142nd SICTIC Investor Day @ EPFL, Lausanne
Innovative Investment Opportunities at the 142nd SICTIC Investor Day at EPFL Lausanne!
On June 12, 2025, join us at EPFL, one of Europe’s most prestigious institutions, for a special SICTIC Investor Day. This event celebrates our exciting partnership with EPFL and focuses on connecting investors with cutting-edge startups that push the boundaries of technology and innovation.
What to Expect:
Startup Pitches at EPFL: Discover the latest in tech as high-potential startups from EPFL and beyond pitch their visions to investors eager to support transformative ideas.
Investor success story: Yunus Erduran, Sami Arpa, and Sabine Süsstrunk share how a SICTIC connection led to an AI investment win.
Exceptional Networking Opportunities: Connect with investors, founders, and industry leaders in EPFL’s vibrant innovation environment.
Join us at EPFL to explore groundbreaking technologies and impactful investment opportunities with the SICTIC community!
Startups on stage
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Bewe
Bewe is developing a gamified digital intervention to reduce food cravings by recalibrating the brain’s reward system.
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BigOmics Analytics SA
We are the creators of Omics Playground, a self-service analytics platform that empowers biologists to perform complex analysis and visualisation by themselves
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CCRAFT
CCRAFT is a production-grade foundry for TFLN photonic chips primarily delivering to data-telecom and AI infrastructure.
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Focus Technology
Focus Technology is developing intelligent surgical loupes to help surgeons with better process with an unique tech.
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Haicker
Haicker is developing a tool to help developers find and fix security issues in their code with AI agents.
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Juvion Health Sciences
Pioneering therapeutics to preserve neuron-muscle communication, prevent mobility decline, and promote healthy aging.
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KOMP-ACT
We develop and sell disruptive electric actuators to replace pneumatic in automation, packaging and robotics industries.
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Rflect
Rflect enables universities to (finally!) become user-centric with an inner-curricular learning program.
Event Agenda
17:00 – Welcome & Intro from SICTIC
17:10 – Intro from EPFL by Isabel Casado Harrington – Head of Startup Launchpad et EPFL
17:15 – Intro UBS by Joël Maibach, Head Corporate Sports, International & Innovation at UBS
17:20 – 90s Startup Pitches
17:40 – Panel with Yunus Erduran (SICTIC Ambassador), Sami Arpa (CEO, Largo.ai) and Sabine Süsstrunk (Professor, EPFL)
18:10 – Short Break
18:25 – 5 min Startup Pitching Session + Q&A
19:10 – Active Funding Rounds Pitching Session (Founder & Investor Pitch)
19:30 – Wrap up by SICTIC
Registration
Startup Applications
Startups: If you want to pitch, please submit your project here. If accepted to pitch, you will get two free tickets to attend. We encourage startups that fulfil our investment criteria to submit their business case. We offer this service and the pitching at one of our events free of charge to startups. For each SICTIC Investor Day, a jury will select the eight most promising startups for pitching at the event.
Important: In case you don’t express your interest to pitch at an event in your application form, we will assume you would rather just to want share your business case with SICTIC members and investors and will not include your project in the selection process.
Investor Registration
This event is intended primarily for angel investors (also novices). Family offices, fund managers and venture capitalists that want to invest in Swiss Startups are also welcome to attend.
SICTIC Investors and invited guests please use your promotion code to get your free ticket.
Investors: You can read the startup business cases before the event by joining our SICTIC Investor Community. You can then attend SICTIC Investor Days for free and get access to our online deal platform.
Limited seating. No entry without a valid ticket. No ticket sale at the event.
