Start-ups on the podium

Labster, the world's leading platform for virtual labs and interactive science, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire UbiSim, the virtual reality training platform for nursing, based in Lausanne. With this acquisition, Labster significantly expands its nursing education offering, further supporting its mission to transform access to high quality science education.

Dank des anhalten Trends zu hybrider Arbeit wächst das Workplace-Management-SaaS Startup deskbird deutlich schneller als geplant. Nun hat sich session.vc an der Seedrunde beteiligt. Insgesamt fliessen dem Startup 1.2 Millionen Franken zu. Nun steht die internationale Expansion an.

Urban Sympheny focussing on software to optimize energy supply solutions for buildings and districts has won the first Boost My Startup Challenge, jointly launched by BG Consulting Engineers and UBS. More than 30 startups had applied, six of them were selected for the finals. Given the success of this first competition the organizers decided to launch a second edition.

Swiss healthcare startup Loop Medical reinventing blood collection, has completed a $6.4 million Series A financing round led by German medtech group SARSTEDT and life sciences investor Casdin Capital. Proceeds of the round will go towards U.S. FDA clearance and ramped-up manufacturing of its painless and easy-to-use blood collection device.

Margaux Duchamp, co-founder of EPFL spinoff ArcoScreen developing novel drug screening tools, has been awarded the Lopez-Loreta Prize 2021. This prize recognizes academic excellence and provides the selected project with a continuous funding of CHF 1 million over 5 years. This financial support will be used to expand the team and industrialize ArcoScreen’s first product: the SynScreen kit.

Out of more than 100 applications, the jury has selected 33 projects to participate in the 2021/2022 edition of the CE Incubator. A buffet of support including coaching, mentoring, 1:1 meeting, events awaits the teams.

One year following its establishment, Moonlake Immunotherapeutics AG is merging with Helix Acquisition corp., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), to create a publicly listed biotech company. The latter will be listed on Nasdaq to raise $230 million, including funds held in Helix Acquisition Corp’s trust account and commitments from leading institutional investors.

Canton de Vaud and Tech Tour are organising the 9th edition of the Tech Tour Alpine, an investment Programme featuring selected startups from the region. The next edition brings 30 startups seeking funding to the stage.

Das Winterthurer AI-Startup Acodis gewinnt VI Partners als neuen Investor. Das Investment in der Höhe von 2,5 Millionen Franken fliesst in die weitere Entwicklung des Produktes und den Ausbau der Vertriebskanäle.

With more than 340,000 users worldwide, digital precision farming company, OneSoil, had strong growth in the last 12 months and continued building the team after the April Series A funding. The newly elected CEO Morten Schmidt takes over to lead the next growth phase.

From Valais to Thessaloniki, Swiss start-ups are winning competitions and making a strong impression in areas such as water saving, improving the life quality of the population, keeping solar plants healthy, enabling the needed transformations in Europe’s food value chain to meet U.N.’s SDG and fostering sustainable packaging innovation.

Sofies Group was among the first companies to address sustainability topics and became the leading global project management and consulting firm. Following an acquisition, the company has now joined been acquired by DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) family. Sofies’ employees will remain in their current locations.

Sustainable and micro-engineered hybrid fibres for composites founded by Antefil Composite Tech are a promising invention from ETH Zurich. The jury of the Spark Award recognised the team’s works with a trophy, making them the tenth winner of the competition.

VW-Erbe Toni Piëch, die Investment-Gesellschaft Ace & Company und weitere Persönlichkeiten aus der Motorsport-Szene und der Finanzindustrie haben sich an der jüngsten Finanzierungsrunde von CARIFY beteiligt. Auf der Plattform des Solothurner Startups kann eine grosse Auswahl an Fahrzeugen im flexiblen Monatsabo gemietet werden.

Die zweite Ausgabe der IFASinnovation geht in die finale Runde: Nach der Vorselektion und dem Live-Pitch vor der Jury stehen die 12 Startups fest, welche am 2. November 2021 im Final stehen. Bis dahin können sie weiter auf den Sieg und die 25‘000 Franken Preisgeld hoffen.

Foodetective, the resto tech Swiss start-up announces major partnership with Coca‑Cola HBC Switzerland, the biggest company in the non-alcoholic beverage industry in the country and a franchised bottler of The Coca‑Cola Company. Through technological innovation, both partners are committed to making restaurant operations across both networks, lives and work more manageable for those operating in this industry. 

The Zurich based ETH Spin-off offers a fully digital and remote in- and outdoor inspection system. After deploying the first systems to customers, the startup has concluded its seed funding round with CHF 2.5 million to speed up the time to market.

Cysec, Imito and Haelixa have won new partners to deploy their solutions for enhanced security, wound assessments and transparency in the supply chain field. Biotech startup ND Biosciences continues its collaboration with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF).

Zum fünften Mal organisierte der Entrepreuneur Club Winterthur die Startup Night und lockte so wiederum zahlreiche Interessierte in den Technopark. Erfahrene Gründerinnen und Gründer hielten Keynotes, Early Stage- Startups präsentierten ihre Ideen und die drei Startups Tethys Robotics, Nexenic und DoryGo wurden ausgezeichnet.

Die Allgemeine Plakatgesellschaft APG|SGA hat das erste Startup im Rahmen des Förderprogrammes «Nurture» unterstützt. Das Jungunternehmen bluu konnte eine breite Aussenwerbungs-Kampagne umsetzen.

MassChallenge Switzerland, part of MassChallenge’s global network on innovators, just announced its top 12 startup finalists. These startups will now participate in a final round of judging where they will compete for up to CHF 500,000 of prizes including CHF 400,000 in equity-free cash prizes. The prize winners will be announced on October 28th at the 2021 Awards Ceremony, which will be a hybrid event.

CoinShares International Limited, a pioneer in digital asset investing, has increased its share capital in fintech Flowbank by 9%. As part of this transaction, the Geneva-based startup received over USD 11,845,000. The investment comes one year after the startup’s launch and opening of its new office in Zurich.

Four Swiss startups have impressed juries and audiences with their solutions for the legal, fintech, drone and energy solutions. The award prizes once more denote the relevance and role of the Swiss startup ecosystem on global landscape.

Lausanne-based startups Metaco and Oculis have established a presence in Singapore and Hong Kong, respectively. Both markets are of strategic importance as they pave the way for expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. The vet-tech startup 4Devts, Skycell and beaconsmind have also come closer to customers in the UK, Puerto Rico and Dubai.

Mit frischem Geld aus einer Series C Runde bereitet sich der Zuger Logistik-Startup auf das erwartete starke Wachstum vor. Zu den Investoren zählen VCs und Family Offices. Zusätzliches Fremdkapital stellt eine Kantonalbank zur Verfügung.

Early this year, windsor.ai, the rapidly growing marketing analytics platform, had 35 customers. Today, the startup counts over 120 customers in 86 countries, with revenues reaching USD 60’000 every month.

ETH Entrepreneur Club invites the audience to the club’s 10-year anniversary of ‘Launch’ on October 15th, 2021 at StageOne Oerlikon. This event hosts three flagship events at once: Launch 2021 - featuring the AI+X Summit and the InCube award ceremony.

This year's European Freelancers Week from 18 to 24 October unites freelancers on a free coworking day at CreativeSpace Zürich to boost their productivity with the Pomodoro technique.

Every month, eight projects are selected and allowed to present their business ideas before a jury of successful entrepreneurs and investors.  

En tant qu'entrepreneur, il est important que tu souscrives des assurances adaptées à ton entreprise. Dans ce cours, tu apprendras comment éviter les dépenses imprévues afin d'atteindre tes objectifs commerciaux.

The Swiss Startup Conference 2021 is the first annual conference of Startup Network Europe for Swiss Startups. The aim is to gather founders, VCs, executives, seed fund partners, general partners, journalists and bloggers from diverse backgrounds and industries.

Venture case is the second stage of Venture Kick carried out three months after the first stage. The winning teams will receive CHF 40.000 each.

Am Hack Winterthur 2021 erarbeiten mutige Teams während zwei Tagen Lösungen für vier vorgegebene Herausforderungen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Innovation, Wissensaustausch und jede Menge Spass! Auf die Siegerteams warten tolle Preise.