| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.09.2026 | Dexterous Endoscopes and Precisia Care get FIT backing |
Dexterous Endoscopes : an endoscope that changes rigidity during a procedure
In minimally invasive surgery, doctors insert a camera and instruments through small incisions. At present, they must choose between two types of endoscopes: rigi... |
| 03.09.2026 | Startup projects from CHUV and EPFL get FIT support |
Chorus Tre: analysing sensitive medical data without ever taking it out of the hospital
Chorus Tre, a spin-off from the CHUV, is developing a secure platform that enables hospitals and researchers to analyse sensitive medical data without ... |
| 26.08.2026 | FIT supports WasteFlow, DOCumenter, Nextrainers and RiveLock |
WasteFlow: making waste sorting centres more efficient and safer
In a sorting centre, waste moves continuously along conveyor belts. Operators currently have few means of knowing in real time what is passing along the conveyor belt. Checks... |
| 08.07.2026 | Switzerland's Healthcare Staffing Crisis: Carewell Secures CHF 1.5M to Fuel Nationwide Expansion | Carewell has secured CHF 1.5 million to confront Switzerland's severe healthcare staffing crisis. This vital capital will accelerate the company's expansion nationwide. Its innovative digital platform directly addresses a critical shortage ... |
| 06.07.2026 | Carewell raises CHF 1.5 million to address healthcare staffing shortages in Switzerland | Founded in 2024, Carewell develops a platform that helps hospitals, nursing homes and home-care organizations manage staff absences and fill open shifts more efficiently. The company says its solution is already used by more than 50 healthc... |
| 26.06.2026 | FIT backs Isospec Analytics, MYSTONES and Skilder |
Isospec Analytics: reading the molecules of the human body to improve treatment
The human body contains thousands of molecules which, when analysed, could reveal valuable information about our diseases and help us to better understand and ... |
| 18.06.2026 | Detectra, TUUS Solutions and Anyway Systems get FIT support | Detectra: detecting arthritis flare-ups between doctors’visits
Rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis affect approximately 1% of the population in Europe and the United States. Between appointments, which are often spaced three to six... |
| 09.06.2026 | Four new startups awarded FIT support |
EM Path: a ‘wave camera’ for accurate, instant and large-scale replicable radio frequency testing
Antenna and radio frequency testing relies on large anechoic chambers – spaces designed to absorb almost all sound or electromagnetic waves, ... |
| 19.03.2026 | Rhonexum Secures $1M for Cryogenic Electronics, Powering Quantum Future | Rhonexum, a Swiss deep tech innovator, raised $1 million in pre-seed funding. They specialize in cryogenic electronics. This technology allows standard semiconductors to function near absolute zero. Such extreme cold is vital for quantum co... |
| 18.03.2026 | Rhonexum cryogenic electronics attracts USD 1 million investment |
Swiss deep tech Rhonexum develops electronics that can operate at cryogenic temperatures close to absolute zero. These temperatures are essential for technologies such as quantum computing, but conventional electronics cannot reliably func... |
| 08.10.2025 | DemoSquare, Smartiz and Windworks get FIT Funding | DemoSquare: tracking and analysing politics and regulation using AI
Regulatory monitoring is risky, time-consuming and costly. It takes around twenty hours per week to compile political and regulatory information, which is essential not onl... |
| 01.10.2025 | SideLights, Undae Science and StudentsPool get FIT support |
SideLights: improving visibility and safety for cyclists with a unique lighting device
In the European Union, over 2,000 cyclists die every year. However, with just one second of additional visibility, 50% of these accidents could be avoid... |
| 24.09.2025 | Six startups recognized in competitions across Switzerland |
Birds&co wins this year's FIT Impact Award
With its solution for nature and species conservation, the Lausanne-based startup Birds&co has taken the top spot in this year's Fondation for Innovation and Technology Impact Awards. The ... |
| 27.11.2024 | Trailblazing ventures and impact projects get FIT funding |
With the growing complexity of high-value-added electronic products, guaranteeing their quality in production is becoming a major challenge. Manufacturers rely on automated test systems to detect defects and ensure the conformity of each u... |
| 30.10.2024 | Trente ans de soutien et d'impact pour la FIT |
70 millions de Francs d’aides, près de 6000 emplois soutenus et 2,9 milliards levés. Voici quelques-uns des chiffres évoqués lors de la soirée célébrant les 30 ans de la FIT (Fondation pour l'Innovation Technologique). Rassemblant plus de ... |
| 18.06.2024 | Swiss startups earn accolades at home and abroad |
Organised by Female founders, ‘Lead Today. Shape Tomorrow.’ (LTST) is an online event aiming to empower women, increase diversity in tech & innovation, and inspire over 3.000 participants. It offers various formats such as Keynotes, pa... |
| 28.02.2024 | Fresh funding to drive Artiria Medical forward |
Founded in 2019, Artiria Medical is on a mission to revolutionize minimally invasive surgical interventions for the better treatment of stroke patients. Its leading product is a novel real-time deflectable guidewire that enables neurointer... |
| 14.02.2024 | Financial boost for Logmind | Logmind SA, an EPFL spinoff, has developed a web-based SaaS platform based on artificial intelligence and machine learning that allows billions of log data from complex IT systems to be analysed in real time and converted into meaningful in... |
| 06.09.2023 | FIT funding for Neology and ClearSky | Neology paves the way for carbon-free commercial transportation
At the forefront of sustainable transportation, Neology has developed an innovative solution that cracks ammonia to produce hydrogen directly onboard vehicles. By using a uniqu... |
| 21.03.2023 | CHF 500,000 to boost Alithea Genomics RNA sequencing | Recently, we have become almost familiar with the term “RNA”, since it is used extensively in the media regarding the vaccine against Covid. But what is RNA? It is an essential molecule ubiquitous in biological systems – even more than DNA.... |
| 19.03.2023 | Обзор технологических стартапов в образовании за последнюю неделю | Основатели MentorcliQ: Филипп Джордж, президент и главный исполнительный директор, Энди Джордж, директор по стратегии, Майлз Ульрих, технический директор
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| 15.03.2023 | Aequaland and Stacksync get FIT Digital Boost | An edtech platform on a mission to disrupt education
Aequaland has a bold vision of empowering kids to become their own superheroes and transform education through technology innovation. Its educational platform of digital minigames and res... |
| 06.03.2023 | Resilient and Heima get FIT Tech boost | |
| 10.02.2023 | FIT Impact, un nouvel outil pour soutenir les projets low-tech et durables | Sous l'impulsion du canton de Vaud – qui a renouvelé son soutien jusqu'en 2030 – la FIT entend poursuivre sa mission en prenant en compte la forte dynamique et les évolutions de l’écosystème vaudois de l’innovation. Outre les programmes FIT... |
| 30.11.2022 | Volumina Medical and MinWave Technologies get FIT boost | |
| 21.10.2022 | FIT supports AdVentura Works, Planny and SwissInspect | |
| 05.10.2022 | Saporo, LegalPass and Tyma Health get FIT boost | Cybersecurity is a multi-challenge business: it only takes one vulnerability for a hacker to attack an organisation, while a defender needs to protect all potential attack paths to safeguard their environment. By identifying their cybersecu... |
| 21.09.2022 | DOPPL citizen-led precision medicine gets FIT support | At the heart of Doppl is “the biobase”, a global, crowd-sourced biobank of biological samples with a database of associated biological data. This powerful data is harnessed from organoids - small lab-grown mini-organs from living patients. ... |
| 15.08.2022 | CHF 100'000 to protect athletes from brain trauma | |
| 30.06.2022 | 20 Millions pour pérenniser la FIT | |
| 08.06.2022 | CHF 500'000 for Droople decentralized water intelligence platform | The United Nations set up the Sustainable Development Goal SDG6 to ensure safe global water access by 2030. Alongside, the United Nations also predict a deficit of more than 40% in water availability if the world continues its current path ... |
| 17.05.2022 | Voltiris Greenhouse Photovoltaic Solution gets FIT boost | To feed our growing global population, sustainable, efficient, and optimized agriculture is required. In this context, high tech glass greenhouses will be key for the future of agriculture. Their global surface is expected to grow almost 20... |
| 09.05.2022 | Qaptis Carbon Capture Solution gets FIT support | There are approximately 350 million trucks and 95,000 boats in the world. Together they emit 3,440 megatons of CO2 per year, accounting for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet no solution has yet been found to decarbonise these secto... |
| 03.05.2022 | HemostOD blood platelets Manufacturing gets FIT support | Worldwide, 10 million platelet concentrates are transfused each year. Platelets are small blood cells whose function is to stop bleeding. Today, patients can only rely on blood donations. These life-saving transfusions face recurring shorta... |
| 02.03.2022 | Ceidos cell analysis solution gets closer to industrialisation | |
| 23.02.2022 | CHF100k to improve the onboard power and range of light electric vehicles | In recent years, electric vehicles have become the new race for clean mobility and represent a significant step in moving closer to carbon reduction. However, as for every technology, electric vehicles face the challenge of constant innovat... |
| 10.02.2022 | FIT Growth Funding for AgroSustain Solution market launch | The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that approximately one-third of global food production – worth around USD 1.66 trillion – goes to waste annually. Food waste occurring during storage and transportation of fast perishabl... |
| 08.12.2021 | Autonomyo Connected Exoskeleton gets FIT Support | |
| 03.09.2021 | New FIT Food Tech supports B’ZEOS | Green Tech B’ZEOS is the first startup supported by the FIT Food Tech. The new program is part of the Vaud foundation’s just launched Food & Hospitality Vertical, alongside the FIT Hospitality & Food by EHL. The venture will be work... |
| 15.06.2021 | CHF 400'000 to boost Flybotix Market Deployment | |
| 15.06.2021 | CHF 400'000 to boost Flybotix Market Deployment | Drones are more and more widely used to inspect hard-to-reach and dangerous areas, but many of them are either inaccessible to most drones due to their very limited flight time or necessitate lengthy inspections. This induces complicated, c... |
| 11.03.2021 | Alithea Genomics secures funds to fuel optimisation in RNA sequencing | |
| 11.03.2021 | Alithea Genomics secures funds to fuel optimisation in RNA sequencing | RNA is a molecule resulting from the transcription of a gene, which allows the synthesis of a protein. This RNA can be sequenced, in particular with a view to finding an answer to certain diseases. The analysis of gene expression in biologi... |
| 10.03.2021 | FIT Investors allie startups et investisseurs qualifiés | FIT Investors est issue d’un constat simple: il n’est pas évident ni pour les start-ups d’entrer en contact avec les investisseurs, ni pour les investisseurs de s’y retrouver parmi les nombreuses start-ups de la région. La plateforme entend... |
| 10.03.2021 | FIT Investors allie startups et investisseurs qualifiés | |
| 23.02.2021 | NeoCarbons obtains CHF 100’000 for its sustainable CO2 conversion technology | |
| 23.02.2021 | NeoCarbons obtains CHF 100’000 for its sustainable CO2 conversion technology | This year will be devoted to the validation of semi-industrial equipment, setting up of R&D structures and commercial development of NeoCarbons. The CHF 100'000 Tech Seed loan awarded by the Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT)... |
| 02.12.2020 | Comphya raises additional USD 1.3 million | |
| 02.12.2020 | Comphya raises additional USD 1.3 million | Based in Lausanne, Comphya is a medical device company developing a novel implantable device to restore erectile function in patients non-responsive to oral drugs (e.g., Viagra), particularly spinal cord injury and post-prostatectomy patien... |
| 25.11.2020 | More funds for SmartHelio | Although solar panel installations have multiplied in the last decade to fight climate change, their maintenance is still done manually. Moreover, reactive maintenance is often preferred over preventing faults and dysfunctions, due to the d... |
| 25.11.2020 | More funds for SmartHelio | |
| 11.08.2020 | CHF 100’000 for early cancer cachexia detection | |
| 11.08.2020 | CHF 100’000 for early cancer cachexia detection | In Switzerland, 41’700 new cases of cancer are detected each year, causing 16’900 deaths. While some forms of cancer are more aggressive than others, 25% of cancer patients actually die from another disease known as “cachexia”. Worldwide, 3... |
| 03.08.2020 | CHF 100’000 to fight neurogenerative diseases | |
| 03.08.2020 | CHF 100’000 to fight neurogenerative diseases | Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease affect elderly people, debilitate their lives, ultimately leading to their death. With an increasing number of senior citizens, Alzheimer’s alone is projected to affect 1... |
| 31.07.2020 | Vaud spin-offs receive support from EPFL and FIT | |
| 31.07.2020 | Vaud spin-offs receive support from EPFL and FIT | Alithea Genomics designs low-cost transcriptomics solutions, which consist of the study of messenger RNAs produced during genome transcription. The technology enables large-scale studies to be conducted in the pharmaceutical and biomedical ... |
| 15.07.2020 | Half a million to further boost CYSEC growth | |
| 15.07.2020 | Half a million to further boost CYSEC growth | CYSEC SA has developed a highly innovative cybersecurity risks mitigation solution which aims at making accessible cybersecurity to all organizations. CYSEC is a member of the Confidential Computing Consortium to which it expects to contrib... |
| 17.06.2020 | Three Vaud ventures funded by FIT Digital | Remedok – Digital Seed Loan of CHF 50’000 |
| 17.06.2020 | Three Vaud ventures funded by FIT Digital | |
| 16.06.2020 | Alogo Analysis secures CHF 1 million in funding | |
| 16.06.2020 | Alogo Analysis secures CHF 1 million in funding | Alogo Analysis is a Swiss company specialized in movement and performance analysis in the equestrian world, with the aim of modernizing equestrian sports through new technologies dedicated to competition organizers, the public and riders an... |
| 10.06.2020 | Cleantech startup to introduce sustainable energy networks | The distribution of energy services in dense urban areas with increasing human and commercial activities, still strongly depends on fossil fuels. Meanwhile, urban heating and cooling networks are expanding, with more than 16’500 new network... |
| 10.06.2020 | Cleantech startup to introduce sustainable energy networks | |
| 05.06.2020 | CHF 100'000 to support DePoly's PET recycling | Plastic waste, landfill pollution and reliance on oil are major issues of our modern society, and current PET recycling technologies often face the challenge of mixed plastic types in the waste. With a recycling process that can selectively... |
| 05.06.2020 | CHF 100'000 to support DePoly's PET recycling | |
| 03.06.2020 | PrivateDeal’s smart booking platform supported by FIT | In the booking process, a traveller, whose challenge is to find the best price, is often faced with the difficult choice of selecting his online booking platform: room prices vary significantly depending on the date and on the chosen platfo... |
| 03.06.2020 | PrivateDeal’s smart booking platform supported by FIT | |
| 28.05.2020 | Crokeo accompagné par Akiden Ventures | |
| 28.05.2020 | Crokeo accompagné par Akiden Ventures | Crokeo est un service écologique de livraison de croquettes saines et sur-mesure à domicile pour chiens et chats en Suisse. Lancée il y a un an par deux entrepreneurs de talent, Crokeo a rejoint l'accélérateur Akiden Ventures pour bénéficie... |
| 12.05.2020 | New funds for Genknowme | |
| 12.05.2020 | New funds for Genknowme | It has become a common practice to self-monitor weight, physical activity, diet and sleep using numerical tools; however, it is difficult to link the collected data to one's health. The Laussane based Genknowme developed a tool that can det... |
| 08.05.2020 | Support for efficient product traceability | KaiosID aims to improve the efficiency and the ease of product traceability. The start-up adds invisible and unique hidden random patterns on the product’s packaging, which act as the product’s fingerprint and can be automatically verified ... |
| 08.05.2020 | Support for efficient product traceability | |
| 29.04.2020 | Hexisense secures CHF 100'000 | Vacuum environments are used in the production processes of numerous daily objects - from cell phones to pharmaceutical products. However, no vacuum is perfect since gas may leak into or emerge from the vacuum chamber. It is thus essential ... |
| 29.04.2020 | Hexisense secures CHF 100'000 | |
| 28.04.2020 | Novel facial protection for healthcare personnel supported by FIT | For more than a year, Helvitek Labs has been conceiving a new type of high-end anti-pollution mask. Founded by Théo-Tim Denisart and Roberto Costa, the start-up obtained the support of InnoSuisse, won the StartLausanne competition and recei... |
| 28.04.2020 | Novel facial protection for healthcare personnel supported by FIT | |
| 07.04.2020 | FIT provides CHF 100’000 for a robot making biological research more efficient | Both academic and industrial research groups frequently use small biological organisms such as zebrafish 'Danio rerio' eggs for their studies. Zebrafish eggs are collected, screened, sorted and dispensed manually by highly qualified staff i... |
| 01.04.2020 | Suisse romande: Les cantons soutiennent les startups | CANTON DE FRIBOURG |
| 01.04.2020 | CompPair obtains CHF 100'000 to accelerate production | |
| 01.04.2020 | Suisse romande: Les cantons soutiennent les startups | |
| 01.04.2020 | CompPair obtains CHF 100'000 to accelerate production | Composites materials made of carbon, glass or natural fibres and used in marine, sport, windmill, aerospace and automotive industries are, by design, sensitive to damage due to the embedding resin’s properties.
CompPair developed pre-impreg... |
| 24.03.2020 | FIT softens refund conditions to support startups | Due to the negative impact of the current coronavirus epidemic on the economy, The FIT Foundation has decided to provide support measures to all start-ups receiving a FIT Tech or Digital loan (seed and growth) by proposing a temporary relax... |
| 24.03.2020 | FIT softens refund conditions to support startups | |
| 18.03.2020 | MAGMA Learning montre la voie avec son tuteur innovant | Développée par MAGMA Learning, Ari9000.com est un tuteur qui personnalise l’apprentissage de chaque utilisateur grâce à l’intelligence artificielle. Des questions de différents types et difficultés sont d’abord générées automatiquement à pa... |
| 18.03.2020 | MAGMA Learning montre la voie avec son tuteur innovant | |
| 28.02.2020 | EarlySight Eye Diagnostic Device supported by FIT | |
| 28.02.2020 | EarlySight Eye Diagnostic Device supported by FIT | Many ocular diseases (e.g. Age-related Macular Degeneration, glaucoma) are starting with the degeneration of the retina cellular structure which is invisible to current examinations. The patented technology developed by EarlySight takes pic... |
| 24.02.2020 | FIT grants CHF 100’000 to Bloom Biorenewables | |
| 24.02.2020 | FIT grants CHF 100’000 to Bloom Biorenewables | Knowing that the chemical industry is undergoing a deep transformation to move away from fossil resources and toward renewable materials, Bloom developed a chemical process to convert with great efficiency non-edible plant material to petro... |
| 20.12.2019 | CHF7.3 million will help CREAL to bring true immersion to Virtual Reality | |
| 18.12.2019 | FIT backs Freelane to facilitate a stress-free travel experience | |
| 28.11.2019 | CHF50,000 for Logmind | |
| 18.11.2019 | CHF 100,000 to make proton therapy more effective | |
| 11.11.2019 | SeedIMPULSE obtains a CHF 100,000 FIT loan | |
| 04.11.2019 | L2F obtains CHF 500,000 | |
| 29.10.2019 | CHF200,000 for activities marketplace Smeetz | |
| 14.10.2019 | FIT digital funds for Wecheer’s smart bottle opener | |
