Posts Tagged ‘startup’
TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2024
This year, 15 startups from the Swiss Health Valley we ranked in the prestigious TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2024, including HAYA Therapeutics at #5. The 14th ceremony of the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award took place in Lausanne and was attended by a curated audience comprising startup founders, investors, and key partners…
Read MoreSwiss Venture Capital Report: CHF 1.1 Billion for Swiss startups
Swiss venture capital financing remained at the low level of the previous year in the first half of 2024, with CHF 1’082.4 Million going to 138 financing rounds. Nevertheless, there were also positive signs, such as an increase in investment in the biotech sector. This half-year update to Swiss Venture Capital Report, published…
Read MoreMaven Health, NeoSens and NADUP supported by the FIT
Three life science projects have received support from the Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) in the form of Tech Grants: Maven Health and NeoSens from EPFL, and NADUP from UNIL will be able to continue developing their technologies with the backing of the Foundation. Maven Health – prevention and screening of metabolic diseases…
Read MoreCellestia secures a CHF 2 Million grant from Innosuisse
The Biopôle based startup was awarded an Innosuisse Grant to advance a groundbreaking Graft versus Host Disease prevention therapy. Cellestia Biotech AG (Cellestia) announced its selection for a CHF 2 million grant from the Swiss Innovation Agency, Innosuisse, as part of their Startup Innovation project to advance to clinical Proof of Concept, a…
Read MoreTimeline raises CHF56 Million and partners with L’Oréal
Already backed by Nestlé, the Swiss Health Valley startup co-founded by former EPFL President Patrick Aebischer, now counts a second leading multinational among its investors: L’Oréal. The fact that L’Oréal is investing in Timeline, a pioneering longevity brand, demonstrates the cosmetics giant’s interest in this fast-growing trend,” says Chris Rinsch, co-founder of the…
Read MoreImpossible Materials wins the Mass Challenge Diamond Prize
The University of Fribourg chemtech spin-off has been granted CHF 120,000 in cash. The start-up provides cellulose white pigment solutions to enable businesses greener product formulations. In April, the start-up raised CHF 3.4 million to work on marketing its first product, a cellulose-based white pigment. The product is positioned as an alternative to…
Read MoreEmovo Care receives a CHF 100’000 FIT loan
The FIT (Fondation pour l’Innovation Technologique) in Canton of Vaud supports Emovo Care with a FIT Tech Seed loans of CHF 100’000 Emovo Care isL spin-off. The start-up is at the forefront of medical technology with its innovative hand exoskeleton tailored for patients suffering from neurological or orthopaedic injuries. This groundbreaking device will…
Read MoreA consortium led by Addex Therapeutics secures a €4 million Eurostars grant
The Geneva-based pharmaceutical company will use the grant to support its programme for mild neurocognitive disorders (mNCD). The project, called COGNI+, aims to develop clinical candidates ready for IND enabling studies and is led by a consortium that includes Naason Science (South Korea), BioAxis Research (Netherlands), Pharmidex Pharmaceutical Services (UK), and Stichting Radboud…
Read MoreDewi, DNAQuraCy, naialabs and MagFlow awarded grants from FIT
The FIT, (Fondation pour l’Innovation Technologique) in canton of Vaud awarded 4 promising Swiss Health Valley projects. DNAQuraCy spun out of UNIL/CHUV and works on the next generation DNA sequencing tools. The three other projects are spin-offs from EPFL: Dewi anticipates anxiety attacks through neuroscience, naialabs allows at-home blood testing and MagFlow is miniaturizing microcatheters.…
Read MoreIsospec Analytics wins CHF 150’000 and Venture Kick’s 3rd round
The startup uses molecular signatures that can be used like bar codes to identify molecules, and developed a technology to measure them in a fast and reliable way, digitizing molecular structure, and greatly simplifying identification processes. This technology is key for the development of precision medicine. The molecular structure of a compound plays…
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