Baxiva and RegCheck win first place at Venture Awards Lausanne; Grand Prize MYNERVA
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Double success for ETH entrepreneurs at the Venture Awards
Two young companies with ties to ETH Zurich – Baxiva and RegCheck – have won first place in their respective categories at this year’s Venture Awards. The awards were presented in Lausanne on 15 June 2026.
ETH spin-offs sweep the board at Venture Awards
Six spin-offs of ETH Zurich were among the 18 finalists in this year’s Venture Awards. Three of them won in their respective categories, and three came in second. The Grand Prize went to spin-off MYNERVA.
Spark Award 2024: procedure for recycling rare earth metals receives award
The prize for the most promising invention of the past year goes to Marie Amélie Perrin and Victor Mougel. They have developed a method that enables rare earth elements to be efficiently recovered from electrical waste.
CLIMADA scoops first prize at Venture Awards
Eighteen start-ups were awarded prizes at this year’s Venture Awards, including five ETH Zurich spin-offs. CLIMADA won first prize in the Finance & Insurance category.
Eight ETH start-ups win Venture award
The Venture Awards for Swiss start-ups were presented yesterday evening for the 25th time. In addition to the three certified ETH spin-offs DeepJudge, Kaspar& and Versics, the 15 winners included five other start-ups founded by ETH students and alumni.
Spark Award for sustainable composites
Load-bearing, lightweight and now also recyclable: researchers led by Professor Paolo Ermanni were presented with the Spark Award in recognition of an innovative process for production of sustainable composite materials. ETH Zurich awarded the prize to their promising invention, with this year marking the tenth time the award has been given.
Medical microrobots score the Breakthrough of the Year
Research done by Professor Metin Sitti was voted the Breakthrough of the Year in the category “Engineering & Technology” at this year’s Falling Walls Conference in Berlin. The ETH Zurich-affiliated researcher’s microrobots open up new possibilities for non-invasive medical diagnosis and treatment.
Spark Award winners illuminate tumours
Making tumours visible so that surgeons can cut only as much as necessary: this is the goal of an invention by chemical biologists Helma Wennemers and Matthew Aronoff. For their achievement they have received the Spark Award, with which ETH recognises the most innovative invention with the most commercial potential of the past year.
Six ETH start-ups receive W.A. de Vigier Prize
To mark its 30th anniversary, the W.A. de Vigier Foundation awarded twice as many start-ups as usual. Six out of ten prizes were won by ETH Zurich start-ups.
Raffaele Mezzenga, Sreenath Bolisetty and Qingrui Zhang have been awarded the Spark Award 2019 for their filter, which removes harmful fluoride from drinking water. Their invention gives people all over the world access to clean drinking water.
Cooking even when the wind blows
Students and a doctoral candidate at ETH Zurich have developed a camping stove with the flame on the inside, greatly reducing the negative effects of wind and heat loss. The new design was made possibly by additive manufacturing.