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 […]

InnoSuisse Roadshow

Switzerland is the leading nation for innovation for several years in a row, according to the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The other countries in the top five for 2017 were Sweden, the Netherlands, the United States and Britain. (WIPO global innovation index). Switzerland has held the top spot since 2011. Events like the […]

Non-Dilutive Research Funding available!

Non-Dilutive Research Funding for Swiss Biotech companies The Swiss Biotech Association invited HEMEX to an information event on 12 March 2018 in Bern (Switzerland), regarding the possibilities Swiss biotech companies have for accessing different national and international non-dilutive funding instruments. Our customer solutions team attended the presentations and would be happy to show you the different […]