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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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NUCLIDIUM's Series B reaches CHF 105 million with latest extension
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Terra Quantum changes its IPO plans
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AI firm Visium secures funds to scale across Europe and US
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InSphero acquires PhenoVista to expand US presence
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DePoly's new plant sparks high demand
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Neurosoft Bioelectronics Closes $7.5M Oversubscribed Seed Round
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DTN Highlights
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Read more: Swiss Venture Capital Matures: Returns, Exits, and a Sharper Investor LayerSwiss venture capital recorded its first annual rebound since 2022 last year, with CHF 2.95 billion invested and a record CHF 1.116 billion flowing into…
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Read more: Bridging the tough middle: Key takeaways from the Deep-Tech x Space SummitESA chose ESDI at Park Innovaare for its first dedicated Deep-Tech × Space Summit on 13 May 2026. Deep Tech Nation Switzerland CEO Joanne Sieber…
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Read more: SICTIC: A Matter of ScaleIn Parts 1 and 2 of our series, we followed Thomas Dübendorfer from a student fund at ETH Zurich to SICTIC, Switzerland’s largest angel investor…
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Read more: SICTIC: Backed to the FutureThomas Dübendorfer doesn’t invest like a portfolio manager optimizing for returns. He invests like a scout who found someone worth running alongside – and then…
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Read more: SICTIC: At Face ValueThe Very First Cheque When you ask investors at what point in their careers they wrote their first cheque, most will probably tell you a…
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Read more: “Kick Ass Globally”: Inside Project Switzerland’s First Community GatheringOn April 30, 2026, the country’s most accomplished tech founders and the ten Scale-ups selected for the inaugural Project Switzerland cohort sat down together for…
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Read more: AI in Switzerland: Stanford Data Confirms World Leading Talent DensityThe Stanford AI Index Report 2026, released in April 2026, ranks Switzerland first in the world for AI researchers and inventors per capita, with 110.5…
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Read more: Swiss-Built Precision Powers NASA’s Return to the MoonOn April 1, 2026, NASA’s Artemis II mission launched four astronauts toward the Moon, marking the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.…
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Read more: Project Switzerland: 10 Scale-ups selected to join the ranks of Switzerland’s global market leadersToday marks another milestone for Project Switzerland, the national Scale-up initiative initiated by Deep Tech Nation Switzerland. 10 high-growth companies have been selected for the…
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NUCLIDIUM's Series B reaches CHF 105 million with latest extension
Basel-based biotech NUCLIDIUM has closed an oversubscribed CHF 26 million Series B extension, bringing the round to CHF 105 million, to advance its copper-based cancer…
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Terra Quantum changes its IPO plans
Following an initial announcement in April regarding an IPO via SPAC, Terra Quantum has now presented a new plan involving a different shell company and…
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AI firm Visium secures funds to scale across Europe and US
Visium has closed its first institutional funding round after eight years as a bootstrapped company. Now employing 100 people across Europe, the firm provides AI…
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InSphero acquires PhenoVista to expand US presence
InSphero has acquired PhenoVista Biosciences, a California-based contract research organization specializing in imaging-based laboratory assays. The deal expands the Swiss company's presence in the United…
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DePoly's new plant sparks high demand
DePoly has secured contracts worth a total of CHF 50 million for its demonstration plant in Monthey, which is currently in the final stages of…
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Neurosoft Bioelectronics Closes $7.5M Oversubscribed Seed Round
Neurosoft Bioelectronics, a Swiss neurotechnology startup developing scalable and soft brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), today announced that it has raised a $7.5 million oversubscribed seed financing…
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Fruitful AI closes strategic investment round
40Factory announces a strategic investment in FruitfulAI AG, a Zurich-based startup specializing in AI Machine Vision technologies applied to industrial environments. The investment aims to…
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Market momentum for thriving Kitro
After temporarily losing most of its customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kitro has shown resilience, regaining momentum on market, driven by a growing awareness of…
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New MiFID license opens European Market to Taurus
Taurus SA, a FINMA-regulated securities firm and a leader in digital asset infrastructure technology solutions, announced that its Cyprus-based subsidiary, Taurus (Europe) Ltd, has been…
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Swiss Biotech Report confirms the sector’s strong performance
In 2025 the Swiss biotech industry set two new records. Privately funded companies attracted CHF 1.15 million, thanks to start-ups led by convincing, experienced teams.…
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Windward Bio secures USD 165 million to advance clinical trials
Windward Bio, a private, clinical-stage biotechnology company focussing on immunological diseases, announced an upsized $165M crossover financing. Since launching in January 2025, Windward Bio has…
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USD 3.8 million to bring real-time spatial intelligence to every consumer device
Mosaic SoC is building next-generation perception chips that help devices see and understand their environment in real time at minimal power. In its first year,…
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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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Read more: NextIn Business: Beyond the Factory – Swiss Robots Integrate Into Daily LifeSwitzerland is a “robotics country,” and its innovators are at the forefront of moving robots from industrial cages into daily life. This transition is driven…
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Read more: Swiss Deep Tech Milestone: Delvitech’s 400% Growth Attracts $40M InvestmentA Swiss AI company just demonstrated the kind of explosive growth that gets international investors’ attention. Delvitech, which develops AI-native solutions for automated optical inspection…
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Read more: NextIn Business: Rethinking Energy Storage – Swiss Battery Innovation Powers the TransitionThe global energy transition cannot happen without batteries. Yet, conventional technology faces fundamental constraints, including a reliance on scarce raw materials, long charging times, and…
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Read more: Redalpine: At Face ValueLab Rat turned Gardener Michael Sidler, Founder and Partner at redalpine, has spent a fair share of his career in a lab. As a trained…
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Read more: Redalpine: Backed to the FutureComing to Play Michael Sidler likes to describe redalpine as a “one-stop shop” for founders. “We don’t only provide money,” he says. “We provide infrastructure,…
