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Pioneer Fellowship Program – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs
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Key ingredients of the Pioneer Fellowship Program
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Up to 150K CHF funding, to be used flexibly by the Fellows
An entrepreneurial environment provided by the ieLabs*
Coaching by serial entrepreneurs and industry experts
Access to a wide network of industry and investors
…to implementation• Prototype building• Market research• Customer interaction• IP building & licensing• Spin-off creation
From idea…• Master/PhD project• Innovative technology or
product• Market potential• Spirited & motivated students
*ieLabsieLabs provide space and infrastructure for Pioneer FellowsA place to work & discuss with other fellows, coaches and external experts
Program partners are actively involved in the Pioneer Fellowship Program, interact with Pioneer Fellows, gain early insight into ETH technologies and are invited to ETH events.The Pioneer Fellowships are enabled by the ETH Zurich Foundation and matched with research funds of ETH Zurich. Engage in the Pioneer Fellowship Program and help ETH Zurich build the successful companies of tomorrow.
...spin-off companies have been founded by fellows17
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...fellowships have been granted
The mission of the Pioneer Fellowship Program
Track record (2010-2014)
Spinning key technologies out into the market and helping students to become successful entrepreneurs:The Pioneer Fellowship Program provides the expertise, the support & the network for ETH students to become successful entrepreneurs.
A success story
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“The expertise, know-how and experience of the coaches, experts and all the people involved in the Pioneer Fellowship Program are of the highest value, which helped enormously in guiding us through all the turbulence a startup normally encounters on it‘s way. It is a highly connected institution which brought us together with contacts startups rarely meet on their own. We are tremendously thankful for all you have done for us!!!”
“Supporting future young entrepreneurs at ETH Zu-rich and seeing them de-veloping highly innovative products, means a lot to me. I look forward seeing how passionate young en-trepreneurs evolve with their company.”
noonee AG is a Swiss based technological company founded in 2014. The company‘s vision is to become leaders in wearable ergo-nomics, mechatronic assistive devices. Recently the team of noonee AG has finalized the first field trial of their “chairolutionary” device: the Chairless Chair®. The first com-pany to test the prototypes was a leading German car manufacturer (Audi AG). In the dynamic and fast paced manufacturing environ-ment, the device received positive feedback from the first testers.
Gerhard Schmid, Dipl. El.-Ing. ETH
Olga Motovilova, Co-Founder and CFO, noonee AG
Keith Gunura, CEO & Co-Founder noonee AG
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For industry partners:
Industry Relations ETH ZurichDr. Daniel AuerbachWeinbergstrasse 298006 Zurich
+41 (0) 44 633 48 33
www.ethz.ch/industryrelations
For private partners and foundations:
ETH Zurich FoundationAmina ChaudriWeinbergstrasse 298006 Zurich
+41 (0) 44 633 84 72
www.ethz-foundation.ch
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