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… • • • • …to execution Master/PhD project Innovative technology or product Market potential Spirited & motivated students • • • • • 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 auerbach@ethz.ch amina.chaudri@ethz-foundation.ch www.ethz.ch/industryrelations www.ethz-foundation.ch
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