Founders II

Students wishing to participate in the Founders' Track need to register for this course in order to receive ECTS credits as recognition for their effort in working on their startups.

The Founders' Track supports student founders who work on their own startup – individually or in groups of USI students. It is currently available for the Masters in Financial Technology and Computing, in Management and Informatics and in Artificial Intelligence. This second course of a series of three aims at accompanying student founders during their ongoing startup journey. The main theme of the semester is building your solution. The course prepares students for Milestone 3 of the Founders' Track: the presentation of their prototype and the improved pitching of their idea.

In presence

Learning is mostly experience based, featuring individual coaching, office hours, moderated peer meetings, short presentations and needs-oriented short courses on startup skills.

Passing Founders II is a core condition for being promoted to Founders III and being able to successfully conclude the Founders' Track. Evaulation is pass/fail with the option to re-apply at the beginning of the spring semester. 

Students have to submit the following deliverables

• Prototype
• Documentation of progress (founders’ diary) with individual contributions.
• Incorporation papers (simple company is sufficient).

Additionally, each group has to present an improved 20-min pitch.