44 startups in the fourth season of "Die Höhle der Löwen Schweiz" (The Lion's Den Switzerland)
44 start-ups pitch their business ideas to well-known investment professionals in seven episodes of the fourth season of "Die Höhle der Löwen Schweiz" and hope for a deal. The show starts on October 4, 2022 on the TV channel 3+.
The show "Die Höhle der Löwen" is already being broadcast in 35 countries, including Switzerland. In the USA, the format has been running under the title "Shark Tank" since 2009 and has enabled several thousand new jobs since its first broadcast. Each episode, several young entrepreneurs present their innovative business ideas and concepts to investors and compete for their investment.
In the Swiss edition of the show, a total of 44 startups will also be venturing into the Lion's Den in the upcoming season, ranging from the lifestyle to the finance to the mobility industry. For example, the four-member founding team of the Zurich-based startup refluence, which offers a mediation service for influencers and companies due to the increasing demand for influencer marketing. Or the Zug-based start-up Splint Invest, which developed an application that makes it possible to easily invest in alternative investments, including shares for luxury watches, rare whisky or fine wine, with just one click. A founding duo from Zurich created prosthetic forearms under the name mac4u Explorer, which enable people with physical disabilities to engage in sports and other leisure activities. Zurich-based startup Dancing Queens is also hoping for an investment. They offer modular dance shoes that allow people to dance through entire nights without pain. RIBE Moto from Zurich operates a rental platform for motorcycles that, among other things, reduces the administrative burden for users.
Which of these startups will succeed in past relay record and who will go away empty-handed? This is decided not least by the investors, the so-called "lions". As in the last season, these are business apartment pioneer Anja Graf, tech entrepreneur Bettina Hein, online retail expert and founder of brack.ch Roland Brack, sustainability entrepreneur Tobias Reichmuth, Amorana co-founder and CEO Lukas Speiser, investment firm owner Jürg Schwarzenbach of Marcaro, and startup coach and co-owner of Great Place to Work Patrick Mollet.
