News Dec 14, 2020 Researchers use holography for surgery A team from Balgrist University Hospital has carried out the world’s first holographically navigated spinal operation with direct navigation. Thi...
News Dec 11, 2020 Patients stand to benefit from innovative tech project The investment and innovation promotion agency Basel Area Business & Innovation is joining forces with several partners to realize a technolo...
News Dec 11, 2020 Boehringer Ingelheim acquires Basel’s NBE-Therapeutics German pharma group Boehringer Ingelheim is to acquire the Basel life sciences company NBE-Therapeutics for €1.18 billion. NBE-Therapeutics speci...
News Dec 11, 2020 Lucerne researcher awarded EU grant Mira Burri is the first researcher at the University of Lucerne to be awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. The grant ...
News Dec 10, 2020 Urban Connect expands e-fleet offering Urban Connect has raised 2.5 million Swiss francs in a financing round to step up its activities. Urban Connect is Europe’s first multimodal mobi...
News Dec 10, 2020 Arbonia investing in digitization Building component supplier Arbonia is to fully acquire Webcom Management Holding GmbH. Arbonia is consequently investing in the digitization of ...
News Dec 10, 2020 Crypto Valley: official launch of the Western Switzerland Chapter Switzerland is a blockchain nation: the cluster of blockchain companies and foundations extends far beyond the borders of the small town of Zug w...
News Dec 09, 2020 Solar Impulse spin-off H55 raises CHF 20 million to complete its electric airplane Following a new fund raising of CHF 20 million, start-up H55 will be able to expand its operations and strengthen its engineering team in order t...
News Dec 09, 2020 Nezasa raises additional capital Nezasa has secured €5.1 million in new growth financing, mainly from its existing investors. The funds will enable the successful travel tech sta...
News Dec 09, 2020 HSG again ranks among European elite The University of St.Gallen (HSG) has again been ranked among the ten best European business schools. However, HSG has lost some ground in the ra...
News Dec 09, 2020 Vaud-based medtech company Abionic launches new tool for faster triage of Covid-19 patients With the launch of its CE-Mark certified device cSOFA, which assesses the severity of Covid-19 among patients within only five minutes of analyzi...
News Dec 09, 2020 EPFL spin-off ClearSpace enters €86 million contract with the European Space Agency ESA has signed an €86 million contract with an industrial team led by the Vaud-based start-up ClearSpace to purchase a unique service : the world...
News Dec 08, 2020 HeiQ listed on the London Stock Exchange Since Monday, HeiQ has been listed on the London Stock Exchange. The manufacturer of technologies for specialised textiles more than doubled its ...
News Dec 07, 2020 Start-up recovering rare earth metals from electrical scrap The chemist Dr. Ajay Patil has developed a new technology allowing rare earth metals to be recovered from electrical scrap. This award-winning pr...
News Dec 07, 2020 VoltWALL wins Boldbrain competition The CleanTech firm voltWALL has won first prize at this year’s Boldbrain Startup Challenge. The company developed a modular energy storage system...
News Dec 07, 2020 CSL Behring opens new manufacturing facility in Bern Leading global biotech company CSL Behring has recently inaugurated a new state-of-the-art immunoglobulin manufacturing plant in the Swiss canton...
News Dec 04, 2020 Four-legged robot convinces investors ANYbotics has secured fresh capital totaling 20 million Swiss francs as part of a financing round. The ETH spin-off is developing a four-legged r...
News Dec 04, 2020 Fragmentix sets up subsidiary in Greater Zurich Area Austrian IT security company Fragmentix has founded a subsidiary in Küssnacht. Fragmentix Schweiz AG will be focusing on the development and prod...