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IT engineer Ali believes 3D is the future of e-commerce: he has founded 3digital, a Swiss-based IT solutions provider specialized in 3D visualization, web development, and modern analytics consulting.
Ali Alsweiki
Evospex is a chatbot with an algorithm taking agriculture-related data from a wide range of sources to create understandable short text recommendations on best practices in farming.
Dessy Anggraeni
Having founded two big companies in the Middle East and struggled to find a suitable job in Switzerland, he understands the challenges of both sides. Therefore, he’s developing a revolutionary, modern and human online portal – Seeveez – to connect job and talent seekers, using AI and algorithms.
Elie Khudari
Olga, a Logistics Expert, wants to develop Space2use, an online B2B marketplace for warehouses. Through this portal, warehouses can list their free storage space and companies - in e-commerce, for example - can quickly and easily find the best and cheapest storage options for their products.
Olga Khinich
MarkaLane is an e-commerce business that brings high-end Swiss lifestyle products to the Middle Eastern digital market. Markalane will use a unique haptic web-platform that is mobile friendly, supported by a customized chatbot and augmented reality techniques, to create a unique customer experience.
Louai Riefaa
Sam is working on an online platform to help people find great deals by automatically crawling online shops for products and services that are currently on sale. He previously built the marketplace nimms.ch, where people can exchange second-hand items for free.
Sam Kolahan
AskPolelo will provide an online support service for young farmers in South Africato attract them back to sustainable agriculture. Through an app and website, farmers can receive market information - for example on pricing - and buy, donate and sell seeds as well as lease their farmland for agricultural research.
Ashford K Tsita
Loucia’s idea is to create an online platform connecting large scale producers of agricultural products in Switzerland and Europe with Middle Eastern buyers. She is an agricultural engineer and ran a successful agricultural pharmacy business in Syria before the war.
Loucia Alsokt
John’s business idea is an online platform that simplifies the safe transfer of money to Eritrea.
Yohannes (John) Andegergsh
Aryam wants to build an app to help young people develop good reading habits through challenging themselves and other hobby readers.
Aryam Mussie
Infographie 3D offers 3D imaging services and polygonal modeling in the architectural and engineering sector in Geneva as well as personalized customer service enriched by the founder’s experience as an independent interior designer.
Pablo Gamez
GoStartup is a participatory financing platform that aims to promote innovation and solidarity by connecting sustainable development project owners with a committed community of potential investors or donors.
Mohamed Diop
“Safe-It” - Furniture Reinforcement Idea provides a safe place to shelter, as well as access to supplies and means of communication in the case of a disaster such as an earthquake. Safe-It offers a steel frame that can be placed under ordinary furniture and can transform a simple table into a real shelter able to bear tons of load.
Mustafa K.
ADternative promotes the visibility of small shop owners in the Romandie. The agency offers simple, tailor-made and low-cost advertising by providing a platform on which business owners can upload their own advertisement - even from a smartphone in just a few clicks - to make it visible on physical screens placed in different shops spread across a given perimeter.
Pierre Khouja Makhoul
Enkun is a web platform and mobile app where users - whether recent graduate students, refugees or passionate individuals - can upgrade their professional skills with local professionals and teachers who give face-to-face courses by live stream or in real life.
Tenzin Lehpel
Symbiosis is a cooperative platform that combines strong expertise focused on a highly personalized customer relationship. The goal is to create a community of independent experts in their field, selected by high level criteria in order to provide NGOs, SMEs as well as freelancers with ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) solutions.
Saul Figueroa
With "G. Habte Financial Services", Ghebre aims to offer support in accounting, financial analysis, tax returns and insurance advice, especially for his target clientele of entrepreneurs and people with a migration background. His Master's degree from ZHAW and his further education in accounting and finance, combined with his experience as a migrant and entrepreneur, give him a very good understanding of his clients' needs.
Ghebre Habte
Leveraging his background as an engineer, Davut aspires to build an aluminium trade between Turkey and Switzerland and the EU. With the current supply chain affected by the crisis in Russia and China, Davut sees aluminum as the perfect material for a sustainable future by making it economically and ecologically accessible.
Davut Okcu
Gastronomy
Kenanah and Rame founded their Ltd. that offers catering and take away service with traditional Syrian meals cooked in the “slow food” style: fresh, home-made, and nourishing. For the future they are determined to have their own Syrian bistro or restaurant.
Kenanah Khattab & Rame Taha
Layla founded the Orient Express Catering that offers women with a migration background (particularly from Syria) the opportunity to work and finance themselves in Switzerland. She and her crew provide Kurdish and Arabic cuisine from Aleppo and run a webshop with Arabic delicacies homemade by the women.
Layla Ibrahim-Staubli
Her goal is to bring the Chinese and Japanese Bento Box to Zurich and St. Gallen. She would like to work in a team with other people from migrant backgrounds and single parents. Her business offers catering services as well as cooking classes. She dreams of her own restaurant with Siow.
(Ai San) Michelle Luzio-Boo
Nik’s Fudo is all about bringing healthy, homemade international food right to your plate. The online platform offers a wide variety of home-cooked international dishes, prepared by a network of chefs who cook directly from their homes. The food can be ordered online or delivered.
Afran Koutouan
Smriti combines the best of India and Switzerland in her Indian catering services and cooking classes – Delhicious. Using high quality, locally sourced ingredients and Indian spices, she creates delicious, healthy and soul-rejuvenating dishes, sharing with people an authentic taste of India.
Smriti Chhabra
Jardin de Damas is a Syrian catering service offering delicious homemade Syrian dishes made from fresh ingredients for your events and gatherings.
Hikmat al Kattan
Joud Home offers face-to-face and online customized cooking classes for people who are looking for an easy way to learn healthy recipes from around the world adapted to their budget and taste. The goal is to motivate people to cook by providing culinary techniques that make cooking easy, healthy and creative.
Ghaida Odat
Les Délices de Suriya: the only oriental pastries, such as baklava and konafa, prepared freshly every day in Geneva. A real treat! The pastry shop will offer products adapted to all (gluten / lactose free, and other food allergies).
Ivan Rasho
Le Café aux P’tits Anges is an inclusive Colombian catering workshop in Geneva. The project not only aims to introduce its customers to Colombian specialties made from fair trade coffee, but it also collaborates with people with disabilities (intellectual disabilities) to create its dishes.
Marlene Moreno Perez
Azza’s roots, her love for culture and cuisine inspired her to start Laziza - a Syrian catering business. Customers will be able to create her culinary offers to suit every taste and diet.
Her long term dream is to bring Syrian culture to local Swiss communities through events with food, dance and other activities.
Azza Sawaf
Georgia's Bread offers nutritionally balanced breads and cakes made with fresh seasonal fruits and natural ingredients. A touch of nostalgia to her home town in Syria and her mom’s food can also be tasted in many of Georgia's recipes.
Georgia Al-Zahr
Mammiss offers delicious, healthy and homemade meals from all over the world. Founded by Gürbüz who is originally from Turkey, Mammiss is dedicated to catering to all your event needs, from weddings to birthday parties and corporate events. Taste happiness with Mammiss!
Gürbüz Tosun
Influenced by his Turkish heritage, Metin founded "Supra Catering" which offers tasty, homemade soups with Turkish origins. Based on old family recipes, Metin aims to deliver these award-winning soups to his B2B clientele in Switzerland.
Metin Hanay
Fashion
Syba Designs offers practical and contemporary bags with vibrant African designs for the whole family, using traditional and sustainable materials such as indigo and leather. Bags are made thanks to the know-how of local Guinean and Ethiopian craftsmen.
Kindy Sylla
With FRISKYNESS, Joyce wants to support the valuable hand-work of people in the fashion and textile industry in Ghana. From beautiful and traditional fabrics, she designs clothes that empower young people with African roots, to be more self-confident and proud of their origins while living here in the diaspora.
Joyce Dworak
Retail
“Goozy – easy and cosy” Ltd is a wholesale business with watch straps made of leather, steel and latex. With their all-in-one solution, they offer their clientele a zero-risk sales strategy: you only pay when you sell! Customers also receive a free presentation tower that not only looks great, but also simplifies the ordering process for the watch and jewelry shops.
Adem Ata & Emin Kara
"Villafleur" imports and sells preserved flowers from fincas in Ecuador, which go through a specific biodegradable process and look like fresh cut flowers, but last for at least a year, do not need water or sunlight and are also a better alternative in terms of CO2. The solution is therefore cost-effective, long-lasting, easy to maintain and sustainable. In addition, "Villafleur" also contributes to social responsibility through fair working conditions on the fincas.
Veronica Jacot-Guillarmod
With his business idea "Wunschsteine Magus", geologist Sulaiman combines his expertise with his passion for semi-gemstones. He imparts valuable information about the specific effect and energy of each stone and uses his experience as a workshop leader in Syria to offer further courses here in Switzerland too.
Sulaiman Tammy
Okey is an experienced bike assembler and the founder of "bbb – bamboo bikes bern", the most sustainable bike in Switzerland. The bamboo is grown and processed locally. In addition, a bbb-bike reduces CO2 emissions by 75% compared to a conventional bike made of steel. With "bbb", Okey connects and shares his passions for a clean environment and sport.
Okey Omulu
Since 2020, Bizimkiler - natural products offers high quality food products such as healthy nuts, dried fruits as well as spices and specialities from Turkey on the Swiss market through their online shop and home delivery services.
Sadettin Karatas
Ben founded a cooperative in Tunisia which offers families the opportunity to directly sell their traditionally organic products such as dates, olive oil, almonds and spices in Switzerland. He is particularly interested in product quality, traditional production and fair trade.
Ben (Aymen) Mosbah
Taro and Alessandra are the founders of Hosoe Caffè, an artisan specialty coffee roastery based in Zurich which focuses on positive social values, coupled with ethical and sustainable principles. They roast the coffee themselves and deliver it to individual coffee lovers as well to stores.
Taro Hosoe and Alessandra Salvin
Ana-Maria is the founder of PAPYOT, a company helping people and businesses to offer tailored gift packages that include* a variety of sustainable and locally sourced goods from sweets to adventure trips. PAPYOT’s mission is to provide smart, tailored and sustainable gifts for everyone and every occasion.
Ana-Maria Manda
Reka’s goal is to set up an online grocery store for quality Indian food and ingredients, so they are more accessible even outside of larger Swiss cities. She is well connected in India and already has her first suppliers on board.
Reka Samynathan
Her idea is to improve the quality of life of women who experience urinary incontinence. Ieva will achieve this by offering modern, sustainable bladder leakage pads and underwear. Moreover, Ieva’s mission is to contribute to the cultural shift of female identity and shame associated with certain aspects of the condition.
Ieva Paludneviciute
Kimoki is a kids’ art capsule celebrating the moments that matter! A beautiful unique art book produced from children’s drawings that usually end up as forgotten masterpieces. A great gift to boost children's confidence and to share and connect families through art.
Alison Waeytens
She wants to bring a taste of India to Switzerland in the form of gift boxes filled with organic, fair-trade Indian spices, lentils and rice assortments. It is important to her that customers learn about the health benefits of the various ingredients. Each box includes recipes and tips about how to best prepare them.
Agusta Viola Snophan
Keneyafood aims to make organic and sustainable superfoods from Africa, such as Baobab powder, accessible on the Swiss market.
Saran Camara
Camila Café is a Swiss company aiming at importing 100% Arabica roasted speciality coffee from Colombia with a combination of diversified flavours - acidity, bitterness, sweetness - and a wide array of aromas - fruity, gourmet, spicy - to coffee lovers in Switzerland.
Susana Alzate
MarkaLane is an e-commerce business that brings high-end Swiss lifestyle products to the Middle Eastern digital market. Markalane will use a unique haptic web-platform that is mobile friendly, supported by a customized chatbot and augmented reality techniques, to create a unique customer experience.
Louai Riefaa
Nadia has been developing an application for her start-up “Natural Sleep”, through which customers can design and order their own tailor-made bedlinen. All Natural Sleep products are made from high quality, 100% organic Belgian linen and are produced responsibly and sustainably in Europe.
Nadia Diraä
Ali’s business idea Re-Portal is to collect donated second-hand electronic devices no longer used in Switzerland to make them available to students in developing economies, starting with Pakistan. Local retail partners will repair, distribute and resell them.
Ali Ibrahimi
Loucia’s idea is to create an online platform connecting large scale producers of agricultural products in Switzerland and Europe with Middle Eastern buyers. She is an agricultural engineer and ran a successful agricultural pharmacy business in Syria before the war.
Loucia Alsokt
She started importing and selling traditional felt products from Kyrgyzstan and offers felting workshops. 2018 she expanded her business – Son Kol – by offering guided tours to the mountain of Kyrgyzstan, where people meet and learn from local female nomadic cooperatives to create their own felt products.
Aimeerim Tursalieva
Founded in 2021, Le Jardin Vivant is a cooperative based in Lausanne that sells organic products in bulk as well as local vegetables and fruit from farmers of the region. The cooperative currently has over 80 members and a network of over 30 producers and growers.
Pilar Anguita-Mackay
Founded by coffee enthusiast Manuel, Variedad Colomnbia offers a box with three brands of specialty coffee grown and roasted in independent farms and micro-lots from across Colombian coffee regions.
Manuel Vega-Cuberos
Casa Luna Boutique is dedicated to offering quality Mexican handmade decorative products made by women's associations or families. Antonia has over 12 years of experience in finance and sales and is passionate about the beauty of traditional objects that she carefully selects.
Maria Antonia Bautista
Siva Lazer Gifts provides personalised gifts made from wood or acrylic. Customer satisfaction is the top priority for founder, Vithurshan, who holds a Federal Certificate of Proficiency in Commercial Business.
Vithurshan Sivapalan
Socks with a social mission is what founder of White Gold™ Egyptian Cotton Socks, Michael, wants to achieve. The socks are made from the finest Egyptian cotton. Every purchase supports workers in the Nile Delta region as well as Michael himself, as a migrant business owner in Switzerland.
Michael Yani
Social & Non-profit
With her association “Il Pane”, Grazia trains women and young refugees as artisan bakers. The association's goal is to create job opportunities while accelerating their inclusion in Switzerland. In a three-stage program, they learn how to master sourdough artisan baking and develop both sales and IT skills while improving their language skills. In addition, the program supports their social inclusion by promoting active exchange and learning from each other.
Grazia De Martino
Aresu Rabbani
With "Bibi Safran" – a saffron online store – Aresu wants to support Afghan women in particular. Saffron production has increasingly become a women's domain over the past 20 years. Since women in Afghanistan have no or only very limited sources of income, Aresu wants to use her business idea to help them retain at least this income. One goal is to strengthen and encourage Afghan women to continue fighting for their rights in these difficult times and not to lose their courage.
Aresu Rabbani
"Alkhiyami Translate AT" stands for Arabic translation and social counseling services including personal accompaniment to offices, doctor's appointments or parent talks in schools. Rania is familiar with both cultures and knows the institutional structure and the actors, which gives her important knowledge to support and accompany Arab families who are new in Switzerland in their social inclusion.
Rania Alkhiyami
Zouher’s initiative, WeTheSouk, is focused on preserving the heritage of Levant crafts and sustaining the livelihood of Syrian artisans. WeTheSouk offers a line of handmade products that blend contemporary design with Levant craft traditions to create authentic art objects with context. These products are made by Syrian artisans and are to be sold in Switzerland on an online platform.
Zouher Adwan
Le Café aux P’tits Anges is an inclusive Colombian catering workshop in Geneva. The project not only aims to introduce its customers to Colombian specialties made from fair trade coffee, but it also collaborates with people with disabilities (intellectual disabilities) to create its dishes.
Marlene Moreno Perez
Pranita is cofounder of Books For Change, a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, which operates in Nepal and India and supports the development of child-friendly libraries to improve the reading habits of the rural children. Since 2016 they have established a total of 18 libraries in schools.
Pranita Chettri
Evospex is a chatbot with an algorithm taking agriculture-related data from a wide range of sources to create understandable short text recommendations on best practices in farming.
Dessy Anggraeni
Run-to-Win wants to train young refugees from Eritrea and Ethiopia together with Swiss youth with potential and talent in long-distance running. Through the association, participants will also have access to psychological therapy to help them deal with the trauma of leaving their homeland.
Solomon Mengistu
Ben founded a cooperative in Tunisia which offers families the opportunity to directly sell their traditionally organic products such as dates, olive oil, almonds and spices in Switzerland. He is particularly interested in product quality, traditional production and fair trade.
Ben (Aymen) Mosbah
AskPolelo will provide an online support service for young farmers in South Africa to attract them back to sustainable agriculture. Through an app and website, farmers can receive market information - for example on pricing - and buy, donate and sell seeds as well as lease their farmland for agricultural research.
Ashford K Tsita
Layla founded the Orient Express Catering that offers women with a migration background (particularly from Syria) the opportunity to work and finance themselves in Switzerland. She and her crew provide Kurdish and Arabic cuisine from Aleppo and run a webshop with Arabic delicacies homemade by the women.
Layla Ibrahim-Staubli
Usamah’s goal is to support people from refugee backgrounds living in Switzerland with a project called “Hand in Hand”. Together with psychologists and the University of Zürich he aims to provide psychological support in the native languages of the target group.
Usamah Shellah
Mohammad’s project “Al-Shami” is an idea for a multicultural open space for everyone and people pay for their stay what they can afford.
Mohammad Nweylati
"Safe Space" is a reception and support center for women who have been victims of domestic violence. The place is a refuge focused on well-being, emotional recovery and professional reintegration.
Andrea Velandia
La Maison du Saba is a cultural space dedicated to Arabic books in all their forms. The objective is to create bridges between literature lovers from different horizons.
Hassan Al Zahrani
But make it count supports people with a refugee or migrant background in identifying their talents and gaining their first work experience in Switzerland by leading classes and workshops (e.g. sewing, creative writing, cooking, dance, singing, etc.) as well as building networks and confidence.
Yasmine Sadri
Multimedia
Amaru Küng is specialized in branding. She founded LoveStoryBranding, a boutique branding agency helping small purpose-oriented businesses. Thanks to her diverse skills and talents, she is also performing as a musician, singer-song writer. Recently, she started a community called The Mama’s Circle, a place for mamas to share their personal experiences and support each other.
Amaru Küng
Réunir is a personalized and friendly consultancy helping small businesses to get closer to their consumers and build their marketing strategy.
Ana Gabriela Fachin
Photome Studio offers photography and content production services related to personal branding for social networks. Carise's goal is to accompany women entrepreneurs in projects that celebrate the different forms of femininity while leveraging her 15+ years of experience in marketing and branding.
Carise Scheidegger
Combining his passion for filmmaking and cars, film science student Florjan from Albania is developing a TV show in the automotive industry called “The Mad Steering Wheel” for Swiss and European audiences. He intends to follow a pioneering approach by placing special emphasis on community in his viewership.
FLORJAN MUÇO
Education
Entrepikit’s mission is to empower the next generation to embrace the challenges of the future in a playful and innovative way. They combine their experience as Market and UX researchers and offer interactive workshops on concepts of entrepreneurial thinking. Out of this idea Clelia founded in 2020 The Rebel Company.
Daniela Victorino & Clelia Calabro
Ayantu is creating a book for children to learn Amharic that can be used with an electronic smart pen with audio function. This way, Ethiopian or Eritrean children can learn Fidäl, the alphabet of their mother tongue Amharic or Tigrinya, in a playful way.
Ayantu Abate
Pranita is cofounder of Books For Change, a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, which operates in Nepal and India and supports the development of child-friendly libraries to improve the reading habits of the rural children. Since 2016 they have established a total of 18 libraries in schools.
Pranita Chettri
Jeton’ idea SIOBE wants to offer on- and offline high quality business trainings in software development (IT), management, finance and sales to companies and students in Kosovo using primarily Swiss trainers.
Jeton Bytyqi
Math Bridge is a family business that wants to make math accessible for everyone, through a mathematics tutoring service offering tailored programs to students in a transition phase or people from refugee and migrant backgrounds aiming to enter the Swiss educational system.
Ekaterina and Dmitry Golubeva
Refugee Voices harnesses the talents of people from a refugee background through confidence and capacity-building workshops. Their objective is to unlock their potential and improve their problem-solving skills and ultimately to improve their social and professional integration.
lucy antrobus
Design Ton Futur offers creative workshops for children aged 6 to 12 years old to enable them to discover other ways of approaching screen-based activities. Tapping on their imagination and their sense of sharing, these graphic design workshops aim to give them the necessary tools to create their own visual projects through a fun and educational approach.
Kandé Nimaga Franzen
Libota Ya Motema [Heart Family, in Lingala] is a multilingual social and educational structure that offers pedagogical support to secondary I and II students in Geneva. The association is supported by the intervention of cultural actors of the city of Geneva and invites the participants to develop their socio-professional networks.
Libota Ya Motema
Well-being & Tourism
She started importing and selling traditional felt products from Kyrgyzstan and offers felting workshops. 2018 she expanded her business – Son Kol – by offering guided tours to the mountain of Kyrgyzstan, where people meet and learn from local female nomadic cooperatives to create their own felt products.
Aimeerim Tursalieva
The Braid Box is a multicultural hair salon providing Afro hair care and hairstyling. They also provide a mobile hair salon. Created to foster integration through hair, Danelle believes that haircare and hair braiding is not just a routine, it is a strong tool to bring people from different cultures together.
Danelle Thompson-Steinke
With their business KafiUndSchoggi Reisen, they offer real and authentic insight into Kebede’s home country and its people through sustainable tours to Ethiopia. Travelers meet with local communities at eye level, explore fascinating landscapes and discover the traditional Ethiopian coffee culture. With 4% of the tour income, they support the newly built association “Saware Dicha” to empower women and girls in Southern Ethiopia.
Kebede Dache Dalacho and Nadine Guthapfel
Jeevan Yoga and Arts offer classes and workshops on yoga and meditative arts based on Indian culture and philosophy to different clientele groups. Anju’s objective is to help hard working professionals deal with stress and information overload by offering personalized and tailor made courses based on their needs.
Anju Debono
With their business KafiUndSchoggi Reisen, they offer real and authentic insight into Kebede’s home country and its people through sustainable tours to Ethiopia. Travelers meet with local communities at eye level, explore fascinating landscapes and discover the traditional Ethiopian coffee culture. With 4% of the tour income, they support the newly built association “Saware Dicha” to empower women and girls in Southern Ethiopia.
Alexandra Cherali
Nurse de Nuit offers a night-time child care service with a human approach, personalized to the needs of each family. This is achieved through a commitment for a better quality of sleep, for more serenity in the new parents' daily life, while working towards the autonomy of the baby and the well-being of the parents. Since 2020, the project was launched and developed as “Night Poppins” within the organization 022 familles in Geneva.
Joelma Mendes Dudouit
John’s idea is a social dining platform with the aim of bringing people with refugee and migrant backgrounds and expats together at a table of home cooked meals. Events and creative workshops will allow the target group to express and showcase their cultures in a creative and positive way.
John Philippi
His business idea – Baba Safar – is to offer package deals in partnership with Iranian and Swiss travel agencies to Iranian tourists in Switzerland. During their stay, tourists can ski in the Swiss alps and visit language schools to learn German and other languages.
Mehrdad Mirsepahi
Her idea is to improve the quality of life of women who experience urinary incontinence. Ieva will achieve this by offering modern, sustainable bladder leakage pads and underwear. Moreover, Ieva’s mission is to contribute to the cultural shift of female identity and shame associated with certain aspects of the condition.
Ieva Paludneviciute
The Sensory Box is an eco-friendly alternative for health and education professionals looking for therapeutic tools specifically designed to enhance the sensory experiences of children with special needs.
Maria Celeste
Accord Multiservices offers full-service maintenance - cleaning, gardening, repairs and painting - to building owners. Edgar is committed to taking the time to find flexible and personalised solutions for his clients and uses only environmentally friendly products.
Edgar Hambardzumyan
“Graines de pouvoir” is an innovative personal development program that accompanies women through the fusion of different disciplines such as coaching, therapeutic aesthetic treatments, body wellness and pelvic floor strengthening.
Ivonne Luna
Circular Economy
With Smart Mini Services, Salih, a former lawyer, offers technical solutions within a circular economy framework. As a solution and service-oriented person, Salih is committed to fighting waste with his team of experts by repairing electronics, gadgets and everyday household appliances.
