Des douzaines d’organisations proposent des crédits spéciaux ou des subventions aux start-up en Suisse. Startupticker a établi une liste complète de 60 offres de ce type en Suisse. L’association des descriptions aux actualités de Startupticker permet de disposer d’un aperçu unique de la pratique en matière d’attribution. 

GuestReady, ein Schweizer Startup, welches Wohnungen auf der online Plattform Airbnb verwaltet, hat eine weitere Finanzierungsrunde über 3 Millionen Franken abgeschlossen. Mit den neuen Mitteln wird das Startup in weitere Märkte expandieren. Zu den Investoren gehören namhafte internationale Geldgeber mit Branchenerfahrung.

swissnex India invites Swiss startups to participate in the next edition of Fintech Startup Tour in India from January 29 to February 2, 2018. Selected startups will visit Bangalore, the technology hub and Mumbai, the financial capital of India to unravel the potential of India’s Fintech sector.

Agile Ansätze und Methoden aus der Software-Entwicklung lassen sich nicht einfach auf Management-Disziplinen übertragen. Eine internationale Organisation und ein junges Schweizer Unternehmen lancieren nun ein Framework und eine dazu gehörende Methode, die diese Lücke schliesst.

Über 2‘000 Schweizer Reisende haben sich bereits auf eine Überraschungsreise mit surp.travel gewagt. Nun bietet das St. Galler Startup die Reisen auch in Deutschland und Österreich an. 

CorFlow Therapeutics AG, a Zug based medtech startup developing proprietary technologies for diagnosis and treatment of microvascular obstructions, has today raised CHF 2.6M in its Seed+ financing round. The round was led by experienced private medical device investors who over the last decades have supported breakthrough interventional cardiology technologies. To date the company has raised more than CHF 5M in seed funding.

Brigitte Baumann, founder of Go Beyond early stage investing, has been selected among to be part of the EY Winning Women Europe class of 2017. The program offers various activities including mentoring, executive dialogues about business strategies and practices, access to strategic partners and potential sources of capital.

Sherpany, a Zurich based startup providing digital boardroom solutions to some of Europe’s largest companies, announced that it is expanding its reach to several European countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Sweden and the UK. The company has grown to become one of Switzerland’s fastest growing startups as interest from clients continues to grow.

Medsoil, a startup project developed in the laboratory for Soil Mechanics (LMS) of EPFL, has been awarded the second place in the European Climate Launchpad competition. MeduSoil provides sustainable solutions for the emerging challenges in the construction field related to weak soils and for implementing foundation repair works.

Swiss Indoors Basel not only relies on LED advertising but also cooperates with Zurich-based virtual advertising specialist uniqFEED. The close collaboration began in 2015 with the first virtual advertising tests and a hidden live-test in 2016. uniqFEED virtually replaces stadium advertising with virtual logos in the various television feeds to target different advertising markets.

Ein vor kurzem gegründetes Spinoff des Paul Scherrer Instituts und der ETH Zürich hat ein neues bildgebendes Verfahren zur Erkennung von Brustkrebs entwickelt. Damit will das GratXray-Team, das im PARK INNOVAARE arbeitet, den neuen Goldstandard in der Mammografie schaffen.

CyanoGuard, a Zurich based startup developing solutions for detecting toxic substances in water, food extracts and blood samples, has been selected for funding under Phase 1 of Horizon 2020’s SME Instrument. The funds will be used to study how CyanoGuard’s CyanoKit tackles societal challenges with focus on food and water safety.

ADC Therapeutics headquartered in Epalinges is an oncology drug discovery and development company that specializes in the development of proprietary Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) targeting major cancers. The financing will be used to fund two lead programs through registrational trials. 

Der Fussball Tracker von Tracktics wird von Dutzenden von Mannschaften im deutschsprachigen Raum genutzt, aber auch die Fussballschule von Real Madrid setzt das System ein. Mit den neuen Mitteln und Business Angeln wie dem langjährigen SC Freiburg Trainer Volker Finke soll die Internationalisierung weiter vorangetrieben werden. 

After a very successful preview phase, Prodibi was officially launched this week. Now anyone can sign up and use the image solution. Prodibi helps photographers to display and share their images in full-resolution online.

More than 700 participants, more than 1100 one-to-one meetings – the Swiss Startup Days 2017 are breaking several records. The 57 finalists of the pitching battle have been announced. And new elements such as the Startup Night are very well received. Registration for the Swiss Startup Days is still open. 

Swiss fintech start-up SONECT has beaten over 100 European fintech innovators to be named PitchIt winner at this year’s LendIt Europe event. SONECT plans to expand to EU countries next year.

Abionic’s rapid allergy test, IVD CAPSULE Aeroallergens, and the easy to use testing platform, abioSCOPE have been registered in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Abionic intends to commence commercialization of IVD CAPSULE Aeroallergens in this market in 2018.

Startups can apply now for the prize of the W.A. de Vigier Foundation. The foundation is giving away five awards of CHF 100,000.00 each. In addition winners and nominees will benefit from access to an excellent network and can take part in the alumni events of the foundation.

Pour sauvegarder le patrimoine audiovisuel valaisan, la Médiathèque Valais et la télévision Canal9 ont travaillé depuis 2015 dans le but d’assurer la pérennité des archives de Canal9 sous forme numérique. Ce défi d’envergure a pris la forme d’un projet novateur au plan suisse. Ainsi, pas moins de 3300 heures d’émissions sont désormais à disposition du public sur les sites internet de la Médiathèque Valais et de Canal9. C’est la start-up valaisanne Recapp qui s’est chargé d’indexer toutes les vidéos, rendant ainsi possibles des recherches précises par mot-clé.

Pour sa 9ème édition, GENILEM place le Carrefour des Créateurs au SwissTech Convention Center, au cœur de l’innovation. Le rendez-vous du 31 octobre dédié à l’entrepreneuriat et à la création d’entreprise s’annonce d’ores et déjà particulièrement riche avec 25 conférences, des intervenants de premier ordre, 3 ateliers et des rencontres avec 16 experts. 

Embotech, Nispera, Optimo Medical and SimplicityBio have been awarded the CTI Startup Label. Although the companies are active in very different industries they have one thing in common: They focus on digitisation. 

PostFinance has acquired a minority stake in the Swiss fintech start-up Sentifi. Sentifi analyses unstructured data from social media such as news feeds, blog posts or Twitter messages, and prepares it for financial investors. For PostFinance, corporate venturing is one of the new sources of non-interest income. 

Sterilux a fait un grand pas en avant avec sa technologie de stérilisation. Une première opération chirurgicale a eu lieu fin septembre avec des instruments stérilisés grâce au dispositif médical de la startup vaudoise. Au total une douzaine de patients ont pu être opérés dans le cadre de campagne africaine « We Care Cameroun » avant le retour en Suisse. 

Flyability, an expert company in in-door drones, has announced a new certification and training program to allow Elios owners to assess and recognise the skills of their pilots. The program provides pilots with knowledge allowing them to perform the most difficult indoor inspection missions. The first sessions, Flyability has partnered with the Commercial UAV Expo to showcase the program during the Las Vegas exhibition at the end of October.

Spitch, focussing on enterprise speech solutions, and Genesys, the global leader in customer experience solutions in the cloud and on premise, have entered into a Technology Partnership Agreement. 

Digitalisierung, Windenergie und innovative Schlafbekleidung – auf diese Themen fokussieren sich die Startups, die am St. Galler Investor Forum präsentieren werden. Das 9. Forum geht am 8. 11. im St. Galler Startfeld über die Bühne. 

Das digitale Schweizer Gesundheitsunternehmen dacadoo kündigt eine neue strategische Zusammenarbeit mit dem niederländischen Krankenversicherer Menzis an. Menzis bringt die von dacadoo entwickelte nächste Generation einer Gesundheitsplattform inklusive Apps mit dem Namen «Menzis SamenGezond», sowohl für Mitglieder als auch für Nichtmitglieder des Versicherers in den Niederlanden auf den Markt.

Pryv is an independent Swiss Health-IT company, specialized in providing innovative data management and digital privacy solutions. The company closed a Pre-Series A round to accelerate growth and prepare Series A funding.

The F10 incubator P1 program is now open for application. F10 will offer a 48 hour Design Thinking Idea Boot Camp, which aims to transfer an idea into a validated Prototype. F10 and experts from corporates will guide the participates through the programme. In addition F10 has announced the demoday of the ongoing P2 program.

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.

Lausanne Région vient de lancer son appel à candidatures pour les Prix PERL 2018. Le concours créé en 2003 a déjà primé 62 projets pour un montant de CHF 1.4 millions. Outre le soutien financier très intéressant, les lauréats bénéficient d’une notoriété qui facilitera les partenariats et séduira les investisseurs.

Über 100 Startups sind in den letzten 15 Jahren in Winterthur entstanden. Grund genug, das gesammelte Wissen, die Erfahrungen, aber auch neue Ideen und Techniken am 27 Oktober an der ersten Winterthurer Startup Night zu besprechen.

At its inaugural “Meet the MarketPlace” event in Singapore, Temenos announced the addition of two new providers to its MarketPlace platform, which aims to bring banks and fintech companies together. At the Meet the Marketplace events Temenos customers will from now on see demos from the most innovative fintech companies on the platform.

Swiss startup beqom has been selected by to Daimlar AG to centralize the management its HR compensation processes. beqom’s solution was chosen as the preferred platform due to a need for a more consistent, centralized framework, more modern and efficient approach in managing compensation.

Début octobre, P'tit Po'Pays a lancé en Suisse romande le premier service de suivi personnalisé des besoins alimentaires pour bébé. L’entreprise fondée par Yasmine Yao-Bernath, une jeune maman lausannoise dynamique, propose sur abonnement de petits pots faits maison, avec des produits frais, locaux et sains. Ce service innovant créé pour faciliter la vie des parents débordés compte déjà ses premiers clients.

Über I believe in You wurden 1000 erfolgreiche Sportprojekte per Crowdfunding unterstützt. Dieselbe Schwelle erreichte CreditGate24. 1000 Kredite mit einem finanzierten Gesamtkreditvolumen von über CHF 52 Millionen wurden über die Plattform finanziert. 

NLS Pharma is the winner of the prestigious 9th Innovation Award as best Biotech company for 2017. Almost 300 firms took part in the event, with NLS Pharma taking 1st place for its advances and cutting-edge progress of the NLS-1 Compound. 

Swissnex San Francisco organises events and accelerator programs for Swiss start-ups. In November an event about the first year and the future of DART 17 will be held in Zurich. Another event - “Rethinking Financial Services (Really)” will be livestreamed to Zurich. And Nico Dunkel, startup manager at the outpost, will attend Swiss Startup Days. 

Osram has gained a strategic minority interest in the start-up that offers smart software to retailers, enabling a personalized approach to customers via its venture capital unit, Fluxunit. 

Swiss Bluetec Bridge Swiss water and sanitation businesses as well as social entrepreneurs with cash, know-how and access to a network of professionals. The selection committee has now decided to support MoSan, a start-up that has developed a portable dry toilet for private in-home use, and WATA Enterprise, a new company planning to deploy a range of devices that autonomously produce chlorine. 

Sobu.com ist auf internationalem Expansionskurs. Support kommt nun vom britischen „Serial Entrepreneur“ und Investor Evan Luthra. Er wird Sobu nicht nur beim Wachstum, sondern auch bei der Weiterentwicklung der Technologie unterstützen. 

Xsensio, a specialist in wearable sensing technology,  has been selected to lead the €2.4M XPATCH consortium funded by the European program Eurostars. The startup and its four European partners develop the next-generation wearable skin patch for ultrasensitive real-time health and wellness monitoring. XPATCH will leverage Xsensio’s proprietary Lab-on-Skin wearable sensing platform.

Für das neue Wohnviertel Greencity in Zürich haben sich Losinger Marazzi und Basler Versicherungen für die gemeinsame Lösung von Allthings Technologies und eSMART entschieden. 

Five companies have just been labeled SCALE UP VAUD, bringing the total number of such firms in the canton to 21. The new members are: QGel and MindMaze (life sciences); Gait Up (motion sensing); SWISSto12 (3D printing); and Flyability (drones). In total the five new scale-ups have more than 150 employees. 

More and more companies offer specific services for start-ups. Current examples are two offerings for hardware startups: An industrialization workshop for free by Zühlke and a business trip to the “Silicon Valley of Hardware” in China for startups planning offshore manufacturing organised by Swie.io. And with “Rent a PR” the first PR agency fousing on start-ups was launched recently. 

Polyphor develops an inhaled dosage form of its novel breakthrough antibiotic Murepavadin. To support and accelerate the development, Polyphor will leverage a European program dedicated to the development of inhaled antibiotics, iABC. The project will receive funding from Polyphor and the IMI to develop new, life-saving antibiotic treatments to manage chronic lung infection.

Gestartet ist die Berner Livesystems mit Bildschirmen für News und Werbung in Bussen und Bahnen. Damit erreicht man unterdessen 1.5 Millionen Personen in der Schweiz. Nun hat das Unternehmen eine eigene 45-köpfige Redaktion aufgebaut. 

Der Climate-KIC Accelerator bietet Startups ein 18-monatiges Support-Programm, Zugang zu einem ausgedehnten Netzwerk und finanzielle Unterstützung von bis zu 95‘000 Euro. 21 Startups wurden nun in die erste Stufe aufgenommen, fünf davon kommen aus der Schweiz. 

Interprefy has developed a cloud-based Remote Simultaneous Interpreting platform. With the aim of growing in the US market, Interprefy AG has forged a close partnership with InterpreNet, and recently, the first sales office in the States was opened.