
A table-football game at ETH Zurich helped set Julian Senoner on the road from researcher to founder. At EthonAI, now branded Ethon, he is building software for the people who need to know why production goes wrong.
A laboratory can prove that something works. Venturelab asks the less comfortable question: will anybody buy it? Its Swiss startup programs turn that question into training, staged funding and introductions abroad.
A CHF 10,000 grant starts the experiment. Three jury rounds later, Swiss researchers are expected to have something much harder than a clever invention: a business people want.

A forgotten key card sent Anna Luisa Schaffgotsch looking beneath the surface. Seven years, two countries and one formidable pivot later, she is building Impli around a simple idea: the most useful signal may be the one hiding between measurements.