Venture Briefing @ FHNW MUTTENZ

Note – as this is an event over lunchtime, food and drinks will be offered for all registered participants (free of charge)

Take a startup deep dive an join us for lunch! 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.

The event features a keynote speech from successful entrepreneur Greg Gonciarz, COO and Co-Founder of Resistell.

Greg leads the company’s operations, including high level supervision and planning of the product development, IT infrastructure and company’s finances. Greg is an IT engineer by education and a serial entrepreneur. Since 2007, he has co-founded, managed and coached multiple technology-based start-ups in different sectors. Greg is also a startup coach and teaches other younger entrepreneurs how to build and keep motivated cross-functional teams. Outside of work he enjoys mountain biking, skiing and most of all cooking.

About Resistell: The EPFL spin-off based in Muttenz is a clinical stage company with its own testing device, Resistell Phenotech, based on first in class nanomotion technology platform. Resistell proposes an alternative to culture based antibiogram, the current gold standard in antibiotic susceptibility testing. The company has been a winner of all three stages of Venture Kick and the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award for four consecutive years. In late 2022, Resistell raised CHF 8.5 million from investors including EIC Fund, TRUMPF Venture, OCCIDENT, Zürcher Kantonalbank, Launchpad.

Greg will talk about his startup and share details about his journey building a successful company. He 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