Switzerland pours extra of its enterprise capital into deep tech than another nation, in line with new knowledge.
The Swiss Deep Tech Report 2025 discovered that 60% of all Swiss enterprise funding between 2019 and 2025 went to deep tech — far surpassing another nation. The capital represents a giant guess on cutting-edge science growing into international companies.
Startups within the sector pulled in $1.9bn in funding final 12 months, up from $1.4bn in 2023, and are on observe to hit $2.3bn in 2025.
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The report was produced by the Deep Tech Nation Switzerland Basis, a non-profit backed by telecom agency Swisscom and banking large UBS to spice up Swiss innovation. It was revealed in collaboration with startup knowledge platforms Dealroom.co and Startupticker.
After analysing over 1,500 startups, the report discovered that deep tech firms have already created greater than $100bn in mixed enterprise worth.
It ranked ETH Zurich and EPFL amongst Europe’s high 4 universities for producing deep tech spinouts — behind solely Oxford and Cambridge.
“Switzerland has lengthy excelled in elementary analysis, however we imagine the following decade belongs to the scientists and engineers who flip that analysis into international firms,” stated Alex Stöckl, founding accomplice at VC agency Founderful, which additionally contributed to the report.
AI and machine studying startups are more and more taking the lion’s share of deep tech funding within the Alpine nation.
In 2024, virtually one-third of all Swiss deep-tech funding went to AI-first startups — triple the share recorded in 2020. The funding went into every little thing from software program for humanoids to chocolate-sorting algorithms.
In the meantime, fields like robotics, local weather tech, and biotech — a Swiss staple — proceed to develop, due to giant rounds from the likes of Neustark, Neo Medical, and Transmutex.
But the report additionally highlights a spot: practically 96% of late-stage funding comes from international, not native, funds, indicating a possibility for home capital to catch up.
Stöckl has beforehand referred to as the Swiss tech ecosystem a “powerhouse” that’s solely simply beginning to declare its place on the worldwide stage. Information suggests its foundations are robust.
Along with its backing for deep tech, the nation has the highest variety of unicorn firms per capita in Europe and has topped the World Innovation Index for 13 years in a row.
