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Swiss startups have been at the forefront of the cleantech sector and the NetZero agenda with new technologies designed to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable world – from food to energy production and assets management. Eight startups have received recognition, with two obtaining funding to advance their solutions.

The proportion of investment in female-led start-ups is stagnating at a low level, but the life sciences sector provides a ray of hope.

New CEOs take over at Technopark Winterthur and Park Innovaare. And Raphaël Conz has been appointed Head of the Department for the Promotion of the Economy and Innovation of the canton of Vaud.

Venture Kick awarded CHF 150,000 to the biotech startup metaLead Therapeutics, which is developing a potent treatment for metal poisoning. The startup was founded by Dr. Michal Shoshan, who leads a research group in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Zurich.

After a difficult year with a declining number of companies and stagnating employee levels in 2021, growth prevailed again in 2022. However, the companies are already facing tougher fundraising conditions.Insights into the dynamic financial technology market are provided by the results of this year's FinTech study by the Lucerne University of Applied…

Forbes has published its newest 30 under 30 Europe list. The Financial Times has ranked the fastest-growing companies in Europe. A total of nine Swiss start-ups and scale-ups made it onto the lists.  

The startup incubator and accelerator Tenity (formerly known as F10) and UBS have entered into a strategic partnership. At the same time, UBS’s strategic venture and innovation unit, UBS Next, is investing in the Tenity Incubation Fund. The aim is to strengthen innovation in the fintech sector and to help shape the future of the Swiss financial center.

Aisot Technologies AG (aisot), a spin-off from ETH Zurich developing AI-powered portfolio insights for equity and crypto markets, received CHF 1.8 million in seed funding in a round led by Haute Capital Partners. The proceeds will be used to expand the team and accelerate the development of an AI-powered interactive self-service platform for asset and wealth…

Als Hauptpartnerin der Top 100 Swiss Startup Awards markiert die Credit Suisse seit Jahren Präsenz im Innovations-Ökosystem. Jetzt hat sie ihre Aktivitäten im Bereich der Finanzierung von stark wachsenden Startups neu formiert.

Founded in 2019, Simulands has already established itself as a leading provider of medical simulation training in the field of structural cardiac interventions. With the investments SHS wants to drive the expansion of the product portfolio as well as the international expansion.