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Founded in 2019, Awina is a Swiss digital financial services company that actively supports families in financing daycare and ensures reliable monthly payments for daycares.
The Awina model is unique, independent, neutral, and strives for profound change in the current system.
Awina helps and provides a family-friendly restructuring of childcare costs as well as timely liquidity to nurseries.
Specifically, Awina enables families to finance up to half of the monthly daycare costs with an earmarked loan, and this at unusually low or attractive interest rates of 3%. The family pays the other half of the daycare costs. During the daycare period, the loan is increased monthly, and after the daycare is over, the family pays it back in equal installments.
The costs for the daycare place are thus spread over several years and the monthly financial burden on the family budget is significantly reduced.
The word “āwhina” means “support, help” in the Polynesian Maori language. Awina offers families support and help in everyday life.
Publizistikwissenschaftlerin, Multi-Unternehmerin, Beraterin & Expertin für strategische Kommunikation, sie investiert in Startups – ganz nach dem Motto die Welt nachhaltiger, vielfältiger, besser – einfach „schöner” zu machen. Zudem unterstützt sie junge Menschen auf ihrem Karriereweg mit ihrem Netzwerk, Know-How und als Mentorin.
Aileen ist in Japan geboren, in Basel aufgewachsen und liebt den Winter – auf Ski.
After her M.A. in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris and first experiences in the NGO world, Christiane joined a major Swiss bank where she spent five years developing digital banking products in various roles.
Christiane is passionate about equality, is a volunteer firefighter, and is currently learning her seventh language.
As an entrepreneur and marketing specialist with over 15 years of experience in digital marketing, HR and employer branding, Jill brings experience from both large corporations and start-ups. During her first maternity leave, she founded her own company (a job portal for women), which she sold after 8 years.
Jill lives in Zurich, is a mother of three, a passionate swimmer and a listener of crime podcasts.
After completing his business studies in St. Gallen and a short detour into the venture capital scene in Berlin, Lukas joined Advanon, a FinTech in Zurich. He accompanied the development of the company over several years in different positions, then successfully sold it to CreditGate24 as COO and integrated it into the new company.
Lukas is a married father of a daughter and loves endurance sports (especially jogging and cycling).
In addition to Thomas and Gogo, Claudia Coninx-Kaczynski and Marc O. Stöckli are also members of Awina's Board of Directors.
Claudia is a member of the Board of Directors of Forbo Holding AG and Swisscontent AG. For three years she was a member of the Board of Directors of TX Group AG and subsequently took over the chairmanship of the pool of family shareholders.
Marc is a co-founder and former CEO of Totemo. Marc is an active investor, board member and coach for entrepreneurial companies and teams in technology and financial services. Previously, he worked in corporate finance and strategy consulting at BCG. Marc is also a member of the global board of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.
