Marc BERNEGGER

Marc is a serial entrepreneur based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Aged 20, he founded party website usgang.ch which he exited through a trade sale to listed media group Axel Springer in 2008. He went on to co-found online event registration system amiando which was awarded Global Technology Pioneer status by the World Economic Forum (WEF)  in 2010. The business was sold to listed business platform XING the same year.

In 2010 Marc was recognized as Newcomer of the Year by SwissICT, the largest ICT trade association in Switzerland. Marc is now a Partner in the listed investment company Next Generation Finance, Founder & Partner of the crowdfunding platform c-crowd, member of the board of the Pioneers’ Club PCU and an angel investor in several startups.

Asked why he is excited to be mentoring at JFDI, Marc said:

“Supporting innovative startups is a passion of mine and seeing crazy ideas of entrepreneurs transforming into reality a great return as a mentor. Especially in Asia I see a tremendous potential in various fields for startups and I think that JFDI.asia is very well positioned to become THE instituition in this region to lead this exciting development.”

Marc holds a Master of Law UZH (University of Zurich). For more, check: