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Manno TI – The Agire Foundation has launched a new online platform, Scouting Days Agire. This enables SMEs from the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland to start a “call for innovation” to find inventors, researchers, project partners and investors for their own innovations.

Zurich/Santa Clara - Modum, the specialist in last mile-focused cold chain monitoring, has been taken over by Roambee. With this acquisition, the Silicon Valley logistics firm intends to expand its offering to include cold chain transparency.

Zurich - Sygnum is launching regulated banking services for various kinds of decentralized finance tokens. In this sense, the crypto bank is aiming to build a bridge between digital and conventional financial services.

Zurich – Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have been successful in their attempts to mimic a decisive step in the evolution of viruses: the formation of a structure that can store genetic material. This will also be instructive for the development of future vaccines, cell therapies and drug delivery mechanisms.

Zurich - Inflamed pharma, a project enterprise of Xlife Sciences, has discovered an active ingredient that is able to reduce viral load by up to 90 percent in coronavirus patients and those suffering from influenza infections. At the same time, it leads to a significant reduction in inflammatory processes. Drugs are now already being produced.

Zurich – Investors have pledged a total of 25 million US dollars to Nexxiot as part of a financing round. With this fresh capital injection, the global specialist for digital logistics and the Internet of Things is seeking further efficiency gains in the worldwide cargo transport sector. Nexxiot is above all planning to expand in the USA

Dübendorf ZH - The modular research and innovation building NEST, operated by Empa and the aquatic research institute Eawag, can now be visited virtually by anyone at any time. This should ensure that news related to the numerous innovations developed and demonstrated by NEST can be spread far more quickly – to an international audience as well.

Wädenswil ZH - 3Brain AG has launched a new technology for drug development. It combines microchips with artificial intelligence and aims to help active substance candidates to be investigated in more detail before a clinical trial is conducted.

Shanghai – The three start-ups Fixposition, holo|one and STOR-H Technologies have received awards at the Consumer Technology & Innovation Show in China. They impressed with innovations in the areas of navigation, augmented reality and hydrogen technology.