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Unveiled at the Marly Innovation Center, the 2026 edition of fribourg.swiss, the official magazine of the Fribourg Development Agency, examines the culture that drives start-ups and the ecosystem that supports their growth in the canton.

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Fribourg’s official magazine devotes its 2026 edition to the start-up mindset

23 September 2026

The Swiss Scale-Up Report 2026, the first benchmark of Switzerland's growth-stage companies, identifies 265 scale-ups with a combined estimated valuation of CHF 26.6 billion. Vaud ranks second among cantons, and EPFL stands alongside ETH Zurich as a leading source of spin-offs.

First Swiss Scale-Up Report maps 265 growth companies, with Western Switzerland among the leading hubs

22 September 2026

Perovskia Solar, a Vaud-based tech start-up, has secured USD 2.4 million in seed funding and more than 10 early IoT clients to accelerate the adoption of its innovative solar cell technology.

Perovskia Solar scales up production and explores space applications in India

22 September 2026

Following a CHF 2.4 million seed round, Bern-based medtech start-up Aseptuva has moved from early prototyping to preclinical validation of its Far-UVC technology designed to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infections, and is now raising a CHF 5 million Series A.

Aseptuva moves to preclinical validation and opens a CHF 5 million Series A round

22 September 2026

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

In Lovatens, in the canton of Vaud, Insolight, Romande Energie and blueberry grower Olivier Pichonnat have inaugurated the largest agrivoltaic installation built in Switzerland to date, combining crop protection and renewable electricity generation on 1.8 hectares.

Insolight and Romande Energie inaugurate Switzerland’s largest agrivoltaic installation

22 September 2026

Corintis has taken first place in the Top100 Swiss Startup Ranking 2026, ahead of Zurich's DeepJudge and Villeneuve-based PAVE Space. Five of the ten highest-ranked companies are based in Western Switzerland.

Corintis tops the Top100 Swiss Startup Ranking 2026, with half the top ten from Western Switzerland

14 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

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