Amazon Acquires ETH Zürich Spin-off RIVR Technologies: How a "Dog on Roller Skates" Became the Future of Doorstep Delivery
From six years of academic research to a $100 million valuation to acquisition by a trillion-dollar logistics empire in under three years — RIVR's...
CHF 1.1 Billion: Swiss AI Startup Funding Surges 206% in 2025 — The EY Barometer 2026 Deep Dive
AI's share of all Swiss startup funding rounds leaped from 10% in 2023 to 32% in 2025. Five mega-deals exceeded CHF 100 million. The Canton of Zürich...
DIC Corporation Anchors $62 Million Physical AI Investment Platform in Zürich: When Japanese Industrial Capital Meets Swiss Deep Tech
A ¥1 trillion Japanese chemical giant partners with a Zürich-based venture firm to deploy $62 million into sensors, wearables, robotics, and automation —...
Exa Opens First European Office in Zürich: The $700 Million AI Search Startup Building the Internet's Nervous System for Agents
"To assemble the greatest search team in the world you gotta meet them where they are." With those words, Exa's CEO announced that the company powering...
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76% of Swiss Adults Use AI Daily: Inside the Consumer Adoption Revolution That No One Predicted
A March 2026 survey found that more than three-quarters of the Swiss adult population uses AI tools every day. The number shocked even optimists. In a...
AI and Swiss GDP: The CHF 80-85 Billion Opportunity That Could Transform the Swiss Economy — Or Remain a PowerPoint Projection
Two separate studies project that AI could add CHF 80 to 92 billion annually to the Swiss economy within a decade — an 11 percent GDP increase. But only 2...
AI Business Specialist: Switzerland Creates a New Federal Diploma for the AI Workforce — The First Country to Formally Certify AI Professionals Through Its Vocational Education System
On February 10, 2026, Switzerland's State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) announced a new federal diploma: "AI Business...
Alexander Ilic: The ETH AI Center Director Warning Switzerland Needs 100x More Compute — And Why His Warning May Be the Most Important Statement in Swiss Technology Policy
"In the next ten years we will probably need 20 to 100 times more computing power than we have today." With that single sentence, ETH AI Center Managing...
Algorized Secures $13 Million to Build the Edge-Native Nervous System for Physical AI: The Swiss Startup Teaching Robots to Sense Human Intent
"We are moving from the age of blind automation to the age of aware machines." With those words at CES 2026, Algorized's CEO Natalya Lopareva unveiled the...