Funded Artificial Intelligence Startups in Zurich

Daedalean leads at $58M (Series B, January 2022), followed by DeepJudge at $42M (Series A, November 2025), PriceHubble at $34M (Series B, July 2021), and Unique at $30M (Series A, February 2025). KNIME also raised $30M in August 2024, though its round type was not disclosed. Swiss-Mile stands out for raising $22M at Seed stage in August 2024, larger than several of the Series A rounds in the set.

Eight rounds in the dataset closed in 2025, spanning February through November: Nextesy ($4M Pre-Seed), Unique ($30M Series A), Lyceum ($12M Pre-Seed), Modulos ($11M Seed), Veezoo ($6M Series A), and then DeepJudge ($42M Series A), mimic ($16M Seed), and Cerrion ($18M Series A) all closing in the final three months of the year. The November cluster alone accounts for over $76M across three companies.

Seed is the most common stage with nine rounds, though check sizes range widely — from Swiss-Mile's $22M down to $170K each for Nerai Bio and Sentinus. Series A follows with eight rounds, and Pre-Seed accounts for four entries including Lyceum ($12M), Nextesy ($4M), Amplo ($2M), and intonate ($30K). Five rounds carry an unknown or undisclosed stage designation, among them KNIME's $30M and Synthara Technologies' $11M.

The set spans several verticals: Daedalean targets aviation autonomy ($58M Series B), DeepJudge focuses on legal AI research ($42M Series A), Lakera AI addresses LLM security ($20M Series A), Yokoy handles AI-driven expense management ($26M Series A), b-rayZ applies AI to breast cancer screening ($4M Series A), and Swiss-Mile builds AI-powered legged robotics ($22M Seed). Platforms oriented toward data analytics and search — KNIME, Squirro, Veezoo, and Caplena — are also well represented.

Lightly appears twice: a $100K Pre-Seed in August 2021 and a $3M Seed in May 2022, indicating a progression through early stages within roughly nine months. No other company in these 35 rows shows multiple entries, though the dataset is sorted by round date and may not capture all historical rounds for each company.

All 35 rounds are attributed to Zürich — there are no entries from Geneva, Basel, Bern, or other Swiss cities in this dataset. That geographic concentration makes Zürich the clear locus for institutionally backed AI activity visible here, consistent with the city's proximity to ETH Zürich, which has direct ties to several companies in the list including Swiss-Mile and LatticeFlow.