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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CV Summit 2026
Switzerland's largest blockchain, AI and digital-assets business conference at Kongresshaus Zurich. Two days, four stages, 3,000+ attendees and 250 speakers spanning Web3, AI and tokenized finance for founders, investors, institutions and policymakers.
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Daniel Afonso
Senior developer advocate at PagerDuty and a JavaScript and React engineer focused on state management and developer experience across the web platform. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Daniel Noel-Davies
Founder of Pokélink and a JavaScript developer building real-time web and streaming tools for online communities. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Daniel Roe
Open-source software engineer at Vercel and lead of the Nuxt core team, the Vue.js meta-framework, focused on the modern JavaScript and TypeScript web development ecosystem. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf.
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Debbie O'Brien
Platform engineer working on applied AI at Zephyr Cloud, a long-time developer advocate and web testing and tooling specialist in the JavaScript ecosystem. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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DeepJudge
DeepJudge is a Zurich-based legal AI company founded in 2021 by AI researchers who met while completing PhDs at ETH Zurich. Its platform provides intent-driven, retrieval-first enterprise search across a law firm's internal document repositories and data sources such as SharePoint, OneDrive and document management systems, enabling permission-respecting access to institutional knowledge before generating AI responses. The product supports multi-document analysis and LLM-powered workflows for legal teams. Reported customers include Freshfields, Holland & Knight, Gunderson Dettmer and Homburger, and the company maintains teams in the United States and Canada.
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Distalmotion
Distalmotion develops Dexter, a hybrid robotic surgery platform intended to make robotic-assisted minimally invasive procedures more accessible to a broader hospital base. The system allows surgeons to move between robotic and laparoscopic workflows during operations to improve flexibility and operating-room integration.
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Dominik Dorfmeister
Software engineer at Sentry and maintainer of TanStack Query, a widely used data-fetching and state-management library for the React and JavaScript ecosystem. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, leading global efforts on digital connectivity and AI governance. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
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EatSnap
EatSnap is a Swiss consumer health app that turns a photo of a meal into an estimate of its calories and macronutrient split, removing the manual search-and-log step that makes most food diaries hard to sustain. Alongside the AI food scanner it keeps a visual photo diary synced across devices and tracks hydration, mood and sleep, so nutrition sits next to the other habits it depends on. It is published by exact construct GmbH of Frauenfeld and ships on both iOS and Android on a freemium model with paid monthly and annual tiers.
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EHL HumanX Summit 2026
A two-day summit at EHL's Lausanne campus with 600 participants, themed on human-centric leadership and innovation; the second day is an open-innovation and investor track run by the EHL Innovation Hub. Useful for founders in hospitality, food, and experience tech seeking corporate pilot partners in the Romandie.
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Emelie Emanuelsson
Sustainability Project Manager in Smart Infrastructure at Siemens Switzerland, working on sustainability initiatives within the industrial and building-technology business. She is an announced speaker in the Hidden Figures Awards program at the 2026 #wetechtogether Conference in Zurich.
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EPFL
EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is Switzerland's second federal technical university, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva. Ranked among Europe's top research universities, EPFL has become one of the continent's most prolific generators of deep-tech and life-sciences startups, producing over 400 spin-off companies since 2000. Notable alumni companies include Nexthink, SOPHiA GENETICS, Astrocast, and Distalmotion. EPFL Innovation Park, located adjacent to the main campus, houses hundreds of startups and bridges academic research with commercial application across quantum photonics, precision health, robotics, and digital finance. The park includes an ESA BIC Switzerland programme that incubates space-tech startups. For founders in the Lake Geneva region, EPFL provides a uniquely dense combination of technical research infrastructure, institutional support, venture-ready talent, and direct access to EPFL's technology transfer office.
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Eric Stirnemann
Co-founder of Planted, the Zurich-based food technology company he co-founded in 2019 from ETH Zurich research. Stirnemann's background in food engineering contributed to the development of Planted's proprietary wet extrusion platform for plant-based meat. The company raised CHF 70 million in 2021 and distributes products across Switzerland, Germany, and broader European markets.
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ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) is one of the world's leading technical universities, consistently ranked in the global top ten for engineering, computer science, and natural sciences. Founded in 1855 by the Swiss federal government, ETH Zurich has produced 22 Nobel laureates and is the academic origin of many of Europe's most important deep-tech companies, including Scandit, Planted, and Araris Biotech. Its Technology Transfer Office (ETH Transfer) manages IP licensing and supports spin-out creation, having enabled over 500 spin-off companies. ETH Zurich's Pioneer Fellowship and Student Project House programmes provide early-stage support to founders still on campus. For founders in the Swiss ecosystem, ETH Zurich is the deepest single source of engineering talent, research partnerships, and institutional credibility across fields from quantum computing and robotics to materials science and food technology.
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Fabien Jordan
Co-founder and CEO of Astrocast, the Lausanne-based satellite IoT company he co-founded in 2017 as an EPFL spin-out and ESA BIC Switzerland resident. Jordan led Astrocast from a nanosatellite concept to a publicly listed company on Euronext Growth Oslo, building a LEO constellation that provides two-way IoT connectivity to remote locations across agriculture, maritime, and infrastructure sectors.
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Flavio Pfaffhauser
Co-founder of Beekeeper, the Zurich-based frontline workforce platform he co-founded in 2012 with Cristian Grossmann. Pfaffhauser contributed to Beekeeper's technical architecture and product development, helping build the platform now used by over 1,000 enterprise clients globally. The company raised over $100 million and became one of Zurich's leading enterprise SaaS success stories.
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Frontify
Frontify is a brand-building platform headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, founded in 2013 by Roger Dudler. It provides digital asset management, brand guidelines management, templates, AI-assisted tools and analytics, giving teams a central place to create, organise and scale their brands. The platform is used by marketing, design and brand teams to keep brand assets consistent across an organisation. It raised a $50M Series C round led by Revaia in 2021, and also operates offices in New York City and London.
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GAIMIN
GAIMIN is a Web3 distributed cloud infrastructure platform that uses gamers' unused computing power, including GPUs, for HPC and AI workloads. The company reported more than USD 1.79M in funding, launched the GMRX token, partnered with ecosystems such as Movement Labs and BNB Chain, and secured cloud-compute support from Aethir's ecosystem fund. In decentralized resource and staking markets, it competes with larger platforms such as Lido, Kiln, and Ubitus.
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Geneva Health Forum 2026
A biennial gathering at Campus Biotech, one of the largest global health conferences, bringing political, private, academic, and civil-society actors together on global health innovation and policy. For a healthtech founder in the Romandie it is the marquee venue to reach NGOs, multilateral health bodies, and impact funders.
