Top 29 medical and healthcare startups in Switzerland

Nov 22, 2025
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Roivant Sciences
Funding: $2.5B
Roivant’s mission is to reduce the time and cost of developing new medicines for patients and to share those savings with the healthcare system. It is a unique biopharmaceutical company with world-class drug development experts working across multiple clinical and functional areas.
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ADC Therapeutics
Funding: $1B
ADC Therapeutics is focused on the creation of proprietary Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) for the therapy of both solid and hematological cancers. It uses monoclonal antibodies specific to specific tumor antigens conjugated to a innovative class of highly potent pyrrolobenzodiazepine (PBD)-based warheads to specifically kill cancer cells. The company is expanding ZYNLONTA into earlier stages of DLBCL and indolent lymphomas. In addition, IND-enabling efforts are in progress for the Company’s exatecan-based, prostate-specific membrane antigen.
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Alentis Therapeutics
Funding: $365.4M
ALENTIS Therapeutics is a Swiss-French biotech company developing novel therapeutics in advanced liver disease and cancer.
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MindMaze
Funding: $340.7M
MindMotionPro is a CE-Marked hospital based solution for early motor rehabilitation post-stroke. An engaging and motivational virtual reality rehabilitation program that supports individual recovery goal.
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Basilea Pharmaceutica
Funding: $268M
Basilea Pharmaceutica is a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes innovative medicines in the therapeutic area of anti-infectives
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Sophia Genetics
Funding: $265.2M
Sophia Genetics aims to bring data analytics solutions to the market, to support healthcare professionals by maximizing the power of data-driven medicine. It achieves this mission through the adoption of SOPHiA AI, which is built using techniques such as statistical inference, pattern recognition, and machine learning.
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SkyCell
Funding: $214.7M
SkyCell focuses on developing temperature controlled logistics containers for the pharmaceutical industry.
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Memo Therapeutics
Funding: $108.8M
Memo Therapeutics AG is an innovator in the field of antibody discovery and immune repertoire analysis.
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ImmunOs Therapeutics
Funding: $101.8M
ImmunOs Therapeutics AG is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing next generation and novel human immunomodulatory proteins with a role in both innate and adaptive immunity.Their mission is to develop the next generation of novel therapeutics that will improve the lives of patients with serious disease.
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Hilo
Funding: $101.7M
aktiia makes wristband continuous blood pressure monitoring devices
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Genkyotex
Funding: $87.1M
Genkyotex is the leading developer of NOX inhibitors. We are developing first-in-class, small molecule therapeutics that selectively inhibit NOX enzymes. NOX enzymes are key drivers in multiple diseases including fibrotic, inflammatory, cardiovascular and CNS diseases and oncology.
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CDR-Life
Funding: $76M
CDR-Life AG is a biotech company that develops innovative therapeutic antibody fragments with a focus on immuno-oncology.
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NBE Therapeutics
Funding: $65.7M
NBE-Therapeutics develops ADCs for the treatment of solid tumors (in particular breast and pancreatic cancers). Its platform enables to develop targeted therapies that have a long-lasting immunological effect and can shrink or even completely eradicate tumors. The company has a portfolio of ADC candidates based on proprietary linker loading and conjugation technologies, which are at various stages of pipeline. The company's technologies enable to find the optimal combination of properties for each target antigen: enzymatic conjugation with the enzyme sortase A, SMAC technology (sortase-mediated antibody conjugation), a highly potent anthracycline-based intercalating toxin that damages DNA (as a payload), novel binding agents for finding any new targets and a mammalian antibody library display system. The company is financially backed by the Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund.
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Anjarium Biosciences
Funding: $61M
Pioneering the next generation of non-viral gene therapy. Viral vectors have enabled early successes in the gene therapy space, but their immunogenicity, limited payload capacity and complex manufacturing are headwinds for the field. Anjarium is squarely focused on those challenges.
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GeNeuro
Funding: $54.6M
GeNeuro develops innovative treatments against inflammatory and degenerative disorders associated with endogenous retroviruses.
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Ava
Funding: $45.3M
Ava is a patented multi-sensor bracelet, which allows women to precisely and conveniently predict fertile days. Ava uses AI for big data analytics to track personal fertility cycles.
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Sensimed
Funding: $33.4M
Sensimed AG, a Swiss company, has developed a unique non-invasive soft contact lens-based solution, the SENSIMED Triggerfish, with the aim of revolutionizing glaucoma management by providing an automated recording of continuous ocular dimensional change over 24 hours.
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ProteoMediX
Funding: $21.3M
ProteoMediX is specialized in the identification of novel biomarkers for the early detection of cancer. The first product currently developed is a blood-based test that enables the diagnosis of prostate cancer with significantly higher accuracy than today's clinical standard.
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Lyfegen
Funding: $16.6M
Pioneering value & data-driven healthcare for patients
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OnlineDoctor
Funding: $16.2M
OnlineDoctor is an innovative Swiss-based platform that allows the user to diagnosed any skin problems quickly.
Editor: Jason Kwon
Jason Kwon is a senior editor for MedicalStartups. He has previously covered the pharmaceutical and medical research industries for FDAnews and worked as a head of marketing for medical startup Sonic Therapeutics. Before that, he co-founded a startup consulting business for emerging entrepreneurial hubs in Asia. Jason graduated from St. Bonaventure University’s journalism school. In his free time, Jason enjoys yoga, watching movie trailers, traveling to places where he can't get cell service. You can contact Jason at jaskwon(at)medicalstartups(dot)com