Voice of FinTech®

In this episode, we speak to Andri Silberschmidt, entrepreneur and the youngest member of the Swiss Parliament about his entrepreneurial journey, what drawn him to politics, views on Switzerland as a home for start-ups, Swiss government's measures to help start-ups to deal with the COVID-19 pandemics and the early thoughts on the world after the lockdown.

Show Notes

Andri Silberschmidt is an entrepreneur, the youngest member of the Federal Assembly - Swiss Parliament and advisor. Andri is the co-founder of Kaisin, a poke bowl - food start-up in Zurich and also a senior advisor to the family office Marcuard and does some great work with the charities. 

Andri explains how all his activities came together and what he as a Co-President of the Start-up Committee in the Swiss Parliament has been doing to help start-ups to succeed. We compare the COVID-19 support measures taken in Switzerland to others and the pros and cons of those as well. We then touch on the vision of the world post-crisis.

This episode of the InsurTech Series was brought to you by HITS - House of InsurTech Switzerland. HITS is the innovation corp-up hub focusing on the InsurTech sector, bringing corporates and start-ups to develop customer-centric solutions. HITS creates the perfect environment to make innovation happen with early-stage investors and partners from the InsurTech sector.

The intro message was kindly narrated by Sara Palmbush, PR and content specialist and the outro message by Gabriella Trujillo from HITS.

What is Voice of FinTech®?

Aiming to inspire entrepreneurs around the world to launch their new ventures. Connect FinTech enthusiasts with start-ups, incubators, accelerators, investors and incumbents.