At the heart of the Swiss Startup Challenge is a mentoring programme that provides participants with active support and backing.
Participants in the Swiss Startup Challenge will benefit from an extensive mentoring programme. Depending on your own knowledge and requirements, you can decide for yourself which of the individual offers you would like to take advantage of. You do not have to make use of any of the offers in order to be entered for the selection presentations. All mentoring services are free to use as long as the project is still in the competition.Participants in the Swiss Startup Challenge will benefit from an extensive mentoring programme. Depending on your own knowledge and requirements, you can decide for yourself which of the individual offers you would like to take advantage of. You do not have to make use of any of the offers in order to be entered for the selection presentations. All mentoring services are free to use as long as the project is still in the competition.
The stages of the Swiss Startup Challenge are aimed at the three phases involved in setting up a company:
Participants submit a written concept for their startup idea. The two-page concept will be assessed by a jury against a set of criteria. Fifty participants in the Swiss Startup Challenge will then be chosen from this selection round to qualify for the second round.
This stage focuses on the feasibility of participants’ ideas. In order to be entered for the second selection presentation, they must devise a professional business plan based on their concept for the business idea. In the selection presentation, they have five minutes to outline the key points in their business plan to the jury. The final 25 participants will be chosen from this selection round to qualify for the final round.
In order to qualify for the final presentation, teams must submit the following work:
Short video introduction to the startup (max. one minute). The winners will have their videos played at the awards ceremony
Poster for tabletop exhibition
Informative management summary of the business plan
In the final presentation, participants have seven minutes to present their startup to an extended jury, with the focus being on feasibility. The jury for the final presentation is made up of members of the FHNW, the prize sponsors, our partners and external experts from business and public life.
