When Clara Lepsius graduated from ETH Zurich, she went to Harvard University to do her thesis. In the US, she teamed up with another ETH alum on a startup that merges tech with infant nutrition.
Today, both are back in Zurich. They chose to develop their project in Switzerland rather than Boston or Silicon Valley, a move that goes against a trend of startups looking to grow in the US, where there are deeper pools of money available to entrepreneurs.
AI Center at ETH Zurich in 2023.
Photographer: Lucas Ziegler/13PHOTO/Redux
“The motto there is ‘faster, farther, higher’,” said Lepsius. “For me, that was an encouragement to come back to …