The Leap: Zurich edition
Invite-only evening for Europe’s most ambitious young builders.
Learn from founders who made it in the US, connect with peers who think as big as you do, and leave with ideas and allies that could change your trajectory.
This is not another networking event.
It’s a curated gathering of builders, dreamers, and doers obsessed with creating companies that matter on a global scale.
What to expect
Unfiltered insights from European founders who scaled to San Francisco.
Aloys Van De Vreken - Finance Lead at Lakera
Nicolas Muntwiler - Co-Founder of nunu.ai, YC W23 & a16z SR003
Nico Perony - CTO Nfinite, prev. sold his company to Unity
Candid conversations about building with US speed and ambition.
A room full of peers: top young talents in tech, entrepreneurship, and beyond (selection required).
Optionality at its best: ideas, collaborators, and connections that matter.
Who this is for
You feel the itch to build.
You’ve started, or you’re about to.
And you know your ambition is global.
How to join
Guestlist is full. Signup for the waitlist.
We’re selecting only the most ambitious, and obsessive ones.
Co-organizers
Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We find exceptional talent, to form exceptional teams, to build exceptional companies. We back founders at the earliest stage and have created $13B in value to date. We amplify ambition, enabling founders to work at the cutting edge of tech and alter their life trajectory.
Merantix Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm and a unit of Merantix, a group of companies and initiatives driving AI forward in Europe. We leverage our platform to attract and foster interactions between ideas, talent, industry, and policy. We combine our venture-building DNA, deep AI investing expertise, and our expansive community.
redalpine is one of Europe's largest early stage VCs with offices in Zurich, London, Berlin and San Francisco and $1bn+ AUM. Investing in game changing companies at the intersection of science and software such as Lakera, Proxima Fusion, N26, Lyceum, Dunia, Hilo, Flexion Robotics and more from early days to global scale.
With the support of Sigma Squared, EuroTech Federation and Schranner Negotiation Institute.