Top news of the week: 28.01.2021.
Swiss Innovation
Startups developing an API for sleep inertia, a platform to assess knee, mastering financial life, improving postoperative results, and...
Galventa, Inmodi, Kaspar&, Spirecut and Versics win Venture Kick's first stage of financial and entrepreneurial support. Their projects treat sleep inertia to adjust sleep-wake cycle, ...
CHF 2.1 billion for start-ups: Stabilised at a high level
Investment in 2020 in technology-driven young companies fell by 7.4% to about CHF 2.1 billion, as shown in the current Swiss Venture Capital Report from the online news portal …
Two young female entrepreneurs from EPFL win the Musy Award
Clara Moldovan, the founder of Swistor, and Margaux Duchamp, the founder of ArcoScreen – both determined young EPFL graduates – are the two winners of this year’s Isabelle Musy Award. ...
Piavita CEO Dorina Thiess: ‘The mountains help me get a fresh perspective and recharge’
Dorina Thiess participated in our series about Switzerland’s most inspiring entrepreneurs: As the co-founder and CEO of Piavita, she transforms veterinary care with innovative digital ...
2.1 billion for Swiss startups
Despite this, five Vaud startups together managed to raise CHF 272 million in 2020: SOPHiA Genetics (CHF 110 million), Kandou (CHF 84.1 million), Polares Medical (CHF 37.9 …
Venture Kick running at full steam despite Covid-19 pandemic
In 2020, Venture Kick supported 80 projects with CHF 5 million. “We kick startup ideas to global success with all the necessary support for the founders to advance their …
Microcaps closed a CHF 5 Million financing round to enable product commercialization and business expansion
Microcaps, developing formulation, processes, and equipment to generate precision microcapsules, announced today that it has closed a CHF 5 million seed financing round co-led by Helvetica ...
SwissDeCode raises CHF 3.7 million to accelerate the technology for real-time certification of food authenticity and quality
SwissDeCode, a TOP 100 Startup and Venture Leader China, has closed its first venture round, raising CHF 3.7 million from VisVires New Protein (VVNP) and EIT Food (Europe’s leading food ...