Basel Entrepreneurs Meetup with Loïc Ruchat-Leuthardt (BitVault)

Intro
Whether you have already built a successful company, are sweating tears and blood assembling your first team, an investor searching for the next unicorn, or are simply curious and want to learn about life as an entrepreneur, this is your chance!

You will get chances to network, listen to fascinating startup presentations and learn from the biggest failures ever made. All in a convivial atmosphere. We explicitly welcome everyone interested in the fascinating world of entrepreneurship.

Agenda:

• 18:00 - 18:15 Welcome
• 18:15 - 19:00 Hot Seat with Loïc (BitVault)
• 19:00 - 20:00 Entrepreneur Exchange
• 20:00 - open Drinks at Flanagan's Irish Pub (feel free to join)

Guest
Rethinking Bitcoin Security for the Real World — with Loïc Ruchat-Leuthardt, Co-Founder of BitVault
Join us for a thought-provoking session with Loïc, Co-Founder and CGO/CFO of BitVault — a Bitcoin-native company building programmable multisig vaults that protect users from real-world threats without compromising self-sovereignty.
BitVault goes beyond key storage. By layering time-delays, trusted alerts, and private notifications on top of existing wallets, it enables Bitcoin holders to defend against hacks, coercion, and operational risks — while maintaining full control.In this session,
Loïc will share the story behind BitVault’s mission and evolution — from early challenges to product breakthroughs — and explore what it means to build secure, resilient, and user-first infrastructure for Bitcoin in a decentralised future.

What is the Hot Seat?
Our goal is to learn from each other, and we believe that we can learn most from challenges others have overcome and "failures" that they themselves learned from.
We run the hot seat in two steps: Firstly, the guest Entrepreneurs will give us a short intro into their startup and share some of their learnings/fails. Secondly, we will go into an open discussion with the group to ask questions and challenge the Entrepreneurs ideas.

What is the Entrepreneur Exchange?
By using elements from liberatingstructures.com we facilitate active exchanges between our participants. Everybody should have both the opportunity to learn from other Entrepreneurs and to share their knowledge with others.

About the location
The Startup Academy is a non-profit association that connects startups throughout Switzerland with the business world and universities. If you have a business idea, are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation, want to return to work after a career break or maternity leave or dream of becoming self-employed during a permanent position, then you are very welcome at the Startup Academy. startup-academy.ch

We are looking forward to welcoming you
Alexandre, Stefan and Patrick