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A new cohort comprising five startups has entered the incubation program of the ESA Business Incubation Centre Switzerland. Following a virtual kick-off, the startups have embarked on a two-year journey with the ESA BIC team to bring their solutions to the next level.

CUTISS aims to provide patients that suffer from large and deep skin defects with an automatically produced, personalized skin tissue therapy. The proceeds will allow CUTISS to further progress denovoSkin, the Company’s unique personalized skin technology.

IDUN Technologies, a spin-off from ETH Zurich, develops and manufactures comfortable sensors providing unparalleled signal quality for wearable devices. After participating in the Sony Startup Acceleration Program Europe, IDUN Technologies now adds Sony as one of its investors. In total, IDUn has raised CHF1.5 million in a seed round. has closed a seed...

Realbot Engineering's robots allow potential tenants and buyers to view properties from anywhere. All they need is a smart device to control the robot via the Internet. Well-known companies are already customers of the company. A Series A financing round of CHF 3.5 million is now planned to fuel international growth.

The 2020 cohort of MassChallenge Switzerland includes 82 early-stage startups from 22 countries. This year’s program comes with new changes; there is a new track dedicated to Sustainable Food Systems, participants will get access to the global network and the program will kick-off virtually in July.

Climeworks has successfully raised CHF 73 million (USD 75 million) in equity from private investors. This is the largest private investment into direct air capture to date. The funding will help to drive forward the company’s scale-up roadmap and expand its carbon dioxide removal capacities.

The jury of the >>Venture>> competition has announced the 15 winners of the 2020 edition - three in each of the five verticals. Following the second round of pitches, the jury will nominate the Grand prize winner that will receive a cash prize of CHF 150’000.

Although not very well known in Switzerland, Appway is one of the few globally successful Swiss software companies. Among its customers are industry-leading institutions such HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse. The funding will be used to accelerate international growth, product development and technology innovation.

Die Deutsche Hochdruckliga hat zum ersten Mal eine Bluthochdruck-App mit ihrem Gütesiegel ausgezeichnet. Es handelt sich um die App Manoa des Zürcher Startups Pathmate Technologies.

Am 7. und 8. September findet die diesjährige Swiss Fintech Fair statt, die grösste Fintech-Messe der Schweiz. Im Zuge der besonderen COVID19-Situation haben die Veranstalter das Messe-Konzept um einen Digitaltag erweitert und setzen stark auf Internationalisierung.