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SWISSto12, the Renens-based space technology company and EPFL spin-off, has closed a USD 70 million Series C round to meet growing demand for its payloads and satellites across multiple orbits.

SWISSto12 raises USD 70 million to meet growing multi-orbit satellite demand

16 July 2026

Bearmind, a Lausanne-based sports-tech start-up, has been named one of eleven winners of the 2026 WIPO Global Awards, taking the Sport category from a field of more than 1,300 applicants across 126 countries.

Lausanne’s Bearmind wins the Sport category at the 2026 WIPO Global Awards

13 July 2026

Neur.on, the Fribourg-based LegalTech behind the AI legal translation platform Corrext, has joined forces with Legal 230, Europe's leading legal translation network, while preserving Swiss data hosting and its Fribourg team.

Fribourg LegalTech Neur.on partners with European leader Legal 230

8 July 2026

In a world first, physicists at the University of Fribourg, with an international team, have used ultrafast light pulses to briefly create a topological state of matter in a semiconductor, confirming a theory formulated over a decade ago.

University of Fribourg physicists create a new state of matter with light pulses

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

AC Immune will receive a USD 4 million research grant from The Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation to extend Part 1 of the Phase 2 VacSYn trial of ACI-7104, its immunotherapy for early Parkinson's disease.

AC Immune secures USD 4 million grant to advance its Parkinson’s immunotherapy

6 July 2026

Top Stories Western Switzerland

Top Stories from Western Switzerland (June 2026)

29 June 2026

An EPFL team has created MiCRo, a new large language model structured like the human brain, with four specialized modules that give users more control and move away from “black box” AI.

EPFL researchers build a brain-inspired AI model that is more transparent and controllable

29 June 2026

Geneva-based medtech company ABCDx has reached several milestones with LVOCheck, its point-of-care platform for diagnosing large vessel occlusion stroke, including a peer-reviewed publication, the completion of a Eurostars project and the start of its industrialization.

Geneva’s ABCDx reaches several milestones with its acute stroke diagnostics platform

29 June 2026

The Banque Cantonale Neuchâteloise has named Cassio-P, NovoViz and Solar Loop as the three finalists for the 17th Prix BCN Innovation, the CHF 150,000 award supporting innovative projects in the canton of Neuchâtel.

Cassio-P, NovoViz and Solar Loop reach the final of the 2026 Prix BCN Innovation

29 June 2026

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