The Swiss Startups Meet the City event brings together innovation and international ambition. As part of our Startup Bootcamp powered by Innosuisse, this networking event featured participants from the SF Chamber of Commerce, the general Consulate of Switzerland as well as the participating startups from our mixed cohort startup BootCamp.

The startups are:

• Aseptuva specializes in advancing patient care and safeguarding lives through its innovative Far-UVC technology. This approach is at the forefront of combating hospital-acquired infections, alleviating the workload on healthcare personnel, and addressing the escalating challenge of antimicrobial resistance.
  
• Diaxxo offers a cost-effective “Rapid PCR test” designed for easy DNA analysis in resource-limited settings and Point-of-Care. Delivering reliable results in 30-60 minutes at less than 5 USD per test, it’s suitable for human, veterinary, and food diagnostics.
• Kidemis is creating a sustainable substitute for fish meal and oil in aquafeed. They transform agricultural by-products into valuable mycoprotein for aquafeed using solid-state fermentation.
• Jedsy focuses on developing multipurpose drones for critical deliveries. Jedsy specializes in transporting urgent healthcare materials, such as blood, vaccines, and organs, quickly, reliably, and in an eco-friendly manner.
• Mikafi is a coffee-tech company developing a decentralized coffee roasting infrastructure to enable coffee-selling businesses to buy green coffee from farms and importers, create coffee roasting recipes, and apply them with one click to a fleet of IoT coffee roasting machines in various locations.
• Limula is revolutionizing the cell therapy industry by providing technology for automated, scalable manufacturing of personalized treatments like CAR T cell therapies. Their mission is to make advanced cancer treatments accessible and affordable to patients everywhere.
• PatchXR is an award-winning Swiss tech startup at the forefront of innovation in the immersive creative tech landscape. It merges music tech with multiplayer sandbox gaming to unite people and spark creativity and co-creation. With spatial computing and no-code tools, they’re redefining immersive design and collaboration.
• WattAnyWhere provides a clean energy mobile generator that converts renewable ethanol made from residue into clean electricity for an Electric Vehicle charging system that has never been seen before.

At the event, they had the opportunity to meet, exchange, and network with high-level attendees, such as the president of the SF Chamber of Commerce, Rodney Fong, and the Consul General of Switzerland, Balz Abplanalp.