Startups, apply for the W.A. de Vigier Award now!

The W.A. de Vigier Award is the oldest and highest endowed prize for startups in Switzerland, giving away five awards of CHF 100’000 each. Applications are open until January 6th. Since 1989, the foundation has distributed over CHF 11 million of seed money, resulting in more than 90 thriving Swiss startups, successful IPOs, multiple company […]

The ELANA Heart Bypass System Workshop

Elana Workshop Horizon 2020 AMT Medical and Hemex

The HEMEX team participated in a workshop organized by AMT Medical at the UMC Utrecht (Netherlands) in the first week of December. A team of world-renowned cardiac surgeons demonstrated the application of AMT’s ELANA (Excimer Laser Assisted Non-occlusive Anastomosis) Heart Bypass System on a beating porcine heart on LifeTec’s innovative cardiac simulator platform. The ELANA […]

HEMEX Pitch Series

Swiss startup Scailyte CEO Peter Nestorov presenting at Hemex pitch event

At HEMEX, we regularly organize invitation-only pitch days, where selected startups get the opportunity to pitch in front of potential investors. The focus of our last 2019 pitch session was on startups seeking to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment. Thank you Christina Vallgren, Marcus Palm, Martin Stauber, Seline Eisenring, Michael Krauthammer and Peter Nestorov for […]

HEMEX expands to China

On 14th November 2019, our CEO Pascal Winnen signed a cooperation agreement with the Luoyang Science and Innovation Park in Henan, China’s most populated province. Under the Agreement, HEMEX will support the property developer Forton Group with attracting innovative Swiss startups for its newly built 133’000 m2 life science park. In exchange, HEMEX and its […]