| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.03.2026 | 10 scale-ups selected for the first Project Switzerland batch |
While Switzerland consistently ranks as a world champion in innovation, building a pipeline of Switzerland's next global giants like Nestlé, ABB, or Logitech requires significant scaling expertise. Project Switzerland, initiated by the Dee... |
| 19.09.2025 | Un prêt de € 1M pour porter les projets d’Insolight en France |
Créée en 2015, la scale-up vaudoise Insolight est une entreprise spécialisée dans le développement de projets agrivoltaïques - l’intégration de l’énergie solaire à la production agricole. Insolight a mis au point la solution agrivoltaïque ... |
| 07.05.2025 | Energie 360° und Insolight spannen für Agri-Photovoltaik-Anlage zusammen |
Die Landwirte Rudolf Obrist und Hansjörg Erne kultivieren ihre Tafelkirschen in Leuggern (AG) auf rund 12 000 Quadratmetern. Diese Fläche wird nun mit knapp 1300 bifazialen Solarmodulen ausgestattet. Die Solaranlage liefert rund 800 MWh er... |
| 03.04.2025 | Innovation trailblazers from Switzerland impress juries at home and abroad |
The BioInnovation Day 2025 brought together more than 250 key players of the Swiss Health Valley for the 10th edition of BIND-BioInnovation Day where 29 life science startups pitched their ideas. Two projects stood out with Artiria Medical... |
| 31.03.2025 | 2 Venture Kick alumni in the top 5 of Time World's Top Greentech 2025 ranking | Climeworks, founded in 2009, has established itself as a leader in direct air capture (DAC) technology, providing companies with a tangible path to reducing carbon footprints. Its Mammoth facility in Iceland, one of the largest of its kind,... |
| 28.03.2025 | Switzerland shines in Time World’s Top Greentech ranking |
In collaboration with data firm Statista, Time has published a ranking of Top 250 GreenTech Companies of 2025. More than 8,000 companies developing products, services, or technologies to reverse the impact of human activities on the planet... |
| 31.01.2025 | European companies rely on Swiss cleantechs |
Synhelion is industrializing its unique technology for the production of synthetic fuels from solar energy. In June 2024, the company opened DAWN, the first industrial-scale demonstration plant for the production of renewable fuels from so... |
| 14.01.2025 | Sustainable solutions receive prizes |
Murielle Tiambo, Co-founder of KimboCare, has been selected as Innovator of the Year by The CEO Views, which recognizes innovators catalyzing transformation, innovation, and growth with their groundbreaking discoveries in the business land... |
| 04.06.2024 | Large organizations rely on startups for cleantech solutions |
In Scandinavia, heavy snowfall and storms in winter, heavy rainfall and flooding, and forest fires in summer are increasingly affecting daily life and the economy. These events highlight the limitations of weather models, which have long b... |
| 12.10.2023 | Gefragte Klima-Innovationen | |
| 13.12.2022 | Insolight secures CHF 4.85 million to accelerate commercial rollout of its solar modules | Insolight secures CHF 4.85 million to accelerate commercial rollout of its solar modules 13.12.2022 12:30, Morgane Ghilardi linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
With the successful closing of this most recent financing round, ... |
| 13.12.2022 | Insolight raises CHF4.6 million | |
| 13.12.2022 | Insolight secures CHF 4.85 million to accelerate commercial rollout of its solar modules | This round brings reinforcement to Insolight's shareholding structure with lead investor Demeter, a major European venture capital player in agritech and cleantech industries, and Smart Energy Innovation Fund, the Corporate Venture Capital ... |
| 28.09.2022 | Première française pour Insolight | |
| 10.03.2022 | Fourteen Swiss startups ready for scaling | |
| 09.03.2022 | SERI funds approved Swiss projects in the EIC Accelerator programme | |
| 02.07.2021 | Insolight launches a four year pilot project on Agroscope’s Conthey site | Insolight’s insolagrin agrivoltaic system incorporates THEIA (Translucency & High Efficiency in Agrivoltaics) solar modules offering a revolutionary combination of translucency and high electrical efficiency. These modules focus light o... |
| 10.09.2020 | Cutiss leads the ranking of the Top 100 Swiss Startup Award | Within a decade, the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award has become a benchmark in Switzerland’s startup ecosystem. This year, a selected audience of 100 startups, 100 investors, and key partners of the TOP 100 were present at the award ceremony, a... |
| 10.09.2020 | Cutiss leads the ranking of the Top 100 Swiss Startup Award | |
| 31.07.2020 | Tech startups weekly: AI sex therapy, a chip for diabetes patients, next-gen solar PV panels | The European tech startup world has started sizzling with activities after the lockdown that lasted several weeks. As soon as businesses bounced back adapting to the new normal set by the COVID-19 pandemic, several tech startups have starte... |
| 30.07.2020 | Insolight closes Series A financing round of CHF 5 million and will start producing and selling their modules | Insolight closes Series A financing round of CHF 5 million and will start producing and selling their modules 30.07.2020 09:00, Isabelle Mitchell linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
Insolight, a Lausanne-based startup that de... |
| 30.07.2020 | Swiss energy startup Insolight raises over €4.5 million to bring solar panels to market | Swiss solar energy startup Insolight has raised CHF 5 million (€4.65 million) in a Series A round led by Investiere, with Zürcher Kantonalbank, Swiss Immo Lab and a number of private business angels also participating. The startup also rece... |
| 30.07.2020 | Insolight closes Euro 4.6 million Series A round | Zurich: Switzerland-based startup Insolight has today announced closing an approx. €4.6 million Series A round. The round was led again by Investiere, with co-investors Zürcher Kantonalbank, Swiss Immo Lab and a number of private business a... |
| 30.07.2020 | Swiss cleantech Insolight lands €4.6 million Series A to bring its solar energy solutions to market | Switzerland-based startup Insolight has today announced closing an approx. €4.6 million Series A round. The round was led again by Investiere, with co-investors Zürcher Kantonalbank, Swiss Immo Lab and a number of private business angels.
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| 30.07.2020 | Insolight secures fresh capital | Insolight, based at the EPFL Innovation Park in Lausanne, developing next-generation solar PV panels for the global market. Its Translucency & High-Efficiency in Agrivoltaics (THEIA) lets enough light pass through for crops and can prov... |
| 30.07.2020 | Insolight secures fresh capital | |
| 30.07.2020 | Insolight closes Series A financing round of CHF 5 million and will start producing and selling their modules | Following the first Seed financing round in January 2018, Insolight has established a world-record efficiency of more than 29% for flat solar panels, as certified by IES-UPM. The company has successfully taken the technology out of the lab ... |
| 20.03.2020 | SET100 Awards – a showcase of Swiss energy startups | Powered by the German Energy Agency (dena), in cooperation with theWorld Energy Council, the SET100 is an annual compilation of the 100 best start-ups of the Startup Energy Transition Award. It contains the most innovative and promising sta... |
| 09.09.2019 | Insolight's Breakthrough Solar Tech Wins €10.6m in EU Funding | Insolight's Breakthrough Solar Tech Wins €10.6m in EU Funding 09.09.2019 00:00, Joseph Heaven linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
The startup's photovoltaic tech gets €10.6m in EU funding, via the HIPERION project coordinated... |
| 19.02.2019 | These hyper-efficient solar panels could actually live on your roof soon | The clean energy boffins in their labs are always upping the theoretical limit on how much power you can get out of sunshine, but us plebes actually installing solar cells are stuck with years-old tech that’s not half as good as what they’r... |
| 19.02.2019 | Insolight gets ready for large-scale industrialization | |
| 22.01.2018 | Insolight raises CHF2.3 million | |
| 15.01.2018 | Insolight successfully raises CHF 2.3 Mio | Made possible thanks to lead investor Investiere.ch, and Zürcher Kantonal Bank and a group of private business angels as co-investors, the funds will enable the company to achieve its next milestones. Among other things, Insolight will be a... |
| 31.03.2017 | The Swiss National Startup Team Technology 2017 reports from Silicon Valley | The Swiss National Startup Team Technology 2017 reports from Silicon Valley 31.03.2017 11:00, Tsering Ngorkhangsar linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
Swiss technology startups of the venture leaders Technology 2017 program t... |
| 28.02.2017 | Business school for early stage cleantech startups | |
| 27.02.2017 | Three Venture Kick startups on the radar of Silicon Valley investors | Over the past 16 years, the venture leaders program has been a cornerstone behind the success of more than 300 Swiss startups, some at a global scale such as the Venture Kick startup Mindmaze, a leader in virtual reality today who raised US... |
| 03.02.2017 | Das «Technology Team» von Venture leaders ist nominiert | |
| 02.02.2017 | Swiss National Startup Team on the radar of Silicon Valley investors | Swiss National Startup Team on the radar of Silicon Valley investors 02.02.2017 14:00, Lara Rossi linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
Ten startups are the winners of venture leaders Technology 2017. They have been selected am... |
| 02.02.2017 | Swiss National Startup Team on the radar of Silicon Valley investors | Swiss National Startup Team on the radar of Silicon Valley investors 02.02.2017 14:00, Lara Rossi linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
Ten startups are the winners of venture leaders Technology 2017. They have been selected am... |
| 20.12.2016 | Insolight to double solar panel efficiency using satellite technology | |
| 12.12.2016 | 18 startups selected for the Investor Summit 2017 | |
| 28.11.2016 | Insolight, Moka Studio et Combioxin - prêt de 100'000frs chacun de la FIT | |
| 25.11.2016 | Six start-ups enter the Climate-KIC Accelerator in Zurich | |
| 10.11.2016 | Three startups ready for ESA BIC launch | Three startups ready for ESA BIC launch 10.11.2016 14:00, Lara Rossi linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube -->
A twing (“kite”) that produces next generation wind energy, solar cells that are twice as efficient as conventional prod... |
| 10.11.2016 | The first three startups to join ESA BIC Program | |
| 10.11.2016 | Three startups ready for ESA BIC launch | Many creative minds dream of outer space – in Switzerland too. While Switzerland will not be sending any of its own rockets into space, it does make a major contribution to space technology and its universities and startups make it a world ... |
| 02.09.2016 | Startups selected for Swiss Venture Day | |
| 01.07.2016 | >>venture>> 2016: Krebsmedikamente und neue Materialien vorn | |
| 19.05.2016 | 51 Swiss startups in the MassChallenge 2016 Cohort | |
| 11.04.2016 | Start-ups selected for EPFL Alumni Seed Night 2016 | |
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