Grants & Loans

Our list of Grants and Loans includes programmes that give start-ups financial support and financing offers for start-ups on a debt-to-equity basis; these range from à fonds perdu contributions to special risk loans from banks. The list does not include investors or programmes that enable equity-based financing; minor support – for example, for trade fair visits – is also not recorded.

First listed are the offers that have been mentioned by startupticker in news articles. The list is then sorted according to various financing options. The offers are listed alphabetically within each category.

The purpose of this list is to provide an overview. If you are interested in an offer, we recommend that you contact the organisation concerned. Each entry in our list contains a link that will lead you to further information.

We are pleased to receive suggestions and feedback on the list at news@startupticker.ch.

To find funding you also may look at our investor directory. A general overview of sources of financing provides the SME portal of the EAER / WBF / DEFR. Other overviews can be found in a news article published in October 2020 on our platform.

Actively communicating international

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Biotech & Pharma Medtech

Wellcome Trust

Biotech & Pharma

Actively communicating Swiss

EPFL Innogrants

Biotech & Pharma ICT Medtech

FIT Digital (VD)

Energy & Cleantech ICT Interdisciplinary Micro- & Nanotech

Fondation FIT (Vaud)

biotech cleantech Deep Tech ICT Impact Interdisciplinary Life-Sciences medtech micro / nano

Fongit Innovation Fund - FIF Geneva

ICT Life-Sciences medtech

Ideenscheck für Berggebiete

Biotech & Pharma ICT Interdisciplinary Medtech Micro- & Nanotech

InnoBooster

cleantech ICT medtech

Innosuisse R&D projects

Biotech & Pharma Energy & Cleantech ICT Interdisciplinary Medtech Micro- & Nanotech

Klimafonds Stadtwerk Winterthur

Energy & Cleantech ICT Interdisciplinary Micro- & Nanotech

Klimastiftung Schweiz

Energy & Cleantech ICT

Krebsliga Schweiz

Biotech & Pharma

Migros-Pionierfonds

ICT Interdisciplinary

Seed Capital Freiburg

ICT Medtech Micro- & Nanotech

UZH Bioentrepreneur Fellowship

Biotech & Pharma Medtech

Wyss Zurich

Biotech & Pharma Medtech

Applied research

Loan guarantee

Microcredits

R&D