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Dübendorfer: Switzerland has produced 58 unicorns in the last 12 years
“Unicorns, the companies that had a billion dollar valuation or more in the last 12 years, we found 58 of them, where we have a public proof that they reached a one billion valuation.”
Dübendorfer: Opportunistic behavior will fail in Switzerland due to societal rejection
“If you are very opportunistic here, you're going to fail very badly because society doesn't accept it. If you start to do things which is against people in society, they will not trust you anymore, and if nobody trusts you, you're going to be dropping out of s…”
Dübendorfer: SICTIC angels backed up to 70% of Swiss tech deals
“We as an angel club for the verticals of FinTech and IST, we contribute a very large number of rounds in some years, 70% of all deals in tech startups was from us.”
Dübendorfer: Portfolio company Beekeeper merged with LumApps for $1.1 billion
“Just recently had an exit with one of the propoli companies of Sigtig, where I also was involved in, they were called Beekeeper, and they merged together with LumApps, and at the end of the merger, they had a valuation of 1.1 billion dollars.”
Dübendorfer: Swiss tech investing was shunned for a decade post-dot-com bubble
“And when we did that back in 2014, basically nobody was thinking about even investing in that vertical in Switzerland because nobody had a fintech and nobody had an ICT company. And people still remembered the internet bubble from the 2000 where some internet …”