TOP 100 - The Best Swiss Startups 2012
Location: ZH
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InSphero is a leading supplier of organotypic, biological in vitro 3D microtissues for highly predictive drug testing. The company, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, currently counts 7 of the top... | |
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GetYourGuide is a booking platform for tours, attractions and activities. Customers can search and book travel experiences in destinations around the world ranging from bus sightseeing tours in London... | |
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Malcisbo develops novel carbohydrate-based vaccines for human and animal health. The focus is on parasitic diseases, on human food safety and on zoonotic diseases.
The company has developed its... |
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A new technology based on electro active polymer actuators enables the implementation of an inexpensive, scalable, precisely focus tunable lens. The patented technology facilitates optical zoom and auto-focus... | |
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Dacuda is a Swiss software company offering low-cost digitization technology based on real-time image processing and computer vision. Dacuda's patent pending, proprietary SLAM Scan® technology enables... | |
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Biognosys mission is to bring Personalized Health Monitoring to everybody based on a disruptive invention that enables full proteome profiling. It is based on a novel mass spectrometric technology that... | |
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ProteoMediX AG is a privately held diagnostic company that was founded in March 2010 as a spin-off company from ETH Zurich. ProteoMediX enables personalized medicine by developing non-invasive diagnostic... | |
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Climeworks has developed an ecologically and economically attractive method to extract CO2 from ambient air. Our goal is to deliver CO2 for the production of synthetic liquid fuels (synfuels) from renewable... | |
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This television station, which links the world of TV with Web 2.0 and targets viewers between the ages of 15 and 35, has gotten off to a good start. Both the number of viewers and their participation... | |
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QualySense develops high-end sorting solutions for grains, seeds and beans sorting.The unique and proprietary devices enable high-speed analysis and sorting of grains, seeds and beans reliably according... | |
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Silp is the talent pool on Facebook. Silp matches jobs with your skills and the social graph to find the best opportunities for you. On Silp, you don’t need to search for jobs – your dream job will find... | |
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Games that merge the real and virtual worlds are a growing trend. During play, you often have to be the first to answer a series of questions or perform tasks in order to prevail over your fellow players... | |
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Expansion plans are right on schedule for this manufacturer of compact, ultra-high-speed electric motors. Celeroton delivers to customers around the world and currently has 11 employees. In addition to... | |
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Winterthur Instruments GmbH develops measurement systems for fast non-contact and non-destructive testing of industrial coatings. This measurement systems can be used to determine coating thicknesses,... | |
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UrbanFarmers AG is a system developer for rooftop farming. The company develops cost-efficient, sustainable and reliable systems that allow growing food in the city at large scale. | |
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This company develops personal safety solutions for Swiss watches so they can do far more than just display the time. The company’s potential is emphatically reflected in its Board of Directors, which... | |
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Uepaa’s aim is to turn a smartphone into a life saving device. The core technology will turn the phone in an alpine tracking, alert and rescue device, which connects to other phones directly using a... | |
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VirtaMed’s virtual reality simulators provide instructional teaching and training of different diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic interventions. | |
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STAFF FINDER maintains an Internet platform for the efficient management of short notice and short-term work assignments, e.g. unplanned absences due to illness or workload peaks (being up to 80% more... | |
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The steadily growing number of elderly and han-dicapped people and the costs related to this trend will be one of the challenges of this and future generations. COMPLIANT CONCEPT offers a new solution... | |
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THELKIN provides advanced systems and services for the mechanical characterization of orthopedic implants and other medical products. This offering helps medical device companies to meet their demanding... | |
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The start-up Agile Wind Power AG was founded on the 1st March 2010, with the vision of developing a new generation of large-scale wind turbine. The AGILE-turbine is a large-scale, slowly turning vertical-axis... | |
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c-crowd.com is the leading Swiss Internet platform that brings together projects and capital. | |
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The pace has picked up for the people at this Zurich-based company, who operate the DeinDeal.ch discount platform.
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Zurich Instruments is a technology leader developing and selling advanced test & measurement instruments for dynamic signal analysis. These devices are used in many fields of application by high-technology... | |
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Koubachi revolutionizes the way objects and things in your household are communicating with you. Our mission is to identify the potential of Smart Objects and create new possibilities of use, new services,... | |
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Aeon Scientific is a medical device company founded in 2010 as a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. In collaboration with physicians the company develops next generation... | |
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Virometix develops a new generation of vaccines using its Synthetic Virus-Like Particle (SVLP) technology, which enables the creation of a novel type of synthetic nanoparticles. Similarly to real viruses,... | |
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The majority of accounting consists of purely routine tasks: entering statements, monitoring incoming payments, balancing bank accounts, sorting and filing. Run my Accounts takes over these tasks; customers... | |
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If you have a smartphone and you ever asked yourself which one of the thousands of applications is the best for you, then AppAware is the answer.
AppAware is a mobile application for Android... |
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Scandit is a leading platform to connect consumers with everyday products through mobile phones. With its best-in-class barcode scanning technology, product data and analytics services, Scandit enables... | |
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Qvanteq develops novel stent technologies to address and overcome the clinically adverse effects of today’s available coronary artery stents. A coronary stent is a small (metal) mesh tube which is being... | |
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Sherpany allows companies to efficiently reach their whole shareholder base far beyond the scope of classical investor relations. Shareholders profit from equal opportunities to inform and contribute... | |
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We are socializing energy behavior. Using social norms, game mechanics and data analytics, we motivate people to use energy more efficiently and engage with others as well as their utility company along... | |
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At its core, Web 2.0 is driven by user contributions and therefore operates on a democratic basis. The founders of Politnetz.ch have implemented a closely related idea of using Web 2.0 for politics. On... | |
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Arling – a Control- and Asset-Management System to realize complex decentralized electricity storage solutions. The innovative operation concept creates more value compared with any classical approach... | |
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Gastros' InductWarm-System is an innovative new system in order to keep food warm at a buffet. The main advantages lay in its aesthetics and flexibility how to present food, the convenience and the energy... | |
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Sandbox started in 2009 and is now the foremost global community of extraordinary young achievers below 30. We identify exceptional people worldwide that already have an impressive impact at a very young... | |
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With the circular press at kringlan it’s possible to fabricate round parts from carbon fiber reinforced plastics on an industrial scale, such as for automobile wheels. It might not sound spectacular but... | |
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Adello is the first and to date the only Mobile Advertising agency in Switzerland. As market leader, Adello organizes events regularly to inform about the latest market trends and discuss issues openly... | |
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Teralytics intends to offer customers “Big Data Apps” for cost-efficient and scalable analysis of large amounts of data. The Big Data Appstore contains prebuilt modules designed for common use-cases that... | |
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The flexible films from greenTEG convert heat directly into electricity. They be manufactured much less expensively than today’s thermo-electric generators and can be put to use in a wide variety of applications.... | |
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Senozon is an international consulting and technology company with specialization in location planning and site assessment, transport planning and systems as well as mobility research, software engineering... | |
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Thingle is about things. Thingle lets you organize and share the things you are passionate about. Once created or shared on Thingle, your passions become known as Thingles, which you can organize into... | |
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elmove develops and produces powerful and perfect to control power trains for the electric propulsion of two and three wheele vehicles. | |
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Sense aims to become the leader in biomedical monitoring tools, via innovative products that perform clinical quality measurements of multiple parameters. Commercialisation will start from proferssional... | |
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quitt.ch is run by ServiceHunter AG, which is a spin-off company of the ETH Zurich. The aim is to use modern internet technology to enable legal employment of cleaners, babysitters and domestic helpers... | |
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The suit made to measure - show personality and carry conviction right from the very beginning. Custom-made suits - fair manufactured, for a good conscience. | |
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The Product – Mabimmune’s InfarctPrevent package consists of PlaqueVision – a PET imaging agent for locating unstable atherosclerotic plaques and FlowMab - an antibody-based therapeutic for stabilizing... | |
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Covagen is a privately held company pioneering the commercialization of Fynomers as next generation protein drugs to address unmet medical needs in inflammatory diseases and cancer. Fynomers represent... | |
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NeMoDevices provides innovative neuromonitoring solutions optimizing diagnosis and treatment of patients with stroke and brain injuries. Its key technologies are based on advanced optoelectronic techniques,.... |
