Milestones
Foundation stone
The concept and the development of a first prototype are worked out as part of Patrik Deuss' bachelor thesis at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Later in the same year, Florian Gärtner joins the team and helps with the further development of the first LEDCity tube.
— 2016
Foundation & First projects
LEDCity AG is founded, entered in the commercial register and the board of directors is elected. The Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) supports LEDCity in the first pilot project in Zurich, which is implemented in cooperation with ewz.
— 2017
Many well-known customers want LEDCity products
We are able to realise our first projects for customers such as ETH, SBB, VBZ, ISS, University of Zurich, LAAX, ewz, Zurich Airport, The Dolder Grand, Amag and many more. Swiss television SRF becomes aware of us and broadcasts a 3-minute report about LEDCity in the programme 10vor10.
— 2018
3000 households & CHF 1 Million
Since the foundation of LEDCity, the amount of electricity generated by 3000 average Swiss households has been saved in the projects implemented. For the first time, the company achieves an annual turnover of over one million Swiss francs.
— 2019
Expansion
National and international expansion is on the agenda: since December 2019, a sales team has been built up for Western Switzerland and feelers are also being put out to Germany. The expansion is to be made possible through impact investment and the team is to grow to around 25 full-time positions.
— 2020
2 Million
At the beginning of 2021, a first round of financing will be successfully concluded and LEDCity will be able to drive forward its expansion at home and abroad with two million in fresh capital. We also won one of the most important young entrepreneur awards in Switzerland, the De Vigier Award, with CHF 100,000 in prize money. Our team grows to around 30 employees.
— 2021
1 nuclear plant less
Our goal is 10 years after our founding, to have reduced electricity consumption through the use of our products to such an extent that the electricity production of an entire nuclear power plant becomes unnecessary.
— 2027
80% less energy consumption
As a result of our activities, electricity consumption for lighting is expected to decrease by 80% worldwide compared to the effective consumption in this area in our founding year. This goal is to be achieved at the latest 20 years after our foundation: in 2037.
— 2037
Our vision
Team
Daniel Tschudy
Board of Directors
Manuel Senn
Board of Directors
Hans-Peter Bichelmeier
Board of Directors
Patrik Deuss
President Board of Directors & CEO
Florian Gärtner-Wyniger
Board of Directors & CTO
Patrik Kuster
CSO
Yves Jungo
Sales Consultant
Andreas Narr
Head of Key Account Management
Björn Bomholt
ELECTRONICS DEVELOPER
Sina Ungewitter
Head of Marketing
Sam Kolahan
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Dan Climasevschi
Embedded Developer
Rico Sägesser
Head of Sales Operations
Amarine Vincent
Head of Sales Romandie
Marco Todaro
Head of Sales Basel
Dr. Yevhen Polyhach
Data Scientist
Marc Henner
Senior Sales Consultant
Sergio Martínez
Business Development Spain
Selina Clément
HR Assistant/ Recruiter
Raphael Fischer
Embedded Hard-/Firmware Developer
Jan Schiffeler
Product Manager Lighting
Ralph Wilders
Business Development DACH
Alexandra Zbinden
HR & Recruiting Manager
Jakob Tresch
Project Engineer
Eliot Page
Account Executive Romandie
Christophe Bamert
Business Development Representative
Samuel Garcez
Sales Consultant
Miguel de la Rosa
Head of Sales Spain
Itamar Aharoni
Data Scientist
Michael Wilhelm
Account Manager Nürnberg
Maximilian Kleidl
Account Manager München
Jill Strehler
Junior Marketing Manager
Dario Bischof
Project Engineer
Philipp Weber
Head of Sales German Switzerland
Óskar Berenguer
Junior Software Developer
Gilbert Egger
Production
Vincenzo Lucanto
Production
Mickael Kopp
Embedded Hard- & Firmware Developer Intern
Julian Wiederkehr
Account Executive
Catrina Klee
Account Executive
Anja Rüegg
Inside Sales Representative
Tugce Yilmaz
Inside Sales Representative
Candela Guyot
Visual & Communication Designer
Nicolas Lehmann
CFO
Janick Rohrbach
Software Engineer
Rebecca Stoepfgeshoff
HR & Recruiting Intern
Dudley
Chief Happiness Officer
Open position
Apply for a job!
«This kind of lighting will prevail!»
– Philippe Müller, Head of section cleantech, Federal Office of Energy
Contact
Do you have any questions about our company, our products, would you like to work with us or just say hello? We are happy to receive messages of any kind. We are also available by phone during office hours: +41 44 500 73 85.