Switzerland hits peak deep tech funding ranges
The Swiss Deep Tech Report 2026 discovered that 63% of Swiss enterprise capital is directed to deep tech. The nation invested $1,470 per capita in 2025, which for a inhabitants of 9.1m equates to over $13bn. Utilizing this per capita metric, Switzerland is third after Israel and the USA. The US, in fact has a bigger inhabitants (341.8m) and, based on Celesta Capital, spent a report $179bn on deep tech funding in 2025. The per capita fee for Switzerland was additionally almost double that of Germany and the UK, stated the report.
The report, compiled by Deep Tech Nation Switzerland, Founderful, Kickfund, Startupticker.ch, and Dealroom.co additionally finds that Swiss universities, ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne forward in Europe by way of deep tech spinouts. Since 2020, there have been 192 alumni-founded European deep tech startups from ETH Zurich and 94 from EPFL, in comparison with 67 from the UK’s Cambridge College and 35 from MIT within the US in the identical interval.
“For the primary time, the businesses spinning out of ETH and EPFL are staying, scaling and attracting critical capital,” says Jean-Philippe Fricker, co-founder and chief system architect of Cerebras Methods, the California-based AI coaching and inference firm.
Areas attracting funding in Switzerland are AI and ML, making up 25% of newly based deep tech corporations. The nation has the best density of AI researchers, stated the report, at double the quantity within the UK and the US.
There are additionally x3.5 extra enterprise backed robotics startups per capita created than within the US since 2020.
Switzerland additionally tops the European league for patents per capita, with seven instances the European common. The principle areas of curiosity are microelectronics and high-precision sensors, added the report.
The report was launched at VivaTech, a annual startup and tech innovation occasion in Paris (17-20 June).