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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#wetechtogether Conference 2026 (September 2026)
Switzerland's leading conference for diversity, equity and inclusion in tech, organized by TechFace with female-led tech communities. Two days of keynotes, workshops and networking draw developers, engineers, designers, product leaders, students and allies. It is relevant to founders for talent, inclusive hiring and ecosystem networking.
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AI for Good Global Summit 2026 (July 2026)
The United Nations' flagship AI-for-good event, organized by the International Telecommunication Union. It convenes governments, technology companies, startups, academia and UN agencies around applied AI for the Sustainable Development Goals, with a large exhibition, robotics demos and a startup and innovation track. It is one of the largest AI gatherings in Europe, relevant to founders seeking visibility, partners and policy context.
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AI for Good Global Summit 2027
AI for Good Global Summit 2027 runs the week of 21-25 June in Geneva. Organised by the ITU in partnership with over 50 UN sister agencies and co-convened with the Government of Switzerland, the summit is the United Nations' leading platform on artificial intelligence, bringing together stakeholders to harness AI's potential to address global challenges in solutions and knowledge, skills and capacity, and standards and policy.
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AI Mountain Summit 2026
A high-altitude AI conference at the Galaaxy venue above Laax, convening decision-makers from business, politics, and science to shape the Swiss digital agenda. Good for AI founders who want concentrated executive and policymaker access in an intimate setting away from the usual circuit.
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Alexander Lichter
Developer relations engineer at VoidZero and a Nuxt and Vue.js ecosystem contributor, known for his web development teaching and open-source tooling work in JavaScript and TypeScript. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Araris Biotech
Araris Biotech is a Basel-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2020 as a spin-out from the Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zurich. The company develops a proprietary antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) linker technology that enables precise attachment of cytotoxic payloads to standard, unmodified antibodies for targeted cancer therapy — unlike conventional ADC approaches that require chemical modification of the antibody itself. This plug-and-play technology gives pharma partners a faster, cleaner path to next-generation ADC cancer treatments. Araris raised a CHF 36 million Series A in 2023 led by V-Bio Ventures, with participation from Novartis Venture Fund and Pfizer Ventures. The company represents Switzerland's strength in precision medicine and its deep integration between academic research institutes and commercially focused biotech.
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Arnau Gómez Farell
Senior full stack engineer at Tiptap, building the headless rich-text editor framework used across modern JavaScript and web applications. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Assaia
Assaia is a Zurich-based company that uses AI and computer vision to give airports and airlines real-time visibility into aircraft turnaround operations on the apron. Its ApronAI platform includes TurnaroundControl, ResourceManager, SafetyControl, and EmissionsControl products, used to reduce ground delays, improve on-time performance, detect unsafe behavior, and cut emissions. Assaia reports having monitored over 2.8 million turnarounds across 31 airports and 507 airlines, with customers including United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Gatwick, Fraport, and Toronto Pearson.
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Astrocast
Astrocast is a Lausanne-based satellite IoT company founded in 2017 by Fabien Jordan and Jonas Weiss as an EPFL spin-out and ESA BIC Switzerland resident. The company designs, builds, and operates a constellation of nanosatellites in low earth orbit that provide two-way data connectivity to IoT devices in the most remote locations on Earth — including maritime vessels, agricultural sensors, and remote infrastructure monitoring systems. Astrocast's network eliminates coverage gaps where terrestrial mobile networks cannot reach, enabling clients in agriculture, maritime, utilities, and environmental monitoring to track assets and collect data globally. The company has launched multiple satellites, maintains commercial operations, and is listed on Euronext Growth Oslo, making it one of Switzerland's few publicly traded space startups.
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Atila Fassina
Software engineer and developer advocate, lead of the SolidStart project and a core contributor to the Solid.js JavaScript framework, working as a fullstack engineer in the developer-tools space. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf.
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Beekeeper
Beekeeper is a Zurich-based enterprise software company founded in 2012 by Cristian Grossmann and Flavio Pfaffhauser to build a communication and operations platform for frontline workers — those in manufacturing, hospitality, retail, and logistics who don't sit at a desk. The platform provides a mobile-first digital workspace enabling team messaging, task management, document sharing, and HR workflows for workers without corporate email addresses. Beekeeper raised a Series C in 2021 led by Alpana Ventures with participation from Atomico and Swiss Post, bringing total funding to over $100 million. The platform is used by companies including Marriott, Hilton, and Heathrow Airport, supporting over 1,000 enterprise customers globally. Beekeeper is a flagship example of Zurich's SaaS ecosystem building at the intersection of human capital management and operational technology.
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btov Partners
btov Partners (now operating as b2venture) is a European venture capital firm founded in 2000 in St. Gallen, Switzerland, managing approximately €510 million across institutional, partner, and private investor funds from offices in Zurich, Berlin, Munich, and Luxembourg. The firm invests in early-stage digital and industrial technology companies across Europe, with ticket sizes of €250,000 to €3.5 million and roughly €50 million deployed per year. Notable portfolio companies include DeepL, SumUp, Raisin, and Blacklane.
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Carmen Huidobro
Chief Technology Officer at Incredible Holding GmbH and a web development educator active in the JavaScript and frontend community. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Christoph Jenny
Co-founder and CEO of Planted, the Zurich-based food technology company he co-founded in 2019 as an ETH Zurich spin-out. Jenny led Planted through a CHF 70 million Series B in 2021 and expanded the company's plant-based meat products across Swiss supermarkets, Germany, and European food service channels. Planted's wet extrusion technology, developed from ETH Zurich research, produces fibrous plant-based textures that closely mimic animal protein.
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Climeworks
Climeworks is one of Europe's most important climate-tech companies because it is building commercial direct air capture systems that remove carbon dioxide from ambient air. The company operates in a category that sits beyond emissions reduction alone: carbon removal infrastructure intended to address legacy emissions and hard-to-abate sectors. Its plants use modular collectors and specialized filters to capture CO2, after which the gas can be permanently stored or used in industrial processes. That combination of chemical engineering, energy systems, project execution, and long-term offtake sales makes Climeworks a very different kind of startup from software-led climate businesses. It is a capital-intensive industrial platform that depends on trust, scientific credibility, and customer willingness to commit to the future carbon-removal market. In the European ecosystem, Climeworks matters not only for its own category leadership, but also because it shows that globally significant climate infrastructure can be conceived, financed, and scaled from Europe. It serves as a benchmark for founders and investors interested in hard-tech and climate infrastructure companies where the technical ambition, funding requirements, and operational complexity are far greater than in conventional SaaS.
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Creathor Ventures
Creathor Ventures is a pan-European venture capital firm founded over 30 years ago, managing more than €230 million across funds with offices in Bad Homburg and Zurich. The team has financed over 200 companies as lead or co-lead investors, with more than 20 portfolio companies reaching international stock exchanges. It focuses on deep tech and digital health, investing in areas such as AI, IoT, precision medicine, medtech, and cloud technology, primarily in Germany and Switzerland.
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Cristian Grossmann
Co-founder and CEO of Beekeeper, the Zurich-based frontline workforce platform he co-founded in 2012 with Flavio Pfaffhauser. Grossmann led Beekeeper through a Series C in 2021 backed by Atomico, Alpana Ventures, and Swiss Post, bringing total funding to over $100 million. The platform scales to over 1,000 enterprise customers including Marriott, Hilton, and Heathrow Airport, serving workers in manufacturing, hospitality, retail, and logistics without corporate email addresses.
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Crypto Finance Conference
Organizer of the Crypto Finance Conference, an exclusive invitation-only event held in St. Moritz since 2018. The intimate gathering brings together 200+ crypto fund managers, blockchain founders, and institutional investors for high-level discussions on digital assets, DeFi protocols, and regulatory frameworks shaping the future of decentralized finance.
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Crypto Finance Conference St. Moritz 2026
Investor-focused blockchain and digital assets conference held in the Swiss Alps, attracting institutional investors, crypto fund managers, and Web3 founders. Features intimate networking in a premium setting with high-net-worth participants. Particularly valuable for blockchain startups seeking Swiss and European institutional capital.
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Crypto Valley Conference 2026
Switzerland's leading blockchain conference, in its 8th edition at Hochschule Luzern's Rotkreuz campus in the heart of Crypto Valley, gathering builders, investors, policymakers, and researchers. For a web3 founder it offers direct access to the Zug ecosystem of crypto-friendly regulators, funds, and infrastructure providers.
