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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Swiss Startup Days 2026
The nationwide Swiss deep-tech catalyst event at Kursaal Bern, bringing startups, investors, corporates, and enablers together for one high-density day of 1-to-1 matchmaking, pitch sessions, and a curated deep-tech newcomers cohort. The single best day to compress months of Swiss investor and corporate introductions into a few hours.
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Swiss Startup Days 2027
Swiss Startup Days' next edition is confirmed for 27 May 2027 at Kursaal Bern, described on-site as 'the Swiss deep-tech catalyst event'. The nationwide event brings startups, investors, corporates, and enablers together for a high-density day of 1-to-1 matchmaking and pitch sessions.
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Swisscom Ventures
Swisscom Ventures is the strategic corporate venture arm of Swisscom, Switzerland's largest telecom and ICT operator, and is one of the most active corporate venture investors in the Swiss ecosystem. Founded in 2007 and operating with offices in Bern, Zurich, and Silicon Valley, the firm invests in early- and growth-stage technology companies across cybersecurity, digital health, cloud infrastructure, AI, and network-adjacent deep tech, with particular interest in startups that can leverage Swisscom's distribution, data, or network assets. Portfolio companies have included Cato Networks, Mirakl, Scandit, Digital Asset, and Exeger. Swisscom Ventures pairs well with the traditional Swiss financial-VC bench by providing strategic commercial partnerships, regulatory navigation, and European telecom channel access alongside capital, which is particularly valuable for founders in regulated infrastructure categories.
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SwissHacks 2026
A 48-hour fintech hackathon, backed by the Swiss State Secretariat for International Finance and powered by Tenity, where students and professionals team with industry partners on real financial-sector challenges; in 2026 it anchors the inaugural Swiss FinTech Week. A fast route for developers and early founders to industry mentors, APIs, and pilot opportunities.
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TechFace
Swiss non-profit promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in technology, building communities for women and underrepresented groups in tech. It organizes the #wetechtogether Conference, Switzerland's leading conference for diversity in tech, drawing developers, designers, product leaders, students and allies.
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Terra Quantum
Terra Quantum is a St. Gallen-based quantum technology company co-founded in 2019 by Markus Pflitsch to develop quantum-as-a-service algorithms and hybrid quantum-classical computing solutions. The company bridges near-term quantum hardware with practical enterprise use cases in finance, pharma, logistics, and energy by developing quantum algorithms that run on today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. Terra Quantum raised a Series A backed by Lakestar and Investcorp and has established research partnerships with academic institutions across Europe. It is one of the few European quantum software companies focused on customer-facing problem-solving rather than hardware development, and a key player in Switzerland's emerging quantum technology ecosystem.
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Tony Edwards
Lead mobile developer at Sapphire Holidays, building cross-platform mobile applications with JavaScript and web technologies. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Top100 Swiss Investor Summit 2026
Venturelab's Top100 day combines a curated investor summit — handpicked startups raising their next round pitching to Swiss VCs — with the evening Top100 Swiss Startup Award ceremony. For a fundraising founder it is one of the highest-signal investor-matching days in Switzerland.
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Tracy Lee
CEO of This Dot Labs, a Google Developer Expert and RxJS core team member, and a prominent figure in the JavaScript and open-source web development community. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Venturelab
Venturelab is Switzerland's leading startup support organization, co-founded in 2004 by Jordi Montserrat and Beat Schillig as the National Entrepreneurial Training initiative. It designs and operates programs including Venture Leaders, Venture Kick, and the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award to bring Switzerland's best startup talents to the next level. As the organizer of the annual Top100 Swiss Investor Summit, Venturelab connects Switzerland's top 100 handpicked startups with Swiss and international investors collectively representing billions in venture capital.
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Wingman Ventures
Wingman Ventures was a Zurich-based pre-seed venture capital firm founded in 2019, known for closing what was described as Europe's largest debut seed fund at that stage. The firm backed founders across B2B software, industrial tech, robotics, and climate tech, with notable exits including Insightness (acquired by Sony) and Bring! Labs (acquired by Swiss Post). In February 2024 the firm rebranded as Founderful and launched a Fund II targeting $120 million, with typical check sizes of $1–2 million.
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World Economic Forum
Organizer of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, one of the most influential global gatherings bringing together 2,500+ heads of state, CEOs, and thought leaders since 1971. WEF drives public-private cooperation on economic policy, technology governance, and sustainability, increasingly featuring innovation and startup-focused programming.
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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026
Global gathering of heads of state, Fortune 500 CEOs, and technology leaders in Davos focused on economic, environmental, and innovation agendas. Features invitation-only sessions and curated side events. While access is restricted, the surrounding Davos ecosystem offers startups proximity to global decision-makers and media visibility.
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Yokoy
Yokoy is a Zurich-based AI-powered spend management platform founded in 2019 by Lars Mangelsdorf, Philippe Sahli, and Michael Fehr. The company automates expense reports, invoice processing, and corporate card management using machine learning, reducing manual finance workflows for mid-market and enterprise clients. Yokoy raised a Series B of CHF 80 million in 2022 led by Sequoia Capital, one of the largest Swiss fintech funding rounds of that year, and has since expanded across DACH, the UK, and the Netherlands. The platform integrates with major ERP systems including SAP and Oracle and is used by companies including DocMorris and Montana. Yokoy competes with Concur and Payhawk in the European spend management category.
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Yoshua Bengio
Professor at the Université de Montréal, Turing Award laureate and a founding pioneer of deep learning, and Co-President of the LawZero AI-safety initiative. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
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Zurich Soft Robotics
Develops Solskin, an AI-controlled adaptive facade combining dynamic photovoltaic panels with automated sun shading. Active solar tracking raises PV output by 40%+, while AI-driven shading cuts building air-conditioning energy by 20–80%.
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ZurichJS Conf 2026 (September 2026)
Switzerland's premier JavaScript and TypeScript developer conference, run by the non-profit Swiss JavaScript Group. It expects several hundred developers, engineers and tech leaders for talks on JavaScript, TypeScript, React and Node.js plus workshops and networking. It is relevant to technical founders and dev-tooling startups hiring or selling into the Swiss developer community.
