Our employees in Zurich, Serbia, and the USA are committed to providing better and faster news feeds for our customers every day.
Peter came to what was then Newscron as an investor and board member in 2014, and in 2015 he took over the role of CEO before acquiring a majority stake in the company in 2016. He has been involved with internet operations for over 20 years and has established a number of successful companies.
Laura not only ensures that our numbers are always up-to-date. Laura has a master’s from the University of St. Gallen and years of experience in management consulting.
Colin understands and inspires our customers and supports them to a successful use of Scope. He has experience in project management in corporations and a master's degree in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich. After work, he likes to play the piano or plays strategy games.
David is responsible for the curated content of our clients. As a doctor of history and long-time editor and journalist, he has a flair for good texts and stories. In addition to his workload at Scope, he is a partner and project manager in a software company. He spends his free time sailing and with his family.
Thinh-Lay lives in the US. She creates the newsletter templates for our customers. In addition to her part-time position at Scope, she also works as a self-employed copywriter and consultant for barrier-free content.
Cathrin is responsible for the topic portals and supports our customers in optimizing their searches in Scope. She has a master's degree from the University of St. Gallen and has held a wide variety of positions in various industries.
Stojan is our back-end engineer from Belgrade, Serbia. He received a Master’s in IT from the University of Belgrade and has since gained experience in a range of industries. Together with Reto, he works on our servers, databases and the many code ends.
Daniel makes sure our frontend applications are easy to use and in top-notch shape. He's got over 10 years of experience working for start-ups. Likes hiking, chess and boxing.
Great! You can reach all of our staff members at firstname.lastname@thescope.com, or by using the contact form.
Andreas Von Gunten is an Internet entrepreneur from the very beginning. He is currently active with his company Von Gunten & Co. AG, as Managing Director of Datenschutzpartner, Chairman of the Board of Directors of EWK Energie AG and as a member of the municipal council of Kölliken. Until the successful exit, he chaired the Salesforce integrator PARX Werk AG, which he founded, with 80 employees.
Franz has over 20 years’ experience as an accountant, and in supporting start-ups like JOIZ, Webrepublic and Adwebster as external CFO and executive coach.
Peter came to what was then Newscron as an investor and board member in 2014, and in 2015 he took over the role of CEO before acquiring a majority stake in the company in 2016. He has been involved with internet operations for over 20 years and has established a number of successful companies.
Jens Alder is a former CEO of Swisscom and has been a professional member of the Board of Directors of Alpiq, Goldbach Group and CA Technologies for ten years. In June 2018 he was elected to the Scope Board of Directors.
Katia Murmann Amirhosseini was Chief Product Officer at Ringier Global Media Unit and the Blick Group and a member of the management board at Blick. She is also President of the Board of Directors of the Swiss media database SMD and its subsidiary Swissdox AG for media monitoring. She has been a member of the Scope Board of Directors since 2022.
BMO Treuhand AG, Roland Brogle
A brief history of Newscron, Niuws and Scope:
2011: Elia Palme develops a research project as part of his ETH dissertation, creating an aggregator-app, initially named Nüwsli, later Newscron. With the help of the app, users can put together their personal newspaper: the app searches through 250 national and international newspapers, to find only the news that could present an interest to the user. The region of the news, as well as the section the news are coming from can be chosen by the user.
2012: In autumn 2012 Elia, together with Roberto Plato and Patrick Lardi, founds Newscron SA in Lugano. The company receives the support of several private investors in Tessin.
2013: Newscron wins many awards for technology, among others the renowned De-Vigier Prize of 100’000 CHF.
2014: Newscron receives in January substantial funding from a Business Angels’ network in Zürich. The board of directors is reorganized. Throughout the year it becomes obvious that the originally planned Freemium business model for the Newscron App is not working as planned, due to the fact that the paid premium version is undersold. After reviewing the strategy the board of directors decides to enhance the existing technical offer by introducing the handpicked curation done by experts.
2015: In January the Niuws App is launched offering handpicked news by 15 curators, each curating a specific topic (box). The number of curators reaches approximately 50 by the end of the year.
2016: Peter Hogenkamp acquires the majority of shares in February. Elia Palme privately acquires the initial Newscron App. In May the company moves to Zurich, settling its office at Rötelstrasse 15. In the meantime the Niuws product becomes more than an app, extending its availability to different platforms and receiving a new name: Scope (thescope.com). In September the company itself is renamed to Scope Content AG and its brand new responsive website is built from scratch and launched.
2017: Scope gains new users every day, but does not grow at the pace needed to make the end-user platform a viable business. However, corporate customers love the curation software and thus Scope launches its business offering: a content curation suite for content marketers goes live on the last day of the year. Jürg Stuker and Andreas Von Gunten join the Scope Board.
2018: Whitelabeling wins! Thanks to the new focus, over the course of the year, Scope wins more than 25 new corporations and associations to use the SaaS curation suite for all kinds of communication needs, from Content Marketing via Lead Nurturing to Internal Communications. Jens Alder joins Scope's Board of Directors. In October, the board decides to shut down the B2C platform by the end of the year to exclusively focus on the fast growing B2B business.
2019: With plenty of drive and new staff members, including Reto Vogt as Head of Content, the team is forging ahead with a complete revision of the Scope Content Suite, the new version of our curation software, which goes live in September 2019.
2022: In a project lasting more than a year, the "Discovery" module, in which Scope suggests current content from various sources to the user for curation, was conceptually and technically revised.
2023: Scope launches topic portals that enable organizations to demonstrate their thought leadership in a topic area. The topic portals are populated with curated content directly from Scope and the content is in the same step sent as a newsletter and pushed to social media.
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