TOP 100 - The Best Swiss Startups 2012
Location: VD

Rank Startup Description
7
Abionic SA
Lausanne, 2010
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Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic...
8
Lemoptix SA
Lausanne, 2008
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Lemoptix develops, sells and licenses next-generation micro-opto-electromechanical systems (MOEMS) - based laser scanning and microprojection technologies and products for professional and industrial...
12
Kandou Bus SA
Lausanne, 2011
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Kandou Bus SA is a startup located at the Innovation Square of EPFL. The company was founded in January 2011. Kandou designs high speed, energy and pin efficient serial links connecting Integrated Circuit...
17
Poken SA
Lausanne, 2007
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Poken is revolutionizing the event industry with its innovative and simple solutions to generate high quality leads, get unprecedented insight into people's interests, and boost networking between par...
18
L.E.S.S. - Light Efficient System SA
Lausanne, 2012
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A new technology based on nano-structured waveguides enables the implementation of energy efficient distributed illumination devices. The patented technology opens new routes in designing innovative green...
19
SWISSto12 Sàrl
Lausanne, 2011
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SWISSto12 aims at becoming a leading global supplier of components and systems for terahertz (THz) signal transmission. The company name illustrates both its Swiss production technologies and the Tera...
20
Typesafe Inc.
Lausanne, 2010
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Companies as diverse as Twitter, Siemens and UBS use Scala. This programming language is custom-designed for the development of programs that run simultaneously on different processor cores or servers,...
21
Aleva Neurotherapeutics SA
Lausanne, 2008
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In what is known as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) therapy, a surgeon implants electrodes in the brain. This therapy has proven effective for treating movement disorders such as for patients with Parkinson’s...
22
Aïmago SA
Lausanne, 2008
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The EasyLDI has been in clinical use since last March. This high-performance camera emits a laser beam that penetrates 2 mm into the skin. From the reflected light it determines the intensity of the circulation...
24
Attolight SA
Lausanne, 2008
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Attolight will commercialize a unique measurement tool for semiconductor based nanostructures. The tool we have developed consists of a modified electron microscope and yields combined spatial and temporal...
28
Biocartis SA
Lausanne, 2007
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Molecular diagnostics is presently a time-consuming process suited only for large laboratories. Biocartis is now bringing this analytical technology to smaller labs and hospitals with a simple and cost-effective...
34
Jilion SA
Lausanne, 2011
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Jilion is the creator of SublimeVideo®, the world's first cloud-based HTML5 video player; a unique solution that delivers all of the benefits of HTML5 video with none of the associated complexity.
39
Lotaris SA
Yverdon-les-Bains, 2008
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Lotaris is known for its platform that helps software companies to license mobile applications. But what about the company behind the platform?

Lotaris is built around a simple idea: we help...
48
Preclin Biosystems AG
Epalinges, 2008
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Preclin Biosystems AG offers a comprehensive in vivo preclinical testing platform for the identification and validation of lead candidate therapeutics.
51
ActLight SA
Lausanne, 2011
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Conventional solar-cells, still to this day remain very bulky and perform poorly when used for small electronics solutions is deployed in suboptimal lighting conditions. The startup of co-founders Serguei...
58
Sensima Technology SA
Gland, 2008
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Sensima Technology is a fabless semiconductor company which develops and design CMOS magnetic sensors, completely integrated on a chip, in particular for position sensing.
63
senseFly SA
Ecublens, 2009
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senseFly produces smart flying cameras that can automatically survey a zone of up to 10 square kilometers in 30 minutes while recording high-resolution aerial images. Such images are transformed in precise...
65
Imina Technologies SA
Lausanne, 2009
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The electronic manipulators from Imina Technologies are no larger than a die for a board game. They make it significantly easier to handle and sense samples being examined with optical or electron microscopes....
67
Sophia Genetics SA
Ecublens, 2011
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Sophia Genetics SA is expert in medical bioinformatics. It offers health professionals who perform patient clinical genetic diagnostics, an integrated application for the analysis and banking of patient...
75
routeRANK Ltd
Lausanne, 2008
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Anyone looking for the fastest, least expensive or most environmentally friendly way to get from Point A to Point B will find RouteRANK indispensable. This travel search engine shows results for trips...
76
Pix4D SA
Ecublens, 2011
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With over ten years of leading scientific research and founded in 2011, Pix4D has become the main provider for professional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) processing software. Started as a spin-off of...
79
QGel SA
Lausanne , 2009
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The hydrogel from this Lausanne startup is an exact copy of human collagen. Cells can grow within it just as they do in the body. The result is a 3D tissue sample for drug development and compatibility...
80
Pandora Underwater Equipment SA
Ecublens, 2011
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The pressure sensor micro-computer SUBA™ by Pandora Underwater Equipment is the only automatic way today to improve the safety of a dive by controlling depth levels, depth tresholds, ascent rates and...
87
Slyde Watch SA
Luins, 2010
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The Slyde concept is a revolutionary watchmaking experiment combining a high-technology product and an internet platform enabling the watch to be personalized while offering the opportunity to download...
90
Edimer Biotech SA
Epalinges, 2009
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Edimer Pharmaceuticals is dedicated to developing EDI200 as a treatment for X-linked Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia (XLHED). XLHED is a rare orphan disease that causes a range of symptoms including...

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