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TOLREMO therapeutics’ aim is to prevent drug resistance in cancer therapy. The successful first financing round allows to advance drug discovery and development efforts. 

Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc., and Numab Therapeutics AG announced the achievement of a key milestone in their on-going development partnership – the selection of a multi-specific antibody construct targeting autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. This delivery triggers a payment to Numab that will bring the total payments for this project to CHF 11.5 million...

Stoff & so expandiert nach Zürich. Der erfolgreiche St. Galler Stoffladen eröffnet am Samstag, 16. September 2017 im Greencity Areal in Zürich eine Filiale. Angefangen hat Stoff & so im Keller einer der Gründerinnen.

The ten finalists in the SEIF Awards for Social Entrepreneurship 2017 have been revealed. Among them are four Swiss startups. The finalists will pitch to the jury and the audience during the seif award ceremony on 2. October at Volkshaus Zurich. This year five winners from five categories will be chosen and each awarded CHF 10'000. An Audience award will...

Swiss startup, Kitro, providing solutions for optimizing performance by reducing avoidable food waste, has been selected among the ten startups from the hospitality industry to join the three months program by Metro accelerator in Berlin. Startups will receive, among others, an offer of €120,000 worth of investment.

Swissnex India is leading a delegation of experts from India through a week-long tour in Switzerland from 23^rd to 26^th October 2017 in Zurich, Lausanne and Berne respectively. They will explore the Swiss startup ecosystem and meet with key players from the ecosystem to establish collaborations. Startups will also have the chance to meet them 1:1 in...

Ausweis-Scan und digitale Unterschrift, Gesichtserkennung und Dokumenten-Scan: Mit dem von Sunrise und dem Schweizer Startup PXL Vision AG entwickelten Sunrise ID Checker lassen sich Identifikationsprozesse und Schriftenverkehr einfach digitalisieren. Bestellungen oder Halterwechsel lassen sich künftig durchgängig digital abwickeln.

Die Steuerungssoftware AMPARD fasst Stromspeicher zu einem virtuellen Kraftwerk zusammen. Dieses ermöglicht die Vermarktung von Regelleistung und weiteren Netzdiensten. Dank einer Partnerschaft ist AMPARD nun auch auf dem deutschen Markt erhältlich. 

Antavi, a Zurich based software startup offering solutions for crowd management at large scale events, announced that its solution will be implemented at the Octoberfest in Munich as part of their collaboration with PwC Munich. Antavi’s solution allows safety personnel to enhance security during the event period.

The technology of the Swiss start-up Faceshift, which Apple bought two years ago, plays an important role in the new iPhone X. TechCrunch reports about Teralytics, another spin-off from ETH Zurich. Climeworks’ world-changing machine is featured by Bloomberg. And The Next Web explains why you need to pay attention to Switzerland as a startup nation. Our...