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 […]

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 […]

HEMEX awarded Horizon 2020 grant

career options in consulting life sciences startups

The European Commission has awarded a consortium led by AMT Medical including HEMEX with a 2.2 MEUR grant under its “Fast-Track to Innovation (FTI)” program. Under the proposal HEMEX will plan, coordinate and execute a multicentric, pan-European study in order to obtain CE-mark for the Excimer Laser Assisted Non-occlusive Anastomosis (ELANA) Heart Bypass System in Patients […]

Scailyte raises CHF 2.75M in seed funding and gains Swisscom Ventures & Zürcher Kantonalbank as investors

Scailyte AG, a Swiss startup in the emerging and rapidly growing field of single-cell technologies, raised CHF 2.75M in seed funding and gained Swisscom Ventures as a strategic investor. Zürcher Kantonalbank also joined the financing round, alongside the existing shareholders, thus reaffirming their trust in the competence and vision of Scailyte’s team. Dominique Megret, Head […]

Resistell Closes Seed Round to Develop Faster Antibiotic Tests

Press release: Resistell AG closes seed round Resistell AG has today closed an oversubscribed seed financing round. Lead Investor Occident Group AG, Hemex AG and six other private investors invested in the EPFL spin-off developing the world’s fastest phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility test. 700,000 people die each year due to drug resistant infections. Unless we can […]