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Relive the moment: watch how the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2024 celebrated the best of Swiss innovation and entrepreneurship in Lausanne. Enjoy, and get inspired! About: TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award: Venturelab has organized the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award every year since 2011. A jury of 100 leading investors and startup experts selects the 100 most innovative and promising Swiss startups. Each jury member nominates 10 Swiss startups that are less than five years old, awarding ten points for first place down to one point for tenth place. The companies with the most points are included in the TOP 100 Startup Ranking. Meet all the winners - download your free copy of the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Magazine: https://lnkd.in/drEHcj3 The TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2024 is supported by Presenting Partner UBS and Gold Partners SIX and Swiss Venture Club. The TOP 100 Event Partners are the Canton of Vaud (Innovaud / Vaud Promotion), the Gebert Rüf Stiftung, Walder Wyss Ltd., HANDELSZEITUNG, PME magazine, Startupticker.ch, startup.ch, Venturelab, Venture Kick, and IFJ - Startup Support. #TOP100SSU

OptimalPSI fou. receives CHF 150’000 from Venture Kick to develop patient-specific spinal fusion implants. https://lnkd.in/dX5KWsKd Congratulations to amazing team: Wolfgang Rubin, Thijs Smit, Xiaoyu Du, Stephen Ferguson. About: With approximately 400'000 spinal fusion surgeries annually in the U.S., a major complication, implant subsidence, affects 51% of patients. Using a patent-pending topology optimization method, the team has developed a patient-specific implant that reduces subsidence risk by 90% compared to current implants. The founding team consists of two scientists from ETH Zürich. Their technology has a potential U.S. market revenue of USD 1.73 billion annually. #SwissStartups #VentureKick

Kicking off the Venture Leaders Technology 2025 with a pitch session featuring 10 innovative Swiss entrepreneurs who will represent the Swiss National Startup Team in the Silicon Valley in April 2025 🌎 Join the online pitch session and elect the Captain through live voting! https://lnkd.in/dHxNjdY2 Meet the Swiss National Startup Team: aurigin.ai: Detection of deep fakes and deception in audio and video. Brightside AI: Making cybersecurity personal for SMEs. DAAV: DAAV-air enables you to move freely. DPhi Space: Shared satellites to simplify access to space. Hoshī: Automating communication for wholesalers. Miraex: Photonic sensing and quantum solutions. Mondaic Ltd.: Physics-informed digital twins for ultrasonic inspection. PROUD : Aiming to unleash the full power of the new generation of chips developed for AI and quantum computing. Rapidata: Powering AI with rapid and scalable human data processing. viboo: Building intelligence, empowering efficiency. The Swiss National Startup Team's roadshow to Silicon Valley is organized by Venturelab in cooperation with our partners DPD Switzerland, EPFL, ETH Zürich, Kellerhals Carrard, Rothschild & Co, Unicorn Anchor, and Etat de Vaud. #VLeadersTech #Technology #SiliconValley #SwissStartups

Our curated Startup Funding News for you: Oculis prices $100 million offering, 12 million for fundraising tech RaiseNow, how to sell your business idea, and adapting the IPO roadmap for today’s market.

TOP 100 Swiss startup Oculis has been selling 5 million shares at USD 20 each, raising up to USD 100 million! https://lnkd.in/d3ner8yW Congratulations to the successful team: Riad SHERIF (CEO), Gudrun Bachmann (CTO), Daniel Char (Chief Legal Officer), and Sylvia Cheung (CFO). The highly requested offering is expected to close by February 18, 2025, if all conditions are met. The funds will be used for clinical development, including the neuroprotective candidate privosegtor (OCS-05), and other general corporate needs. About: Oculis is a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative topical ophthalmic treatments to improve vision and patient care. Its non-invasive eye drop therapies offer a breakthrough for retinal and front-of-the-eye diseases. Leading candidates include OCS-01, a preservative-free dexamethasone formulation using proprietary Solubilizing Nanoparticle (SNP) technology, and OCS-02, a topical anti-TNF alpha antibody. With a strong focus on formulation discovery, Oculis advances treatments for sight-threatening diseases. #TOP100SSU #BioTech #SwissStartups

This week, four Swiss startups have successfully raised more than CHF 40.7 million from investors, both local and international, proving that growth capital is well within reach for companies in Switzerland. If you want to stay up to date, subscribe to the Venturelab Startup Funding newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dF8a7Tpt Meet this week’s successful startups: vVARDIS secures CHF 31.6 million to accelerate global growth.  ETFbook raises CHF 3.8 million to enhance platform capabilities, and expand data coverage. nextesy secures CHF 3.3 million to revolutionize business process automation with AI. BRU AG secures CHF 2 million to scale production, expand sales, and grow its brand in new markets. Check also the Swiss Venture Insights Q4 Report: https://lnkd.in/d6CVvpj #SwissStartups #Fundraising

CYSEC is securing space internet and satellite connectivity. Read our interview with Venture Leader Mobile, Yacine Felk, Co-Founder and COO of CYSEC, as he prepares to join the Swiss National Startup Team at MWC Barcelona 2025: https://lnkd.in/dfkr-G4a Venture Leaders Mobile 2025 is organized by Venturelab with the support of Huawei Switzerland, Swisscom Ventures, and VISCHER. Are you ready for more? Follow us on social media via the hashtag #VLeadersMobile and join us in Barcelona for the Swisscom Ventures Cocktail night: https://lnkd.in/e4RJ6iaq     #VLeadersMobile #SwissStartups #Innovation #MWC #4YFN

Algorized is developing data-centric people-sensing software for UWB sensors. Read our interview with Venture Leader Mobile, Natalya Lopareva, CEO of Algorized, as she prepares to join the Swiss National Startup Team at MWC Barcelona 2025: https://lnkd.in/d_WArzaY   Venture Leaders Mobile 2025 is organized by Venturelab with the support of Huawei Switzerland, Swisscom Ventures, and VISCHER. Are you ready for more? Follow us on social media via the hashtag #VLeadersMobile and join us in Barcelona for the Swisscom Ventures Cocktail night: https://lnkd.in/e4RJ6iaq     #VLeadersMobile #SwissStartups #Innovation #MWC #4YFN

Our curated Startup Funding News for you: vVARDIS closes $35 million financing, ETFbook raises €4 million, Nextesy secures CHF 3.3 million in pre-seed financing, and Biped Robotics, Synature and Châtaigne receive FIT Digital support.

M01N Startup Camp 2025 – The biggest startup event at Lake Zurich is soon opening its doors and Venturelab is getting you in! https://moin.camp/en From pioneering founders to innovative ideas, this event is where connections are made and the future is shaped. Don’t miss out the energy, the insights, and the M01N Startup Camp Vibe! The followers of Venturelab who register can use the code RAPPERSWILDELIGHT for an additional 20% off their purchase. Get your tickets here: https://moin.camp/en 📅 20.02.2025 from 2PM to 11PM. 📍 Eventhouse Rapperswil, Neue Jonastrasse 65, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland. 👥 1,000+ startup founders, industry leaders, and game-changers. See you in Rapperswil! #M01NStartupCamp #Startups #Networking #Innovation #Entrepreneurship