| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.09.2026 | Jaipur Robotics raises Rs 47 crore in seed funding to expand industrial AI platform | Swiss AI startup Jaipur Robotics has raised around Rs 47.2 crore (€4.3 million) in seed funding to expand its technology for waste-to-energy and other industrial plants.
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The funding round was led by EquityPitcher Ventures and H... |
| 10.09.2026 | European Tech Accelerates: AI Sales Automation Leads $17.5M Round, M&A Heats Up | Atira, a Munich AI powerhouse, secured $17.5 million in a combined Seed and Pre-seed round, led by Accel. This funding fuels its mission to automate complex industrial sales engineering, transforming a $128 billion global market. The invest... |
| 09.09.2026 | Fresh funding for Gaia Tech |
Since its inception in 2021, Gaia Tech has been on the mission to replace artificial and petroleum-based products with bio-compounds and added-value ingredients extracted from agricultural side streams that were initially discarded. By tra... |
| 08.09.2026 | Goodwall, Roofless Labs and Infera Neuro awarded FIF Funding | CHF 400’000 FIF Growth Awarded to Goodwall: helping young people build skills and find careers
Goodwall is a Geneva-based platform that helps young people develop practical skills and discover career paths through short, structured challeng... |
| 07.09.2026 | Proptech startup SCAIT to enhance construction tenders |
Construction tenders involve thousands of pages of contracts, specifications, and requirements that must be reviewed before a bid can be submitted. Much of this work is still performed manually, making the process slow and vulnerable to ov... |
| 07.09.2026 | SCAIT receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to make construction tenders better | Construction tenders can involve thousands of pages of contracts, specifications, and requirements that must be reviewed before a bid can be submitted. Much of this work is still performed manually, making the process slow and vulnerable to... |
| 04.09.2026 | Stellar Alpina secures €160K from Venture Kick for in-space propulsion | Zurich-based space technology startup Stellar Alpina has secured €160,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to advance its compact rocket engine technology for in-space propulsion.
Founded by Rick Röthlisberger, Simi Y. Wespi, Victor Elliesen... |
| 04.09.2026 | Stellar Alpina’s innovation opens new possibilities for orbital mobility |
Stellar Alpina was founded by Rick Röthlisberger, Simi Y. Wespi, Victor Elliesen and Patrick Egli. It emerged from ARIS (the Academic Spaceflight Initiative Switzerland), where its members developed a student-built rotating detonation rock... |
| 04.09.2026 | Atira erhält 15 Millionen – Pyure übernimmt klima&so – Callstack kauft Margelo | Im #DealMonitor für den 4. September werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor... |
| 02.09.2026 | Foldcast Secures Funding to Pioneer Sustainable Concrete with Recyclable Paper Moulds | Foldcast, a Swiss innovator, secured CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick. Its mission: slash concrete waste and CO2 emissions. The company employs recyclable paper moulds, advanced design software, and digital manufacturing. This method creates s... |
| 01.09.2026 | Panda Therapeutics set to advance a multi-target Alzheimer’s therapy |
Current antibody treatments for Alzheimer’s disease primarily target amyloid-beta, one of the proteins associated with the disease, and have shown limited clinical benefit. Research indicates that several types of abnormal protein deposits... |
| 31.08.2026 | Foldcast receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to cut concrete waste with paper moulds |
Concrete accounts for around 8% of global CO₂ emissions, yet conventional construction often uses significantly more material than structurally necessary. Traditional wood and metal moulds are costly and offer limited flexibility, making i... |
| 31.08.2026 | PANDA Therapeutics secures €160K to advance multi-target Alzheimer’s therapy | Biotech startup PANDA Therapeutics has obtained €160,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to advance a new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease toward clinical development. By targeting multiple harmful protein deposits in the brain with a sing... |
| 31.08.2026 | Foldcast secures €160K to reduce concrete use with recyclable paper moulds | Swiss construction technology startup Foldcast has secured €160,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to advance its recyclable paper mould technology for concrete construction and move towards commercial deployment.
A spin-off from Universit... |
| 27.07.2026 | Biotech Disruptor Immitra Bio Secures CHF 2.4 Million for In-Vivo Gene Editing | Immitra Bio secured CHF 2.4 million pre-seed funding. The Geneva biotech develops a scalable in-vivo gene editing platform. Its lead candidate, IB-003, offers a potential one-time cure for inherited anemia. This mutation-agnostic technology... |
| 24.07.2026 | CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to scale autonomous fresh food deployments |
Robots have already taken over several tasks in our daily lives, such as cleaning floors, driving cars and assisting with some of the most challenging surgeries. The startup Maus Robotics aims to use fully autonomous robots to prepare meal... |
| 21.07.2026 | ImmitraBio secures CHF 2.4 million in pre-seed funding |
Immitra Bio is developing a platform for scalable, one-time curative in-vivo gene editing therapies based on its novel mutation agnostic gene editing technology and digital target identification platform. The company’s approach is designed... |
| 20.07.2026 | goNEON Agentic Systems receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to accelerate infrastructure planning with AI | Planning roads, utilities, and transport infrastructure still relies heavily on manual engineering workflows, disconnected software, and repetitive analyses. As projects become more complex and budgets tighter, evaluating multiple design al... |
| 20.07.2026 | goNEON Agentic Systems secures €160K to accelerate AI-powered infrastructure planning | ETH spin-off goNEON Agentic Systems has secured €160,000 (CHF150,000) in funding from Venture Kick to accelerate the development of its agentic AI platform for infrastructure planning.
The funding comes as infrastructure planning continues ... |
| 17.07.2026 | NaturLoop ships first coconut-husk panels to paying customers |
The furniture and interior sectors still rely heavily on wood-based panels such as medium-density fiberboard, which typically depend on virgin timber and formaldehyde-based adhesives. Meanwhile, coconut-producing countries burn or discard ... |
| 14.07.2026 | RAROG secures €162K to turn everyday devices into life-saving rescue beacons | Swiss engineering startup RAROG has obtained €162,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to develop a portable search-and-rescue system that detects the radio signals emitted by everyday electronic devices.
Finding missing people is often slow... |
| 14.07.2026 | RAROG is off to a flying start |
The search for missing people is often a lengthy and difficult process, particularly in forests, mountains, disaster zones or in poor weather conditions. Existing methods rely primarily on visual searches, search and rescue dogs or mobile ... |
| 09.07.2026 | Rhonexum Secures Funding for Cryogenic Quantum Innovation | Rhonexum, an EPFL spin-off, revolutionizes quantum computing. It develops cryogenic electronic chips. These chips operate directly with qubits. This breakthrough tackles quantum scalability issues. Current systems struggle with external ele... |
| 08.07.2026 | ALP Bio Secures Key Funding, Revolutionizing Biologic Drug Safety with AI | ALP Bio secured €161K from Venture Kick. The biotech firm revolutionizes biologic drug safety. It tackles immunogenicity, a critical and costly development hurdle. Its innovative platform merges human immune tissue models with advanced arti... |
| 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 ... |
| 08.07.2026 | Rhonexum receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick |
Quantum computers rely on qubits, highly sensitive components that must be kept colder than outer space. Today the electronics that control those qubits sit outside the cooling system, adding complexity and limiting how many qubits can be ... |
| 08.07.2026 | Rhonexum receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to make cryogenic microchips extremely easy | Quantum computers rely on qubits, highly sensitive components that must operate at temperatures colder than outer space. Today, the electronics that control these qubits remain outside the cooling system, creating technical limitations that... |
| 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... |
| 03.07.2026 | Techbio company ALP Bio obtains CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick |
Biologic drugs, including many therapeutic antibodies, can trigger unwanted immune responses in patients. These reactions can reduce treatment effectiveness, lead to side effects, and contribute to costly failures during clinical developme... |
| 03.07.2026 | ALP Bio raises €161K from Venture Kick to improve the safety of biologic medicines | Swiss biotech startup ALP Bio has secured €161,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to support the commercial development of its platform, which helps drug developers identify immune-related risks earlier in the development process. By combi... |
| 03.07.2026 | CHF 1.5M for Carewell to free Swiss healthcare managers from the staffing crisis |
Switzerland is facing a structural shortage of healthcare professionals, which translates into a constant flow of absences and unfilled shifts on the ground. Building monthly schedules and handling replacements together can absorb up to 60... |
| 01.07.2026 | InnoBooster backs three deep tech startups with CHF 450,000 |
InnoBooster, an initiative of the Gebert Rüf Stiftung, supports university founders who have reached the second stage of the Venture Kick programme with up to CHF 150,000 over a maximum of 18 months to advance their research and developmen... |
| 30.06.2026 | Subatron receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick |
Communication below the surface of the water remains a stubborn engineering problem. Conventional wireless systems perform poorly underwater, typically offering limited range, slow data transmission and unreliable connections — constraints... |
| 29.06.2026 | Subatron secures €162K to tackle one of underwater tech's biggest communication challenges | Swiss engineering startup Subatron has obtained €162,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to develop a new generation of underwater communication technology.
The solution aims to enable faster, more reliable data transmission beneath the sur... |
| 29.06.2026 | Subatron obtains CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to redefine underwater communication | Communication underwater remains a major technological challenge. Conventional wireless systems perform poorly below the surface, often offering limited range, slow data transmission, and unreliable connections. These limitations restrict r... |
| 22.06.2026 | Solein: How Solar Foods is Redefining Sustainable Nutrition | Solar Foods secured €77.8 million to expand Factory 02, pioneering "protein from air." Their Solein ingredient, created from CO2 and hydrogen, revolutionizes food production. It offers a sustainable, versatile alternative to tradi... |
| 21.06.2026 | Swiss Startup Minysa Accelerates GaN Chip Development for Advanced Power Systems | Swiss startup Minysa secured €163K from Venture Kick. The company pioneers advanced GaN gate-driver chips. These innovations boost power electronics efficiency and reliability. They tackle complex GaN control challenges. Minysa's technology... |
| 19.06.2026 | Solar Foods bags €77.8M package, €500M defence and dual-use growth fund EDM launched, and warning for Europe's silicon photonics | This week, we tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over €585 million and 3 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
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| 18.06.2026 | Venture Kick backs Minysa with €163K for GaN chip development | Swiss electronics startup Minysa has secured €163,000 (CHF150,000) from Venture Kick to accelerate the development of its next-generation gallium nitride (GaN) control chips for high-performance power electronic systems.
Founded by Salem Ab... |
| 18.06.2026 | Mynisa awarded CHF 150'000 to develop next-gen control chips |
Satellites, robotics, electric drives, and other high-reliability systems require increasingly compact and efficient power electronics. While gallium nitride (GaN) devices can significantly reduce size, heat, and energy losses, their adopt... |
| 16.06.2026 | Immitra Bio Secures Venture Kick Funding for Groundbreaking Stem Cell Therapy | Immitra Bio secured CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick. This funding propels a groundbreaking stem cell therapy. The Geneva biotech company develops an in-vivo approach. It works directly inside the body. This eliminates the need for chemotherap... |
| 15.06.2026 | Immitra Bio receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to reimagine stem cell therapy for rare diseases | More than 7,000 rare genetic diseases affect an estimated 400 million people worldwide, yet 95% still lack an effective treatment. Current stem cell therapies for genetic disorders are often expensive, difficult to scale, and require intens... |
| 15.06.2026 | Immitra Bio receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick |
More than 7,000 rare genetic diseases affect an estimated 400 million people worldwide, yet 95% still lack an effective treatment. Current stem cell therapies for genetic disorders are often expensive, difficult to scale, and require inten... |
| 12.06.2026 | Proptech SCAIT closes oversubscribed pre-seed round |
SCAIT is an AI platform that helps construction companies analyze tenders, identify contract risks, and generate bid submissions. Today, this process is manual, time-consuming, and prone to costly errors. By identifying contract risks and ... |
| 12.06.2026 | First paid pilots and validations for Femtech TrialHer |
Founded in 2025 by Hyatt Antognini-Amin, TrialHer is a women’s health research platform helping health companies and research institutions co-design and validate solutions with real women. The company supported by Microsoft for Startups, t... |
| 11.06.2026 | Carebotics receives CHF 40,000 from Venture Kick to build the digital twin for care homes | What was the first real signal that your solution worked outside the lab or pitch deck, and what did that moment change for you?
The first real signal came when a head nurse saw an early prototype of our scheduler. She told us she had been ... |
| 09.06.2026 | calmea receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick |
Chronic stress and poor sleep affect more than a third of adults, reducing well-being and productivity while driving significant healthcare costs. The sleeptech startup calmea addresses this challenge with a sensorized module installed bet... |
| 04.06.2026 | Hephaistos.bio Secures Venture Kick Funding, Revolutionizing Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing | Hephaistos.bio clinches CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick. This propels their mission to revolutionize chemical manufacturing. They engineer custom enzymes using advanced computational tools, machine learning, and structural biology. This break... |
| 01.06.2026 | hephaistos.bio obtains CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to bring tailor-made enzymes to resilient and sustainable chemical manufacturing | Traditional chemical manufacturing relies on energy- and resource-intensive processes that create significant environmental impact and dependencies on vulnerable supply chains. Using enzymes instead can simplify production, reduce manufactu... |
| 01.06.2026 | CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to simplifiy pharmaceutical and fine chemical manufacturing |
Traditional chemical manufacturing relies on energy- and resource-intensive processes that create significant environmental impact and dependencies on vulnerable supply chains. Using enzymes instead can simplify production, reduce manufact... |
| 01.06.2026 | hephaistos.bio secures €161K to advance sustainable chemical manufacturing | Swiss biotech startup hephaistos.bio has secured €161,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to accelerate the development of custom enzyme solutions for pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing.
Chemical manufacturing remains heavily reliant... |
| 27.05.2026 | TUUS awarded CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick |
Endurance athletes often rely on energy gels that cause sugar spikes, stomach discomfort, and uneven energy delivery. More broadly, many oral delivery systems for nutrients and drugs struggle to provide stable absorption over time, reducin... |
| 22.05.2026 | Biodelphis Therapeutics receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to advance targeted therapies for difficult-to-treat cancers | Current therapies often show limited effectiveness against solid tumors such as pancreatic and lung cancer, particularly in advanced or treatment-resistant cases. New therapeutic strategies are urgently needed, but many biological targets i... |
| 18.05.2026 | Apolarion receives CHF 40,000 from Venture Kick to scale plasma-based seed treatment technology | What was the first real signal that your solution worked outside the lab or pitch deck, and what did that moment change for you?
The first real signal came when Swiss seed companies described pathogens affecting their business that existing... |
| 11.05.2026 | EPFL Deeptech Trailblazers in the spotlight |
The Startup Champions Seed Night is one of the key events in the startup scene in Western Switzerland. The event is organized by EPFL Alumni, the EPFL Vice Presidency for Innovation and Venturelab. The 15th edition once again drew a full h... |
| 11.05.2026 | Déploya receives CHF 40,000 from Venture Kick to scale robotic facade automation deployment | What was the first real signal that your solution worked outside the lab or pitch deck, and what did that moment change for you?
The first real signal came when we started speaking with professionals in the façade and scaffolding industry. ... |
| 04.05.2026 | USD 3.8 million for Mosaic SoC to bring real-time spatial intelligence to consumer devices | 04.05.2026 14:00, Rita Longobardi
Mosaic SoC has raised USD 3.8 million in pre-seed funding to develop perception chips that enable consumer devices to understand their surroundings in real time while keeping power consumption low. The comp... |
| 01.05.2026 | omenic receives CHF 40,000 from Venture Kick to enhance AI-powered operational decision systems | What was the first real signal that your solution worked outside the lab or pitch deck, and what did that moment change for you?
Our first signal came from our very first outreach. We contacted Zurich Airport and expected a slow response, b... |
| 30.04.2026 | ALP Bio AG raises CHF 1.75 million pre-seed to de-risk antibody development |
Immunogenicity, including anti-drug antibody (ADA) responses, remains one of the most difficult risks in biologics development. These immune responses can reduce therapeutic efficacy, create safety concerns, and force teams to abandon or r... |
| 28.04.2026 | Gamma Earth receives CHF 40,000 from Venture Kick to scale AI-enhanced satellite data platform | What was the first real signal that your solution worked outside the lab or pitch deck, and what did that moment change for you?
Gamma Earth started from a real problem we had faced ourselves: the lack of high-resolution, up-to-date, and af... |
| 27.04.2026 | Qendra gets €162K to scale quantum computing systems | Zurich-based Qendra has secured €162,000 (CHF 150,000) in funding from Venture Kick to advance the development of its control systems for quantum computing experiments.
Founded by Martin Stadler (CEO), Ferdinand Felder (COO), and Chidzahi M... |
| 23.04.2026 | Methane Slip Abatement: Daphne Technology Secures CHF 15M, Drives U.S. Clean Energy Shift | Daphne Technology secured CHF 15M. This funding boosts U.S. operations. It expands manufacturing. The SlipPure™ system is key. It drastically cuts methane slip. Natural gas engines are the target. The plasma-catalytic solution reduces emiss... |
| 21.04.2026 | Daphne Technology secures CHF 15M to advance methane abatement deployment | 21.04.2026 09:49, Rita Longobardi
Switzerland-based Daphne Technology has secured CHF 15 million in the first close of its current funding round to scale the commercialization of its methane abatement system. The company focuses on reducing... |
| 20.04.2026 | Tactus Technolgies receives CHF 40,000 from Venture Kick to accelerate music learning platform adoption | What was the first real signal that your solution worked outside the lab or pitch deck, and what did that moment change for you?
The real moment came when we tested our prototype with our own students. We’ve been teaching for decades but se... |
| 20.04.2026 | CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to automate 3D design for engineers |
Design tools for engineers have changed little over the past decades. Today, creating 3D models for parts and machines is still a manual and repetitive process that can take days or even weeks. This increases costs, slows down iteration cy... |
| 20.04.2026 | Kayba receives CHF 40,000 from Venture Kick to scale AI agent reliability and adoption | What was the first real signal that your solution worked outside the lab or pitch deck, and what did that moment change for you?
A Reddit post about our open-source project hit over 500,000 views in a few days. People started integrating it... |
| 20.04.2026 | Venture Kick backs nureo with €163K to streamline 3D design processes | The ICT startup nureo has secured €163,000 (CHF 150,000) in funding from Venture Kick to advance the development of intelligent 3D design tools that reduce manual work and accelerate product development.
Engineering design tools have seen l... |
| 13.04.2026 | LightSeeds awarded CHF 150,000 to turn walls into watts |
Conventional solar panels rely on heavy, fragile glass modules that are prone to breakage and costly to install. These limitations restrict their use, particularly on vertical surfaces such as roads, railways, and industrial building walls... |
| 12.04.2026 | Bewy Revolutionizes Swiss Property Management with AI, Secures Key Funding | Bewy revolutionizes property management. Swiss landlords struggle with high costs, poor service. Bewy combines agentic AI with service offerings. It automates workflows, boosts transparency, cuts costs by up to 30%. Both landlords and tenan... |
| 10.04.2026 | Bewy receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick |
Property management remains inefficient and often fails to meet expectations. In the DACH region alone, landlords spend over CHF 20 billion annually on management services, yet 9 out of 10 are dissatisfied. Common issues include poor commu... |
| 10.04.2026 | Bewy receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to improve property management for landlords and tenants | Property management remains inefficient and often fails to meet expectations. In the DACH region alone, landlords spend over CHF 20 billion annually on management services, yet 9 out of 10 are dissatisfied. Common issues include poor commun... |
| 07.04.2026 | CycloWatt receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick |
Power measurement is the gold standard for cycling performance, enabling precise training strategies. However, existing power meters are expensive and often limited to a single bike, making them inaccessible and impractical for many amateu... |
| 31.03.2026 | DeltaSpark receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to turn CO2 into clean hydrogen and solid materials | Record-high CO2 emissions are driving global warming and increasing pressure on industries to reduce their carbon footprint. Sectors such as cement, waste-to-energy, and heavy manufacturing face particular challenges, as their emissions are... |
| 31.03.2026 | DeltaSpark receives CHF 150'000 from Venture Kick |
Record-high CO₂ emissions are driving global warming and increasing pressure on industries to reduce their carbon footprint. Sectors such as cement, waste-to-energy, and heavy manufacturing face particular challenges, as their emissions ar... |
| 27.03.2026 | NanoZymeX Secures Crucial Funding for Rare Disease Breakthrough | Biotech innovator NanoZymeX recently secured €160,000 from Venture Kick. This funding fuels their advanced lipid nanoparticle platform. The technology seeks to transform enzyme replacement therapy. It targets severe rare genetic conditions,... |
| 27.03.2026 | 1,000 deeptech companies launched with Venture Kick |
Since 2007, Venture Kick has supported teams from academia and research in transforming innovation into market-ready companies. A total of 1,286 startup projects have been funded with CHF 103 million. This has led to the creation of 1,000+... |
| 27.03.2026 | Turning science into startups: 1,000 companies launched with Venture Kick | Since 2007, Venture Kick has supported teams from academia and research in transforming innovation into market-ready companies. A total of 1,286 startup projects have been funded with CHF 103 million. This has led to the creation of 1,000+ ... |
| 26.03.2026 | SolidWatts raises CHF 1.8M to switch industrial heating from gas to clean electricity | 26.03.2026 11:22, Rita Longobardi
Swiss startup SolidWatts has secured CHF 1.8 million in Seed funding to advance the development and commercialisation of its industrial process heating technology. The company is preparing for market entry ... |
| 25.03.2026 | NanoZymeX receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick |
Enzyme replacement therapies are used to treat rare genetic disorders, but their effectiveness is often limited by poor delivery to the target tissue. In addition, immune responses to repeated treatments can limit long-term effectiveness.
... |
| 24.03.2026 | NanoZymeX secures €160K to advance lipid nanoparticle enzyme therapies for rare diseases | Biotech startup NanoZymeX has obtained €160,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to advance a new platform for enzyme replacement therapy using lipid nanoparticles.
Spun out of research at the University of Basel, the technology aims to impr... |
| 19.03.2026 | Dexterous Endoscopes Redefines Minimally Invasive Surgery with Variable Stiffness Technology | Dexterous Endoscopes, a pioneering Swiss startup, has secured CHF 300,000 in early-stage funding. This capital fuels their mission. They revolutionize minimally invasive surgery. Their innovative variable stiffness endoscopes offer surgeons... |
| 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 | Lausanne-based Rhonexum raises €867.5k to advance cryogenic electronics for scalable quantum computing | Rhonexum, a Lausanne-based cryogenic electronics startup, has raised €867.5k ($1 million) in pre-Seed funding to accelerate product development and begin to commercialise its first product, designed to drive the development of scalable quan... |
| 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... |
| 18.03.2026 | Rhonexum secures $1M to scale cryogenic electronics for quantum computing | Swiss quantum technology startup Rhonexum has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding, led by QDNL Participations, with participation from Venture Kick and additional grant support.
Based in Lausanne and spun out of EPFL’s AQUA Lab, Rhonexum ... |
| 17.03.2026 | Dexterous Endoscopes receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick to create next-generation endoscopes for minimally invasive surgery | Millions of endoscopic procedures are performed every year to diagnose and treat conditions inside the body. However, existing instruments force surgeons to compromise between reach and precision. Rigid scopes and cold steel tools offer str... |
| 17.03.2026 | Dexterous Endoscopes receives CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick |
Millions of endoscopic procedures are performed every year to diagnose and treat conditions inside the body. However, existing instruments force surgeons to compromise between reach and precision. Rigid scopes and cold steel tools offer st... |
| 12.03.2026 | EIC Backs Pregnolia's Groundbreaking Preterm Birth Prediction System | Pregnolia secured significant EIC Accelerator funding, propelling its advanced diagnostic system for preterm birth prediction. The Swiss medtech measures cervical stiffness, a crucial biomarker, aiming to reduce premature deliveries. This i... |
| 10.03.2026 | Seprify Secures €13.4M to Scale Sustainable Cellulose-Based Industrial Materials | Seprify, a Fribourg-based biomaterials innovator, secured a significant €13.4 million (CHF 12.25 million) in Series A funding. This capital injection propels the company's cellulose platform from pilot validation to full industrial supply. ... |
| 10.03.2026 | Seprify raises CHF 12.25 million to scale cellulose materials for industry | 10.03.2026 17:00, Rita Longobardi
Swiss bio-materials company Seprify has raised CHF 12.25 million in Series A funding to scale the industrial supply of its cellulose-based ingredients. The financing supports the transition of the company’s... |
| 09.03.2026 | RAROG receives CHF 40,000 from Venture Kick to bring faster search-and-rescue detection | What was the first real signal that your solution worked outside the lab or pitch deck, and what did that moment change for you?
The first real signal came during RAROG’s first field exercise with a local fire brigade. After the deployment,... |
| 08.03.2026 | Pregnolia secures EIC funding to advance preterm birth prediction | 08.03.2026 10:00, Rita Longobardi
Preterm birth remains a growing challenge across Europe. Each year, an estimated 60,000 to 65,000 women deliver prematurely, and the trend continues to rise. In Switzerland, six to seven out of every 100 ba... |
| 05.03.2026 | Kickfund reaches 100 portfolio companies |
Kickfund’s approach is straightforward: it co-invests alongside lead investors, never takes board seats, and keeps its due diligence process deliberately light. Its pipeline consists entirely of Venture Kick third-stage winners – companies... |
| 04.03.2026 | CHF 6.9M seed round for Alithea Genomics to advance large-scale RNA sequencing | 04.03.2026 13:42, Rita Longobardi
Lausanne-based Alithea Genomics has secured a total of CHF 6.9 million in seed financing to accelerate the commercialization of its high-throughput RNA sequencing kits for drug discovery and toxicology. Ali... |
| 03.03.2026 | L.E.S.S. Secures $22 Million Series C for Advanced Lighting Dominance | Swiss firm L.E.S.S. closed a $22 million Series C funding round. This capital fuels aggressive expansion. It accelerates commercialization of LuxiBright, its nano-active fiber lighting. The technology revolutionizes industrial, automotive, ... |
| 03.03.2026 | Fainite Secures CHF 150,000 to Revolutionize Engineering Simulations with Physics-Aware AI | Fainite secures CHF 150,000 from Venture Kick. This significant investment fuels a transformative physics-aware AI platform. It directly addresses the bottlenecks plaguing modern engineering simulations. The platform radically accelerates d... |
| 03.03.2026 | Maus Robotics receives CHF 40,000 from Venture Kick to scale autonomous fresh food deployments | What was the first real signal that your solution worked outside the lab or pitch deck, and what did that moment change for you?
The real signal came during our pilot week at Café Kafka in Basel. In just 45 minutes, 11 people ordered a crêp... |
| 03.03.2026 | RheoCarti receives CHF 40,000 from Venture Kick to advance veterinary implant toward market entry | What was the first real signal that your solution worked outside the lab or pitch deck, and what did that moment change for you?
The real signal came when surgeons and veterinarians held the implant in their hands for the first time. As the... |
| 03.03.2026 | Doxomed receives CHF 40,000 from Venture Kick to deploy interoperable healthcare platform modules | What was the first real signal that your solution worked outside the lab or pitch deck, and what did that moment change for you?
The first signal came before we had any code or pitch deck. Doxomed was born from real conversations with emerg... |
| 02.03.2026 | Venture Kick backs Fainite to advance physics-based simulations | Zurich-based Fainite AG has received €165,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to advance physics-based simulations and expand access to advanced engineering analysis across a wider range of applications.
Modern hardware development and mate... |
