Innovation

Why is Siri female? What is Smart Living? Automated inequality - do algorithms reinforce poverty and stereotypes? Will sharing apps save the world? Why do recruitment tools weed out people with breaks in their CVs?

innovation / Céline Meier /

Why we should all invest in female founders

Although women receive much less funding, they often have sustainable and economically successful business ideas. This needs to change. The responsibility to promote talent and innovation in the startup world, rather than primarily focusing on gender, lies with all of us.

innovation / Céline Meier /
innovation / Patrizia Laeri /

Why Women Should Chat More with ChatGPT

The popular bot ChatGPT turned one this November. Since then, superpowers have been available to humanity. Already, 1.7 billion people use them, mostly men. This could deepen the digital gap between genders. A wake-up call.

innovation / Patrizia Laeri /
innovation / Christian Stocker /

Gender Tech Gap: «Women must act as role models»

There is a shortage of women in the tech industry: Globally, only 20 percent of all tech jobs are taken up by women. Safia Agueni of «Women in Tech Switzerland» explains in this interview why this gap exists, what consequences it brings, and how more women can be enthusiastic about technology.

innovation / Christian Stocker, Miriam Suter /
innovation / Miriam Suter /

Designed for men, impractical for women - and dangerous

Did you know that many professional female soccer players wear children's shoes? Or that there are hardly any bulletproof vests for women's bodies? One of the biggest gender gaps is in the development of our everyday objects. But things could be different: women are leading the way.

innovation / Miriam Suter /
innovation / Céline Meier /

Crowdinvesting - a solution to the gender funding gap?

Technology and limitless growth - that is what traditional investors are looking for in startups. The major investors are hardly interested in sustainability and social impact. One recent funding option that may be advantageous to sustainable startups in particular is crowdinvesting.

innovation / Céline Meier /
innovation / Céline Meier /

Odile Gaudart-Gastaldo: «The message women need to hear is that they don’t need to be experts in financial markets or technology to invest in startups!»

As a business angel, Odile Gaudart-Gastaldo invests in start-ups. In this interview, she reveals what it takes to do so and what needs to change to encourage more women to consider such investments.

innovation / Céline Meier /
innovation / Luise Ammerschuber /

4 Ways to Create a Strong Ecosystem for Female Founders

Entrepreneur Luise Ammerschuber shares her personal experience and advice for female founders in Switzerland.

innovation / Luise Ammerschuber /
innovation / Samantha Taylor /

Better fintech than femtech - why investors don't support women

Ideas from female founders have a particularly difficult time raising capital. Part 2 of our "Female Founders" shows how much gets lost in translation between founders and investors - especially, if founders are women and investors are men.

innovation / Samantha Taylor /
innovation / Samantha Taylor /

Female founders are the exception

The world of startups is a gentlemen's club. Part 1 of our "Female Founders" series examines why this is a missed opportunity not just for women but for the world at large, and what needs to be done to create change.

innovation / Samantha Taylor /
innovation / Christian Stocker /

How does it feel to be a bootstrapped entrepreneur in Zürich, Christina Stahl?

Co-Founder and CEO of the Swiss handbag brand Ameli Zürich, Christina Stahl left her high-paying job to launch a startup at the beginning of a pandemic. A brave move in a city of bankers.

innovation / Christian Stocker /
innovation / Patrizia Laeri /

Misogynistic Tech Assistants

Computers, mobile phones, watches, or loudspeakers are equipped with will-less female tech servants. This is partly because women are not in the same room when the great casts of artificial intelligence are born and conversational patterns are being coded.

innovation / Patrizia Laeri /
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