7IN Real Founders Real Stories 2025

This year, you again have the opportunity to experience the module 7IN at the School of Engineering (SoE) with an exciting lecture series. Under the title "Real Founders, Real Stories", we offer you the unique chance to learn from experienced tech founders and hear their success stories.

In this exclusive series, successful founders share their personal experiences, challenges, and successes with you. You'll gain insights into the world of start-ups and can benefit from the best practices and lessons learned by the founders. In addition to the lectures by the Gebert Rüf Foundation (First Ventures) and a visit to the Technopark Winterthur, where you can experience the innovative atmosphere of one of Switzerland's leading technology parks, we'll also cover legal aspects of the founding process.

This lecture series is the perfect opportunity to expand your knowledge and skills in the area of founding and leading start-ups, and to gain inspiration and motivation from experienced founders. We're looking forward to welcoming you to this series and giving you the chance to learn from the "Real Founders" and hear their "Real Stories".

Mondays from 6 pm

Feb 24 Daniel Stefania Cool Code- ZHAW School of Engineering Mentoring & Seed Support

Mar 3 Mershad Javan Octiive, Venture Capitalist

Mar 17 José Amado-Blanco yamo, Angel Investor

Mar 24 Pascal Iacoviello Diverse Small Businesses

Mar 31 Penny Schiffer raized.ai

Apr 7 Duga Hoti Flux Mobility

Apr 14 Christoph Schmidhuber ZHAW (ex. Syndex)

Apr 28 Marco Vencato Gebert Rüf Stiftung

May 5 Stève Mérillat, Melanie Binggeli and Claudio Prezzi Technopark Winterthur Incl. Runway, SoE Startups, FabLab Winti Location: Technopark Winterthur, Technoparkstrasse 2, 8406 Winterthur

May 12 Alexey Gromov InstaHeat

May 19 Sosan Nawid Advokatur Nawid

You are free to join this course series, whenever you have time.