YOUR MARCH STARTUPS SUCCESS STORIES

Crazy ascent for many startups this month!

This month has been intense in many ways, founders have proven that they never give up and are ready to crush it.

We couldn't let you start the weekend without the great news we received from all our Alumni this past month.?Henry David Thoreau said that "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Do you feel success is something we need to aim for, a point to go towards? Or that we just have to do what we love, the best we can, and let success come our way? We'd love your comments on that. In the meantime, please dive comfortably into some of the most interesting stories from March.

Decentriq? raises $15M to expand its data clean rooms platform

Zürich, Switzerland-based?Decentriq?is an enterprise SaaS platform providing data clean rooms - allowing users to leverage data previously not possible. Also a founding member of the Confidential Computing Consortium including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Intel, the company today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Eclipse Ventures with participation from Atlantic Labs, btov Partners, and Paladin Capital Group. Discover the whole article here .

Sleepiz AG , the ETH Zürich spinoff, raises CHF 6.2 million in Series A financing round

The MedTech and Zürich based startup is on a mission to provide patient-centric disease management through seamless integration of contactless monitoring into people’s homes.

It has successfully completed the second closing of its Series A financing round, resulting in a total investment of CHF 6.2 million. The fresh capital is to be used primarily to launch their sleep apnea monitor in foreign markets. Discover the whole article here (German)

Bloom Biorenewables Ltd ,?was recently awarded a grant by the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)

This ‘SERI-funded EIC Accelerator Grant’ constitutes an investment of €2.5M into the fast-growing company to accelerate the industrialization and commercialization of its circular solutions.

This Swiss, science-driven company is at the forefront of the global transition to a circular economy. They develop and commercialize breakthrough technologies to sustainably produce bio-based materials for a multitude of industries. Discover their solutions here.

EPFL startup?Nagi Bioscience ?was granted €2.5 million by the SERI-funded EIC Accelerator program

EPFL startup?Nagi Bioscience?is an innovative high-tech startup operating in the BioTech field, located in the heart of the Swiss "Health Valley" .?With its pioneer Organism-on-Chip technology, Nagi Bioscience has been bestowed the prestigious and highly selective?EIC Accelerator Grant?supporting breakthrough innovation in Europe, funded by the?Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)?for Swiss Startups.?Read more here.

Umami Meats ?Secures US$2.4 Million Pre-seed Funding to Advance Cultivated Seafood

Umami Meats, a Singapore-based food tech startup developing sustainable seafood that is developing cultivated, not-caught, has secured pre-seed funding of US$2.4 million.

With the goal of creating healthy, sustainable seafood without sacrificing animals or the oceans, Umami Meats has secured funding to further develop its plant-derived growth serum and low-cost production system for cultivated seafood. Umami Meats is paving the way for Singapore to host the leading technology platform for minimizing the cost of large-scale cell-based manufacturing.?Read the whole article here.

GenLots ?has has received investment from the global accelerator?Plug and Play Tech Center.?

Swiss-based startup that uses machine learning SaaS to optimize supply planning, saving up to 30% on inventory values and 50% on inbound logistics costs. Read the whole article here .

TieTalent ?closes CHF 1.2m seed investment round Artiria Medical

TieTalent?is the career growth platform dedicated to tech professionals. Founded in 2018, the Renens-based company has attracted the attention of investors such as Zug-based Spicehaus Partners, Yverdon-based Innofund, and the innovation fund of the Cantonal Bank of Schwyz. On this portal, developers, analysts, and other IT professionals do not have to apply. Read the whole article here (French) .

ETH Zürich?spinoff?GROAM ?wins final stage of Venture Kick and gets CHF 150'000 to turn agricultural waste into sustainable foam

The Zurich-based startup is inspired by food engineering and uses proprietary technology to foam agricultural waste materials like fruit and cereal. The resulting bio-based and biodegradable foam solutions can be used for fast disposables such as plant substrate or packaging.?Groam?will use the CHF 150'000 to get business expertise on board for a seed round. Read the whole article here.

Outlander Materials ?is a winner for the?Extreme Tech Challenge Netherlands & Belgium Regional Finals, on their way to the Global Finals in San Francisco

Outlander Materials?wants to eradicate waste, in every way possible; they use existing food industry sources, by-products, and waste to create their materials, and ensure that they are compostable and release no toxins. They bring UnPlastic to the market as a real alternative for single-use plastics.?Learn more here.

Ajinomatrix ?graduates the?Founder Institute ?Global Food Ecosystems Helsinki!

Ajinomatrix is a startup aiming at digitizing the senses of taste and smell for the food industry. They believe in AI and make it a separate software component, open source/open science in order to accelerate and multiply the potential contributions, and also open to more interfaces and more data.?They also entered the batch of the officially fastest growing companies of the batches of the Founder Institute in the EMEA Zone (Europe, Middle-East and Africa - effectively our 3 current main basis of operation, with Japan). Details available at?https://fi.co/50-EMEA . Discover more here.

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