Kickstart Innovation
Nicolas Lehmann, CMA, currently serves as CFO at LEDCity AG, a cleantech scale-up focused on intelligent lighting solutions, since August 2023. In addition to this role, Nicolas has been a lecturer at HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich since September 2020, teaching on financial perspectives of innovations. Nicolas also contributes as a Startup Advisor and Expert at Kickstart Innovation and held the position of Head of Finance at Clyde Mobility until July 2023. Previous experiences include leadership roles at AMAG Group, Procter & Gamble, and various internships, including time at Google and Dreyfus Sons & Co Ltd, providing a well-rounded background in finance and strategy. Academic qualifications include a Master's degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of St. Gallen and a CAS in Applied Information Technology from ETH Zürich.
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Kickstart Innovation
Kickstart is one of Europe's largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms that runs a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate deep tech innovation. Science and engineering driven technologies have the potential to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. They require unprecedented collaboration between established organizations and the most audacious entrepreneurs out there. Thereby, Kickstart is committed to building an innovation ecosystem that brings high-growth startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities together. Each year Kickstart brings around 100 startups to Switzerland to collaborate with key players for proofs-of-concept, pilot projects and other innovation partnerships. The program provides exceptional access to the executives and decision-makers of Kickstart’s partners. Being an initiative of Impact Hub Zürich and launched by digitalswitzerland in 2015, Kickstart runs 5 verticals (New Work & Learning, Finance & Insurance, Food & Retail, Smart Cities and Health & Wellbeing), an Intrapreneurship Academy and the Circular Economy Initiative.