14.12.16 – Start-ups linked to EPFL raised almost CHF 400 million this year – that’s over 50% more than in 2014, the last record year. While some well-established companies raised... Read More
New tax rules to support e-commerce and online businesses
The Commission proposes to improve the Value Added Tax (VAT) environment for e-commerce businesses in the EU. These proposals will allow consumers and companies, in particular start-ups and SMEs, to... Read More
VTT’s spin off company first in the world to measure shopping intentions in physical stores
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a unique solution to measure in-store shopper’s intentions. The implementation respects privacy – no identity information of shoppers is collected. The objective... Read More
Aquarius Spectrum is Named in the 2016 Global Cleantech 100 Ones to Watch List
Aquarius Spectrum (www.aquarius-spectrum.com), a leading provider of cloud technology solutions for monitoring municipal water distribution networks and leak detection, today announced it was named in the 2016 Global Cleantech 100... Read More
A 10 million euro round of financing for the start up Coorpacademy
Coorpacademy, a startup based in EPFL’s Innovation Park, has completed a 10 million euro round of financing. The company specializes in online training for companies, and its plans now include... Read More
Sono Motors crowdfunds $200k for its out-there solar-powered EV
The Munich-based start-up company SONO MOTORS presents a prototype called Sion, that they have been developing over the past four years, online on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. Thanks to the... Read More
Evince secures £0.75 million of new investment for breakthrough diamond-based electronics
Evince Technology (Evince), which is developing breakthrough technologies to enable the manufacture of synthetic diamond-based electronics, has announced that the company has successfully closed its largest and most significant funding... Read More
An EPFL startup makes residential solar panels twice as efficient
With a 36% yield, the solar panels developed by startup Insolight could deliver up to twice as much energy as traditional panels. The company came up with a thin structure... Read More
IAGO – a platform for businesses to create chat bots without writing a single line of code.
https://www.iago.chat/ MIM (mobile instant messaging) applications are becoming an increasingly preferred communication channel among people. Actually, 2015 was the turning point where messaging apps users suppressed social network users. Right... Read More
Uber acquires autonomous truck startup Otto
Posted at Uber Newsroom by Travis I’m excited to announce that Uber has acquired Otto, a 90-plus person technology startup whose mission is to rethink transportation, starting with self-driving trucks. Anthony... Read More
























