Switzerland

Congratulations for a fantastic event. It was the best networking event with start-up companies and especially with other early stage investors I have attended for a long long time. The format of constant movement and breaks generating natural opportunities to network with colleagues and entrepreneurs proved to be highly efficient and successful. From a sponsor perspective we are very excited to have had the chance to sponsor the event. Please extend also our congratulations to the whole team.

- Jurgen Neumann, Senior Associate, Apax Partners, Germany

The Swiss Tech Tour was very professionally organized and highly enjoyable. I appreciated the cross-section of high tech start-ups and their dedicated presentations. While the quality of the ideas was most encouraging, it appeared that the entrepreneurs still will need to be imported in many cases. As a technical person, I particularly valued the discussions with the many Venture Capitalists - and vice versa, obviously.

- Walter Steinlin, CFO, Swisscom, Switzerland

The Swiss TT has been an exceptional opportunity to interact with Swiss technology leaders and get exposed to exciting ideas in semiconductors and enterprise software, at an interesting inflection point in time where the business stage is set for an international commercialisation breakthrough of cutting-edge Swiss technology.

- Tal Lev, Senior Associate, Jerusalem Venture Partners, UK

The Swiss Tech Tour was by far the most effective networking event I have ever had the privilege of attending. The idea of getting on and off trains, buses and boats over the a day period is brilliant. Even if you are shy and antisocial you cannot avoid meeting lot's of great contacts!

- Peter Kazimirski, European Leader, PWC, Switzerland

This is a way to stay close to the Swiss entrepreneurial scene. Despite being in Munich and relatively close, there are still deals that don

- Holger Heims, Managing Director, Deutsche Venture Capital, Germany

I was particularly impressed by the quality of presenting companies - nice to see the progress that the Tech Tour has made since my first contact in 1998.

- Peter Ohnemus, Chairman & CEO, The e-Firm, Switzerland

Thank you for a wonderful experience at the Swiss Tech Tour. I am getting more and more impressed by the concept. I hope I will be accepted as a participant now and then, also in the years to come.

- Frode Vaksvik, Managing Director, START-fondet

The Tech tour provides investors like ourselves with a wonderful means to gain both exposure to investment opportunities in a structured and efficient format, as well as interact with other investors in a focused but fun setting.

- James Brown, Partner, Logispring, Switzerland

An exceptionally efficient use of valuable VC Partner time. How else could I get to see 29 of the best companies in Switzerland in just two days.

- Nigel Grierson, Managing Director, Doughty Hanson, UK

The Tech Tour provided a highly focused and efficient platform to informally exchange ideas and concepts, meet the right people and create a reasonable degree of awareness.

- Andreas Hurlimann, Director, Arthur D. Little, Switzerland

These were very busy days! It was a mix between the pleasure of meeting colleagues, getting an update on many start-ups we knew already, and discovering great new projects. We will not miss next ones!

- Jean Schmitt, Partner, Sofinnova, France

In 1998 I presented Xemics at the first Swiss tech tour, and that helped us a lot in closing our first venture capital round a year later. This year

- Roland Heer, CEO, Seclutions

The event was well coordinated and provided valuable new contacts for our company.

- Chris Tiensch, CEO, BMD Wireless

I truly believe that you are doing Switzerland as a whole a great service! We as a company were very much honoured to be able to present to such a distinguished group of investors and had a great time doing so.

- Bettina Hein, CFO, SVOX

It was a great experience for us and we were able to make a number of very important and promising contacts.

- Martin Kutter, CEO, AlpVision

I would like to thank you now for a very well organised and interesting event.

- Kim Ludvingsen, Fundraiser, Nanolight