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Embodied AI, a Lausanne-based start-up founded by EPFL-trained roboticists, has launched with a first financing round led by Faber VC to develop intelligent robots designed to work alongside humans in industrial environments.

Embodied AI launches with international investor backing to automate European production lines

22 September 2026

Proton and the research team behind Apertus, the fully open language model developed by EPFL, ETH Zurich and partner institutions, are partnering to advance open and sovereign AI in Switzerland and Europe.

Proton integrates the Swiss language model Apertus into its AI assistant Lumo

22 September 2026

Lausanne-based Giotto.ai and Groupe Mutuel, which serves more than 1.3 million clients, have begun a collaboration to deploy the Giotto AI model across selected use cases, with sensitive data remaining within the insurer's own environment.

Groupe Mutuel partners with Giotto.ai to deploy sovereign AI on its own infrastructure

22 September 2026

Fusionality, founded in 2026 by two researchers with backgrounds at EPFL's Swiss Plasma Center and Google DeepMind, has raised a CHF 3 million pre-seed round to build its founding team in Lausanne and equip fusion companies with operations infrastructure.

Fusionality raises CHF 3 million to build operations technology for fusion devices

14 September 2026

Three Geneva companies have received funding from the FIF, the canton of Geneva's innovation financing program: CHF 400,000 in FIF Growth funding for Goodwall, CHF 50,000 in FIF Seed Tech funding for Roofless Labs, and a CHF 50,000 FIF Grant for Infera Neuro.

Goodwall, Roofless Labs and Infera Neuro awarded FIF funding

8 September 2026

The Empa campus in Thun has split its Advanced Materials Processing laboratory into two independent units dedicated to surfaces and interfaces on one side and to metallic materials and manufacturing on the other, as researchers on the site make computational tools for alloy design accessible through a conversational AI agent.

Empa in Thun splits into two labs for materials and metals

7 September 2026

The Foundation for Innovation and Technology has awarded five Tech Grants of CHF 100,000 each to projects from the canton of Vaud: three FIT-InnoTREK grants to Chorus Tre, HeteroSight and SixtineAI, all arising from the CHUV, and two FIT-Innogrant grants to Cookd Labs and Endobotica, both from EPFL.

FIT awards five Tech Grants to projects from the CHUV and EPFL

7 September 2026

Swiss industrial group Bystronic has entered into an agreement to acquire Isochronic, an automation technology company based near Lausanne specializing in high-speed robotic sorting systems and software for sheet metal processing.

Bystronic acquires Vaud robotics start-up Isochronic

31 August 2026

The Foundation for Innovation and Technology has awarded a CHF 200,000 Digital Growth loan to WasteFlow, CHF 50,000 Digital Seed loans to DOCumenter and Nextrainers, and a CHF 20,000 Digital Grant to RiveLock.

FIT supports four Vaud start-ups through its Digital programs

31 August 2026

One year after closing its funding round, EPFL spin-off Logmind has expanded its customer base across Europe, strengthened its commercial organization and launched Logmind v3, a new generation of its AI platform for IT operational intelligence.

Logmind launches its third-generation AI platform for IT operations

31 August 2026

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