Deep Tech Fireside Chat — Boost VC x Project A x Alfred
Join Gus (Boost VC), Omar (Project A), Thomas (Alfred), and Arnout (Sciencepreneurship.ch / ETH AI Center ) for a cozy fireside chat bringing together founders in Zurich.
Gus is a Partner at Boost VC, a venture capital fund based in the heart of Silicon Valley. They lead pre-seed rounds for deep tech companies and love being the first believer into the boldest founders and ideas. He did his PhD at Harvard and Postdoc at Stanford developing various deep technologies, and was previously the Chief Scientist & Director of Product at a brain health tech startup.
Omar is a former competitive programmer turned VC at Project A, a fund with €1.2B AUM investing in European pre-seed and seed founders with offices in Munich, London, and Berlin. We have backed multiple unicorns like Quantum Systems, Worldremit, and Trade Republic. Prior to Project A, Omar helped build Europe's largest AI student initiative (TUM.ai) and worked at the German Space Agency and Audi.
Thomas is an experienced startup lawyer and deeply connected with the ecosystem in Zurich. He’s a trusted sparring partner for founders and regularly supports startups and investors across the Swiss venture landscape.
Arnout is an AI scientist and lecturer at ETH AI Center (ai.ethz.ch) & ELLIS (ellis.eu). He also leads the Sciencepreneurship.ch community, mostly known for its summer school and ETH100k.org investment competition. Previously, he co-founded an AI EdTech startup and was a founding partner of pre-seed deeptech VC fund S2S Ventures (s2s.vc). He holds a PhD in AI from EPFL Lausanne and worked at Amazon, Spotify, and Stanford.
Program:
We’ll keep it simple: deep tech, venture capital, space, nuclear, defense - whatever the room wants to go deep on. Bring questions, ideas, and hot takes.
Nothing is too early or too crazy.
🍻 Pizza & drinks on us.
🎟️ Entry is free, but registration via Luma is required.
Please note: submitting your registration does not guarantee entry. We’ll confirm via email.