There is a climate crisis and an energy security crisis. We have a tool to help mitigate them.

About us

To tackle the climate crisis, we need solutions that can be implemented quickly. Reducing every Swiss building’s heating consumption by 30% will reduce the country’s total energy demand and CO2 emissions by about 10%. It needs technologies and successful businesses to bring about fast change. 

viboo is rooted in years of research at Empa and ETH Zurich, as well as other world-leading building automation labs such as RWTH Aachen and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. With our team, we have won a BRIDGE fellowship, all Venture Kick stages, the Innobooster by Gebert Rüf Stiftung, the Swiss GreenTech Startup Battle, the Empa Innovation Award, and the ETH medal. 

Our management team combines complementary skill sets and experiences. Felix Bünning (CEO) and Benjamin Huber (CTO) have cocreated the algorithms of the platform, while Matthias Sulzer (president of the board) contributes with a vast skillset as a seasoned energy sector expert and entrepreneur. 

Meet our team!

Felix Bünning

CEO/Co-founder

Dr. sc. ETH Zürich, experience from world-leading research labs, expert on building automation.

“Get stuff done.”
Benjamin Huber

CTO/Co-founder

M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zurich, PSI & Empa, experience in project management and software.

“Plan it right.”
Matthias Sulzer

COB/Co-founder

Experienced serial entrepreneur in building energy, including IPO, networked in building and energy industry in CH, EU, US.

“See the bigger picture.”
Nicolas Lefebure

CONTROL ENGINEER

M.Sc. in Controls and Mechatronics, expert on predictive and distributed building control.

José Diaz

Senior Software Engineer

Experienced software engineer, expert for cloud software and CI/CD.

Jorge-André Fulgencio Esteves

Junior Software Engineer

Back-end engineer working on our platform heath and integrating APIs.

Julie Vienne

Technical Operations Engineer

M.Sc. in Energy Science and Technology, expert on building data science with experience from the building industry 

Karl Njálsson

Head of Sales

M.Sc. in Energy Science and Technology. Experienced project manager and sales manager for digital products.

Backed by the most competitive start-up support

BRIDGE Proof of Concept

BRIDGE Proof of Concept specifically helps young researchers to apply their research results and gain the confidence needed to enter the market. The projects may target innovations of all kinds from all research areas.

Venture Kick stage 3

Venture Kick offers you up to CHF 150,000 in 3 stages: start-ups are present to a Venture Kick jury at each stage, where they stand a 50 percent chance of selection for the next stage. The winners of the third and final stage have the opportunity to get an additional funding up to CHF 850’000.

InnoBooster
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Gebert Rüf Stiftung supports university-based, high-potential businesses with the aim of accelerating their market entry. The funding line is calling for top talents with convincing proposals of how a research & development or design boost can speed up a successful market penetration of their deep tech business.
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