Companies on the way to success

Aïmago AG

The capillary blood flow is a medical key factor, as human tissue is only viable if there is circulation and is therefore provided with nutrients. In case of burns or reconstructive surgery of t...  Read Story

Attolight SA

Today, examining objects which are only a few nanometres small is part of everyday life in physics laboratories. Electronic microscopes are the crux of the matter but up to now, the devices only...  Read Story

GetYourGuide AG

Booking accommodation and flights online has, over the past few years, almost become an everyday routine. Hotel and flight portals have conquered an ever increasing part of the travel market. Ho...  Read Story

greenTEG GmbH

The generation of electricity and its use as well as the operation of combustion engines have one common denominator – energy conversion produces waste heat. Often, it is actually the real...  Read Story

Kooaba AG

Because the Kooaba founders Herbert Bay and Till Quack took on several marketing and sales specialists, the old office became so cramped that the team decided to move in January. Their job is to...  Read Story

Lemoptix SA

Nowadays, every child knows what a beamer is: a bulky device which projects images, usually suspended from the ceiling. The announcement of Marco Boella, CEO of Lemoptix, therefore sounds like s...  Read Story

Malcisbo AG

It was an exclusive circle that met at the beginning of 2009 to discuss the company foundation. Amongst them was; Lino Camponovo, a vet with many years of management experience with the worldwid...  Read Story

Nektoon AG / Memonic

The International Data Corporation (IDC) has worked out that the amount of data which is freely accessible on the World Wide Web has increased tenfold since 2006, to the almost unfathomable amou...  Read Story

Oekosolve AG

August de Coulomb lay the foundation for electrostatics in 1785. In the field of electrostatic microparticle separation, revolutionary patents were submitted in the 1930’s. Since then, the...  Read Story

ViSSee GmbH

"The motion computation of a fruit fly’s visual system“. Such was the titel of Nicola Rohrseitz’s PHD theses at the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the ET H Zürich. The y...  Read Story

Arktis Radiation Detectors AG

Three young company founders starting an enterprise dealing with the multifaceted issue of radioactivity and additionally pocketing one founder-prize after another namely Rico Chandra, Giovanna ...  Read Story

Atizo

Web 2.0 is in everybody’s mounth. The assessment of frms such as facebook, twitter or youtube are way beyond the billion bound- ary. But none of the model companies is anywhere near gettin...  Read Story

basisnote AG

Three quarters of the users of a German online-adviser-community says that it is possible to fall in love when chatting. As long as the love stays virtual they are of course right. On first cont...  Read Story

Covagen AG

At the start-up in 2007 Covagen had already made the first important steps which other young biotechnology companies find time consuming in the first few years. With the Novartis Venture Fund th...  Read Story

Diagnoplex SA

„It wasn’t an inconvenient time, it was the worst time.“ These were the words uttered by Stavros Therianos, CEO of Diagnoplex, when thinking back to his last financing round. I...  Read Story

InSphero AG

New medicine is initially tested on cell cultures, then on animals and finally on humans. With each stage the costs rise dramatically. Ineffective or harmful potential agents should therefore be...  Read Story

Optotune AG

1880 the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered that rubber bands expanded when put under electric tension. The physical law of electro-active polymeres (EAP) has theoretically been ...  Read Story

sonic emotion ag

Autumn 2009: An MP3-dockingstation of the hifi producer Scott acoustically out-shines all other innovations at the IFA in Berlin.The sound system guarantees a 3D-audio- experience, not only in t...  Read Story

VirtaMed AG

Surgery is a matter of fine feeling. That is true for conventional surgery on the open body as well as for minimal-invasive surgery whereby the surgeon often only has a camera and a type of a jo...  Read Story

Zurich Instruments AG

Those who measure also assess signals. In the ideal situation objects send out signals but often a diversion is necessary. Objects are, for example, stimulated through sound, light or electric v...  Read Story

AXSionics AG

The financial industry won't forget autumn 2006 all too quickly; those were the days when the first "men in the browser" turned up. These small pieces of software are found on the PC, ...  Read Story

BeamExpress SA

Fiber optic cables have been conquering the world since the mid 70‘s. But despite the triumphant progress there are still large copper cable islands. These include not only the last mile b...  Read Story

Concretum AG

The founders of the company Concretum went an unusual way for a spin-off in the business of production. Their products were not developed as a result of research of their institute of technology...  Read Story

Doodle AG

Doodle is the company name as well as the product name and for some users a new term. In point of fact only one year after the start-up, "I’ll doodle this", is the term used when...  Read Story

GlycoVaxyn

Young bio-technological fi rms such as Glycovaxyn do not normally make the headlines within the fi rst few years. The reason being that the development of medication is an exceedingly laborious ...  Read Story

HeiQ Materials AG

Our great-grandmothers grew wise through experience. They placed silver coins in the milk to prevent it from turning sour. Nowadays we know how this worked. Electrically charged silver atoms, so...  Read Story

Med Discovery

Med Discovery is a small bio-technological enterprise par excellence. The company, located in the Centre de Technologies Nouvelles in Plan-les-Ouates, has great know-how in an important field of...  Read Story

NEXThink AG

In 2004 Pedro Bados was still a student. Today the cofounder of NEXThink is also the CEO. In conversation, he appears relaxed despite his short business career and he has all the reason for it. ...  Read Story

Primequal SA

Since the syringe for subcutaneous injections was invented by the French surgeon Charles Pravez in 1831, its design has not been subject to major changes. Only when the company founders of Prime...  Read Story

Sensimed AG

Worldwide 70 million people suffer from glaucoma. Is the illness diagnosed too late the optic nerve has possibly already suffered lasting damage. In extreme cases it can result in blindness. A r...  Read Story