The Startup Board Academy program has been designed for business angels, investors, venture capitalists, startup founders, SME owners, experienced and future board members who want to become effective board members of a startup, scale-up or SME. Founded in 2015, the Startup Board Academy has grown over the years and today counts more than 2000 alumni throughout Switzerland.

The program is delivered both online and in person, in French or in English, over 4 afternoons of fully interactive and engaging sessions. In person training programs are run in Lausanne (EPFL Innovation Park), Geneva (Campus Biotech, FER), Fribourg (Marly Innovation Center; blueFactory), Bern and Zurich.

We are proud to work with seasoned board members of SMEs and startup companies, who are serving on boards in Switzerland and in Europe. They share their real-life entrepreneurial and board experience with the participants and make sure they can accelerate their understanding of the specific issues of small companies and avoid typical pitfalls of board assignment of fast-moving organisations.