Switzerland is one of the leading healthcare countries in the world. According to the Swiss Medtech Association, the domestic Medtech industry generates annual sales of 15.8 billion and exports of 11.3 billion Swiss francs. But who are the rising stars in the industry?
Swiss Medtech startups are considered among the most promising and innovative companies in the world. Millions of patients and doctors worldwide continue to benefit from Medtech’s innovations developed by swiss startups. For example, Andrew Alliance (acquired by Water Corporations), YouRehab (acquired by Reha-Stim Medtec), KB Medical (acquired by Globus Medical), Biocartis (IPO) can be considered among the most successful Swiss Medtech startups in the country. Discover below 10 Swiss Medtech startups to watch in 2020.
Artiria Medical SA: A new standard of care to fight stroke and save lives.
Artiria Medical is revolutionising neurovascular healthcare with cutting-edge minimally invasive medical technologies. Our first product, an innovative FDA-cleared wire with a micro-articulated seekin... Read more
Comphya SA: First neurostimulator to treat erectile dysfunction
We are developing an active implantable medical device, named CaverSTIM, to restore the erectile function of post-prostatectomy patients or others non-responsive to oral drugs (e.g. Viagra or Cialis).... Read more
Emovo Care SA: Therapy while living
Emovo Care (https://emovocare.com/ ) is a medical device company developing robotic systems to support people with motor impairments Exploiting our innovative patent-protected soft-robotics tech an... Read more
Hi-D Imaging AG: A novel pre-operational planning tool for cardiologists
Hi-D Imaging is AG an ETH Spinoff MedTech start-up company that aims to revolutionize the medical imaging sector by reducing pre-operational/surgical planning complexity and times, overcoming limitati... Read more
KOVE medical AG: Prevents fetal membrane rupture following fetoscopies.
KOVE develops a device to seal and fix the hole created by the surgical tools used to treat fetuses during pregnancy. By closing this hole, KOVE decreases dramatically the risk of preterm birth, which... Read more
Positrigo AG: Cost-effective functional brain imaging for everyone
Positrigo's vision is to image everyone. Offering innovative solutions for providing functional brain positron emission tomography scans to the masses, our first focus is the early detection of Alzhei... Read more
Rea Diagnostics SA: We develop technology to monitor high risk pregnancies
Rea developed the first at-home diagnostic test that tracks biochemical markers of preterm birth (PTB). Our solution allows doctors to continuously follow up pregnant women at risk of PTB to anticipat... Read more
STIMIT AG: STIMIT empowers patients to breathe.
Mechanical ventilation is life-saving, especially these days. However during mechanical ventilation, natural lung function is suppressed, and the diaphragm (core breathing muscle) becomes inactive and... Read more
Terapet SA: Next-generation imaging technology for nuclear medicine.
Terapet SA,, a CERN spin-off in MedTech, was incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland on 19.12.2019. The founders are two CERN physicists, Dr. Christina Vallgren (PhD in Applied Physics, MSc in Nuclear Phy... Read more
Volumina Medical SA: Dynamic biomaterials for reconstructive and plastic surgery
Volumina is a clinical stage medtech start-up, spin off of EPFL. We are active in the field of tissue engineering and develops Adipearl, an injectable biomaterial for the reconstruction of volumes o... Read more