Career Profile
Elias Hohl is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CryptoSearchTools AG, a Swiss startup which is affiliated with the ETH Zurich AI Center and part of the 2024 cohort of the IECT - Hermann Hauser Summer School on Entrepreneurship. CryptoSearchTools is developing software that helps Venture Capital investors to automatically discover and analyze DeepTech & FinTech startups using artificial intelligence.
Elias Hohl is also one of the most successful Austrian Physics Olympiad participants of all time, having won a total of seven international Gold and Silver medals at International Physics Olympiad, European Physics Olympiad and European Union Science Olympiad in addition to having won the Austrian Physics Olympiad final three times. By now, he is an Austrian national trainer at both IPhO and EOES and the Austrian Country Coordinator at EOES (the youngest in all of Europe).
Furthermore, he has been in touch with cybersecurity since he was 14 years old, is the discoverer of multiple vulnerabilities which have been assigned a CVE (among them a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in an NVIDIA product) and worked in the Austrian Armed Forces cybersecurity department, where he was nominated for the “Recruit of the Year”-Award by the Ministry of Defense.