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The ranking, selected by a jury of 100 investors and experts and organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venturelab.swiss\/\">Venturelab<\/a> with presenting partner UBS, was unveiled at the award ceremony in Zurich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zurich-based legal AI company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepjudge.ai\/\">DeepJudge<\/a> took the silver award, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pave.space\/\">PAVE Space<\/a>, based in Villeneuve in the canton of Vaud, the bronze. Western Switzerland accounts for half of the top ten: alongside Corintis and PAVE Space, <a href=\"https:\/\/voltiris.com\/\">Voltiris<\/a> of Epalinges ranks fourth, <a href=\"https:\/\/seprify.com\/\">Seprify<\/a> of Marly in the canton of Fribourg fifth, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dphispace.com\/\">DPhi Space<\/a> of Ecublens seventh. The top ten is dominated by hardware companies, with the remaining places going to robotics and engineering firms from the Zurich region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regional companies also feature among the six special awards. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexterousendoscopes.com\/\">Dexterous Endoscopes<\/a> was named best newcomer in the ranking, Voltiris best-ranked cleantech start-up, and Lausanne-based Kandou Bus recorded the largest financing round closed by a Top100 company in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Launched in 2011, the Top100 has recognized 677 start-ups to date, which have together created more than 27,000 jobs, raised CHF 19 billion in funding and produced 111 exits, 11 IPOs and 11 unicorns. 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