SEF.Growth Best Practice Event with Helbling Technik
Success Factors in the Collaboration with an R&D Provider from a Start-up Perspective.
Start-ups are important drivers of innovation. Their agility, short decision-making paths and entrepreneurial spirit provide the right breeding ground to be able to quickly develop new technologies and business models as well as test them on the market. However, Start-ups often lack the experience and personnel breadth to time efficiently turn a prototype into a marketable product. Helbling supports Start-ups in this process with its comprehensive expertise in product development and industrialization. The event offers inspiring insights into such partnerships from the perspective of three Start-ups and Helbling Technik.
20 June 2023, 11.00am - 15.00pm
Helbling Building «Obsidian»
Hohlstrasse 614, 8048 Zürich
14th floor
Hands-on best practices on how to turn a prototype into a marketable product
This event with a beautiful view over Zurich, Altstetten inspired many of the participating Start-ups. Especially the stories about the collaboration of the three companies Positrigo, Qualysense and Scewo as well as the personal exchange during an informal lunch showed them what the collaboration with Helbling Technik is like and what opportunities are offered. A few are listed below:
- Helbling Technik also provides Equity funding
- By working together with Helbling Technik, Start-ups can be more efficient and, if done properly, probably at a lower cost than hiring experts within the Start-up
- Experts from Helbling offer more than just product development, but also sharing of vast Know-how, for example understanding what ISO13485 in quality management means and implies
- Through the partnership with Helbling Technik, a big network opens up to the Start-ups
Programme for 20 June 2023
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 11.00 | Door opening and refreshments |
| 11.30 | Welcome note by Lukas Frösch, Director Entrepreneurship, NZZ Connect and introduction about the collaboration with Start-ups by Franck Robin, Head of Development Medical Mechatronic Systems at Helbling Technik |
| 11.45 | Start-up Stories about the collaboration with Helbling from: Ilaria Sacco, Senior System Engineer and CTO at Positrigo, |
| 12.15 | Panel by Stefan von Bergen, Senior Vice President at Helbling with the Start-up representatives and Franck Robin, Head of Development Medical Mechatronic Systems at Helbling Technik |
| 12.30 | Questions & Answers |
| 12.35 | Networking Lunch |
| 15.00 | Door closing |
The representatives of the Start-ups
Ilaria Sacco
Chief Technology Officer, Positrigo
Ilaria brings a decade of experience in designing electronics hardware and sensor readout circuits for medical imaging instrumentation, robotics surgical devices and particle detectors. She studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Pisa. During her PhD at Heidelberg University she contributed to the microelectronics development of the PETA6-microchip for application in Positron Emission Tomography.
PETA6 demonstrated unprecedented performance, in particular in Time-of-Flight. Ilaria continued her career in electronics systems and PET systems development with stations at Stanford University and in different companies. Illaria joined our team in April 2022 and is our Chief Technology Officer.
Riccardo Tediosi
Chief Technology and Digital Officer at QualySense
Chief Technology and Digital Officer at QualySense: He is since 5 years responsible for the mechatronic engineering, sensing, data analytics and digitalization of the company as part of the management team.
Furthermore, he was Advisor for another swiss gem Start-up, Annaida Technologies, with the mission to shape the technology and business strategy roadmap.
As a Research and Development Director at Bruker Biospin, he has 10 years of experience in managing a multinational R&D team focusing on magnetic resonance instrumentation.
Riccardo holds a PhD in Solid State Physics and an Executive MBA from IMD in Lausanne.
Pascal Buholzer
Co-Founder & CTO at Scewo
For the past 7 years, Pascal has been working as Co-Founder and CTO at Scewo. Prior to that, he was a Research and Teaching Assistant at ETH Zurich for over a year. Before working at ETH, he completed an internship in the field of Industries 4.0 at TRUMPF GmbH & Co. KG. He started his professional career at Sensirion as a Process Engineering intern and at Geberit as a Politech intern.
Pascal holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering from ETH.
The representatives of Helbling Technik
Franck Robin
Head of Development Medical Mechatronic Systems at
Helbling Technik
Franck looks back on almost 8 years of professional experience at Helbling Technik. He started in 2015 as Senior Project Leader and has been Head of Development Medical Mechatronic Systems since 2023.
Prior to his career at Helbling Technik, he worked at Novartis as Project Leader Device and Packaging and before that at ETH Zurich and the Start-up Sensile Medical AG as Head Program Management.
Franck holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and a Master’s degree in Semiconductor Devices from INSA, Lyon.
Stefan von Bergen
Member of the Executive Board at Helbling Technik, Partner
Stefan has been a partner and member of the management team at Helbling Technik since 2019.
He has almost 11 years of professional experience at Ruag Aviation, where he worked as an F/A-18 programme manager, and 5 years at Ruag Aerospace as an aerodynamics engineer.
He holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich and various leadership certificates, including a Green Belt in Lean Leadership.
About the Start-up's
Positrigo
Positrigo makes functional brain imaging accessible worldwide. Their brain PET devices offer a strong value/price proposition, providing diagnostic imaging in the field of dementia and other brain disorders without the high cost or limited availability of traditional PET scans.
Positrigo is not competing with the big players but leading the way in a niche market with unique features and functionalities. Positrigo aspires to create lasting social impact by making functional brain imaging accessible to everyone.
QualySense
QualySense is an Agritech scaleup company focusing on AI-based robotic quality inspection solutions based on single-kernel sensing and sorting technology. QualySense is serving global multinational customers in four continents in fields such as seed breeding and automatic quality inspection. The vision of the company is to use technology to innovate agriculture to make food production more efficient and sustainable.
QualySense was founded in 2010 by Francesco Dell’Endice and Paolo D’Alcini and it is finding its way toward profitability in these challenging times.
Scewo
Scewo was founded in 2017 as an ETH spin-off with the goal to bring its initial prototype of a stair-climbing wheelchair into a real product. Today, Scewo is active in several European countries. They have a full vertical integration and over 100 devices are on the market already. The vision of Scewo is to make the world more accessible for everybody, also including robots.
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