4 days ago · Switzerland is a hub of innovation, home to numerous trailblazing startups, including six that have earned a spot in the Tech Tour Growth Top 50 ranking for European tech companies. In the past year, four of these companies secured over $20 million in funding, underscoring their impressive growth. Making the list highlights their strong potential and positions them to become billion-dollar ...

Jan 17, 2025 · Based in Basel and Philadelphia, USA, RhyGaze has secured a Series A financing of USD 86 million to enable clinical advancements for its lead candidate, a novel gene therapy for optogenetic vision restoration in diseases causing blindness. Led by Google Ventures, the round attracted multiple investors worldwide.

Energy startup Yuon Control has won first place in the Ypsomed Innovation Award 2025, securing a CHF 50,000 grant. Biotech startups Xemperia and Santella took second and third place, each awarded CHF 25,000. The cash prizes will help these companies fast-track their activities, accelerate growth, and progress into the clinical phase.

The TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2025: celebrates the 15 years of Switzerland's most promising startups In 2011, Beat Schillig and Jordi Montserrat had a vision: to create a ranking that would highlight the most promising Swiss startups on an international level. Under the leadership of program director Stefan Steiner, the award has evolved into a …

15 hours ago · 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 ...

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 Series C funding round led by Armira Growth. The funding will enable the company to scale and expand further into the US.

Jan 17, 2025 · Several large financing rounds, renowned investors and a new unicorn: this week may mark the start of a new growth phase for investment.

2024 was another challenging year for start-ups looking for funding. Instead of speculating about a future upturn, we explain what early indicators precede such an upturn and which investors are the pacemakers. An analysis of the recovery after the 2008 financial crisis provides the basis for …

Jan 22, 2025 · Switzerland is a hub of innovation, home to numerous trailblazing startups, including six that have earned a spot in the Tech Tour Growth Top 50 ranking for European tech companies. In the past year, four of these companies secured over $20 million in funding, underscoring their impressive growth. Making the list highlights their strong potential and positions them to become billion-dollar ...

May 12, 2024 · This year's edition of Swiss Startup Radar offers new data-based insights into the performance of the Swiss start-up ecosystem in comparison with other countries: Swiss start-ups are proving resilient in the current financing crisis, with stabilising factors including an influx of venture capital from abroad and a high proportion of deeptech start-ups. A comparison with the financial crisis in ...