Two weeks in San Francisco: what we took away from the Climate Tech Startup Camp

From 26 October to 5 November, our CEO and co-founder Adrian Henke was in San Francisco. vyzn was one of seven Swiss startups in the Climate Tech Startup Camp, run by Swissnex in San Francisco and powered by Innosuisse.

The goal was not to sell. We wanted to understand how Deep Model Processing lands in the US market and to collect as many perspectives as possible.

The programme

Two weeks of workshops, fireside chats with investors, conversations with people from planning and construction, and many encounters in between. To close, Adrian presented vyzn at the HallowGreen Pitch Night to investors, customers and partners.

Alongside us were Ageospatial, apheros, REOR20, RTDT Laboratories, SolidWatts and Vivent Biosignals. Startupticker covered the camp: Seven climate startups explored the US West Coast

What we're taking home

Many conversations on site pointed the same way: impact alone rarely convinces, it also has to pay off. What people look for are solutions that make decisions faster, cheaper and more reliable, as early in planning as possible. Many recognised the problem of making those decisions without a solid basis. And it helps to keep the story short: less technology, more about what changes for the customer. Our view: that's exactly why we look at cost, CO₂, energy and comfort together.

Thank you

Thank you to Swissnex in San Francisco and Innosuisse for the organisation, to everyone we met on site, and to the six other teams for two intense weeks.