This list has 19 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 4 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: Zürich (6) and Lausanne (3). Largest teams: Adaptyv, SmartHelio, and Enlightra. Latest round: Klarent raised €7.13M (Oct 9, 2026).
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Klarent (formerly fore ai), a Zurich-based autonomous software testing startup, has closed a €7.13 million Seed funding round. The round was led by London-based Mosaic Ventures, with participation from Moonfire…
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HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
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€7.13M · Seed · Oct 2026
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Besso, a Bern-based startup that helps companies manage the complexity of international trade regulations, has secured €4.29 million (CHF 4 million) in funding. The funding came from a single large European family…
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HQ: Bern, Switzerland
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€4.29M · Oct 2026
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We're building fully automated labs for protein engineering
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HQ: Lausanne, Switzerland
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Software to prevent downtime in a solar plant
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HQ: Lausanne, Switzerland
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Multicolor lasers for ultrafast data transmission
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HQ: Lausanne, Switzerland
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Video AI to automatically detect and respond to production line…
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HQ: Zürich, Switzerland
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Customer service AI that resolves requests end-to-end.
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HQ: Zürich, Switzerland
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Help ML teams label the right data
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HQ: Zürich, Switzerland
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Cloud infrastructure for MCP servers and Claude / ChatGPT plugins.
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HQ: Switzerland
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Humanoids to restock retail shelves & pick orders
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HQ: Switzerland
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Building the first multimodal agents to play and test games.
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HQ: Switzerland
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Robots for waste manipulation
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HQ: Zürich, Switzerland
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Language learning with a conversational AI Tutor
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HQ: Zürich, Switzerland
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PCB component librarian
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HQ: Zürich, Switzerland
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Build governed AI agents on your own data, without code
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HQ: Switzerland
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HQ: Geneve, Switzerland
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$16.2M · Equity · Apr 2026
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HQ: Geneva, Switzerland
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$10.5M · Equity · Jun 2026
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HQ: Kloten, Switzerland
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$3.43M · Equity · May 2026
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The UI toolkit for Dashboards
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HQ: Zug, Switzerland
There are 19 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 15, 2026.
4 of them are hiring right now, including Adaptyv, Cerrion, and Lightly.
By team size: Adaptyv (25 employees), SmartHelio (25 employees), and Enlightra (22 employees).
Latest rounds: Klarent — €7.13M Seed (Oct 2026), Besso — €4.29M (Oct 2026), and Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA — $10.5M Equity (Jun 2026).
The biggest hubs are Zürich (6) and Lausanne (3).