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Cleantech startups validate their technologies on land and water
Restor has launched a project with Guatemala government to monitor over half a million hectares and 83,000 sites by 2030 while Neustark launched its first…
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CHF 1.5 billion for Swiss start-ups – high-flyers ensure good numbers
CHF 1.47 billion in venture capital went to Swiss start-ups in the first half of 2025, the third best result ever. A small handful of…
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CHF 79 million to advance Nuclidium’s copper-based radiopharmaceutical platform
NUCLIDIUM AG, a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company developing a proprietary copper-based theranostic platform, has closed its Series B financing round led by Kurma Growth Opportunities Fund.…
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Read more: From Momentum to Mission: What the Latest VC-Trends Mean for Deep Tech in Switzerland
This 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 Tech
The 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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Three million to make self-healing software a reality
LogicStar, building the AI agent for fully autonomous application maintenance, raised a $3m round led by Northzone. The company founded by successful serial entrepreneurs empowers…
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BioVersys Opens IPO Season at SIX Swiss Exchange
Today, BioVersys, a leading Swiss biotech company specializing in novel antibacterial products for serious life-threatening infections, listed its shares at SIX Swiss Exchange. At an…
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SAEKI raises $6.7M to transform large-scale manufacturing
As AI accelerates design capabilities, SAEKI is bridging the widening gap between what engineers can design and what can actually be manufactured, end to end.…
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CHF 2.4 billion for Swiss start-ups
Investment in knowledge-based start-ups fell again in 2024, by 8.5% compared with the previous year. The number of financing rounds also fell for the first…
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Frank Thelen invests in Akina’s CHF 2.8 million seed round
Through its investment in Akina, Freigeist Capital, the Deep Tech VC founded by Frank Thelen, has led its first investment in the healthtech sector. The…
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Start-up boom thriving at ETH Zurich
Once again, around 40 spin-off companies were launched at ETH Zurich. Start-ups in the fields of artificial intelligence and biotechnology were particularly well represented.
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$16 million to fight forever chemicals
Swiss startup Oxyle announced a $16m funding round to scale its breakthrough solution to destroy, not just relocate, PFAS from wastewater. This builds on its…
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$22 million for weather intelligence company
Meteomatics, the weather intelligence and technology company that enables the world’s leading companies to accurately forecast the weather’s impact on business, has closed its $22M…
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BioVersys to go public next week
BioVersys started the offer period of its newly issued shares. Based on the offer price, the implied market capitalization of BioVersys is about CHF 212.9…
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Spanish travel-tech unicorn acquires Yokoy
Yokoy, the leading spend management platform, has been acquired by TravelPerk, a business travel platform based in Barcelona. In parallel, TravelPerk announced the closing of…
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AB2 Bio signs USD 600 million agreement with Nippon Shinyaku
AB2 Bio Ltd., developing therapies for the treatment of severe systemic hyperinflammatory diseases and conditions driven by IL-18, has entered into an option and licensing…
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ZuriQ secures $4.2M seed funding to break quantum computing's scaling barrier
Quantum computing startup ZuriQ has today announced the closing of its $4.2 million seed funding round to commercialize a radical new architecture that will enable scaling…
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Read more: From Momentum to Mission: What the Latest VC-Trends Mean for Deep Tech in Switzerland
This 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 Tech
The 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 AI
Microsoft 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 Sector
Switzerland’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 Brains
Swiss 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 Revolution
CUTISS 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 Fankhauser
ANYbotics’ Péter Fankhauser takes on Boston Dynamics with robot dogs built for dangerous inspections—backed by $60M and global clients.
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Read more: Millions for Research but no Money for Growth: Swiss Startups are Looking Abroad for Investors
Translated from NZZ, this article explores why Swiss startups often seek growth capital abroad despite strong local innovation roots.
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Read more: How Swiss Startups are Making Their Mark on Agentic AI
Discover how Swiss startups are leading the crowded agentic AI space with cutting-edge, goal-driven AI agents tailored for finance, law, gaming, and software—powered by scientific…
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Read more: Swiss Deep Tech Venture Capital: The 2025 EU Deep Tech Report
Europe’s deep tech ecosystem has become a potent driver of innovation, standing strong despite broader venture capital market fluctuations. Switzerland is gaining recognition as a…
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Read more: What Can We Learn From W.A. De Vigier Awards 2025 Finalists
Discover insights about the Swiss Innovation ecosystem through an analysis of the W.A. De Vigier Startup Funding Competition Finalists