The global UBS Future of Finance Challenge supports start-ups,  established and growing companies which have potential to change the way finance works and how banks meet their clients’ needs. Three Swiss companies have been selected as regional finalists: Wealthinitiative, Inpher and eWise. Following the mentorship program, four regional winners will be selected and awarded a cash prize of  $80,000 each. Up to $200,000 to fund proof-of-concept will also be awarded.

As part of a research project, thyssenkrupp Elevator is testing TeleRetail delivery robots to make elevator maintenance safer and more efficient. TeleRetail is headquartered in Sierre. 

Die Zahl der Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) und der damit generierten Gelder steigt stark. André Wolke, Mitgründer und CEO von Validity Labs, erklärt, wer hinter dem Boom steckt, welche Gefahren bestehen, wie Schweizer Startups die Chance nutzen können und warum die Schweiz zu einem globalen Zentrum für ICOs werden könnte. 

The first phase of the BaseLaunch Healthcare Accelerator program is now underway. 13 startups ranging from therapeutics and diagnostics to digital healthcare and medtech have been selected to work with industry experts to develop their business cases over the next three months. Several Swiss companies were selected. 

Das Team von Nexenic entwickelt eine heizbare Lunchbox. Als Gewinner der ZHAW Startup Challenge nahm das Team am Final der VTKW Global Student Entrepreneurship Challenge in den USA teil. Dort holte es den mit 5000 Dollar dotierten People’s Choice Award.

Top 11 startups have been nominated for the Swiss final of the Imagine IF accelerator for science-based start-ups. The Swiss winner will be awarded CHF 2’500 and a ticket to the global finals held with in the framework of the Innovation Forum 2017 in Oxford.

Zurich based startup Distran, offering ultrasonic inspection solutions, has secured a 7-digit CHF Series A financing. The proceeds will enable Distran to accelerate the market roll-out of its Ultra M, expand its team and operations.

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 to date. 

Der 3D-Druck-Wiederverkäufer iMakr ist ab sofort offizieller Vertriebspartner der Sintratec AG. Die Sintratec-Produkte werden im iMakr-Flagship-Store in London sowie im iMakr-Webshop präsentiert und vertrieben. Sintratec reagiert mit dieser Partnerschaft auf die steigende Nachfrage aus Grossbritannien.

Application for the 2018 Swiss Fintech Award has been launched. Five finalists from two categories will be selected to attend Accenture’s bootcamp and pitch at the Finanz und Wirtschaft Forum. The winner will be announced during the Swiss FinTech Awards Night. Registration closes on 3 November 2017.

Das Schweizer Insurtech Anivo und die Atupri Gesundheitsversicherung bieten gemeinsam den ersten vollständig digitalen Abschluss für Versicherungsprodukte mit integrierter Gesundheitsprüfung an. 

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 also be awarded to the startup with the most votes.

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 23rd to 26th 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 Lausanne and at the Swiss Startup Days.

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.

Climeworks, L.E.S.S. und Sophia Genetics sind im Rennen um den Titel Entrepreneur of the Year in der Kategorie „Emerging Entrepreneur“. Mit Webrepublic ist zudem ein jüngeres Unternehmen in der Kategorie „Dienstleistung“ nominiert.

Im April 2016 hat der Bundesrat seine Strategie "Digitale Schweiz" verabschiedet. Im Rahmen einer nationalen Konferenz in Biel diskutieren am 20. November 2017 Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der verschiedenen Interessengruppen über das bisher Erreichte und den Handlungsbedarf für eine nachhaltige Weiterentwicklung der digitalen Schweiz.

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. 

VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focused on developing oral T-cell immunotherapies, today announced that the Company’s lead product candidate, VXM01, has received orphan designation from the European Commission and from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of glioma, a difficult-to-treat form of brain cancer. 

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 start-up press review. 

The company will use the resources to further develop its cutting-edge technology. Additionally, the company will continue recruiting top talent and accelerate hospitals’ adoption of clinical genomics testing.

Impact Hub Geneva just launched Pulse, the new edition of its incubation program to support entrepreneurs working towards solving a social or environmental problem. The four most promising teams will be selected at the Pulse Pitch Fest in October. Each projects will benefit from a 4-month incubation support beginning on November 1st.

Dans la lignée de la scale-up DEPsys, une nouvelle startup a rejoint le Smartgrid Hub vaudois: Aurora’s Grid. Cette société, fondée par Dimitri Torregrossa, a développé une solution informatique pour la gestion intelligente des batteries industrielles. Après avoir obtenu, cet été, le soutien du Fonds pour l’efficacité énergétique (FEE) de la Ville de Lausanne pour le développement de son logiciel, l’entreprise vient de signer un deuxième mandat dans le cadre du projet démonstrateur Demo-REel FURIES entrepris par Romande Energie avec le soutien de l'OFEN.

Die Gebäude am Zürcher Sihlquai, in denen sich unter anderem der Impact Hub Zürich und der BlueLion befinden, können zwei Jahre länger genutzt werden als bisher geplant. 

Kenzen, an innovator of wearables for precision health, has two headquarters in San Francisco and Switzerland. The combination works well, the start-up raised $5 million from strategic investors. The team in Switzerland will now be expanded. 

Anergis, a company developing proprietary ultra-fast allergy immunotherapy, announced the top-line results from the ATIBAR trial, a Phase IIb field-based clinical trial with Anergis’ lead compound AllerT for patients with birch pollen allergy.

Am 13. September öffnet das Digital Festival in Zürich seine Tore. Nach dem erfolgreichen Start im letzten Jahr mit über 2500 Besucherinnen und Besuchern, will das mehrtägige Event die Erfolgsgeschichte im Jahr 2017 weiterschreiben.

15 places are open for the first round of Switzerland’s top startup accelerator program. Startups in Fintech, Insurtech and Regtech are invited to apply.

This month, SICTIC has organised 3 Investor Day events in Zurich, Geneva and Liechtenstein on the 21st, 25th and 27th September respectively. SICTIC Investor Day is a match making event where tech startups pitch to find experienced investors and supporters. For each of the three events the jury has selected the startups to pitch before the investors.

Das Schweizer Fintech Devisenwerk AG verspricht, den Devisenumtausch für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen um bis zu 90 Prozent günstiger zu machen. Schweizer Partnerbanken sorgen für eine reibungslose Abwicklung.

Swiss startups interested in exploring the Israel startup ecosystem are invited to apply for the START JLM, a five-day immersive startup program in Jerusalem. The most promising entrepreneurs will be invited to a final event in Bern where an expert panel will choose and announce the winner. Deadline for the submission of applications is 22 September.

Jean-Marc Wismer, an experienced start-up and medtech manager has joined MindMaze. Cyrill Boinay has left Bcomp to become Co-Managing Director of the Association of Swiss Scientific Olympiads. And Roman Probst, who had sold his first company last year, has launched a marketing and communication agency.

The Swiss Federal Commission For Technology and Innovation, CTI, is funding a joint project by Carbon Delta and the Weather and Climate Risk Group at ETH Zürich to develop a tool for the assessment of current and future tropical cyclone risks. Such tools are required for a successful climate risk mitigation by governments, enterprises and investors.

Über StartBiz.ch können Unternehmen Anmeldungen bei Handelsregister, AHV, Mehrwertsteuer und Unfallversicherung direkt online abwickeln. Eine Studie der Universität St. Gallen zeigt nun den konkreten Nutzen des Portals auf.

Gestern wurde das diesjährige Kickstart Acclerator Programm in Zürich offiziell gestartet. Am Anlass wurde auch eine neue Partnerschaft des Kickstart Accelerator-Startup Veezoo mit der AXA bekannt gegeben. 

Swiss Startup Invest has completely redesigned its Swiss Venture Day to allow for one to one meetings, keynote speeches and startup pitches. The first Venture Day Romandie in the new format will take place on 19 September. More than 130 people have already registered.

BaseLaunch Accelerator gains another healthcare partner: Pharma and diagnostics company Roche has joined Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Novartis Venture Fund and Pfizer to become the fourth healthcare partner on the committee of the BaselArea.swiss accelerator program for healthcare startups.

Digitalswitzerland erarbeitet einen digitalen Aktionsplan für die Schweiz. Persönlichkeiten aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft werden am Digitaltag vom 21. November konkrete Umsetzungsprojekte präsentieren. Der Aktionsplan ist breit abgestützt.

The Ticino based startup Dolphin Engineering is a pionieer of precision farming. The startup developed PreDiVine, a sensor based system that predicts pests and crop diseases. Tthe company set up twelve weather stations and two wireless sensors in Ticino, and is now expanding to Suisse Romande.

With a portfolio worth more than CHF10 billion, Swiss Prime Site is Switzerland’s leading listed real estate company. In partnership with venturelab, the company plans to cooperate and invest in start-ups. 

Joulia has developed a heat exchanger for shower drains and trays. The start-up based in Biel-Bienne has convinced the jury of the Creative Business Cup Competition Switzerland in all the selection criteria as Business Concept, Creativity, Market potential and overall impression.

Mit der Fasoon AG betritt ein neuer Player für Firmengründungen den Schweizer Start-Up-Markt. Das Portal ging am 1. März 2017 online und hat bereits zahlreiche Gründerinnen und Gründer auf dem Weg in die Selbständigkeit begleitet. 

SwissDeCode set a global DNA testing milestone this week with the commercialization of the world’s first portable, completely self-administered DNA test, the only test empowering your staff to confirm supply chain integrity in 30 minutes with no disruption to existing workflows. The first product of the startup based in Renens detects pork DNA for on-site, real-time benefit of halal and kosher supply chains.

The community of clients using SLIMS, Genohm’s Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) platform, has continued to grow. Genohm, a Lausanne based startup specialising in bio-informatics, has welcomed five new clients from different countries.

Partners Group, a role model for every startup in the finance sector in Switzerland, and inacta, a young consulting company, teamed up. Partners Group has implemented a document-verification solution using smart contracts and based on the Ethereum blockchain. The solution provided by inacta facilitates greater security and process efficiency for Partners Group. It is a first step towards using smart contracts on a larger scale.

The seventh edition of the TOP 100 Swiss startup ranking was disclosed tonight in front of more than 700 people in the old NZZ printing house in Schlieren. The broad spectrum of innovative high-tech startups attracted dozens of investors from abroad, and even from China. The 2017 ranking winners are Ava, L.E.S.S. and Flyability, startups which are expanding globally and have already raised multi-million financing. PapayaPods won the first public voting.

La 7ème édition du TOP 100 des meilleures start-up suisses a eu lieu ce soir à Zurich en présence de plus de 700 invités. Les jeunes pousses au TOP 3 sont Ava (Zurich), L.E.S.S. (Lausanne) et Flyability (Lausanne). / Die Gewinner des Top 100 Swiss Startup Award 2017 sind Ava, L.E.S.S. und Flyability, Startups, die global expandieren und bereits mehrere Millionen aus Finanzierungen erhielten.

Zurich based startup, F Ective, has been selected among the seven finalists of the EY startup Academy. Together with the finalists from Germany, Sweden and Morocco, F Ective will join the 3 months acceleration program offering training and networking opportunities. The winner will receive the Academy Award.