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Entrepreneurship
I’m a serial entrepreneur with founding and/or C-level roles in ICT, robotics, and cleantech ventures.
Check out my work and the startups or projects I'm currently active in.
Startups & Ecosystems
Hoffmann Economics
Managing Partner & Founder
Hoffmann Economics is an investment and investment advisory boutique which a partner and I set up and own.
Our holding is currently invested in path-breaking startups in Switzerland, Panama, Malawi, and Canada.
We're always on the lookout for:
1) innovative, 2) scalable, and 3) economically compelling cases.
For investors, especially business angels, family offices and foundations, we offer consulting services to help the client realize a higher ROI and to support startups with a graspable real-world impact in lieu of startups that produce mere hot air about how they claim to eventually save the planet and/or society.
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House of Lab Science
Director & Co-Founder
The House of Lab Science is the community company where life-sciences businesses and innovation are at home.
My team and I offer Lab-as-a-Service in Hombrechtikon and Kemptthal, ZH, and in many other places where Houses of Labs will open their doors as well as proprietary and third-party services on our proprietary HLS marketplace.
Join us!
AI Startup Center
Director
Home to the best AI startups, connected with the world, anchored in Europe, rooted in Zurich. Building on Technopark’s more than 30 years of history of hosting tech startups, the AI Startup Center is set up to provide Zurich and Switzerland with a worldwide renowned innovation cluster for AI and Data Science where select startups, a startup accelerator, and established companies with a scouting lab can be found under one roof.
Chiweto
Director & Co-Founder
Chiweto was initiated at ETH Zurich and is now based in both Freienbach, Schwyz, and Malawi in southern Africa. My team and I help smallholder farmers to have better farming practices through inclusive innovative digital solutions while addressing development partners’ data needs.
Meaning Quotient
Entrepreneur in Residence
In our digital age, the rapid deployment of digital and AI technologies within companies fosters innovation and efficiency. However, these advancements also increase the risks of privacy violations, unfair societal representation, and untransparent and non-verifiable decision-making. At MQ Learning, we prepare companies through education & awareness to deploy these technologies ethically and responsibly.
The Thurgau Institute for Digital Transformation
Entrepreneur in Residence
At the TIDIT, I am primarily involved in a project which is tackling an important problem: SMEs face rising pressure to digitise and adopt AI, while many lack transparency on the digital competences present in their organisation. Our solution is a modular, AI-powered platform aligned with DigComp 3.0 that operationalises an end-to-end competence-to-impact cycle (diagnose → develop → apply → measure). It combines objective diagnostics, personalised workflow-embedded micro-learning (gamified), and impact reporting beyond course completion.