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3/23/2023

New strategic investor for Flyability

Chevron is joining the ranks of Flyability strategic investors, along Cargill and Dow. The American oil and gas giant works since 2016 with the Swiss Startup. The new investment is an extension of the C Series Round of CHF 15M announced last year.

3/8/2023

Thirteen high-growth companies join Scale Up Vaud in 2023

Thirteen high-tech companies have joined the Scale Up Vaud program this year: Aequivalent, Bloom Biorenewables, ClearSpace, CREAL, CYSEC, Daphne Technology, INPHER, Insolight, Samantree Medical, Sensile Technologies, Smeetz, Swibeco and Talent.com. A total of 50 Vaud-based firms are now part of the program, and together they raised more than CHF 525 million in capital in 2022. Since they were founded, they’ve created nearly 3,500 jobs in Switzerland and some 4,900 jobs globally.

1/23/2023

bNovate Technologies awarded by the World Economic Forum

UpLink, the open innovation platform of the World Economic Forum has Scale-up Vaud bNovate Technologies with 175'000 CHF

1/10/2023

TWINT chooses NetGuardians' AI software to bolster fraud mitigation

Award-winning Vaud-based scale-up NetGuardians, renowned for its enterprise risk platform for combatting financial fraud, has announced that Switzerland’s leading payment app TWINT has selected its software as part of an enhanced fraud prevention program.

12/14/2022

Nanolive's Live T Cell Assay makes it to The Scientist’s Top 10 Innovations of 2022

Launched in september 2021, Nanolive's first application-specific digital assay has been ranked 5th in The Scientist’s Top 10 Innovations of 2022.

12/8/2022

Unit8 welcomes Sagard NewGen as an investor, to accelerate its next phases of growth

Switzerland’s fastest-growing AI company Unit8 and member of Scale-up Vaud announces an investment by Sagard NewGenSagard NewGen to accelerate its growth.

12/2/2022

UK Energy Group acquires Depsys

Kraken, part of Octopus Energy Group in the UK, has acquired Scale-up Vaud Depsys and its ‘GridEye’ platform to boost its network operators offering.

11/2/2022

Ecorobotix receives prestigious ‘SEF.Growth High-Potential’ classification as well as funding

The Technology Fund of the FOEN (Swiss Federal Office for the Environment) awarded a loan guarantee to Ecorobotix for its innovative ultra-high precision agricultural technology. In addition, the Swiss Economy Forum has awarded the scale-up from Yverdon the quality label "SEF.Growth high potential".

11/1/2022

SOPHiA GENETICS Partners with Microsoft to Accelerate Multimodal Health Data Analysis

Scale-up Vaud SOPHiA GENETICS™, a cloud-native software company in the healthcare space, is embarking on a multi-year integrated strategic partnership with Microsoft to improve healthcare workflows globally.