Swiss deep‑tech startup NovoViz, founded by Romanian engineers Andrada Muntean and Andrei Ardelean in 2024, climbed to 27th place in the 2026 TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award and entered the final round of the Prix BCN Innovation competition, which awards 150,000 CHF to the winner. The company has previously raised about $1.9 million through investments, grants and convertible instruments.
Zurich‑based climate‑tech startup Cotierra secured a $3 million funding round led by PINC and Carbon Removal Partners to commercialise its decentralised biochar platform, aiming to improve soil health, farmer productivity and reduce supply‑chain emissions across tropical agriculture.
Swiss fabless semiconductor company Kandou AI raised $225 million in H1 2026 to boost production of its AI connectivity chips and broaden its market reach.
Swiss‑Italian startup Ferm Labs, founded in 2025 and based in Zug with production in Bolzano, raised €3 million led by CDP Venture Capital to scale its deep‑tech bioprocessing platform that creates clean‑label flavour ingredients. The capital will be used to boost manufacturing capacity, hire sales and R&D staff, and support European expansion.
Flexion Robotics, a Zurich‑based AI robotics startup founded by former Nvidia engineers, secured $57 million in funding and is expanding into the US market. The company’s name was changed from “Checkpoint” to “Flexion Robotics” after advice from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Swiss preventive health startup Aeon raised a seed extension, bringing its total seed funding to over €12 million, and used the round to acquire German blood‑diagnostics platform Aware Health, expanding its AI‑driven whole‑body imaging and biomarker offering across Europe.
Transport Fever 3 is the most costly game ever developed by Swiss studio Urban Games and marks its first collaboration with Paradox Interactive. A gameplay video released three weeks before launch shows a shift in focus away from simply earning money with trains and trucks.
Portuguese digital‑health startup Hope Care raised €6 million in a Series A round led by Iberis Capital to expand its regulated remote patient monitoring platform across Europe, adding new offices in Germany and Romania and scaling programmes in Portugal, France and Switzerland.
Swiss email security startup xorlab secured €5 million in a Series A+ round led by Spicehaus Partners to scale its AI‑driven email security platform across Europe, targeting financial, healthcare, critical‑infrastructure and public‑sector customers.
Swiss construction‑tech startup Foldcast received €160k from Venture Kick to scale its recyclable paper mould system that reduces concrete use, aiming to launch pilots and commercial partnerships across Europe.