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Pregnolia, the ETH Zurich Spin-off offering diagnostic solutions for pregnant women, has successfully closed a CHF 3.25 million seed round investment with investiere.ch, Zürcher Kantonalbank and the investment department of CADFEM, a software provider active in the medical field.

The START Summiteer Award ceremony was celebrated within the framework of the annual two-day START Summit in St. Gallen. Based on their innovativeness, the jury announced nanoleq as the winner of the award. The startup was rewarded a cash prize of CHF 20’000.

This year, Innosuisse will offer training courses in Business Creation and Business Growth for various sectors. We talked to Jordi Montserrat, Philipp Winteler and Caroline Graf from Venturelab about how the courses help founders build their start-ups effectively.

Das Zürcher Startup finovo ist spezialisiert auf die Bewirtschaftung von Hypotheken und ermöglicht es Pensionskassen, ohne operativen Aufwand in Hypotheken als Anlageklasse zu investieren. Nun hat der mehrheitlich zur Helvetia-Gruppe gehörende Hypotekenvermittler Moneypark finovo zu 100 Prozent übernommen.

The Zurich based startup Embotech AG, developing decision-making software solutions for autonomous systems, has raised CHF 1 million in a seed financing round. The funds will be used to adapt its core technology for automotive applications and to fund go-to-market activities. Lead investors in the round are Swiss business angels and the Zürcher...

QualySense, a pioneering company focused on innovative grain, seed and bean sorting technologies based on space technologies and artificial intelligence announced raising CHF 14 Million in equity. This financing will be used to accelerate growth through the development of new sorting solutions and scale up the sales and marketing effort.

Peripal, an ETH start-up developing medical devices to facilitate dialysis has completed the first closing of its series A financing round. The funds will be used to accelerate production as the company gets ready for the EU launch in 2018.

Vergangenes Jahr investierte die Zürcher Kantonalbank 9.5 Millionen Franken in insgesamt 27 Startups. Acht der Investments waren Neufinanzierungen.

Basel ist die Fahrradstadt der Schweiz und trotzdem war das Fahrrad als Werbefläche bisher eine ungenutzte Ressource. Das will das Ende Januar gegründete Startup Working Bicycle ändern -  nicht nur in Basel.

Three Swiss startups, Sonect, SkAD Labs and Parquery have been accepted to join weXelerate, the biggest innovation center in Central and Eastern Europe with an area of 9000 sqm. The startups will travel to Vienna to work with selected companies on defined innovation projects for four months.