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Investment

Kielder Agro Group has joined Gaia Tech as a strategic investor, providing fresh capital to accelerate the development of the company's platform for ingredients upcycled from agricultural side streams.

Gaia Tech secures fresh funding from strategic investor Kielder Agro Group

14 September 2026

The tenth Swiss Medtech Industry Study reports a sector generating CHF 26 billion in sales and growing at twice the rate of the Swiss economy, while flagging a marked slowdown in job creation and investment. Western Switzerland accounts for a substantial share of the country's medtech base.

Swiss medtech grows twice as fast as the economy

14 September 2026

Italian investment company Vam Investment and Umberto Macchi di Cellere, former chief executive of Bulgari Horlogerie, have created Chaumont Group, a new player in the high-end watch market bringing together four component manufacturers under a structure based in Neuchâtel.

New luxury watch components group Chaumont establishes its base in Neuchâtel

8 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

Oculis, the Lausanne-based biopharmaceutical company focused on ophthalmology and neuro-ophthalmology, will acquire all worldwide development and commercial rights to Privosegtor from Accure, terminating its existing license agreement.

Oculis acquires worldwide rights to its Privosegtor candidate

17 August 2026

LS Instruments, a Fribourg-based maker of advanced light scattering and microrheology instruments, has been acquired by Germany's Postnova Analytics, with operations, manufacturing and the existing team remaining at its Fribourg headquarters.

LS Instruments joins Postnova Analytics while keeping its operations in Fribourg

12 August 2026

Switzerland has once again topped the European Innovation Scoreboard, ranking first among all EU Member States and neighboring countries in the 2026 edition, its ninth consecutive year at the top, with a performance of 141.3% of the EU average.

Switzerland leads the European Innovation Scoreboard 2026 for the ninth consecutive year

14 July 2026

Salesforce has announced plans to invest USD 1 billion in Switzerland over the next five years to accelerate the country's agentic AI transformation, in a commitment unveiled in Geneva ahead of the AI for Good Global Summit.

Salesforce to invest USD 1 billion in Switzerland’s AI transformation

8 July 2026

CCRAFT, a Neuchâtel-based CSEM spin-off operating the world's first independent foundry for thin-film lithium niobate photonic chips, has closed a USD 7.8 million funding round to build industrial-scale manufacturing capacity.

CCRAFT raises USD 7.8 million to scale up its photonic chip foundry

6 July 2026

LOXO, a Bern-based start-up developing a Level 4 autonomous driving solution for commercial vehicles, has entered a strategic partnership with US technology group DXC Technology, which includes an investment, to industrialize autonomous logistics.

LOXO secures DXC investment to scale its autonomous logistics technology

6 July 2026

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