Start-up

UniSieve is blowing winds of change into the heavy industry sector with it's new innovation – environmentally-friendly molecular separation technology. Faced with the urgent need to decarbonise, the industry is struggling to reduce its energy consumption. This is due to the high temperature requirements of conventional chemical separation processes. UniSieve’s approach is groundbreaking. Using sieving membranes, the start-up breaks down large molecules by filtering them.

Thanks to Innosuisse's internationalisation camps, two dimpora employees had recently the opportunity to visit Japan to meet potential customers and to look at ways of achieving large-scale production.

Tonnes of food ends up in the waste every day in the kitchens of Swiss restaurants, hotels and hospitals. The Swiss start-up Kitro helps companies to reduce food waste.

«In early 2019, we founded the start-up Art Recognition to develop a system for art authentication using artificial intelligence (AI).»

Switzerland’s goal is to become climate neutral by 2050. This means completely new approaches – and start-ups like Exnaton – are needed. The ETH spin-off is helping to launch local energy markets and therefore help drive forward the energy transition.

Saving the worlds honey bees, that is the objective of the Zurich start up Vatorex. Its founders, from a family of beekeepers, have developed a sustainable technique to overcome the parasitic Varroa mite.

Being able to transcribe the languages spoken in Switzerland, particularly Swiss German, is the mission of the Valais-based start-up recapp IT, which has developed a voice recognition system to transform conversations into text.

Taking a journey inside the complex human lung AlveoliX's goal is to reproduce how this organ works within the human body. The organ-on-chip technology developed by the Bernese start-up reproduces the functioning of the lung on a small scale.

Improving the quality of your sleep with what you wear while sleeping. This is the original idea of the Zurich start-up Dagsmejan, supported by Innosuisse. The company has made a mark for itself and 3 years after its creation, the brand sells its clothing in over 60 countries worldwide.