Go big and go far – a range of support offers to help you go international

When Swiss start-ups want to scale, they need to go international – but how? For Typewise, pivoting, strategic market selection, and lessons from YCombinator paved the way. Discover the key moves behind their international journey and learn about how Innosuisse and Switzerland Global Enterprise accompany start-ups like yours on this leap.

The spark for Kyan Health has its roots in Vlad Gheorghiu’s former career at McKinsey, where he started experiencing panic attacks which progressively worsened over a 12-month period. He got professional help and spoke publicly about his experience. As a result, he received over 200 emails from colleagues facing similar issues. This experience not only highlighted a deep, unmet need but also ignited a passion for finding solutions. Soon after, Vlad was asked to lead McKinsey’s global mental health program, which eventually inspired the creation of Kyan, a company transforming workplace mental health worldwide.

From Data to Action - Understanding and Managing the Risks of Tomorrow

Have you ever thought of risk as an opportunity? While risk-taking is often encouraged in start-ups and investments, risk is generally seen as something negative to be avoided. At the SEF.Growth event hosted by Zurich Insurance, Juan Beer, CEO of Zurich Insurance Switzerland, and Peter Giger, Chief Risk Officer of Zurich Insurance, offered a refreshingly optimistic perspective on risk.

While at a major automotive company, Rutger Verhoef identified a gap in the car leasing industry. From then on, he started to shape an idea to bridge this gap and create something along the entire customer journey. The platform Gowago.ch is the result, and it’s redefining how people access vehicles in Switzerland – and possibly beyond.

In today's world, companies face more cyber threats than ever at an unstoppable pace. The daily evolving challenges and lack of internal resources for cyber security teams call for a partner who can alleviate some of the SecOps burdens. Ontinue is a leading managed security provider founded to empower CISOs and their teams to protect their organizations and strengthen their security posture, so they can focus on other interests and business priorities. But how?

Strategic Partnerships: Unlocking Potential Through Start-up-Corporate-Collaboration

Collaboration between startups and large corporations can lead to powerful synergies, but it comes with its own unique challenges. During a recent panel discussion featuring Roberta Massa (Microsoft), Julian Nolan (Iprova), and Christian Mähr (UBS), several critical points were highlighted to ensure a productive partnership.

From Sport to Business – Confident Decision-Making in Organisation

On your marks, get set, go! In collaboration with The CFO Company, FS Partners and the SEF.Growth team invited entrepreneurs to OYM in Cham, a scientific sports center for professional athletes. The evening was all about decision-making, a skill crucial for athletes as well as entrepreneurs. A high-caliber lineup, surrounded by the impressive infrastructure of OYM, made this a very valuable event for the participants

The journey from start-up to scale-up always comes with challenges and chances to prove grit. The story from RoomPriceGenie, a SaaS company in the hospitality sector, is a great example, with CEO Ari Andricopoulos at the lead, along with co-founders Marvin Speh and Jörg Siegel. Their relatively long journey to achieve product-market fit paid off and led RoomPriceGenie to be an internationally well-recognized revenue management system.

As the global population grows older, the concept of longevity has shifted from a niche topic to a lifestyle aspiration. Increasingly, people aim to not only live longer but to enjoy a better quality of life well into their later years. Avea brings insights from longevity science into everyday solutions to support this change.

Tech start-ups often chase quick profits or flashy exits, but Tim Ruffner took a different path. Driven by a commitment to help small businesses thrive, he founded JOIN Solutions to make high-quality recruitment accessible to SMEs that are traditionally overlooked by the industry giants.

Tide Ocean, a company committed to recycling ocean-bound plastic waste, was founded five years ago with Thomas Schori as its primary driving force. He noticed the growing threat posed by plastic pollution, which inspired him to find a solution for reintroducing plastic into the circular economy. To this date, 80 brands have used #tide ocean material in over 120 products. And yet, this is just the beginning of a significant change in the plastic industry, led by Tide Ocean.

ENOVEAS is a company at the forefront of industrial innovation, reshaping traditional manufacturing processes with smart, compact micro-machines. In an exclusive interview, Founder Martin Böni shares the story behind their success, how they’ve managed to stay true to their vision while scaling globally, and the milestones that have defined their journey so far.

H55's origins can be traced back to the groundbreaking Solar Impulse project, but Solar Impulse was never the endpoint of the plans. "We always knew we were working towards something bigger, “ say co-founder Gregory Blatt and CEO Martin Larose. In the following success story, the two visionaries share their journey of innovation, challenges, and breakthroughs in making air travel more sustainable.

Strategic Partnerships: Unlocking Potential Through Start-up-Corporate Collaboration

When start-ups and corporates collaborate, great things can happen. Though both company types are very different on an organisational level, they can succeed in working together if they have a well-aligned shared goal. The collaboration between Holcim and neustark is an ideal example of best practice.

"When the going gets tough" 

The SEF.Founder Conference is the most exclusive founder event in Switzerland and takes place on the afternoon of the first day of the Swiss Economic Forum.

The story of Drinkotec is not that of a typical startup. Drinkotec has been around since 2002 and became well-known in Switzerland for its beverage dispensing solutions in restaurants and hotels. However, when Franck-Eric Flegbo took over the company as its successor, he saw an opportunity to rejuvenate and expand Drinkotec far beyond its original roots.

Raffaello (Raff) D'Andrea, the CEO of Verity, shares his company's remarkable journey. What started as a scientific project for autonomous drone technology became the solution to a real-life use case and is now revolutionizing the warehouse management of global retailers and third-party logistics companies.

The success story of C Wire, an innovative digital advertising firm, is rooted in the significant industry shift away from third-party cookies. This transition is driven by increased demands for user privacy and regulatory changes and provided the perfect backdrop for C Wire's inception. In a conversation with co-founder Rui de Freitas, we got an exclusive view into the growth journey of C Wire.

Teylor digitizes lending processes to make capital more accessible to SMEs —quick and easy. The founder, Patrick Stäuble, says the last fintech revolution was in B2C, and the next will be in B2B. He and his team have built a leading European SME lending platform.

Startup Success: Crafting a Tailored Trademark Strategy 

In terms of trademark protection, this event should have taken place in at sunrise rather than at noon, as it's better to start early rather than late. Start-ups and SMEs seeking trademark law support benefited from this best-practice event hosted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI). Participants looking for an overview of the various scopes of trademark protection and answers to questions like "When is the right time to start and how?" gained valuable insights.

The scale-up emost stands for electric mobile storage, making off-grid power available at the edge and beyond the grid without diesel generators. A venture that started as an intrapreneurship project at Axpo and continued as independent company after a management buy-out. Emost has had a dynamic growth journey and is currently focusing on internationalization of its solution and software.

Where current and former applicants and finalists of the Swiss Economic Award meet and spend an evening networking, exchanging ideas and celebrating success with fellow founders and experts.

Swibeco's employee benefits platform increases the purchasing power of its customers and staff in a tangible way with a long-term solution. The founder of Swibeco, Ivan Brustlein, shares with us the fascinating growth journey of his company.

Ten years ago, drones experienced an enormous boom. There are now countless drone start-ups. But at Voliro, the drone is finally being put to good use: it is moving away from the flying camera to the flying craftsman.

Lyfegen is a pioneering scale-up that provides a rebate management calculator for health insurers, aiming to optimize the pricing and rebates of expensive, patent-protected medications. Michel Mohler, co-founder and CFO of Lyfegen, explains why this is relevant and how this technology is impacting insurers and patients.

Life science projects require expensive laboratory infrastructure, and maintenance costs a lot of time away from the actual scientific work. Superlab Suisse AG supports scientists by reducing these hurdles with serviced ready to move-in laboratories with shared facilities on flexible terms.

Slowing down climate change is a massive challenge for humanity. The team around Johannes Tiefentaler and Valentin Gutknecht is committed to removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it permanently in the world’s largest waste stream: demolition concrete.

Enterprise Bot is recognized as the world's first embedded conversational AI platform for enterprises. With Pranay Jain, CEO & co-founder of Enterprise Bot, we delve into the journey of this innovative startup, exploring the lessons learned, the challenges faced, and the remarkable milestones achieved.

TRI Founder and CEO Tobias Richter has been working in the field of dental implant technology for almost all his career and has launched several ventures as an entrepreneur. In the case of TRI, all the know-how that he and his team collected, and the patented technologies combined with software have put TRI on the pedestal as an innovator in their industry.

The majority of people wear glasses, and presumably, everyone has at least one or two pairs of sunglasses. In this vast global market, Swiss Eyewear Group ensures a high-quality offer for glasses in the medium-price sector – affordable to the broad masses.

From Start-up to Exit: Overcoming the Hurdles of Growth

Finally, SEF.Growth overcame the hurdle called "Röstigraben": For the first time, a SEF.Growth event took place in the Romandie, a step that Alain Conte, Head of Corporate & Institutional Clients UBS Switzerland, advocated. This first edition in French-speaking Switzerland assembled almost 100 entrepreneurs to learn about overcoming the hurdles of growth in the cases of Jean-Marc Tassetto from Coorpacademy SA and Dr. Marcin Pietrzyk from Unit8 SA.

Gian-Mattia Schucan, Founder and Co-CEO of FAIRTIQ Ltd, has cracked the code for the simplest digital ticketing solution for public transport. It's as simple as entering the train and, therefore, more accessible than any conventional ticket machine, leaving no one behind, not even people from the pre-digital era – as long as they own a smartphone.

Empowering SMEs through Innovation. 

Innosuisse wants to move the world with Swiss innovation through its funding activities. At the SME Innovation Event, we will highlight Swiss innovations that contribute to sustainable development and have the potential for a large impact. Interested SME representatives and young entrepreneurs will be given practical glimpses of how successful Swiss companies have developed their innovation projects and which support by Innosuisse can make a difference.

With AI technology, Yokoy SA automates expense management and invoice processing for mid-sized companies and international enterprises. Thanks to having a scientific AI team Yokoy will stay top-notch and continuously optimize its expense solution.

Inventions define the products that we use every day – mobile phones, cars and even pencils, for example. But despite their value, the way inventions are created is still an artisanal and, very often, haphazard activity. Iprova has developed an AI-based technology that supports humans in the creation of inventions in a much more robust, efficient and systematic way.

Real Estate sales cycles are slow, and finding the right buyer is challenging. Backbone was founded to speed up the selling process by capturing and delivering high-quality visual material for the marketing of properties to be sold. Backbone combines the art of creating real estate visuals with a marketing automation software to find buyers faster.

Properti was incorporated with the clear vision of revolutionizing the real estate market. To the co-founders Levent and Adrian Künzi, the market was mired in outdated practices and seemed stuck in old times, so change was overdue. They saw an opportunity to radically change the status quo by leveraging technology while still being aware that selling properties is a people business.

From Start-up to Scale-up: Overcoming the Hurdles of Growth

Before going into the scale-up phase, we should seize the opportunity to learn from start-up founders who are facing the challenges that comes with rapid growth. Lars Mangelsdorf, Co-Founder and CEO of Yokoy, generouslyshared his first-hand experiences when scaling up and mastering growth.

Have you created, developed or invented a name, logo, design, new technical solution, software program or artistic work? Then, of course, you should be the one to reap the benefits of these innovations – not free riders.

Tissue assessment is a crucial component of efficient and straightforward cancer treatment. The health-tech company Samantree Medical SA has developed a technology to allow surgeons to spot cancer cells promptly and leverage the likelihood of successful cancer surgeries.

In today's world, where we constantly consume information of all kinds, our attention span has lowered to a few seconds. Under these circumstances, it becomes increasingly difficult for the marketing of companies to stand out and build a relationship with customers. The young MarTech company Brame takes a new approach to marketing by providing software to gamify marketing campaigns effortlessly.

Success Factors in the Collaboration with an R&D Provider from a Start-up Perspective

This event with a beautiful view over Zurich, Altstetten inspired many of the participating Start-ups. Especially the stories about the collaboration of the three companies Positrigo, Qualysense and Scewo as well as the personal exchange during an informal lunch showed them what the collaboration with Helbling Technik is like and what opportunities are offered.

Make it happen

Two hundred founders and entrepreneurs gathered at the SEF.Founder Conference in Congress Center Interlaken to shape the future of entrepreneurship in Switzerland. It fostered innovation and created synergies for growth in an inspirational setting from noon until dawn.

Sevensense Robotics developed the eyes and brain for mobile robots to maneuver fully autonomously while keeping the environment safe and executing their tasks efficiently.

Koa is redefining the perception of value in the cocoa supply chain and chooses to do that in a socially and environmentally impactful way.

In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, Nexoya stands out with its software that optimizes and automatically allocates marketing budgets across multiple channels using AI. This frees up the time of marketing experts and remarkably improves return on advertising spend.

Today, it takes 15 years on average to design a new aircraft and six years to design a new car. The innovative company from Lausanne, Neural Concept, is revolutionizing engineering processes by implementing AI methodologies. With this approach, it will be possible to design a new aircraft within five years and a new car within two years – a third of the currently required time.

Boostbar SA is on a mission to digitise the vending industry. The young company provides an end to end to solution to make any unattended point of sale autonomous and automate its operation.

The cheese whisperers

Switzerland, innovation and cheese; a world-famous combination. Learn more about it in the IPI Session "the cheese whisperers".

Impact Acoustic SA has grown to a well-known company with 90 employees within their first four years after incorporation. Their products are sustainable thanks to the use of disposable materials that can be returned to the product life cycle. Simultaneously, sustainable growth is what the team is focusing on business-wise.

Sponsoring live sports is expensive, and the spreading loss is traditionally high. uniqFEED SA has developed a technology with which physical advertising in live sports can be overlaid and new advertising inventory can be created. In the future, virtual advertising will enable targeting individual viewers with personalized ads.

You need to have it, but is it useless or helpful? And are there any hacks for it?

There is nothing like LinkedIn for blue-collar workers. Nonetheless, also these people deserve to be actively sourced and build their careers efficiently. This is why Kollabo was built.

Sherpany makes meetings more productive. This great idea helps businesses to be more cost- efficient via faster decision making and saving employee time. Sherpany has now been awarded the SEF.Growth label, allowing the company to grow on a big scale.

Thinking of getting a mobile or internet subscription, what comes to mind is anything but convenient. alao AG makes finding the right telecom subscription as easy as ordering a pizza by putting the customer at the core of their business.

By 2030 a shortage of 18 million nurses worldwide is projected. Fatal consequences for remaining caregivers are a heavy workload, a lack of quality of care, and potential risk to patient safety. QUMEA has all covered – and makes a real hero in the healthcare system.

Together, their founding team brings together over 60 years of professional experience in everything to do with cannabis (cultivation, genetics, development of medical cannabis varieties). Their vision has existed since day one of their founding: With SwissExtract we want to play a leading role in the field of organic cannabis cultivation. They see themselves as a key driver of a new cannabis economy and are the first and only manufacturer of certified organic cannabis in the world.

People are more likely to convert into buying customers if they get high value for their money and feel like being part of something special. Simultaneously, brands are looking for ways to sell with minimized scattering losses and build loyal communities. Digt AG does justice to all these needs.

Almost everyone loves a good cup of coffee. But coffee tastes better when you can be sure it has been traded fairly. Algrano AG is taking care of that by enabling the producers and roasters to connect directly across borders.

The success story of Solar Manager SA is proof that the SEF.Growth label is awarded with a long-term view. Since Solar Manager SA has received the label at the end of 2022 the company has achieved a lot.

namuk is a sustainable outdoor fashion brand for kids. Their goal is to equip kids with qualitative, long-lasting, and sustainable clothing so that they spend time outdoors in any weather condition while falling in love with nature.

Cobea Ltd, known for its brand Alpine White, combines healthy whitening and care products with oral prevention services.

Ecorobotix pioneers sustainable farming through its Ultra-High Precision (UHP) technology. Using cameras and AI, it identifies individual plants in real-time, allowing for targeted and ultra-precise crop treatment.

Feey sees itself as THE brand for indoor plants in Switzerland. As a DTC e-commerce company, Feey provides its customers with the right plant for their lifestyle – regardless of how green their thumbs are.

With the smart, sensor-controlled lighting system from LEDCity, companies can save up to 90 percent energy consumption on average compared to conventional light sources by automatically adjusting the light to the actual light duration and intensity required.

OneDoc simplifies everyday life for healthcare providers and patients in Switzerland through digital appointment management via the OneDoc platform. In terms of its user numbers, it is the largest digital health platform in Switzerland.

Room Estate AG is the largest co-living provider in Switzerland. The company offers a fully digitalised brokerage of flexibly bookable co-living accommodation, which meets a high demand, especially in urban centres.

SUN bioscience is a spin off from the EPFL University founded in 2016 by Dr. Nathalie Brandenberg and Dr. Sylke Hoehnel and active in the life sciences sector targeting the pharmaceutical industry.

Spectroplast AG offers on-demand manufacturing of silicone end products for the global industrial and healthcare market that meet industrial and medical standards in terms of precision, performance and price.

Good air quality in offices is crucial for a healthy working day. However, the right concentration of oxygen, pollutants and humidity is not only relevant for the health of employees, but also for improved concentration.

Increasing mobility also increases the demand for flexible accommodation. For property owners, short-term rentals are a lucrative but logistically complex business in which to compete. GuestReady takes care of everything on behalf of their hosts.

The Rainforest Company is shaping the food industry with sustainable açaí products that benefit both the health of its customers and the health of the planet. The company proves that sustainable sourcing and sustainable production of food is possible and profitable.

There are already various protein-containing products that aim to limit meat consumption and thus support the environment. However, many meat lovers miss the similarity to meat.

ten23 health is the human-centric and sustainable strategic partner of choice for the pharmaceutical industry and biotech start-ups for the development, manufacture, and testing of tomorrow’s medicines. We support our clients in developing differentiated, stable, usable, and safe injectable treatments for patients.

More and more purchase transactions are taking place completely digitised. This also applies to sensitive transactions such as the conclusion of important contracts.

High-net-worth individuals and family offices often face the challenge of how to get an overview and transparency of their consolidated assets.They often work with multiple banks, asset managers and advisors managing their complex portfolios of real estate, private equity or collectibles.

Although functional clothing has developed at a rapid pace in many different areas of life, sleepwear has remained largely unchanged. Yet around 75% of all adults will have difficulty sleeping at least once during their lifetime, with sleep disorders one of the top five self-diagnosed health problems.

The sharing economy has spread to many areas of life in the last decade, replacing the need for material possessions. However, a flexible and personalised alternative to purchasing for car owners has fallen by the wayside.

The regular safety checks and inspection tasks required at large plants are a significant cost factor and potential risk for operators as they are very often still carried out by hand.

All sorts of people wear a uniform at work: nurses, doctors, manufacturing staff and service employees, to name but a few. And these garments often take up a lot of room.

You incur fees when withdrawing money, and these are even higher if you do so abroad. What’s more, not every bank has an extensive range of online services, and their apps are often slow and complex to navigate.

Rooms at universities and companies are often overbooked or reserved but then not used, giving rise to bewilderment and consternation in the corridors. Roomz SA recognised this problem and developed wireless plug-and-play room reservation displays to combat it.

Traditional titanium implants have a number of disadvantages, even in people with very good dental hygiene. Patients can suffer due to the release of bacteria or an intolerance to the titanium.

The world of work is very different today to how it was 20 years ago, with social, personal and methodological skills (soft skills) now just as important as specialist knowledge. 

Selling real estate is traditionally associated with time-consuming work and high brokerage fees. Marketing real estate has now become much simpler thanks to the advent of digitalisation and online portals, but traditional brokers still charge very high commissions.

Pain and discomfort when eating and frequent trips to the dentist – correcting misaligned teeth with conventional braces is a laborious process. Corrections can take years and are very expensive.

Stricter CO2 emission limits for cars and fewer public transport options for short journeys make getting around more difficult. On top of this, e-mobility for short distances is a relatively new market.

Transporting goods involves a great deal of paperwork and complicated coordination between consignors, hauliers and consignees. In addition, on average one in four lorries in Switzerland runs empty, particularly after making deliveries to French-speaking Switzerland.

With its free, high-tech ticketing system, Eventfrog is targeting a previously neglected market – small, low-cost events and promoters of simpler events wishing to avoid the high fees charged by other portals.

Meetings are a financial investment for companies. No amount of money can buy a 25-hour day or bring back a lost hour. Managers’ time is precious, yet many CEOs and senior executives spend countless hours in inefficient meetings.

Core body temperature is a key parameter for assessing a person’s health. Information about changes in core body temperature can be used to make statements about the ideal training intensity for athletes, the quality of sleep, stress levels and much more.

Batmaid’s user-friendly online platform makes it easy for people to find trustworthy and professional cleaning staff. Private individuals and companies are matched with a suitable cleaner available at the desired time and date using an algorithm developed in house.

Almost all industrially manufactured products, whether they are automotive components, consumer electronics or even furniture, have a coating.

smart-me offers simple, cost-effective and scalable energy management for buildings or entire sites. The start-up is an independent technology manufacturer and developed the world’s first cloud-connected energy meter.

Assets are still managed using the same methods as 25 years ago. A great deal of intervention is required to update these existing methods. If the industry fails to embrace modern technology, investors will be exposed to unnecessarily high risks for low returns.

SELFRAG’s fragmentation machine uses high-voltage electrical pulses and shockwaves to break down silicon rods into small parts of relatively equal size almost instantaneously – an impressive demonstration of the company’s revolutionary fragmentation technology.

The niche market for holiday tours and activities is still conducted largely offline and in cash. Palisis AG seized the opportunity presented by digitalisation to create an adaptable, easy-to-integrate system that helps the global travel market manage tours and activities.

The GFK market research institute estimates that some 100,000 households in Switzerland already own a drone. Many start-ups, including Flyability from French-speaking Switzerland, are targeting this growth market.

Relish Brothers are behind the first genuine innovation in the electric guitar market for more than 60 years. The new construction method allows string vibrations to be transferred more effectively, and also reduces damping on contact with the player’s body.

DEPsys brings intelligence to traditional low-voltage grids. Its GridEye platform allows operators to measure, manage and optimise their low-voltage grids, permitting the efficient, decentralised integration of renewable energy sources.

The products and services offered by existing players in the eyecare market are geared primarily to the sale of prescription glasses. They do not sell enough contact lenses to be able to compete with the prices of online retailers, and therefore devote little time to contact lens advice.

Abionic won over the SEF.Growth initiative with its awareness of quality and the speed of its abioScope© diagnosis device. The device can be used directly at the point of care and delivers quantitative results for a range of tests that were previously conducted in a laboratory.

Despite the huge popularity of online shopping, the Swiss spirits market is still very traditional and conducted largely offline. Silverbogen is breaking new ground with its DRINK.ch e-commerce platform and is a first mover as the sector begins to embrace digitalisation.

The Securosys Hardware Security Model (HSM) protects sensitive data against cyberhacking. It uses cryptographic encryption to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of data and related information in IT systems.

eSMART develops intelligent systems for building automation. All central building functions, such as heating, lights, blinds and video intercoms, can be controlled centrally via a touchscreen in the living room or the smartphone app. The eSMART screen also shows current energy and water consumption in real time, thus increasing user awareness of energy efficiency.

Nanotechnology is a constantly growing market that offers huge potential for the future. The microscope market in which Nanosurf AG operates is now impossible to imagine without it.

Half of all adults in Switzerland need prescription glasses. They change them on average every three years, making this a lucrative market. Until just a few years ago, however, it was also a highly predictable market that saw very few changes.

Semiconductors play a key role in an increasingly digitalised world. They are used in microprocessors such as those found in computers or mobile phones, and are a key component in photovoltaics (solar cells) and optoelectronics (LEDs).

While navigation systems are already in frequent use in neurosurgery, the innovative technology developed by CAScination now allows surgeons to move around soft, deformable organs, in other words organs that change their shape during a medical intervention.

Sorting grain isn’t just a job for Cinderella; it’s also a key stage of the production process in the modern food industry. Sorting machines that remove foreign bodies and sort the individual kernels according to their physical condition are already the norm.

The software developed by Qumram, which was founded in 2010, enables its customers to record every moment of users’ online activity across various media channels, ensuring that they are able to record and archive the behaviour of their users in accordance with applicable legal provisions.

Drawing on extensive experience from individual business, ErvoCom developed a train radio system (TRS) based on the TETRA mobile technology. TRS offers similar functionality to the current GSM-R industry standard, but has lower infrastructure costs.

The online platform TICKETINO offers a wide range of attractively priced, professional ticketing and guest management services. Since 2008, TICKETINO Ltd has provided its customers with a user-friendly, fully self-service online platform that automates all the business processes associated with event organisation and ticketing.

ServiceHunter AG, a spin-off from ETH Zurich, is the developer and operator of the online platform quitt.ch. The platform enables private individuals to employ domestic staff such as cleaners or nannies correctly, quickly and with a minimum of effort.

Zurich-based start-up Nektoon Ltd developed the intelligent enterprise software Squirro. The software uses an intelligent search algorithm to generate valuable results from external and in-house data sources.

NonStop Gym SA’s low-cost concept is causing quite a stir in the fitness sector. This is due first and foremost to its extremely cheap subscriptions, which are half the cost of those charged by local competitors.

HYT brought the two opposing worlds of watches and mechanics together to create a fascinating luxury product. The world’s first hydromechanical watch displays the hours using a fluorescent liquid.

The start-up, founded in 2008 as a spin-off from ETH Zurich, is developing a new generation of medical products that allow patients to be optimally positioned during imaging examinations such as CT or MRI scans.

The start-up SkyCell, founded in November 2012, is disrupting the logistics industry with its newly developed, almost entirely recyclable generation of containers for fragile pharmaceutical goods.

Winterthur-based brewery Doppelleu produces Anglo-Saxon and Belgian-style beers, which have long been extremely popular in the USA, the UK and Australia. The start-up is committed to modern beers (including those intended to accompany meals or aimed at female drinkers) from independent local production.

Back in 2008, a leading Swiss coffee machine manufacturer was planning to relocate and restructure its development department. Making a virtue out of necessity, the development team affected by these plans decided to exploit its existing know-how and continue its successful cooperation together.

Fine dust is an age-old problem when it comes to generating energy in residential buildings. Maximum emission levels are set by law, with non-compliance leading to fines. OekoSolve develops and manufactures fine dust filters for wood-fired heating systems such as open fireplaces and wood burners.

The holding company Nexus Ltd, domiciled in Winterthur, has been active since 2006 and has three subsidiaries focusing on company formation, advisory and fiduciary services. The Nexus Group is also the Swiss market leader in online company formation through its subsidiary STARTUPS.CH.

Solution Providers offers high-quality management consultancy for the financial sector.

Solothurn-based Typ Ltd is a well-known manufacturer of rubber and polyurethane rollers. Established in 1947, the family firm supplies thousands of rollers to its customers each year. The company manufactures to order – there is no such thing as a standard Typ roller.

Plagued by chronic inflammation of the Achilles tendon, Olivier Bernhard, one of the company’s three founders, began tinkering with a running shoe together with David Allemann and Caspar Coppetti. Experiments with chopped up bits of garden hose ultimately led to the development of their patented CloudTec® technology.

Softcom is a Swiss IT company – born in the digital age – that specialises in software consulting, development and integration. The company designs and develops web, mobile and portal solutions via fixed-price or agile projects.

Redbiotec AG is a biopharmaceutical company that creates unique therapeutic bacteria for unmet patient needs. Its therapeutic focus includes pancreatic cancer and other solid tumours, along with genetic disorders. Collaboration with industry is a key pillar of its strategy.

Covering emergencies, routine check-ups and surgical interventions for both large and small pets, the comprehensive expertise of the VetTrust group of veterinary surgeons is unparalleled in Switzerland.

Hocoma AG is a leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of robotic and sensor-based devices for the treatment of neurological motor disorders. The company aims to develop and manufacture high-quality, safe and user-friendly products that offer benefits for patients and practitioners alike.

Limmex AG is a Swiss company that offers a range of personal safety solutions. The company introduced a world first to the market in 2011 with the launch of the Limmex emergency watch. A new generation of emergency watches followed in 2017.

Dacuda AG develops 3D scanning software for smartphone cameras. One of its main areas of focus is the development of real-time 2D and 3D algorithms for consumer cameras, in other words any device with a camera function, in order to make 3D content creation as easy as recording a video.

Devirex Ltd was founded in 2006 with the primary goal of developing a product that could prevent the emergence of cold sores. Targeting innovation in the healthcare sector, the company soon came up with Lipivir®, a gel that prevents oral herpes.

iNovitas AG was established in 2011 as a spin-off from the Geomatics Institute of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. The company specialises in the digitisation and cloud-based processing of 3D images of roads and railways.