Switzerland startup ecosystem
Switzerland offers startups access to world-leading research from ETH Zurich and EPFL, deep capital markets, and a stable regulatory environment. Zurich and the Lake Geneva region are strong in biotech, medtech, fintech, and deep tech. While the cost base is high, the quality of talent, IP protection, and proximity to global corporates compensate. The directory currently lists 117 organisations across 17 cities.
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Markus Pflitsch
Co-founder and CEO of Terra Quantum, the St. Gallen-based quantum-as-a-service company he co-founded in 2019. Pflitsch built Terra Quantum to bridge near-term quantum hardware with practical enterprise problem-solving in finance, pharma, logistics, and energy using hybrid quantum-classical algorithms. He previously worked in finance and technology entrepreneurship. Terra Quantum raised a Series A backed by Lakestar and Investcorp and has established research partnerships across European academic institutions.
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Matheus Albuquerque
Staff software engineer at Medallia focused on web performance and the React and JavaScript ecosystem, and an active conference speaker on frontend engineering. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Messe Luzern
Lucerne-based exhibition and congress organizer running industrial and trade events across central Switzerland. It hosts Swiss Medtech Expo, the country's leading biennial medtech trade fair for development, manufacturing and supply, bringing together engineers, manufacturers, suppliers and medtech startups.
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Metafuels
Metafuels is a Swiss company developing new, more affordable sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology under its aerobrew platform, aiming to power air travel with a lower carbon footprint. It was founded by three co-founders who worked together in the energy sector for decades before starting the company.
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Neil Rimer
Co-founder of Index Ventures, which he started in Geneva in 1996. A foundational figure in European venture capital, he backed early successes including Skype, MySQL, Last.fm and Supercell, and shaped Index's evolution into a transatlantic firm before stepping back from active partnership.
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Neon
Neon is a Zurich-based digital bank founded in 2018 by Julius Krieg and Jörg Sandrock as one of Switzerland's first challenger banks. Operating on a mobile-first model with no branch network, Neon provides Swiss residents with free everyday banking accounts, a Mastercard debit card, and integrated savings and investment products. The app launched in 2019 and grew to over 200,000 customers, carving out a position in Swiss consumer banking against incumbents like UBS and competing with European neobanks like N26 that do not hold a Swiss banking licence. Neon operates under a banking-as-a-service model through a partnership with Hypothekarbank Lenzburg, which holds the banking licence. It is a benchmark for digital-first financial services built from within Switzerland.
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Nextesy
Zurich-based AI-first enterprise operating system for SMEs and freelancers that automates invoicing, accounting, payroll, and document management in a single platform. Built on ETH and HSG research. Connects all operational processes with AI as the core layer rather than an add-on module.
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Nexthink
Nexthink is a Lausanne-based Digital Employee Experience (DEX) company co-founded in 2004 by Pedro Bados and Patrick Hertzog as an EPFL spin-out. The company built a platform that captures real-time endpoint telemetry from millions of devices, enabling IT teams to diagnose problems proactively, automate remediation, and measure the digital experience of every employee. After two decades of private growth backed by Lightspeed Growth and Permira, Nexthink listed on the Nasdaq in February 2024, becoming one of the most significant Swiss software IPOs in recent memory. The platform is used by over 1,000 enterprise customers including HP, Bank of America, and Nestlé across 190 countries, processing data from more than 15 million endpoints. Nexthink exemplifies the EPFL-to-global-enterprise trajectory that defines Lausanne's software cluster.
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Oviva
Oviva is a digital health company that helps people with weight-related and metabolic conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, and hypertension, improve their health through medical nutritional therapy. Its model combines a medical-device-certified smartphone app with clinical teams of doctors, dietitians, and behavioural specialists, with patients logging meals, activity, and weight while receiving tailored remote support from their dietitian. The company describes itself as Europe's leading digital health provider for weight-related conditions, with care reimbursed as a certified DiGA in Germany, delivered in partnership with the NHS in the UK, and integrated into Swiss public healthcare. It is headquartered in Zurich.
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Pascal Bieri
Co-founder of Planted, the Zurich-based alternative protein company he co-founded in 2019 as an ETH Zurich spin-out. Bieri contributed the food science foundation that underpins Planted's wet extrusion platform. Planted's products — planted.chicken, planted.pulled, planted.kebab — are sold in leading Swiss and German retailers and food service chains.
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Pedro Bados
Co-founder and CEO of Nexthink, the Lausanne-based Digital Employee Experience platform he co-founded in 2004 as an EPFL spin-out. Bados led Nexthink for two decades from a university research project to a Nasdaq-listed company, raising hundreds of millions from Lightspeed Growth and Permira before the February 2024 IPO. The platform scaled to over 1,000 enterprise customers across 190 countries, processing data from more than 15 million endpoints.
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Philippe Sahli
Co-founder and CTO of Yokoy, the Zurich-based AI-powered spend management platform founded in 2019. Sahli led the technical architecture of Yokoy's AI engine for expense reports and invoice automation, helping scale the platform to enterprise customers across Europe after the company's CHF 80 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital.
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Philippe Serhal
Staff software engineer at Netlify working on web platform and developer tooling for the modern JavaScript ecosystem. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Planted
Planted is a Zurich-based food technology company founded in 2019 by Christoph Jenny, Pascal Bieri, Eric Stirnemann, and Judith Wemmer as a spin-out from ETH Zurich. The company produces plant-based meat alternatives using a wet extrusion technology that creates fibrous textures closely mimicking animal proteins. Planted's products — planted.chicken, planted.pulled, and planted.kebab — are sold in supermarkets, restaurants, and food service channels across Switzerland, Germany, and neighbouring European markets. The company raised CHF 70 million in a Series B round in 2021 from investors including Vorwerk Ventures and Movendo Capital. Planted is part of the broader ETH Zurich food-tech cluster and is considered one of Europe's most technically sophisticated alternative protein companies, combining deep food science with aggressive consumer distribution.
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Point Zero Forum 2026
A three-day invitation-driven forum at Kongresshaus Zurich with 2,000+ attendees and 80+ regulators and central banks, on digital assets, AI in finance, and policy. For a fintech or web3 founder it offers unusually direct access to regulators and central banks alongside investors.
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Ramona Schwering
Developer advocate at Auth0 with a background in frontend engineering, testing and developer experience across the JavaScript and web development ecosystem. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Ray Kurzweil
Inventor, futurist and best-selling author known for his work on artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and predictions about technological singularity, and a principal researcher at Google. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
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Redalpine
Redalpine is a Zurich-based multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Michael Sidler and Peter Niederhauser, and has grown into one of the most active Swiss VCs by number of early-stage checks across the DACH and wider European technology landscape. The firm invests from seed through Series B across digital health, fintech, deep tech, climate tech, and software, and is best known as an early backer of N26, Taxfix, Inkitt, 9fin, and Proxima Fusion. Redalpine closed its sixth fund at EUR 300+ million in 2023 and has built one of the larger Swiss-based venture teams, typically writing checks between EUR 1-15 million into companies it then follows through multiple rounds. It is a reference fund for Swiss and DACH founders looking for a locally anchored lead investor with international reach.
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Room Price Genie
RoomPriceGenie is a Swiss revenue-management software company that automates room pricing for hotels, hotel groups, B&Bs and apartment operators, claiming an average 19% revenue boost for customers. Its features include real-time pricing optimization, a rate calendar, reporting dashboards, an autopilot mode, surge protection and a multilingual customer-success team.
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Salih Güler
Senior developer advocate at AWS focused on frontend, cross-platform and web development across the JavaScript ecosystem. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
