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2026 SEMI–FINALISTS

Congratulations to the 60 semi-finalists and Spotlight Award nominees

of this year's competition!
Find out more about their startups below.

The roadmap below captures the current stage of the competition, giving a full picture of the journey so far and the milestones still ahead.

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The Current Round of the Roadmap to the Awards Ceremony

BUSINESS & FINANCE

Business & Finance

AmelioRatio.ai

AmelioRatio builds self-improving software using AI agents, enabling companies to integrate AI into their products with the best possible performance.

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Business & Finance

Do Me A Favour Buddy

DMAFB predicts employee burnout a week in advance, giving companies evidence-based prevention alerts and intervention tools to reduce turnover costs.

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Business & Finance

NativeAI Guard

NativeAI Guard is a Swiss-built AI firewall protecting companies against emerging AI-powered cybersecurity threats — 100% Swiss-made and operated.

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Business & Finance

RegCheck (by Softreg GmbH)

RegCheck uses AI to simulate regulatory audits, helping regulated firms spot compliance gaps before submission and enabling more consistent reviews.

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Business & Finance

Surelio.ai

Surelio provides independent AI quality assurance through behavioral testing, red teaming, and threat modelling for organizations deploying AI.

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Business & Finance

ConFlip

ConFlip helps employees and organizations resolve workplace conflicts and integrity violations through a confidential, AI-guided support platform.

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Business & Finance

Link Genetic GmbH

Link Genetic builds infrastructure for persistent links, preventing broken references and content drift across documents, websites, and AI systems.

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Business & Finance

Navi

Navi helps startups screen top candidates faster and cheaper — role-expert AI agents run first interviews and skill simulations well beyond the CV.

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Business & Finance

reilo

reilo turns smallholder farmers' natural assets into bankable collateral, unlocking capital and carbon income for 500M farmers excluded from finance.

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Business & Finance

UAC Labs AG

UAC Labs builds coordination infrastructure that guarantees atomic settlement across any financial system — without intermediaries or locked capital.

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CONSUMER SOLUTIONS

Consumer Solutions

BizBus

BizBus is a door-to-door electric intercity service for business travelers, built for predictable arrivals, productive journeys, and low emissions.

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Consumer Solutions

Fridge

Fridge makes habit-building social, helping people stay consistent through shared goals, group accountability, and meaningful built-in incentives.

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Consumer Solutions

kwer

kwer merges co-creation and universal design to make everyday products that unite accessibility, beautiful aesthetics, and meaningful social impact.

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Consumer Solutions

OptiZone

OptiZone delivers on-field solutions to predict muscle and joint injury risk, enabling personalized prevention programs for athletes of all levels.

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Consumer Solutions

Reclaim

Reclaim helps people break compulsive phone habits using neuroscience-based guidance to build healthier, more intentional relationships with technology.

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Consumer Solutions

CONTRA

CONTRA turns any racket sport amateur into a data-driven athlete, launching with padel to bring performance tracking, smart matchmaking, and coaching.

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Consumer Solutions

HALA

HALA traces and monetizes the secondhand market, giving brands and consumers full visibility and control over their product resale lifecycle.

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Consumer Solutions

OOVIE Studios SA

OOVIE creates AI-powered music-interactive films that change in real time with live performances, enhancing how orchestras connect with audiences.

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Consumer Solutions

PIN Sport App

PIN connects athletes, clubs, and fans to discover events, find teams, and grow together — making local sports visible across Switzerland and DACH.

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Consumer Solutions

TruLux

TruLux uses visual AI to help consumers verify the authenticity of physical goods on the spot — using nothing more than a mobile phone.

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INDUSTRIALS & ENGINEERING

Industrials & Engineering

Aithon Robotics

Aithon Robotics builds tethered aerial robots that enable safe, precise, and cost-effective inspection and maintenance of hard-to-reach infrastructure.

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Industrials & Engineering

EDWATEC SA

EDWATEC develops integrated optical amplifiers that enable compact, energy-efficient photonic systems for next-generation AI infrastructure and communications.

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Industrials & Engineering

nordfen

nordfen automates 3D environment creation from geodata in hours, not weeks, delivering realistic digital twins compatible with any simulation system.

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Industrials & Engineering

roboa AG

ROBOA's snake-like robots inspect and perform work in confined spaces across industry and infrastructure, going precisely where nothing else can go.

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Industrials & Engineering

Winduction

Winduction enables public buses to charge wirelessly through their wheels, with no cables, no delays, and no visible infrastructure required.

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Industrials & Engineering

Cria Technologies

Crìa builds next-generation high-vacuum, temperature-controlled solutions enabling safer transport of sensitive payloads — a revolution in cold chain.

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Industrials & Engineering

Neosens

Neosens builds nanophotonics-based portable biosensors for rapid, on-site detection of toxins in water, bringing lab-grade testing directly to the field.

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Industrials & Engineering

noriware

noriware develops 100% biobased materials that fit into existing production processes designed for plastic, retaining all its functionality and performance.

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Industrials & Engineering

Verretex SA

Verretex converts waste glass fibres into high-value materials, enabling circular, industrial-scale manufacturing across a range of sectors.

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Industrials & Engineering

Windworks SA

Windworks develops smart wind turbines that turn local wind into reliable, affordable on-site power, helping businesses and communities gain energy autonomy.

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MEDTECH & HEALTHCARE

Medtech & Healthcare

Actival

Actival, a spin-off from CSEM, has patented active dental devices for the slow, controlled release of beneficial fluids to improve oral health.

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Medtech & Healthcare

AuscultaNet

AuscultaNet transforms stethoscopes into AI-powered diagnostic tools, helping physicians detect heart valve disease at the bedside, fully offline.

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Medtech & Healthcare

CellKinetica

CellKinetica helps women get pregnant faster by advancing in vitro fertilization through deep genomic analyses of embryo viability and development.

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Medtech & Healthcare

EmerStat

EmerStat is developing a first-in-class, drug-free hemostatic device that rapidly controls life-threatening bleeding in emergency and trauma settings.

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Medtech & Healthcare

Nalgoova Therapeutics

Nalgoova combines precision pain mapping with targeted Micro-RF therapy to reduce systemic treatments and improve outcomes in craniofacial pain.

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Medtech & Healthcare

Arborix

Arborix develops 3D-printed nerve grafts with native branching to recover nerve function in mastectomy, facial palsy and other complex nerve injuries.

Medtech & Healthcare

Beyond Diagnostics AG

Beyond Diagnostics develops real-time tests to verify medication quality at the point of use, making life-saving biologics safer and reducing waste.

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Medtech & Healthcare

Cinder

Cinder integrates multi-modal pain therapy, heat, TENS, and infrared, into everyday clothing, making effective treatment something people actually stick to.

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Medtech & Healthcare

HaptiPal

HaptiPal builds a wearable navigation system leveraging VR-based spatial computing to deliver intuitive tactile guidance for visually impaired users.

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Medtech & Healthcare

RELiYOO

RELiYOO develops smart seating solutions for wheelchair users, enabling long, comfortable sitting and preventing the discomfort that limits daily life.

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PHARMA & BIOTECH

Pharma & Biotech

AzureCell SA

AzureCell engineers neuroprotective cell therapies for Parkinson's disease, combining genetic circuits with scalable manufacturing for durable neuroregeneration.

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Pharma & Biotech

Bioscibex SA

Bioscibex has developed a machine that makes monoclonal antibody production faster, more cost-effective, and safer than any existing method.

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Pharma & Biotech

Eldian Biomed

Eldian Biomed develops injectable microcushions that lubricate cartilage and calm inflammation, providing longer-lasting relief and slowing osteoarthritis.

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Pharma & Biotech

PreciMUNE

PreciMUNE develops AI-powered immune biomarkers to predict cancer immunotherapy response and guide precision medicine using high-resolution immune sequencing.

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Pharma & Biotech

UNOMR

UNOMR develops sensors that provide unprecedented protein data to pharma, biotech, food tech, and academia, enabling the next medical revolution.

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Pharma & Biotech

Baxiva AG

Baxiva's proprietary platform builds next-generation vaccines to prevent severe infections, starting with UTIs and sepsis to improve health and cut antibiotic use.

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Pharma & Biotech

Cancentus

Cancentus is transforming cancer treatment with next-generation Antibody-Drug Conjugates, redefining precision for safer and more effective therapies.

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Pharma & Biotech

Isospec Analytics SA

Isospec's CIRIS platform reveals the molecular biology invisible to 90% of drug developers, powering smarter clinical trial decisions 100x faster.

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Pharma & Biotech

Santella

Santella provides a sustainable innovation: the world's first targeted probiotic live vaccines for livestock species, reducing reliance on antibiotics.

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Pharma & Biotech

Visienco AG

Visienco combines AI and robotics to automate organoid workflows, making 3D biological models scalable, reproducible, and ready for drug discovery.

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SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

Social & Environmental Impact

Anura-League

Anura-League connects digital gaming with real ecosystems, motivating young people to explore, understand, and protect biodiversity in their neighborhoods.

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Social & Environmental Impact

Birds&Co.

Birds&Co. creates floating cork platforms that redirect protected nesting waterbirds away from boats, enabling peaceful, legal cohabitation on Swiss lakes.

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Social & Environmental Impact

CORAlliance

CORAlliance enables reef regeneration at km²-scale by applying an algae-based hydrogel enriched with coral tissue onto degraded reefs using ROVs.

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Social & Environmental Impact

Public AI Switzerland

Public AI Switzerland is a customer-owned cooperative that distributes affordable AI to Swiss residents and businesses, like a Migros for AI.

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Social & Environmental Impact

Tivano

Tivano aligns ecosystem restoration with durable carbon removal by permanently storing biogenic carbon in engineered underground vaults at scale.

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Social & Environmental Impact

belian.earth

belian.earth uses AI and causal science to build independent baselines for nature-based conservation projects, restoring integrity to global carbon markets.

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Social & Environmental Impact

Botana AI

Botana AI is a farmer-first platform that helps growers manage their land like a financial portfolio, optimizing crop choices for profit and climate resilience.

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Social & Environmental Impact

MyHandyPlus

MyHandyPlus is Europe's inclusive dating platform enabling people with disabilities to build authentic relationships and reduce social isolation.

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Social & Environmental Impact

Synature SA

Synature builds AI sound systems that monitor animal health and presence in nature, on farms, and in aquaculture, enabling smarter, greener decisions.

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Social & Environmental Impact

YourOpenLXM

YourOpenLXM creates sovereign, dynamic OpenLXMs from people's real-world experience with Yepa AI, giving governments and training providers skills intelligence.

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