Break / Through Ventures is a corporate company builder and innovation studio, dedicated to disruptive business models.
Design thinking pioneer with a lean start-up approach and a strong bias for action. Helping corporates to growth their core business through innovation and to disrupt markets. We have created products that outsold the incumbent bestseller by 350%, helped clients to grow market share by over 30% and to increase prices by up to 50%.
Liip is a leading agile development company, building strong foundational technology and seductive user interfaces.
Tech innovator investing in cutting-edge technologies and applying them in high-stakes environments in a human-centered way. 52 Awards – including 3x Master Best of Swiss Web, 8x Gold Best of Swiss Web and 7x Silver Best of Swiss Web. At home in Zurich, St.Gallen, Bern, Fribourg and Lausanne.
Reto Schnyder is the founder and managing partner of Break / Through Ventures and one of the Design Thinking pioneers in Switzerland. He holds 14 patents and managed over 100 innovation projects for corporate clients and Spin-Offs. Reto is a board member of the Digital Economic Forum and consults companies on disruption, innovation and strategy.
Hannes Gassert is founder and partner of Liip. He is a digital policy advocate in Switzerland and helped grow a portfolio of startups, such as the crowdfunding platform wemakeit.com. He is one of the drivers of Switzerland’s regulatory opening towards Fintech and serves as a board member of, among others, the Lift Conference and the initiative Opendata.ch.
Jonas Vonlanthen is a Partner at Liip. He is passionate about blockchain technology and an early investor in cryptocurrencies. He carries the FinForce Programme in the western part of Switzerland, helping insurance companies and banks leaping into the next internet revolution. For the last ten years, Jonas has been providing digital and agile project management expertise to corporations with an objective to boost their return on investment.