Best Sensors Companies in Zurich, Switzerland
The 31 best Sensors companies in Zurich, Switzerland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: GreenTEG.
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$7.1b in tracked funding; 75% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sensors companies in Zurich
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alivion Provider of gas detection devices with a focus on product design, development, production, and sale | — | — | — | Jan Broek Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | UbuntuYouTubeNginx+8 | Top 50M | 4 patents Gas-phase analyte detection using temperature-controlled flow and adaptation functions | — |
| 2 | C-CIT Sensors Develops ion sensors and assorted devices for bio-sensing applications | — | — | 5 | Spichiger Ursula Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Decentlab Real-Time Wireless Monitoring Solutions | — | — | 3 | Reinhard Bischoff Managing Director | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceTypeScript+13 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 4 | Foveator Provider of an AI and VR-based eye-tracking solution for enterprises | — | — | — | Kynan Eng CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | KIMESSA Develops various sensors and devices for gas detection | — | — | — | Markus Kubli CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 6 | Kottonau Manufacturer of sensors for multiple parameters | — | — | — | Fritz Kottonau CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Membrapor Electrochemical gas sensors for industries | — | — | — | Christian Huggenberger CEO | WordPress Site EditorWordPressMySQL+10 | Top 10M | 2 patents Ammonia detection sensors for gas monitoring | — |
| 8 | microgauge microGauge AG is developing next generation vacuum sensing solutions for the vacuum coating industry. | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | 4 patents Protective MEMS deposition traps for vacuum pressure transducer packaging | — |
Top 12 Sensors companies in Zurich
#1
Series A · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2009 · 50 employees$10.8Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based temperature monitoring solutions. It offers sensors for heat flux and laser power measurements. Its product line includes a cloud-based, wireless GO measurement system for surface temperature and humidity measurements and laser-powered sensors that provides wavelength independent measurements. It also develops and provides body temperature sensors and data loggers.
- Dec 2022Series A$10.8M
- Jan 2021Grant (prize money)$616.2K
- Mar 2019Grant (prize money)$56.1K
- Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$56.6K
#2
Seed · Schlieren, Zurich · founded 2017 · 25 employees$9.4Mraised▾
Provider of positioning services for multiple applications. It provides users with hardware and software-enabled solutions for autonomous vehicles, commercial drones, and autonomous robots. It also offers embedded hardware devices like Vision-RTK and NAV-RTK Dual with features like precise positioning, OTA software updates, and lightweight.
- Dec 2022Seed—
- Oct 2021Seed$6M
- Dec 2019Seed$3.4M
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$55.1K
#3
Series A · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2016 · 9 employees$60.6Kraised▾
Manufacturer of sensors to measure environmental air quality. It uses quantum cascade lasers to develop laser absorption spectrometers for gas sensing applications of small molecules. Its partners include Empa and ETH Zurich. The sensors have application in environmental monitoring.
- Oct 2023Series A—
- Dec 2021Grant (prize money)$56.6K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- May 2019Grant (prize money)$56.6K
#4
Seed · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2018 · 9 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Digital health diagnosis tool for healthcare providers. The company has developed products with the ability to monitor and diagnose cardiac arrhythmias. It has features to suspect abnormalities, ECG monitoring, data security, and more.
- Sep 2021Seed$1.1M
#5
Series A · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2018 · 9 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Provider of brain monitoring devices and analytics platform. This company develops and manufactures adhesive patches, intracranial probes, and an integrated analytics platform for measuring brain function parameters. The technology allows for real-time data capture of cerebral oxygenation and blood flow. The company also develops wearable brain monitoring devices. The platform integrates information from multiple sources to support clinician decision-making in various hospital settings.
- Sep 2018Series A$5.5M
#6
Funding Raised · Zurich, Zurich · founded 1998$1Mraised▾
Axetris develops micro-technology (MEMS) based optical products and modules. The company develops infrared sensors, mass flow meters and controllers, laser gas detection modules and micro-optics. Apart from standard products, the company also provides custom solutions for OEMs. The company has its own clean room facility for fabrication and is a subsidiary of the Leister group.
- Mar 2020Grant (prize money)$1M
#7
Funding Raised · Zurich, Zurich · founded 1991$617.7Kraised▾
Provides custom integrated circuits (ASICs) and capacitive touch sensors
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$617.7K
#8
Funding Raised · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2015 · 18 employees$111Kraised▾
Inivation is a spin-off from Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. It works closely with Inilabs which develops prototypes and undertakes joint R&D projects with various industry players. Inivation was formed to commercialize the technology developed at INI and provide IP licensing services. It provides neuromorphic electronic components, algorithms and systems that process information in a more brain-like manner whose advantages over conventional digital systems include distributed asynchronous processing, ultra-low response latency, low but informative data rates, high dynamic range and low power consumption.
- Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$55K
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$56K
#9
Acquired · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2014 · 2 employees$32.1Kraised▾
Insightness develops the Silicon Eye technology which is based on asynchronous neuromorphic dynamic vision sensors. The chip detects changes in a scene and can transmit them with a low latency and power consumption which is key in real time vision applications like robotics and augmented reality. The technology is also used for visual positioning applications and drones.
- Oct 2016Seed—
- Oct 2014Grant (prize money)$20.8K
- May 2014Grant (prize money)$11.3K
#10
Seed · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2016 · 2 employees$30.2Kraised▾
Developer of a fast combustion and emission model intended to help companies virtually monitor the emission levels. The company's model has been developed through a hierarchical development approach to provide cost-effective, reliable sensing for control, reference, or as a backup in the marine and power generation sectors, enabling companies to seamlessly fulfill the stringent emission legislations.
#11
Seed · Zurich, Zurich · founded 2010 · 5 employees$29Kraised▾
Marmota Engineering develops sensing solutions to measure and monitor structural parameters at construction sites. Its four solutions are GeoScan (for soil displacement monitoring), BoreScan (for vertical and lateral displacement monitoring of boreholes), PileScan (for strain monitoring along a pile) and StructureScan (for attaching and integrating sensors to structures). These solutions are all based on fiber optic sensors (distributed fiber optic sensing, include FBG from Micron Optics Inc. Marmota also offers installation services.
- 2010Seed$29K
#12
Funding Raised · Winterthur, Zurich · founded 1959 · 1391 employees—raised▾
Kistler develops sensor components and solutions for applications in automotive research and industrial process control. Their sensor offerings consist of sensors for measurement of force, acceleration, torque and pressure. The company integrates these sensors in solutions for automotive testing with offerings such as: KiRoad (for wheel force measurement), KiBox (for vehicle combustion analysis), motor testing solutions etc. The company also offers comprehensive signal conditioning solutions for working with the sensors.
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- ETH Zurich65
- University of Zurich12
- University Hospital of Zurich3
- University Children\'s Hospital Zurich2
- IBM Research - Zurich1
- Temperature measurement2→3
- Pressure measurement1→7
- Pressure sensor3→6
- Pressure sensor4
- Wearable computer2
- Airfoil2
- Aerodynamics2
- Turbine2
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