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Swiss Deep Tech News & Analysis
Stay informed on the Swiss technology landscape. This is your central resource for Deep Tech News, combining key developments from across the ecosystem with original, data-driven analysis from the Deep Tech Nation Foundation. We track and report on significant technological milestones, funding rounds, and research to provide a comprehensive overview for international investors, partners, and researchers.
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The Swiss open source LLM is live
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USD 1.6 million to empower European retailers with AI
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Healthtech startups in the global spotlight
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Defense startup CDDS off to a good start
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DTN Highlights
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Read more: The Evidence We Needed: Establishing the First Benchmark for Swiss VC ReturnFor years, institutional investors have cited the same obstacle when asked about venture capital allocation: insufficient performance data. Without a credible benchmark, Swiss pension funds…
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Read more: NextIn Business: Switzerland’s AI-Powered Response to the Workplace Mental Health CrisisOne in three sick notes in Switzerland stems from mental health issues, with workplace stress as the primary culprit. As the World Health Organization (WHO)…
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Read more: Beyond Early Stage: The Rise of the Swiss Scale Up EngineFor years, the global narrative regarding European innovation has been consistent: excellent research, strong early-stage formation, but a fragmentation that hampers growth. However, new data…
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NextIn Business: Swiss Drones – Flying Robots Transform Industrial Inspection and Emergency Response
Read more: NextIn Business: Swiss Drones – Flying Robots Transform Industrial Inspection and Emergency ResponseWhere humans cannot safely reach, such as in burning buildings, on collapsed structures, or atop windswept industrial towers, Swiss drones are redefining what is possible.…
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Read more: So Far, We Feed the Roots, but Others Reap the HarvestSwitzerland reigns as the world’s innovation champion. Yet Joanne Sieber, CEO of the Deep Tech Nation Switzerland Foundation, warns against complacency. In this interview, she…
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Read more: Project Switzerland: 20 outstanding entrepreneurs for next-gen market leadersSwitzerland is consistently hailed as the world champion of innovation. Yet, the critical challenge remains: scaling these innovations into enduring, global companies. Many promising Swiss…
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Read more: Spacetek Technology Secures CHF 9.6M to Bring Swiss Space Tech to Global SemiconductorsIn the global race for semiconductor dominance, yield and efficiency are the ultimate currency. As manufacturers push for nanometer precision, the margin for error effectively…
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Read more: NextIn Business: Swiss Biotech Battles Superbugs – Deep Tech Solutions to Antibiotic ResistanceModern medicine faces an existential threat: multi-resistant bacteria. As vital antibiotics “no longer work”, infections once easily treated are becoming life-threatening, and routine procedures like…
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Read more: European Spinouts Report 2025: Switzerland Confirmed as Europe’s Deep Tech PowerhouseThe most critical metric in innovation is not volume but efficiency. While larger economies naturally produce higher absolute numbers of companies, the true measure of…
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Swiss delegation warms up for CES 2026 in Las Vegas
The upcoming year will again kick off with the annual Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, held on 6-9 January 2026. Close to 150’000…
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Startups score prizes across Asia and Germany
In recognition of their innovative solutions — from digitally printed solar cells and scenario-based modelling to sono-instruments and solar fuels — juries in Taiwan, the…
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Assaia finalises $26.6m Series B round to scale aviation technology
Assaia, the Zurich-based aviation technology company dedicated to optimizing the commercial aircraft turnaround process, has raised $26.6m in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led…
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Forbes 30Under30 spotlights Swiss innovators
Twenty-three personalities in the startup ecosystem made it to this year’s Forbes 30under30 — the annual premier list that presents influential personalities in Switzerland, Germany,…
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Xlife Sciences AG announces exit of 12 project companies to Grupo Landsteiner
Mexican Grupo Landsteiner has signed a binding framework to acquire 12 of Xlife Sciences’ advanced biotech, medtech and digital health projects for a total of…
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A further USD 25 million for Corintis
Following the closing of a 24M USD Series A earlier this year, Corintis has secured additional $25M Series A1 funding round led by Applied Digital.…
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SwissHealth Ventures doubles fund volume to CHF 100 million
SwissHealth Ventures, the digital health investment arm of health insurer CSS, is set to continue backing high-growth start-ups in the healthcare sector over the coming…
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New Swiss Startup Radar: Uncovering the growth of Swiss start-ups
The Swiss start-up ecosystem is performing better in terms of growth than is often claimed, as the new Swiss Startup Radar shows in a data-based…
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Gravis Robotics completes $23M round to accelerate international expansion
ETH spinoff Gravis Robotics, the startup enabling next-generation earthmoving autonomy that boosts job site performance, has finalised a $23 million funding round co-led by IQ…
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Swisspod unveils world’s largest hyperloop and secures $13 million
During its second U.S. Hyperloop Day event in Colorado, Swisspod unveiled the world’s largest hyperloop test track, presenting Aerys 1, its first hyperloop capsule model,…
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Spacetek secures CHF 9.6 Million in new financing and expands global presence
Spacetek Technology AG, the Bern-based deep-tech company revolutionizing industrial process analysis through space-inspired time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOF-MS), closed a new funding round totaling CHF 9.6…
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Cerrion banks $18M Series A funding to fuel international growth
Zurich-based Cerrion has secured $18M in a series A funding round led by Creandum, supported by existing investors and business angels. The proceeds will be…
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Read more: Dragan Grabulovski: Serial EntrepreneurAntibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) allow cytotoxic drugs to bind specifically to cancer cells with the aim of destroying them. The process is not new, but to…
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Read more: All Eyes on SwitzerlandThe number of exits in Switzerland is rising again. Swiss technology companies are no longer being acquired solely for their technology and team, but increasingly…
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Read more: Decoding the 2025 Top 100 Swiss Startup AwardLast night, the Swiss innovation ecosystem gathered under the bright lights of the ZSC Swiss Life Arena in Zürich, a major ice hockey stadium. The…
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Read more: Into the Web with DTN’s Spider Analysis: Where We’re Strong, Where We’re Slow, and What To Do About ItOur new spider graph maps Switzerland’s position across four pillars of deep tech: Innovation & IP, Academia, Ecosystem, and Capital & Investment. A clear picture…
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Read more: From Momentum to Mission: What the Latest VC-Trends Mean for Deep Tech in SwitzerlandThis mid-year reading of startupticker.ch and SECA’s Swiss VC Report takes the surface rebound—a healthy rise in invested capital—and weighs it against quieter signals: fewer…
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Read more: Globally Unique Focus on Deep TechThe first Swiss Deep Tech Report presents data-driven evidence of the advantages that make Switzerland a global deep tech hotspot. It also provides an in-depth…
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Read more: Deep Tech Nation CEO in Le Temps: “If We Want Economic Giants, We Must Wake Up”Our CEO, Joanne Sieber, recently sat down with the influential Swiss newspaper Le Temps to discuss a critical challenge for the nation’s future: financing the…
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Read more: Microsoft’s USD 400 Million Bet on Swiss AIMicrosoft has confirmed a four-hundred-million-dollar programme to expand its Swiss cloud and AI footprint, launch a national accelerator for startups and SMEs, and equip 100…
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Read more: AI Pioneers in the Life Sciences SectorSwitzerland’s strong life sciences sector is a pace setter in combining traditional approaches from the pharma and medtech industries with AI. Several start-ups have recently…
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Read more: Swiss AI Enters a New Era: inait SA and the Rise of Digital BrainsSwiss AI startup inait is redefining artificial intelligence by building digital brains—software systems that simulate human reasoning. Backed by Microsoft and rooted in neuroscience from…
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Read more: CUTISS: A Swiss Techbio Champion Ready to Lead the Global Health RevolutionCUTISS is reshaping the future of skin surgery with denovoSkin™, a groundbreaking techbio innovation born in Switzerland. As it nears global commercialization, CUTISS highlights both…
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Read more: Success Story: Péter FankhauserANYbotics’ Péter Fankhauser takes on Boston Dynamics with robot dogs built for dangerous inspections—backed by $60M and global clients.
