Founders Agreement

Melanie Gabriel is the co-founder and former CMO of Yokoy, a fintech company which provides AI-driven expense management solutions for medium-to-large enterprises globally. She co-founded Yokoy in 2019 with four other co-founders and rapidly grew it to 200+ employees, raising over $100M in Seed to Series B funding. After Yokoy, she co-founded Follow The Gradient, a platform for European founders and startup operators offering a weekly newsletter and podcast and other resources to address key startup challenges.

Christof is one of the co-founders of Scandit, an ETH spin-off scaleup using computer vision to make businesses more efficient in their data capture processes. Together with his two co-founders, Christof has been running Scandit for 14 and has successfully conducted several funding rounds with investors like Ariel Lüdi, Atomico, Google Ventures, NGP and Warburg Pincus. Nowadays they have 6 offices across the US, Europe and Asia. Christof’s role at Scandit has changed much throughout the years — currently, he’s the VP Engineering & CIO.

Viviana Gropengiesser is the CEO of Talent Kick, a Swiss-wide program by the Kick Foundation bringing the most outstanding global talents together by leveraging the best Swiss universities to form interdisciplinary diverse teams and combine hands-on entrepreneurial experience with their studies. She's also currently a strategic advisor of entrepreneurship at the ETH AI Center, helping AI startups to thrive. Viviana has 13 years of operational experience in startup and NGO environments as CEO, board member and co-founder, and as an investor for a family office.