TOP 100 - The Best Swiss Startups 2012
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HouseTrip is one of Europe’s largest holiday rental booking websites. The concept is simple: when taking a trip, anyone can book a private rental for the price of a hotel room. HouseTrip is easier and... | |
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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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BioVersys is a privately held Swiss biopharmaceutical company located in Basel that focuses on research and development of new drugs and compounds, which switch-off drug resistance within bacterial pathogens... | |
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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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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... | |
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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... | |
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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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Bcomp develops and sells high-performance semi-finished products made from natural fibre composites. We replace aluminium, carbon- or glass fibre composites and make structures more efficient in terms... | |
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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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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... | |
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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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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... | |
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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... | |
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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... | |
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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,... | |
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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... | |
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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... | |
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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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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... | |
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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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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... | |
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Speech recognition isn’t anything special any more, but what Koemei has to offer is still amazing. This startup’s software is able to transcribe speech from multiple speakers. It’s useful for meetings... | |
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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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Searchbox SA is a software company specialized in text analytics, semantic search technologies, and content intelligence, with strong areas of expertise in cognitive sciences, data mining and computer... | |
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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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The mere sound of a dentist’s drill sets off panic in many patients. Thanks to Credentis, this will often be a sound of the past. Together with the University of Leeds, the firm has developed a peptide... | |
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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. | |
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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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Swisstom AG develops innovative medical devices to monitor the lung and heart function of patients in ICUs and during general anesthesia. Swisstom’s products enable life-saving treatment. To date, no... | |
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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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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... |
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StereoTools has been founded in May 2009 to improve neurosurgical diagnostic and treatment procedures.
The company gathers experts of neurosurgery, medical technologies, micro-mechanics, homologation... |
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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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AOT AG intends to innovate bone surgery in terms of speed, safety, precision and functional cuts using pre-operative and navigation software, advanced robot and opto-mechanical technologies combined into... | |
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Stemergie has developed and validated a proprietary cutting-edge cancer stem cells (CSCs) technology platform for brain tumor and potentially further cancer indications. The technology allows the unbiased... | |
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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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Preclin Biosystems AG offers a comprehensive in vivo preclinical testing platform for the identification and validation of lead candidate therapeutics. | |
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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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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... | |
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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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Co-founders Michael Kuratli and Kai Glatt both enjoy riding motorcycles, preferably in jeans. That’s why they have launched special pants on the market whose insides consist of a breathable protective... | |
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More than 15,000 users have answered questions posed by companies on Atizo’s brainstorming platform. Among these firms are some regulars who come back time and again, including Migros, which has encouraged... | |
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Move over, snowboards – skis are cool again, especially if they come from unique brands like The Faction Collective. Founder and head designer Tony McWilliam, a native of Australia, clearly has a good... | |
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Can you imagine tracing time's inexorable progress with liquid? Could you picture liquid under the dial of a watch? What seemed totally unthinkable, has new become reality. With hydromechanics, the hydromechanical... | |
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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. | |
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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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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... | |
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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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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.... | |
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It’s surgical navigation system – CAS-One – work similarly to a GPS-based car navigation system: The device displays a map (of the patient) and guides the user to a desired target location (treatment... | |
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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... | |
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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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This startup in the Rhone Valley is initiating its second phase. In July, it launched an efficient theft prevention tool that is officially licensed for iPhones and iPads. With Secu4Bags, you can not... | |
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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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FashionFriends is an online Shop with a unique offer. In the categories Fashion, Beauty, Kids and Lifestyle FashionFriends offers not only sales with a price reduction to 70% but also the newest trends... | |
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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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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... | |
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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... | |
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Andrew™ is a novel type of pipetting robot that operates, unattended, adjustable manual pipettes in the same way as would the best skilled user. Ultimately, Andrew™ improves the reproducibility of data,... | |
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ECOWIZZ helps households and SMEs to better manage their energy consumption by connecting the smart ECOWIZZ plug to various appliances (TV, computer, coffee machine, etc...) and then by logging onto an... | |
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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... | |
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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... | |
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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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Telormedix is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on targeted immunity in the treatment of cancer and other diseases. | |
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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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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... | |
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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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Augurix is in the business of screening, diagnosing and monitoring one of the most under-diagnosed medical conditions worldwide: Celiac Disease.
The proprietary diagnostic platform enables seamless... |
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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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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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RedElec Technologie develop and market a new electrochemical technology allowing to carryout redox transformations (reduction or oxidation) at best economical and environmental cost, directly on the production... | |
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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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TrekkSoft Ltd. was founded 2010 with the goal to operate a multi-client Booking engine for tour operators and activity providers. Today TrekkSoft provides online booking and reservation solutions for... | |
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PumpTire is commercializing the first self-pressurizing bicycle tires and inner tubes. Imagine taking your bicycle out of the garage and never having to fill up the tires or even check the pressure. Or... | |
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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,.... |
