Start-up

Mini-fuel cell delivers maximum performance

EPFL startup INERGIO has just unveiled a prototype for a lightweight, eco-friendly, high-performance fuel cell that can supply energy in situations where there’s no power grid. Its system can be used to run delivery drones, weather stations, environmental sensors, telecommunication antennae and even campsites.

EPFL Changemakers: Incubating tomorrow's business ideas

Twenty EPFL students recently completed the first EPFL Changemakers program – a new initiative designed to help students develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills and flesh out their business ideas. We took a closer look at three of the promising projects they’re working on.

EPFL spin-off Nexthink becomes the new Swiss unicorn

With $180M in financing round, the leader in software for managing employee’s digital experience reaches $1.1 billion valuation.

2020 a record fundraising year for EPFL start-ups

EPFL start-ups raised CHF 293 million in 2020 – the highest they’ve achieved so far. Four of the young firms, including Kandou and Sophia Genetics, brought in over CHF 20 million each. The pipeline of new businesses also looks solid, as 25 new EPFL spin-offs were launched last year.

"Applied science opens up new horizons"

Bastian Etter develops self-contained sanitation systems that recycle what comes out of our guts. From researcher to entrepreneur.

New treatment helps patients with a spinal cord injury

Spinal cord injuries disrupt the mechanism by which our bodies regulate blood pressure. A team of Swiss and Canadian scientists have developed a treatment that allows patients to regain control of their blood pressure, using targeted electrical spinal-cord stimulation. No medication is required. The team’s findings were published today in Nature.

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