Product Scale-Up Coaching with Zühlke

Winners will receive a product scale-up coaching with Zühlke worth CHF 20,000

Apply now to get expert advice on how to further innovate your product and successfully develop it beyond the concept or prototype stage. At the end of our session you will walk away with a plan that will significantly boost your way to successful production (Hardware) or a stable release (Software).

Timeline: 

(Save the dates)

• Application Deadline: 31.03.2025

• Optional Pitch Training with Zühlke Ventures:
  Either: 06.05. at 16:00 (45min slot)
  Or: 09.05. at 16:00 (45min slot)
  Benefit from one of two available slots for a Q&A drop-in session on how to best pitch to the jury during the Pitch Event. 

• Pitch Event: 15.05.2025, from 15:00 in Schlieren/Zürich
  The top 8 startups will be invited to pitch, and the winning startups will be chosen. The pitching event will be followed by an apéro. 

• Coaching for the winning startups:
  The winning startups will receive the coaching in the following months after the Pitch Event. 

Those eligible to participate:
-Founding and managing members of startups
-Startups in need of coaching support during the industrialization phase (moving from prototype through product to industrialization) building solutions in the areas of industry, healthcare, finance, insurance, ICT, retail, etc.

We consider a broad variety of parameters to determine the winning cases. Among them is the completeness of the submission, our assessment of the market potential, the readiness for scale-up and whether we believe we can help to bring the start-up a step further.

If your endeavor is in the HealthTech space and your primary goal is to get funding, please contact Zühlke Ventures directly.

What our alumni say..

“We really enjoyed working together with Zühlke and we felt that Zühlke understood the problems we face due  to their comprehensive experience in  the medical device field. The product related questions and the technical input to approach some of our challenges differently, were highly stimulating. All in all, we had a great time during the workshop sessions with fruitful, exciting discussions and also a lot of fun during the coffee breaks.” Lukas Langenegger, CEO and co-founder Hemotune


“Zühlke workshop gave us more  production thinking specific to our project as their experts worked on a  similar hardware recently. We learned  that some components may cause  problems with certification, production discontinuation, etc. Finally they saved our ass by providing us with a component that solved our critical technical problem.” Tomas Sluka, CEO and co-founder of CREAL



“We had the pleasure of receiving a  UX workshop from Zühlke. The challenge we faced was how to  incentivize users to change their  habits. Zühlke came well prepared  and had actionable ideas on how to improve our user experience. They also supported with the design work, providing us with ready-to-implement app screens. We especially enjoyed their colleagual spirit and the open mindedness and would immediately work with Zühlke again.” David Eberle, co-founder Typewise


About Zühlke

Zühlke helps startups to identify, develop and  test new ideas as a strong innovation partner. By combining both business and technology expertise, Zühlke creates powerful products that satisfy customers. Zühlke can achieve this by drawing on the experience of over 1000 in-house experts and of more than 10’000 successful projects.