Top 15 Fitness Startup Investors in Switzerland in October 2023

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• HAYA Therapeutics — Pioneering next-generation therapies for fibrotic diseases. Learn more about our approach here.
• Memo Therapeutics — Memo Therapeutics AG (MEMO) is an innovator in the field of antibody discovery and immune repertoire analysis.Its MemoMAB™ platform creates a recombinant in vitro copy of an individual’s B cell / antibody repertoire, which is then banked as a library. The resulting unique, large and relevant antibody libraries represent the individual’simmune repertoire and are expected to contain an unprecedented number of relevant and rare antibodies. This leads to entirely new possibilities in immune repertoire analysis and antibody discovery.MemoMAB™ is deployed in proprietary antibody lead discovery programs and is made available in collaborations.
• Synendos Therapeutics — Synendos Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that aims to develop breakthrough safe and effective therapies for unmet needs in neuropsychiatric disorders through modulation of a new drug target in the endocannabinoid system that enables restoration of natural functioning of the brain.

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• Biovotion — Biofourmis partners with risk-bearing organizations and life science companies to provide solutions that help expand the delivery of care to everyone, everywhere.

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• Klimber — Klimber makes personal insurance easy to understand, buy, and use. Utilizing data-driven insights, design, and proprietary technology we are able to offer competitive prices, convenience, and control over the insurance experience that emerging “digital” consumers expect. In collaboration with our strategic partners and investors, PrudentialFinancial and Grupo Clarín, our team of insurance experts and technologists seek to deliver world-class insurance products and services via the region’s first 100% digital platform.
• Climeworks — Climeworks captures CO2 from air via commercial carbon dioxide removal technology. Its direct air capture plants capture CO2 with a filter, using mainly low-grade heat as an energy source. The pure CO2 gas is then sold to customers in key markets, including commercial agriculture, food and beverage industries, the energy sector and the automotiveindustry. Customers utilize this atmospheric CO2 in carbonated drinks or to produce carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuels and materials. Additionally, the company enables customers to realize their climate goals by reversing their emissions and safely storing the captured CO2.
• Paytm Insurance — Compare & Buy Insurance Policies online provided by various insurance companies in India. Get instant quotes, best price, claim support & save upto 85% on premiums.

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• MyKronoz — MyKronoz design Multi-function activity tracker and smartwatches. Discover ZeTime, the first hybrid smart watch with mechanical hands over a color touchscreen.
• Biovotion — Biofourmis partners with risk-bearing organizations and life science companies to provide solutions that help expand the delivery of care to everyone, everywhere.
• BOW Group — BOW Group is a fast-growing and consumer-driven global IOT company operating in the wearables, connected vehicles and smart home markets. OW (Be Over the World) Group is a fast-growing and consumer-driven IOT specialist, operating worldwide in the wearables, connected vehicles and smart home markets with 3 distinctive brands MyKronoz, RoadEyes andDeconnect. Among its recent successes, there is the launch of ZeTime, MyKronoz’s newest unique hybrid smartwatch introduced onto online crowdfunding platforms. With over $6,000,000 raised and goods already shipped out to more than 30,000 backers, ZeTime became the biggest 2017 project on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, and the largest one ever from a European company. In addition, MyKronoz, with its Swiss DNA and unique position of delivering stylish wearable devices at an affordable price, ranks as the best-selling IOT brand within the retail network of the leading French telecom operator Orange, boosting its ambition to duplicate this commercial success to many more mobile carriers around the world. More recently, MyKronoz has been selected by Amazon to join their Launchpad program, and is pleased to be considered as one of the strategic wearable brands by the world’s leading ecommerce platform.

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• PicoDRILL — PicoDRILL generates technology leadership for its partner/customers through cutting-edge technology for drilling needs in the nanotechnology field. picoDrill is a private company located in Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Diagnoplex — Diagnoplex has been founded in 2005 supported by seed financing fron the Novartis Forschungsstiftung, Swiss Confederation CTI project, Canton de Vaud FIT and the Gebert Rüf Stiftung. The company has performed a 140 patient prospective pilot study demonstrating technical and clinical feasibility of its colorectal cancer screening test COLOX as wellas its high sensitivity and specificity.
• Aleva Neurotherapeutics — Aleva Neurotherapeutics develops the next generations of implantable Deep Brain Stimulation systems, based on a MEMS technology. Our unique microfabricated devices enable Target Specific Stimulation and optimization of current therapies. They will also permit targeting new areas of the brain and the measurement of neurophysiological activity,translating into faster, more certain surgical placement of electrode leads. The first application will be in Deep Brain Stimulation for indications such as Parkinson's Disease and Essential Tremor.To maximize the value it can capture from its technology, Aleva intends to develop a series of two therapeutic products, while eliminating technological and clinical development risks at each stage.Our first product, directSTIM, an intelligent directional electrode connected to a best-in-class Deep Brain Stimulation system, has successfully completed an acute clinical trial at the Inselspital in Bern, Switzerland. It is currently further developped for a long term use.Aleva has been was founded in 2008 in Lausanne, Switzerland. It has raised 42 MUSD to date from prominent VCs, private investors and a strategic investor. The company is ISO13485 certified.

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• Axom — Axom automating visual inspection through image analysis in the healthcare industry.
• Gaia Tech — Gaia Technologies turns agricultural sidestreams into high-value ingredients for cosmetics, food, and feed manufacturers.
• PeriVision — Perivision combines artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the cloud to build the next generation of systems to understand visual function. The company's systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.

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• EBAMed — EBAMed SA is a Swiss startup based in Geneva whose mission is to enable safe and effective non-invasive treatments of heart arrhythmias with protontherapy. The company is currently developing a medical device to enable non-invasive heart motion imaging and real-time synchronization of the therapeutic beam. This device consists in both hardware andsoftware components and expands treatment possibilities for existing protontherapy centres, enabling them for the first time to treat heart patients.
• Gmelius — Gmelius is the world's first 360 email collaboration platform designed for Gmail and your company's daily apps. Join the async movement!
• Annaida Technologies — Annaida Technologies has developed a groundbreaking device, EmbryoSpin, that performs microscopic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (“µNMR”) at a scale 10-fold better than existing technologies.

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• MOVU — MOVU is a removal and cleaning service provider with online bookings. The company gets more than 1500 relocation requests per month. It partners with Swisscom, the Post, Helvetia, UBS, and Immoscout24. The firm offers its users with customer service representatives named Move Captains that helps its consumers. The person listens, clarifies, andintermediates between the user and the movers and provides correct solutions for every problem. Reviews of former clients as well as the price comparison between providers helps its users agree decisions.MOVU is a Switzerland-based company that was founded in 2014 by Laurent Decrue and Nenad Nikolic.
• CARE — CARE provides personalised preventative medicine to people who wish to learn more about their bodies, detect changes early on, and enhance their overall health.
• Planted Foods — Planted is an ETH Spinoff that uses cutting-edge technology to turn four natural ingredients into plant-based meat that mimics the taste, texture, and mouthfeel of traditional animal meat. It takes only the best raw materials from plants and creates that tasty, nutritious, high-protein, and juicy planted that the customers love.It was founded in2019 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

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• LEND — LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.
• AVAtronics — AVA Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Solution is a breakthrough in Audio Industry. AVA is the first and only TRUE WIDE-BAND ANC in the market capable of selectively cancelling all annoying noises we want to get rid of without compromising the quality of Music or speech.
• Blumer — Blumer is a social networking platform that provides social networks that can monetize time by consuming advertisements, selling nfts, and making crypto transactions. It offers social networks, crypto, digital marketing, and blockchain.

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• Adiposs — Adiposs is a Swiss biotech start-up company developing medical imaging products and technologies for early detection of cachexia.
• Snowcookie — Ski tracking sensors by bode miller for racers and coaches

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• ARTIDIS — ARTIDIS, a proprietary nanotechnology platform paired with advanced analytics, can be applied to any living tissue providing a broad range of R&D applications

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• CoWare — CoWare, Inc. supplies platform-driven electronic system-level design software and consulting services to IP, semiconductor, and electronics companies. It offers products, services, and IP models that support platform architecture design, platform verification, application sub-system design, processor design, DSP algorithm design, and softwaredevelopment solutions. The company’s products include Platform Architect, a SystemC-based graphical environment that captures the product platform, as well as provides a dashboard for initiating the platform analysis functions; Model Designer for capturing and verifying the blocks of IP; Virtual Platform, a self-contained package platform simulation for distribution to software development teams; Model Library, a library of processor, bus, and peripheral models that are used in product platforms; and Processor Designer that enables the creation of custom processors or programmable hardware accelerators, and their models for incorporation into product platforms. CoWare, Inc. also provides Signal Processing Designer, which enables the design and analysis of signal processing algorithms, and exports these algorithm implementations as blocks; and Virtual Platform product family, which delivers tools and technologies to support the creation, distribution, and use of virtual hardware platforms for device software development and validation.
• RF Magic — RF Magic is a fabless semiconductor company providing a diversified portfolio of radio frequency (RF) Systems on a Chip integrated circuits (ICs) for the next generation of consumer electronics applications. The company’s experienced engineers combine RF and digital communications systems experience with RF silicon design expertise to develophighly advanced ICs for cost-effective integration into high-volume consumer platforms.RF Magic’s RF Systems on a Chip technology is well suited to meet extreme broadband challenges facing the expanding Digital Home, Consumer Mobility and High Performance Networking markets, such as high-throughput communications, wide bandwidth channels, multiple video channels, multi-function radios and high-interference environments. More than two million of the company’s award-winning products have been shipped to customers for use in Digital Broadcast Satellite (DBS) Out Door Units (ODUs), digital broadcast set top boxes (STBs) and televisions, home media centers, and fixed wireless access modems.Employing patented design techniques, RF Magic’s broadband RF Systems on a Chip ICs offer premium performance, efficient design, lower cost, diverse functionality, and simplicity of use to Deliver the Next RF Generation.
• Biovotion — Biofourmis partners with risk-bearing organizations and life science companies to provide solutions that help expand the delivery of care to everyone, everywhere.

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• Avea Life — Discover how to harness Vitality, Energy, and lasting health through safe-to-use and science-based SUPPLEMENTS formulated by leading longevity experts.
• Biolytica — A unique tool for prevention-focused clinicians and longevity professionals to create data-driven health optimization experiences for their clients.

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• Spydra — Spydra is an asset tokenization platform that offers low code tokenization solutions to help Businesses tokenize assets with ease. Learn more about Spydra platform today.
• Zoth — Zoth is an ecosystem that bridges decentralized finance (DeFi) with real-world assets, (RWAs).
• Jimi — Jimi is a business app made for freelance trainers and independant gym studios. Fitness freelancers use pen & paper because it is simple and just works. But there is no control over growth, no control over the customer experience, and it wastes time & money. Jimi PRO Fitness is a ridiculously simple solution for them.

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• BODDY — BODDY is the pioneering channel manager for fitness & wellness - fully dedicated to the travel industry.