Switzerland: 10 success stories of companies founded in French-speaking Switzerland
Medicine, agriculture, IT… Whatever the sector, Swiss entrepreneurs have demonstrated their ability to innovate and manage ambitious projects in recent years! We have selected the finest and most impressive success stories from Swiss companies for you.
Discover 10 companies founded in Switzerland whose meteoric rise to success (in just a few years) demonstrates the talent of Swiss entrepreneurs.
#1 Abionic
Founded in 2010, Abionic is a Swiss medical company specialising in in vitro diagnostics (IVD) carried out directly at the patient’s bedside using patented nanofluidic nanotechnology. Using just a single drop of blood, this revolutionary technology can analyse 14 parameters simultaneously in just 5 minutes!
In just 10 years, the Swiss start-up has raised funds at a rapid pace (3.5 million Swiss francs by 2012 and 25 million Swiss francs in 2017!) and has successfully passed all the necessary tests for its technology, enabling it to launch its commercial operations recently, in 2020.
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +41 21 353 33 80
Address: Abionic SA, Biopôle, Alanine Building, Route de la Corniche 5, CH-1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
And don’t forget to follow the company’s Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts!
#2 Batmaid
Founded in 2015 in Lausanne and Geneva, Batmaid – a company named after the famous vigilante – aims to combat the black market in the domestic cleaning sector.
The result: in just five years, the company has grown from a handful of clients and three employees to over 50,000 clients and around 100 employees! All this whilst helping more than 5,000 cleaning professionals secure stable, well-paid jobs.
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +41 (0)21 624 54 15
Address: 20 Avenue de Rumine, CH-1005, Lausanne, Switzerland
And don’t forget to follow the company’s Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts!
#3 Czapek
A success story that dates back to the early 19th century! Founded by two Polish emigrants, the watchmaker Czapek enjoyed immense success, even supplying Prince Napoleon himself… After disappearing for nearly a century and a half, the brand was revived in 2012 by three passionate entrepreneurs, who launched a new collection inspired by Czapek’s vintage models. Thanks to crowdfunding from watch enthusiasts, the company is enjoying renewed success today!
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +41 22 557 41 41
Address: 18 Rue de la Corraterie, 1204, Geneva, Switzerland
And don’t forget to follow the company’s Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts!
#4 ecoRobotix
Founded in 2011, the Vaud-based company ecoRobotix designs and manufactures ultra-precise robots which, using artificial intelligence, detect and remove weeds from crops, reducing the amount of plant protection products used by 95%! Following several successive rounds of fundraising, the most recent of which raised nearly $15 million, the company is expanding rapidly and continuing its R&D work with great success.
Email: Please use the contact form
Telephone: +41 24 524 41 23
Address: ecoRobotix SA, Y-Parc, Rue Galilée 6, 1400 Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
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#5 Infomaniak
Founded in 1994, Infomaniak is a company specialising in website hosting, streaming and video on demand. Independent and 100% Swiss, the company started out as a simple computer shop in Geneva, before expanding rapidly and becoming, by 2003, the leading web host in French-speaking Switzerland with 2,000 hosted sites. Today, Infomaniak provides its services to over 200,000 customers and generates $26 million in revenue.
Telephone: +41 022 820 35 44
Address: 25 Eugène-Marziano, 1227 Les Acacias, Geneva, Switzerland
And don’t forget to follow the company’s Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts!
#6 Mindmaze
Founded in 2012, Mindmaze is now a global leader in the field of neurotechnology and aims to help people recover, learn and adapt. Over the years, through successful trials, fundraising and awards received, the company has truly transformed the management of debilitating degenerative diseases, and intends to continue its development in the years to come!
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +41 21 552 08 01
Address: Chemin de Roseneck 5, 1006 Lausanne, Switzerland
And don’t forget to follow the company’s Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts!
#7 Qoqa
Founded in 2005 following a bet between a marketing student and his lecturer, Qoqa is an e-commerce site with a rather unusual original concept: every day, for 24 hours only, it offers a product for sale in limited quantities at a very attractive price. With turnover increasing a hundredfold during its first ten years of development (and a few Rolexes and Teslas sold at unbeatable prices later on), the Geneva-based company is still growing rapidly today!
Telephone: +41 21 633 20 80
Address: QoQa Services SA, Chemin de Bas-de-Plan 16, CH-1030 Bussigny-Lausanne, Switzerland
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#8 Smood
Founded in 2012 by two students, Smood is a home meal delivery company that does not simply connect restaurants with customers, but buys directly from restaurants to resell to customers. Delivering in Geneva and many other major Swiss cities, it has quickly become a success thanks to its network of over 1,000 partner restaurants and its 70% exclusivity rate!
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +41 900 009 009
Address: Chemin du Pré-Fleuri 3, 1228, Plan-Les-Ouates, Switzerland
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#9 Sophia Genetics
Founded with the aim of putting technology at the service of patient care, Sophia Genetics has, over the years, built up a global data-sharing network comprising more than 780 medical institutions across 70 countries! It offers a cloud-based platform enabling healthcare organisations to quickly obtain reliable insights from their data; a revolutionary and invaluable resource, particularly in the treatment of hereditary diseases and cancers.
Telephone: +41 21 694 10 60
Address: Rue du Centre 172, CH-1025, Saint Sulpice, Switzerland
And don’t forget to follow the company’s Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts!
#10 ViDi Systems S.A.
ViDi Systems S.A., a Fribourg-based company founded in 2012, specialises in the development of software for industrial image analysis, parts identification and inspection solutions. This software, based on deep learning and artificial intelligence, enables quality control checks to be carried out and design flaws to be detected in record time and with surgical precision in sectors such as watchmaking, food production, robotics and medicine.
Telephone: +41 22 761 5301
Address: Stampfenbachstrasse 85, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
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