10 Swiss Industry 4.0 Startups to Watch

21.11.2019 00:00, Joseph Heaven

The rollout of 5G facilitating fast communication in urban areas, together with low-latency networks and edge computing to drive distant devices means every part of industry can be connected. But how, and to what purpose? We showcase ten Swiss startups, whose smart technologies enrich design and manufacturing, and ensure data-flow between intelligent things everywhere.

Watch our interviews with some of Switzerland's founders enabling the fourth industrial revolution, then dig into the enterprise and the IoT categories of the startup.ch database to discover the breadth of Swiss entrepreneurship advancing industrial tech.

AKENZA AG

connects everything to the cloud, for corporations building internet-of-things products and services. Akenza's architecture allows for huge numbers of sensors to connect, and the applications to ensure effective communication between software systems. Clients include Switzerland's largest facility-management company, ISS Schweiz.

Cogito Instruments SA

AI at the edge for makers of industrial robots and inspection machines. Cogito Instrument designs hardware with embedded artificial intelligence for industrial clients' robots and automated inspection machines. The fabless semiconductor startup's simpler, lower-energy neuromorphic computing allows industrial machines to learn, think and teach.

CYSEC SA

a cybersecurity company building secure execution environments to processing and store highly sensitive data and digital assets. The startup won a seat on Venture Leaders Fintech to New York in 2018, and raised 1.5 million francs from investors to scale its server security internationally.

Holo one AG

an augmented reality platform for businesses and industry. Lenzburg-based holo|one's AR service allows SMEs and corporates to quickly start using immersive remote assistance, collaboration, and workflow & training modules. Co-founder Dominik Trost pitched multi-billion dollar investors across China after winning a seat on Venture Leaders China this year.

LORIOT AG

ensures high availability and low-latency access to a wide range of supported LoRaWAN gateways and sensor devices. The startup's infrastructure and software for smart cities, buildings, farming and factories, facilitates integration with third-party platforms while ensuring security. LORIOT, which already operates in 134 countries, won a seat to roadshow in Silicon Valley with Venture Leaders Technology in 2017 and used the Venture Leaders China roadshow earlier this year to explore potential partnerships as the 'Made in China 2025' initiative encourages the growth in LoRaWAN devices locally.

MOBBOT SA

mobile robots to print tailor-made concrete components exactly where builders need them. This rapid, 3D-printing tech saves construction companies time and money, by making customized elements directly at the building site. The system, developed with Germany’s famous orange KUKA robot arms, uses conventional materials without needing any costly molds or formwork. This reduces builders' costs and accelerates delivery to one day, instead of one month, making mass-customized concrete products possible and practical.

Founder Agnès Petit Markowski won Venture Kick's highest level of preseed funding and support in 2019, a year in which she also roadshowed in Silicon Valley with Venture Leaders Technology.

Neural Concept SA

uses artificial intelligence to analyze the aerodynamics of car and airplane designs 1,000 times more quickly than the current state-of-the-art. That machine-driven creativity has already set records, as Neural Concepts' software designed and optimize the aerodynamics of the bike that enabled Ilona Peltier to become the world’s fastest woman with a top speed of 124.05 km/h. A month after winning Venture Kick's highest level of preseed support, the aerodynamic design simulation startup raised a seven-figure sum from international investors.

Nexxiot AG

makes trackig sensors for freight wagons and ocean cargo containers. The Zurich-based startup, which ranked at the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award in 2017, raised CHF 35 million in May to take total funding to almost $80 million. Its ultra-low-power chips monitor the position and security of whole shipping containers, as well as individual items of cargo.

Qiio AG

implements industrial internet-of-things, from sensor to cloud. CEO Felix Adamczyk won a seat for qiio to roadshow with Venture Leaders China in 2016. In September the Zurich-based startup announced a partnership with Thermoplan, which supplies Starbucks coffee machines worldwide.

UniteLabs AG

automates life science labs in minutes instead of days. By combining the latest robotic technologies, computer vision tools, and experience from both manual and automated labs into a software solution, it enables lab automation with previously unseen ease and flexibility. The ETH Zurich-spinoff won 10,000 francs, support and training from Venture Kick in 2017.

Is your industrial startup ready to drive technological change at the heart of Silicon Valley? Register now for Venture Leaders Technology, for the chance to roadshow with the Swiss National Startup Team in San Francisco and the Bay Area in spring 2020.

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