Pioneer Fellowship Program – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs
Pioneer Fellowship Program – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs
The mission of the Pioneer Fellowship Program
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.
From idea…
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Master/PhD project
Innovative technology or
product
Market potential
Spirited & motivated students
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Prototype building
Market research
Customer interaction
IP building & licensing
Spin-off creation
Key ingredients of the Pioneer Fellowship Program
Coaching by serial
entrepreneurs and
industry experts
Access to a wide
network of industry
and investors
Up to 150K CHF
funding, to be used
flexibly by the
Fellows
An entrepreneurial
environment provided
by the ieLabs*
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:
www.ethz-foundation.ch
Track record (2010-2014)
41
...fellowships have been
granted
16
9
*ieLabs
...spin-off companies have
been founded by fellows
...different departments
have originated fellows
ieLabs provide space and infrastructure for Pioneer Fellows
A place to work & discuss with other fellows, coaches and external experts
ReHaptix is developing tools to facilitate the work
of therapists in the evaluation of upper limb motor
function in patients suffering from a neurological
injury and to satisfy the need for objective outcome
measures required to adapt the therapy most
efficiently to the patient’s level of impairment.
www.rehaptix.com
“The Pioneer Fellowship Program helped our research
project to come out of the lab and to mature into a
promising business project”.
Marie-Christine Fluet and Sophie Winkler-Payot
rqmicro
rqmicro is developing rapid, quantitative methods
to detect microbial contaminations in water and
food in hours instead of days. During the Pioneer
Fellowship Program, founder Hans-Anton Keserue
and his team are developing a chip-based prototype
and have already started offering service packages
for the detection of Legionella contaminations to first
customers.
www.rqmicro.com
“Thanks to the generous support of ETH Zurich, the
rqmicro team will be able to realize its vision of a rapid
detection mechanism for pathogens.”
Hans-Anton Keserue and team
Distran
The Pioneer Fellows Florian Perrodin and Joel
Busset started development of an acoustic camera
in the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich.
An acoustic camera is a set of microphones whose
output is processed simultaneously to produce an
acoustic image. The camera can be used to pinpoint
sound sources in very noisy surroundings – ideal for
detecting malfunctioning equipment in assembly halls
or tiny gas leaks in pipelines.
www.distran.ch
“The Pioneer Fellowship Program was just what we
needed to bring our idea from lab to market. The
Program has been professionally satisfying for us”.
Joel Busset and Florian Perrodin
Pioneer Fellowship Program – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs
ReHaptix
Contact information
For industry partners:
For private partners and foundations:
Industry Relations ETH Zurich
Dr. Daniel Auerbach
Weinbergstrasse 29
8006 Zurich
ETH Zurich Foundation
Amina Chaudri
Weinbergstrasse 29
8006 Zurich
+41 (0) 44 633 48 33
+41 (0) 44 633 84 72
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.ethz.ch/industryrelations
www.ethz-foundation.ch