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1 Startup funnel

Switzerland's startup funnel

Companies headquartered in Switzerland at each stage today, by total VC raised. Hover or tap a bar for the split.

1,904
Startups
$100K–15M raised

720 pre-seed · 657 seed · 527 Series A

365
Breakouts
$15–100M raised

247 Series B · 118 Series C

92
Scaleups
$100M+ raised

69 Mega · 23 Mega+

52
Unicorns and/or $100M+ revenue

42 valued at $1B+ · 30 with $100M+ revenue · 20 both

Source: Dealroom.co

2 Latest quarter

Switzerland's latest quarter in venture capital

Venture capital raised by Switzerland-headquartered companies each quarter since 2020, split by round size, with detail on the latest complete quarter.

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3 Enterprise value

How much Switzerland’s VC-backed companies are worth

Combined enterprise value of VC-backed companies headquartered in Switzerland, founded since 1990 and still operating, at the end of each year. Companies stay in the total after they list or are acquired.

4 VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Switzerland

VC investment into Switzerland-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.

5 Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Switzerland

A live treemap of $40M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in Switzerland, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Switzerland - 2024–2026

Every $40M+ VC round into Switzerland-headquartered companies in 2024–2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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6 Startup hubs

Inside Switzerland: 5 startup hubs, 248 universities

Hubs are sized by combined enterprise value; universities and research institutes by the startup founders they produced. Hover any point for its numbers; the lists rank hubs by EV and universities by founders.

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By enterprise value · 5-yr growth
1 Zurich $68.7B 8.7× 5-yr
2 Basel $44.8B 1.4× 5-yr
3 Lausanne $20.9B 4× 5-yr
4 Geneva $18.5B 5.9× 5-yr
5 Winterthur $589.8M

7 Founder origins

Where Switzerland's unicorn founders build

55 founders born in Switzerland are behind 33 unicorns; 21% of those were built in the US. Origins are resolved from biography and education history, not current address. Compare with the other origin countries in Europe, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.

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8 Location comparison

Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — Switzerland in a global comparison

Companies count where they were founded or are headquartered. Values are per 1M people or totals, as a share of the US (US = 100%) or absolute; bars scale to the largest value in each column. Hover any value for the per-1M rate and absolute count.

9 Patent intelligence

Switzerland startup IP portfolio: 34.8K patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Switzerland. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.

Granted patent families
34.8K
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
3852 patents per million residents · #11 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Basel metropolitan area 12.4K
2 Canton of Geneva 12.3K
3 Greater Zurich area 9,471
4 Winterthur Area 557

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