Venture Briefing Lugano

The Venture Briefing event series is designed to help students, PhD, postdocs, graduates & academic staff interested in pursuing an entrepreneurial career to take their first steps towards building a successful company.

Event schedule:

12:00 - Welcome and presentation of different support programmes by Venturelab
12:15 - Keynote speech by Franco Burlando, Founder and CEO of Lighthouse Tech, e Nathan Deutsch, COO and Innovation Lead at Lighthouse Tech.
12:30 - Q&A
12:45 - Networking lunch

Support programmes that will be presented during the event:

• Venture Kick (up to CHF 150,000 pre-seed capital for business development)
• InnoBooster (up to CHF 150,000 grant to accelerate market entry)
• First Ventures (up to CHF 150,000 financial support and tailored coaching program for University of Applied Science students)

About Lighthouse Tech

Founded in 2020 by a team of optical and eyewear industry veterans, we developed TAMI®—a smart eyewear frame designed for the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community. Used alongside the white cane, TAMI® enhances safe mobility and reduces the fear of injury, improving users’ confidence and wellbeing. Like all users, BVI individuals seek technology that integrate seamlessly into their lives. Design, weight, and comfort are not luxuries but prerequisites for daily use. Devices that feel medicalized or uncomfortable see poor adoption, regardless of their technology. TAMI® solves this by delivering advanced functionality in a stylish, wearable eyewear frame, creating a scalable device where aesthetics and functionality drive adoption equally.

For more details and registration click here.