KollectiveLabs

We are advisors, builders, and connectors.

Strategic consultancy working at the intersection of technology, media, and ecosystem building. We gather expertise, mobilize networks, broker relationships, and build toward progress.

Based in Geneva, wired into its public, private, and international ecosystems, including, through board seats that keep us close to strategic decision-making across Switzerland's innovation and attractivity landscape.

CLIENTS & AFFILIATIONS (PAST AND PRESENT)

Republic and State of Geneva
Global Investment Foundation
Heidi.news
Geneva Solutions
DAO — Dachorganisation Frauenhäuser Schweiz und Liechtenstein
TED
AlpICT
GVA2
Public Discourse Foundation
Geneva Tourism
Fondation pour l'égalité de genre
 CORE CAPABILITIES

From idea to impact.

Five interlocking capabilities, applied end to end, or wherever a mandate needs the most leverage.

01

Networking & convening

We broker relationships across sectors, map the terrain before committing to a direction, and know how to build the room, set the agenda, and ensure the right people are in conversation. Stakeholder analysis, landscape benchmarking, signal detection, and the trusted introductions that open doors others can't. We know Geneva's institutional landscape intimately: the multilateral world, the financial sector, the tech ecosystem, and the philanthropic community.

02

Strategy & initiative design

We build new initiatives from the ground up: vision, operating model, business roadmap, team architecture. We have done this for foundations, media organisations, governments and innovation hubs, and we stay until the thing is real, not just designed.

03

Narrative & positioning

We craft the story that makes a project fundable and credible. From pitch decks to institutional positioning, we turn complexity into clarity, and make sure the right people understand what's at stake.

04

Fundraising & business planning

We design fundraising strategies and build the financial plans that back them up. Our experience spans philanthropic foundations, public funders, private capital, and pooled fund structures.

05

Innovation & AI foresight

Genuine fluency in innovation ecosystems and emerging technology, and a sustained read on how AI is reshaping society, labour, and organisations. Beyond AI, the technologies becoming embedded in our systems stay on our radar. Not a separate service: the lens through which all our work is done.

 CASE STUDIES

Selected case studies.

A decade of building, from growth strategy to philanthropic funds and editorial ventures.

 ABOUT

A firm that operates as much as it advises.

KollectiveLabs is a Geneva-based strategic advisory firm working at the intersection of technology, media, and ecosystem building, founded in 2015 and operating at the crossroads of public institutions, private capital, and international organizations.

We work collaboratively by design, bringing in specialists and building networks and communities. Our deep fluency in innovation, technology, digital culture, and systemic transformation is embedded in everything we do.

Portrait of Deborah Mattatia
Founder

Deborah Mattatia

Founder · KollectiveLabs

Deborah is the founder of KollectiveLabs. Her career spans journalism, business development, entertainment marketing, and the early tech industry in New York, where she joined Livestream as employee number five and built its content development and partnerships team to ten people. She returned to Geneva in 2010 to create TED 's first EMEA partnerships role, generating sponsorships revenue from leading companies across finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, and telecommunications. She subsequently led development and marketing at EPFL's Social Media Lab before founding KollectiveLabs in 2015. Since then, she has led Heidi.news 's partnerships and fundraising function from its founding week, secured the launch of Geneva Solutions, and advised the State of Geneva on development of a new tech hub. She is the originator of the Geneva Partners project and co-founder of 2032.

Deborah is also a professional board member. She represents the State of Geneva on the board of the Geneva Tourism & Conventions Foundation, sits on the boards of the Global Investment Foundation, the Foundation for Gender Equality, and the Public Discourse Foundation, and serves on the board of directors of Korab International.

Project Partners

A select network of experts.

KollectiveLabs works with a trusted network of specialists, brought in on the mandates where their expertise moves the work forward.

Sophie Achermann

Sophie Achermann

Executive Director, Public Discourse Foundation · Co-President, Tech Against Violence

Sophie Achermann is Executive Director of the Public Discourse Foundation and co-president of Tech Against Violence. Previously, she served as Executive Director of alliance F, the umbrella organisation of Swiss women's associations, for nearly five years. Earlier in her career she worked within the Swiss federal administration, across the Parliamentary Services, the Federal Chancellery, and the oversight committees of the Federal Assembly, and represented Swiss youth at the United Nations.  Sophie leads 2032 and brings deep roots in Swiss civic society, politics, and the intersection of technology and democratic participation.

Civic techPublic discourseOnline hate speechContent moderationAI & language modelsDigital democracy
Joy Arnéodo

Joy Arnéodo

Communications Consultant · Geneva

Joy Arnéodo is a Geneva-based communications consultant working at the intersection of technology, civil society, and democratic innovation. Through her independent practice, she advises organisations including the EPFL AI Center, the Foundation for Gender Equality, and La Tour en Communs. She previously led communications at Open Geneva, and held a consulting role at UNITAR. She brings hands-on experience in brand strategy, community engagement, and event production across the public, philanthropic, and private sectors.  Joy works with KollectiveLabs on communications strategy and ecosystem-facing mandates, including the Geneva Hub and Foundation for Gender Equality.

Communication & engagementContent & storytellingCreative conceptsCo-creationCollective intelligenceBrand strategy
Alisée de Tonnac

Alisée de Tonnac

Founder & CEO, Seedstars · Board Member · Forbes 30 Under 30 & Wired Innovation Fellow

Alisée de Tonnac is co-founder and CEO of Seedstars, a Swiss-based group on a mission to positively impact the lives of people in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. Seedstars connects stakeholders, builds businesses from the ground up with public and private partners, and invests in high-growth ventures within these ecosystems, to date, over 200 companies across 30 countries, with activities spanning over 90 countries through the Seedstars World Competition, the Seedstars Summit, and the Seedspaces. Alisée previously sat on the Innosuisse Innovation Council and currently sits on several boards of companies and foundations in Switzerland and abroad. She was nominated by Forbes as Social Entrepreneur 30 Under 30, by Wired as Innovation Fellow, and recognized as one of Europe's most influential women in venture capital and one of Refinery29's 29 Powerful Women.

Venture capitalEmerging marketsEntrepreneurship ecosystemsBoard governanceInnovation policyPublic speaking
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Networks. Expertise. Big Ideas.  Built for impact.

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