Best Semiconductors Companies in Vaud, Switzerland
The 35 best Semiconductors companies in Vaud, Switzerland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Kandou Bus.
Our analysis of 219 Semiconductors companies
$47.9b in tracked funding; 70% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Semiconductors companies in Vaud
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Advanced Silicon Fabless semiconductor company focussed on CMOS HV ICs | — | — | 22 | 2002 | Hussein Ballan Co-Founder & CEO | — | 86 patents Capacitive touch UI components with tactile click detection and feedback | — |
| 2 | Aquantis Manufacturer of sensors for in-line monitoring of solids and liquids | — | — | 6 | 2013 | Marc van Rompaey Co-Founder & CEO | — | 2 patents Inline process analytics for crystallization degree and particle size/concentration monitoring | — |
| 3 | Benti Digital Developer of programmable logic devices | — | — | 3 | 2014 | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | FinalSpark Platform offering developing Artificial General Intelligence system | — | — | — | 2014 | Martin Kutter Co-CEO / Founder | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+31 | — | — |
| 5 | FiveCo Designs and develops motor controllers, converters, and LED drivers | — | — | — | 2002 | Antoine Lorotte Co-Founder & Owner | — | — | — |
| 6 | Helyssen Developer of industrial plasma technology products | — | — | — | 2003 | — | — | 7 patents High‑density, large‑area plasma reactors for semiconductor manufacturing | — |
| 7 | IOxOS Provider of hardware design services and IP Cores for system integrators in aerospace, physics, and… | — | — | — | 2007 | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | IR Microsystems Developer of gas infrared sensors, detectors, and detection systems | — | — | — | 2000 | Bert Willing Co-Founder & CEO | — | 35 patents Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy for highly sensitive gas detection | — |
Top 12 Semiconductors companies in Vaud
#1
Series A · Lausanne, Vaud · founded 2014 · 16 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Provider of wearable biosensors. It manufactures intelligent and connected biosensors based on nanotechnology which collect biochemical information from the surface of the skin of the user by analyzing electrolytes, metabolites, small molecules, and proteins. It also offers a companion mobile app that allows users to monitor parameters and customize sensors.
- Mar 2026Series A$7M
- Feb 2023Series A—
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$48.7K
- Dec 2021Series A$4.6M
#2
Series E · Lausanne, Vaud · founded 2011 · 154 employees$325.7Mraised▾
Operator of a chip-to-chip link company intended to provide enhanced communications between chips inside electronic systems. The company's chip links increase the bit rate and the reach for given physical communication and reduce the power consumption, enabling users to get compute power in a small form factor, at a low cost and with less energy consumption.
#3
Series A · Lausanne, Vaud · founded 2016 · 5 employees$125Kraised▾
Provider of photonic integrated circuits for applications in data centres. It uses light to enable data transmission. It designs and develops multi-colour laser systems for applications in data communication and optical computing systems.
- Dec 2025Series A$15M
- 2022Seed—
- Mar 2022Seed$500K
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$582.5K
#4
Acquired · Rolle, Vaud · founded 2008 · 473 employees$150Mraised▾
Numonyx is a semiconductor company creating a non-volatile memory design for consumer and industrial devices. It was formed by Intel Corporation, STMicroelectronics and Francisco Partners. It manufactures integrated NAND, NOR, RAM, and phase change non-volatile memory technologies and products. Caters to embedded, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, PCs and peripherals, and wired communications solutions; storage solutions; and wireless solutions. Micron Technology acquired Numonyx for $1.27 billion on February 9, 2010.
- Mar 2008PE$150M
#5
Series C · Lausanne, Vaud · founded 2011 · 14 employees$4.9Mraised▾
Manufacturer of CMOS-based photodiodes. It offers embedded and stand-alone DPD photodiodes that operate at pulsed voltages. The photodiodes eliminate the need for amplifiers and can be directly connected to digital circuits. They can be used in light-sensing applications such as biometric sensors for wearables, 3D ToF cameras and LIDAR systems.
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$55K
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$55.4K
- May 2019Series C$3.5M
- Dec 2017Series B$1.2M
#6
Series A · Yverdon les Bains, Vaud · founded 2001 · 70 employees$10Mraised▾
Colibrys develops MEMS based inertial measurement units to measure attributes such as acceleration, vibration and orientation. The accelerometer is developed by bulk micromachined silicon elements specifically designed for high-bias stability. Their vibration sensor implements the MEMS accelerometer for low to medium frequency sensing needs. The company was setup as a spin-off from Swiss Technological Incubator.
- Nov 2002Series A$10M
#7
Seed · Lausanne, Vaud · founded 2018 · 9 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Annaida is a developer of a sensor using magnetic resonance. It provides the 'EmbryoSpin' NMR sensor which is built on the CMOS chips used for the microscopic sample studies. The sensor has applications in healthtech, science, drug discovery, and hardware development. The company is partnered with Enable, Venture Kick, Venture, IMD and many others.
#8
Acquired · Morges, Vaud · founded 1999 · 42 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Omnisens provides optic sensing solutions for underground oil pipelines & marine power cables monitoring. Installs sensors on the fiber optics which monitors pipeline conditions. Offers a software platform which collects data from the sensors and provides information about pipeline leakages, geohazard conditions, intrusion, deformation & abnormal conditions. The optic sensing solution can be used for performance monitoring, leakages, flow assurance of subsea flowlines, risers, umbilicals, and oil reservoirs. The solution can also be used for underground cable condition monitoring, performance optimization, critical infrastructural health monitoring, and water containment.
- Sep 2008Series A$5.5M
#9
Seed · Lausanne, Vaud · founded 2016 · 44 employees$130Kraised▾
LiGenTec, a spin-off of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, develops silicon nitride wafers exclusively for photonic integrated circuits. It provides a 2500nm thick wafer with features such as low propagation loss, low surface roughness, and low-loss waveguides and fibre-chip coupling. Applications include coherent telecommunication, filters, supercontinuum generation, spectroscopy, sensing, quantum and microwave photonics.
- Feb 2023Grant (prize money)$52.9K
- Mar 2021Grant (prize money)$1.7M
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$173.4K
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$3M
#10
Acquired · Lausanne, Vaud · founded 2003 · 16 employees$342.1Kraised▾
Developer of digital holographic microscopy for life science and industrial applications. The company provides digital holographic microscopes for research and industrial inspection. These microscopes offer non-perturbing living cell phenotyping and dynamic monitoring of biological processes. The technology allows for millisecond to multi-day time-lapse recording. It also provides solutions for automated measurements, dynamic topography, and surface topography.
- Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$342.1K
#11
Seed · Lausanne, Vaud · founded 2013 · 15 employees$107.1Kraised▾
Fastree3D develops next generation 3D imaging sensors that recognize and locate fast moving objects in 3D in real-time, enabling driving assistance or autonomous navigation. The sensors are leading in resolution, speed, background light filtering and complements sensors such as 2D cameras, radar, ultrasound. They combine the low cost of consumer electronics and features for autonomous cars. It has over 10 patents in this field.
- Oct 2018Grant (prize money)$56.8K
- Jun 2018Grant (prize money)$58.3K
- Nov 2016Grant (prize money)—
- Sep 2014Seed$107.1K
#12
Funding Raised · Lausanne, Vaud · founded 2001$9.4Kraised▾
Future Instruments develop interactive display technologies including both hardware and software platforms. Products include patented 10 metres wide interactive display; KINAPS, an HTML5 online multitouch platform for creating multitouch applications. Select clientele includes Moving Walls, Micrinarc, IMD, Metamedia Center, etc. Partners include École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Nomad Space, Moving Walls, and Hunziker.
- 2009Grant (prize money)$9.4K
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How research on Semiconductors is moving in Switzerland
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 630 Switzerland-affiliated papers.
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne181
- ETH Zurich93
- European Organization for Nuclear Research82
- STMicroelectronics65
- Synopsys57
- Photonics1→17
- Photonic integrated circuit1→13
- Electronics2→6
- Amplifier2→5
- Semiconductor device4→7
- Detector2→9
- Photonics1→7
- Voltage2→5
- Microelectronics1→4
- Die (integrated circuit)2→5
- Transistor2→5
- Optoelectronics3→4
Where semiconductors is researched across Switzerland
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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