Open AccessSeed Capital for Young Entrepreneurs since more than 25 Years
Author(s) -
Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.2014.887
Subject(s) - foundation (evidence) , capital (architecture) , business , start up , seed money , venture capital , finance , agricultural economics , economics , geography , business administration , archaeology
The WA de Vigier Foundation has supported start-up companies with a total of almost CHF 10 million since the late 1980s. And very successfully too: thanks to the seed money from Solothurn, the sponsored start-ups have provided hundreds of jobs.