The Atfront startup program

Our offer helps startups to develop, improve, bring to life or optimize their business idea. To achieve this, we work with Lean Service Design, our canvas-based approach to customer-centric and business-oriented service design.

The Lean Service Design Canvas Set

An application is worthwhile!

We discuss and challenge the business idea with the selected startups in a free one-day workshop to identify fields of action. Based on this, we recommend concrete actions, a realistic budget and time planning as well as a proposal for cooperation. Participants in our program benefit from preferential conditions.

Who can benefit?

Companies in the "Early Stage" and "Expansion Stage" phases with a focus on

  • Early Stage: Market and company analysis, service development, marketing strategy
  • Expansion Stage: Optimization, scaling, standardization, internationalization

Our offer

Based on our Lean Service Design Canvas-Set we cover these areas of competence:

  • Analysis and market, users and context research
  • Validation, acceptance
  • Determine, design and develop touchpoints
  • Define measures, formulate hypotheses and prioritize according to business value
  • Solution design or optimization according to budget / timing / further development cycles

On top you get this

In addition to our competence in user-centered, digital business development and implementation, we bring diverse additional strengths to your start-up:

  • Support, advice and sparring
  • Experience in various projects and markets
  • Know-how in the field of corporate development, change management, digital business development
  • Small, personally involved team, commitment and passion

Forms of cooperation

There are two ways in which we work with startups:

  • Continuous: Fixed purchase of resources over a certain period at preferential conditions.
  • Investment: We invest in start-ups.

Apply now and benefit!

Send us a Pitch Deck (max 10 slides) info@atfront.ch with a description of the problem to be solved, how it will be solved, what distinguishes the solution from existing / competing solutions, determination of the market and scaling potential, information about the team and financing And write us in one sentence why your start-up should definitely be included in our program.