
Our Startup Camps
Are you a Swiss startup looking to expand into the Brazilian market? Join the Startup Camps powered by Innosuisse and managed by Swissnex. New calls open every quarter, allowing you to apply when the timing best aligns with your startup’s roadmap.
What You Get
Each startup follows a tailored program built around its business objectives in Brazil, ensuring every interaction contributes directly to its expansion strategy. The startup chooses São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro as its base and sets a start date that aligns with its roadmap. Throughout the Startup Camp, the Swissnex team provides continuous hands-on support.
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Tailored Agenda
A tailored agenda featuring virtual and in-person meetings with potential customers, partners, experts, and other stakeholders.
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Ecosystem Access
Access to Swissnex's broader ecosystem of partners and stakeholders in Brazil, including its Expert Network.
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Travel Support
A stipend to help cover travel expenses, plus access to Swissnex offices as a home base throughout the program.
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Conference Attendance
The opportunity to align the program with major industry conferences or participate in sector-specific events and visits.
Two Types of Camps
Depending on their readiness for the Brazilian market and business objectives, startups can choose between a Startup Camp focused on early market exploration, or one tailored to more advanced expansion efforts, ensuring the right level of support at each stage of their journey.
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Market Validation Camp
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Market Entry Camp
Market Validation Camp
A one-week to one-month program to explore your target market firsthand, validate your business proposition, connect with local experts, and build a tailored go-to-market strategy.

Market Entry Camp
A program of up to three months to accelerate your startup's expansion and establish a strong local presence, connecting you with customers, investors, talent, corporations, research institutions, and technology parks.

Who Can Apply
The Startup Camps are open to Swiss startups that meet at least one of the following two eligibility requirements set by Innosuisse:
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Swiss startups enrolled in Innosuisse’s Initial, Core, or Scale-up Coaching programs
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Swiss startups that have received the Innosuisse Certificate within the past three years
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Testimonial
Marcos Monteiro, CEO of Veezoo, participated in both the Market Validation Camp and Market Entry Camp.
News & Insights
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Soil, Energy, and What’s Next Beyond AI at Web Summit Rio 2026
16 June 2026From soil health and carbon markets to energy justice and the image of Brazilian consumer brands, Isabela Temístocles from Swissnex shares her main takeaways from Web Summit Rio 2026, one of the country's leading technology events.
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Open Call: Startup Camps in Brazil (Q4)
27 April 2026 — 17 July 2026Apply now to participate in the Q4 edition of the Startup Camps powered by Innosuisse and managed by Swissnex. Bring your innovation to Latin America’s leading hub for innovation and nature-based solutions.
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Trust First, Business Follows: Lessons From Scaling Climate Solutions in Brazil
24 February 2026Pirmin Aregger, Co-founder of Swiss startup Recoal, spent two weeks in São Paulo testing whether Brazil was the right next market for his company. He came away convinced that in Brazilian business, relationships come before deals.
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Open Call: Startup Camps in Energy (Q3)
23 February 2026 — 17 April 2026Interested in bringing your energy solution to the Brazilian market? Apply now to participate to the Q3 edition of the Startup Camps powered by Innosuisse and managed by Swissnex.
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How Brazil Is Shaping the Future of Deep Tech
11 February 2026In this video, Lucas Fachin, Portfolio Manager at Vesper Biotechnologies, and a member of Swissnex's Expert Network in Brazil, shares his perspective on the opportunities, challenges, and momentum driving the country's deep tech ecosystem.
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Open Call: Startup Camps in Brazil (Q2)
1 December 2025 — 8 February 2026Apply now to participate in the Q2 edition of the Startup Camps powered by Innosuisse and managed by Swissnex. Bring your innovation to Latin America’s leading hub for innovation across food, agriculture, energy, and more.
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Open Call: Startup Camps Q1 2026
31 August 2025Are you a Swiss startup ready to connect with the Brazilian market? Applications are now open for the Q1 2026 Startup Camps, powered by Innosuisse and managed by Swissnex.
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Open Call: Startup Camps Q4 2025
2 May 2025Are you a Swiss startup ready to explore the Brazilian market? Q4 applications for the Startup Camp powered by Innosuisse and managed by Swissnex are now open.
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swisstech @ Web Summit Rio 2025
27 April 2025 — 30 April 2025From April 27 to 30, the swisstech Pavilion highlights cutting-edge Swiss innovation at Latin America’s top technology conference.
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Open Call: Startup Camps Q3 2025
17 February 2025Are you a Swiss startup ready to explore the Brazilian market? Q3 Applications for the Startup Camps in Brazil, powered by Swissnex and Innosuisse are now open.
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Open Call: Startup Camps Q2 2025
19 December 2024Are you a Swiss startup ready to explore the Brazilian market? Applications for the Startup Camps in Brazil, powered by Swissnex and Innosuisse, open on January 10th.
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Open Call: swisstech @ Web Summit Rio 2025
8 October 2024Where the tech world meets - swisstech Pavilion @ Web Summit Rio (27-30 April, 2025)
Startup Alumni
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Swiss-Korean Innovation Week 2019
Our proprietary full-stack Physilog® platform delivers powerful 3D motion analytics to capture, measure, and analyse a new-generation of digital biomarkers
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Swiss-Korean Innovation Week 2019
Technis is building the future of connected and interactive flooring. Starting with a new generation of intelligent touch-enabled surface.
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Swiss-Korean Innovation Week 2019
CREAL’s light-field display creates truly 3D images with genuine focal depth which work effortlessly with natural human vision. They blend perfectly with the real world.
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SHS Booster Program 2021
VAY created an artificial coaching intelligence to help people work out like pros, with a focus on real-time coaching through motion analysis based on computer vision
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SHS Booster Program 2021
Limula SA is developing a platform technology to enable scale out of cell therapy manufacturing, directly at the point of care.
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SHS Booster Program 2021
Clever.Care is an e-health company that provides technology to healthcare professionals, home care patients and family caregivers to improve workplace efficiency and quality of care
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Swiss-Korean Innovation Week 2021
FlavorWiki provides accurate consumer insights and a powerful data management software to serve the needs of the consumer goods industry worldwide.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2022
SFIT company, produces software for medical and orthopaedic surgical planning, accessible, 3D printing, and patient specific
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2022
All-in-one platform rending scientists able to perform complex omics data analysis, especially tertiary analysis without prior advanced knowledge in coding
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2022
Multipurpose device fabricant, developing an early detector of brain disease signs through eye observation
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2022
A cutting edge tech firm producing tools to make diagnostics in the aestetic and reparing surgery world using the metaverse, AI, and AR
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2022
Audio industry company, producing through AI technology a new generation of true wide-band ANC capable of selectively cancelling all noises without compromising the quality of Music or speech.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2022
Chemical company and garment membrane fabricant, creating a hightech and highly sustainable isolating and breathable layer destined to outdoor gear
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2023
Award-winning Climate Deep Tech company focused on solving the Greenhouse Gas challenge in tough-to-decarbonise industries.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2023
Terapet SA, is a Geneva-based CERN MedTech spin-off, that has developed an innovative platform technology for imaging in nuclear medicine, bringing proton therapy and nuclear imaging to the next leve
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2023
Unique formulation based on cutting-edge nanotechnology boosts the body's own capacity of self-healing and keeps bacterial infections in check. Nanoparticle paste helps surgeons who want to ensure patient safety and survival by reducing skin transplantation complications and providing swift healing.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2023
Advanced robotics software for industrial and collaborative applications, targeting manufacturers eager to optimize processes.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2023
Resistell AG is developing the world's fastest phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility test, a faster alternative to culture based antibiogram, the current gold standard in antibiotic susceptibility testing.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2023
Dolfinos provides rest-systems for violin and high string players at all ages and all levels. The user of the device is protected from medical and ergonomic problems. Based on interdisciplinary research and development the innovation helps everybody to learn and play the violin easier and with more comfort.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2023
A chemical recycling company, reconverting used PET to its raw components without additional heat or pressure, creating a truly circular pet system
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2025
XRnanotech is the leading Swiss manufacturer of highest-quality X-ray optics from high-aspect-ratio Fresnel zone plates with record-breaking resolution to ultra-stable diamond optics and custom 3D-nanostructures for a wide range of X-ray applications.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2024
We develop and license cutting-edge tracking technology for spatial computing, XR, simulated reality and motion capture.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2024
Klepsydra is a cutting-edge Software Development Toolkit (SDK) and suite of software libraries designed specifically for edge computin
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2024
Galenic Inventions for better nutraceuticals and OTC-products
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2024
AIDONIC is a social impact platform that connects donors, local partners and aid recipients to create a transformative and transparent way of giving and distributing aid.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2024
ProDecipher develops a product sustainability operating system.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2024
HERBY is a Swiss-based Edtech start-up using Computer Vision and AI Technology to make learning more inclusive, effective, and personalized for students and teachers, enabling better educational opportunities for all.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2025
Scalable AI models for universal robotic manipulation. Intuitively automate your most complex and tedious manual labor tasks from retail to manufacturing.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2025
World's first provider of AI-powered solutions for screening, sorting and dispensing of small biological entities.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2025
Connecting thousands of Quantum Processing Units via optical networking.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2025
Enabling mass adoption of high precision positioning using blockchain technology
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2025
sallea's platform technology enables the manufacturing of edible scaffolds, which provide the basis for the cultivation of whole cuts and other highly structured types of meat and fish.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2025
At MindMetrix - the company behind myflow - we create technologies to enhance mental well-being for everyone.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2025
A simple and efficient solution to treat carpal tunnel syndrome and trigger finger.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2025
We provide cutting-edge laboratory equipment for fully automated high-content screening of substances as a 3R alternative to animal testing.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2026
Treeless Pack develops a truly sustainable cost-efficient Microbial Cellulose production by local fabrication in scalable and automatable platforms and valorization of organic waste streams.
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Innosuisse Korea Camp 2026
Voltiris commercializes the first solar modules for glass greenhouses. This innovation allows for double-land use of greenhouses’ surface, generating electricity with no reduction of crop productivity. For growers, this translates into improved energy independence, increased profitability, and reduced carbon footprint.
Partners
Startup Camps are powered by Innosuisse – the Swiss Innovation Agency dedicated to promoting science-based innovation in the interest of the economy and society in Switzerland – and managed by Swissnex.
Connect With Swissnex

Program Manager, Innovation and Startups
As Program Manager, Innovation and Startups, Isabela works to strengthen collaboration between Switzerland and Brazil in innovation and entrepreneurship. With a background in startup internationalization and public-private partnerships, she plays a central role in connecting people, organizations, and ideas across both ecosystems.












