Apety is the 2017 winner of the Prix du Jeune Entrepreneur
© 2017 P. Vallet. The 2017 laureates with the French Ambassador
Aurelien Soccard and Teo Stocco, 1st year Master students at EPFL are the winners of the 2017 Young Entrepreneur Award (PJE) for Apety, the start-up they co-founded with Floran Baillif, student at HEC Lausanne. The PJE was created in 2002 by the French Foreign Trade Correspondents and gathers at the French Embassy in Bern the finalists of the participating schools (ETH Zürich, HSG St. Gallen, the Ecole Hotelière de Lausanne (EHL), the Swiss Italian University (USI) in Lugano and EPFL).
In a highly competitive market, Apety revisits the value chain of local food service, offering an innovative solution to pre-order and payment for a meal in a restaurant. The prize rewards projects that are in the creation phase or very recently created. It is therefore a prize that is the bet on youth. The jury selected in the recent the following EPFL entrepreneurs: Cristian Zamfir and Vitaly Chipounov of Cyberhaben, Nathalie Brandenberg and Sylke Hoehnel of Sun Bioscience and Amélie Béduer of Volumina. A few years ago, Nicolas Durant, founder of Abionic, was the winner of the 2010 edition. As one of the members of the jury congratulating Aurelien and Teo said, we can only wish small Apety the same success and to become large ...