Swiss DeepTech, August 2026.

17 financing rounds recorded. Largest: Gravis Robotics's series a of USD 200M.

17rounds
CHF 392.2Mcapital
CHF 369.7Mof which venture
CHF 4Mmedian
0%verified
6spin-offs

What the numbers say

CHF 2.2M of the month's capital, 1%, is public market money rather than venture: Addex Therapeutics (Follow-on, USD 2.8M). Venture capital proper was CHF 369.7M across 12 rounds.

The two largest deals are 72% of the month's capital, so the total describes a handful of companies rather than the market.

The median round is CHF 4M against a mean of CHF 26.1M. The gap is the month in one line: a long tail of small rounds under a few large ones.

8 of 17 rounds were pre-seed or seed, and together they drew 6% of the capital. The formation end is busy and cheap.

6 of 17 rounds came out of an institution (ETH Zurich 2, EPFL 2, University of Zurich 1, University of Fribourg 1), which is the structural feature of this market rather than a feature of the month.

33 distinct investors were named across 13 rounds. Only 5 appear more than once: Highland Europe, Ace Ventures, ByFounders, Y Combinator, Playfair.

1 transaction is announced rather than closed and its figure is excluded from every total above: Cy Biopharma (USD 21.5M, up to, gross proceeds). A ceiling quoted gross, before redemptions and subject to approval, is not capital raised.

0 of 16 closed rounds have been checked against a primary source, covering nothing of the CHF 392.2M, 0%. The rest is as reported. Every error found in this database so far was a figure or a label that a primary source contradicted, so that share is the weight this page can carry.

The rounds

CompanySectorStageRaised InvestorsHQ
Gravis RoboticsRoboticsSeries Asole investor USD 200MSoftBank Investment AdvisersZurich
Vaderis TherapeuticsPharmaSeries BUSD 152MLife Sciences at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, TCGX, Omega FunBasel
Adaptyv BiosystemsBiotechSeries AUSD 40MHighland Europe, Ace Ventures, ByFounders, Y CombinatorLausanne
Adaptyv BioBiotechSeries A$40 million EUR 34.35MHighland Europe, Ace Ventures, ByFounders, Y CombinatorLausanne
Cy BiopharmaBiotechSeries Cannouncedup to USD 21.5M–Zug
Vaderis TherapeuticsBiotech–headline only; article text unrelated USD 17.5MEQTZurich
AI Infrastructure CapitalAISeedapproximately USD 16MVALYOU-Anlagestiftung, Valyou investment foundationPfäffikon
Neurosoft BioelectronicsMedTech–USD 7.5M–Geneva
Exclaim RoboticsRoboticsPre-seedUSD 4.95MFounderful, PlayfairZurich
Addex TherapeuticsPharmaFollow-onup to USD 2.8MH.C. Wainwright & CoGeneva
Aisot Technologies AGFinTechSeedseed extension round CHF 2MFelix HaldnerZurich
SUINDAgriTechSeedINR 20.5 crore CHF 1.75MTransition VC, IIMA VenturesZurich
KOVE medicalMedTechSeedCHF 1.6M–Zurich
ZerolookSoftwarePre-seedUSD 1.9MPlayfair, Vento Ventures, TrueSight Ventures, Alpha VentureZug
BitVaultFinTechSeedCHF 500KLe Chêne Family Office, Brad MillsLugano
BeweMedTech–convertible loan (Pre-Clinical Top-Up) CHF 250KBiopôle, Arcanys Ventures, Capital Risque Fribourg, KickfundCH
Isospec AnalyticsBiotechPre-seedup to undisclosed–Lausanne

By stage

Seed5CHF 18.6M
Series A3CHF 223.9M
not stated3CHF 20.2M
Pre-seed3CHF 5.5M
Series B1CHF 121.6M
Follow-on1CHF 2.2M
Series C1

By sector

Biotech5CHF 77.9M
MedTech3CHF 7.8M
Robotics2CHF 164M
Pharma2CHF 123.8M
FinTech2CHF 2.5M
AI1CHF 12.8M
AgriTech1CHF 1.8M
Software1CHF 1.5M

By city

Zurich6CHF 183.3M
Lausanne3CHF 63.9M
Geneva2CHF 8.2M
Zug2CHF 1.5M
Basel1CHF 121.6M
Pfäffikon1CHF 12.8M
Lugano1CHF 500k
not stated1CHF 250k
1 of 17 rounds have no stated amount, so CHF 392.2M is a floor rather than a total. The database records what the press carried, so undisclosed rounds and quiet extensions do not reach it, and 13 of 17 rounds name their investors. This is reported activity, not a market census, and one month is too short to read as a trend.
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