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Smart WC

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Chemical processes + compounds, biotech and pharmaceuticals

Health and wellbeing

Software Engineering
We want to build a tool that analyzes urine over time. The idea is to turn the toilet into a passive and effortless health monitor. Urine contains a lot of useful health information, but every day we simply flush it away.We are three friends who studied together, and we want to find out whether changes in lifestyle can be measured through urine over time. We have built our first prototype and were selected for the BioIncubate Ignite Program. Now we are in early technical validation. Our next steps:• Lab testing and first measurements under controlled conditions• Building a compact housing for at-home testingOur main goal: find out whether continuous, passive urine monitoring can generate meaningful health data over time. ...
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SmartBreed GmbH

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Agriculture, forestry, food and beverages
SmartBreed manufactures automated breeding boxes for grasshoppers. These can be set up directly at the customer's site and allow zoos, farmers and food manufacturers to produce their own protein. The grasshoppers convert agricultural by-products in the boxes and are then further fed or processed by our customers. An innovative, locally integrated value chain created in this way strengthens the competitiveness of local ag-riculture and offers future-proof and sustainable added value through the circular economy concept. Our goal is to enable decentralized breeding of grasshoppers directly at our customers. This enables them to breed grasshoppers efficiently and cost-effectively, thus making optimal use of otherwise thrown away resources and closing circular loops....
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Softletics

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Chemical processes + compounds, biotech and pharmaceuticals

Health and wellbeing

Medical devices and diagnostics
Softletics develops an affordable, self-adjustable prosthetic socket to solve everyday comfort and fit issues, benefiting people with limb differences. We have developed and tested a functional prototype of an upper-limb prosthetic socket that is self-adjustable, breathable, and low-cost. We conducted user testing with people with limb differences to validate comfort, usability, and fit. Based on feedback, we iterated the design and defined a clear product roadmap. Our main goal is to bring Softletics to market as a certified, accessible prosthetic solution that significantly improves daily comfort and independence. Softletics started as a master’s thesis, working closely with one prosthetic user to address real-world comfort and fit challenges. The team later formed around biomedical engineers, including members from ETH, united by the goal of creating a scalable, user-centered prosthetic socket....
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Stack Auth

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Open source

Software Engineering
Stack Auth (YC S24) is the open-source Auth0 alternative. We build your login and signup pages, and everything that comes with that. We are the most developer-friendly auth solution. Setting up Stack takes just five minutes; after that, you will immediately be able to use our features such as two-factor authentication, social logins/OAuth, magic links & passwords, authorization, RBAC, user management, impersonation, webhooks, and more. Our JavaScript packages include ready-to-use React components that let you skip building the frontend pages for account settings, forgot-password flows, and user dashboards. Thanks to this, we have thousands of GitHub stars, and are growing incredibly quickly. Konsti and Zai met while studying computer science at ETH Zurich and incubated this project at SPH. We are repeat founders with work experience at Google and Jane Street, and published papers at top conferences. We are also hiring — if you're passionate about the future of devtools and the web, we should talk. Send us your CV team@stack-auth.com...
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Striker - The Uber for Footballl

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Looking for a team member

Consumer Apps

Social Impact

Sports
Striker is the Uber for football — one app that replaces every dead WhatsApp group and gives anyone instant access to pickup games near them, no connections required. Striker connects players to pickup football games across Zurich, with 2,000 users and over 500 matches played. We built the infrastructure that used to live across dozens of fragmented WhatsApp groups — now it's one app. Organizers post games, set spots, and handle payments in one place. Players find and join games without knowing anyone. We're live in Zurich and actively expanding to every city in Switzerland. Tommaso and Ignacio came to ETH and wanted to play football, but finding a game meant knowing the right person in the right WhatsApp group, and most were dead. So they joined every group, built the infrastructure themselves, and put it in one app. Striker grew from there....
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Studycoach

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Education

Social Impact
Wir bei StudyCoach sind entschlossen, eine herausragende Lernplattform für Schülerinnen und Schüler zu entwickeln. Unser Angebot erstreckt sich von der 1. bis zur 12. Klasse und umfasst Nachhilfe in sämtlichen Fächern und Schularten – sei es Mathematik, Deutsch, Englisch oder andere Fachgebiete. Unsere hochqualifizierten Tutoren fördern den individuellen Lernfortschritt durch persönliche Betreuung und massgeschneiderte Lernstrategien....
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Sustainable Business Club

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Association/Club/Competition-Team

Environmental Sustainability

Global development

Social Impact
Our aim is to raise awareness of sustainability in business and offer students a platform to get involved in sustainable business practices. We encourage members to shape their academic and professional careers in a sustainable way. The idea for the Sustainable Business Club was born at the University of Zurich. We noticed a lack of emphasis on sustainability in business lectures and academic curriculum. Existing student clubs and initiatives were not specifically focused on sustainability in a business context. We perceived this as a gap in the academic and student landscape that needed to be urgently filled. What we do: • Events and activities to promote insights into sustainable business practices• Interdisciplinary exchange by involving students from different faculties• Co-operation with companies committed to sustainability• Promote career opportunities in the field of sustainable business...
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SwissGPU

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Data-driven & Machine Learning

Hardware Engineering & Robotics

Software Engineering
We’ve created a platform where you can rent high-performance bare-metal servers with NVIDIA GPUs for AI training, rendering, gaming, remote work, or simply testing new ideas. Your machine is ready in about 10 minutes, with dedicated hardware delivering low latency and consistent, predictable performance. Billing is hourly, with no contracts or long-term commitments — giving you full flexibility and cost control. Many existing platforms rely on decentralized marketplaces and virtualization layers. In these environments, users often lack full control over the hardware, performance can vary, and the virtualization layer may introduce additional latency for certain workloads. Our approach is based on dedicated bare metal, providing full resource access, consistent performance, and greater transparency....
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Swissloop Tunneling

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Association/Club/Competition-Team

Construction, architecture, built environment

Environmental Sustainability

Hardware Engineering & Robotics
Swissloop Tunneling is a student association aiming at innovating tunneling technologies by developing micro tunnel boring machines (MTBMS) and participating in international competitions, such as Elon Musk's and The Boring Company's Not-A-Boring Competition.After its founding in August 2020, the team has participated in all three iterations of the NABC in the USA, winning the second place and design & innovation awards twice in 2021 and 2023 as well as winning the entire competition and the champion award in the latest iteration of the NABC.In addition to the volunteers students from various engineering and business backgrounds, the association offers the opportunity for students to conduct research projects such as bachelor's and master's theses in collaboration with various departments at ETH and other universities....
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Synature

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Agriculture, forestry, food and beverages

Data-driven & Machine Learning

Social Impact
We are two co-founders developing bio-acoustic technologies to measure the state of biodiversity. The aim of Synature is to make biodiversity quantifiable and to therefore enable a better co-existence of humans and nature. This involves recording sound and using AI and signal processing to analyse the gathered data. Synature has a holistic offering including smart microphones that send audio recordings from the field, automated analysis of the gathered data and a dashboard that displays the data in an easy-to-understand way.Highlights of Synature include a paid pilot project with the Swiss National Park and the Yellowstone National Park focusing on acoustic wolf detection, media appearances on national television, market exploration in South Africa and India, paid pilot projects in Valais and Paris and multiple awards....
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The Student Biolab

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Association/Club/Competition-Team

Chemical processes + compounds, biotech and pharmaceuticals

Community empowerment

Education

Social Impact
The Student Biolab is a platform and a community for students to design, prototype, and implement their life science research and product ideas. We are a group of motivated students, sharing biology and biotechnology as common passion. Our team is extremely interdisciplinary: we are biologists, engineers, computer scientists. We were born last February but we have already achieved an important milestone: having our own wet lab. Here we run experimental workshops, build startup prototypes and, in general, meet with passionate people to share thoughts and ideas. Our lab is a place where to work on your own project; we are equipped with modern biology instrumentation that can be freely used. But that’s not all. We are building a strong network with corporate Industry partners, to transform the lab in a space where we can answer to the need and demands of the market. We are progressively growing, and we are open to welcome new passionate people. Are you ready to join us?...
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thebookclub ETH

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Association/Club/Competition-Team

Community empowerment

Education

Social Impact
✨ Good day, dear reader! Welcome to the first book club at ETH! You might be thinking, ‘Book club... what could that be?’ Well, we’re not your typical book club. Our goal is to create a community and a platform where students can meet fellow readers. No qualifications are needed to consider yourself a reader! Anyone is welcome, maybe you read 500 pages a day (...is that possible as a student though?) or the last time you read was when you were 14 years old. As long as you have a passion for reading, we would love to have you!thebookclub ETH - Apéro at SPH...
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Unomed

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Health and wellbeing

Professional services and consulting

Software Engineering
Unomed is #1 for secure medical communication and collaboration. Why #1? you may ask. Well first off, it's in our name. ;) Jokes aside, Unomed is the Swiss all-in-one platform designed to facilitate secure and efficient communication among medical teams, between healthcare providers, and with patients. Under the backdrop of a healthcare system in Switzerland that is notoriously behind in its digitization efforts, Unomed aims to be a key piece of the solution by connecting all stakeholders within the ecosystem and, in a next step, integrating various patient- and professional-facing services. At Unomed, we firmly believe that digitization can only succeed when there is an authentic desire from users to engage with the technology and cannot simply be imposed from above. This is why we consistently follow a user-centered approach, focus on magic moments, and seek win-win solutions for all sides involved. Our ultimate goal? To make the day-to-day work of medical professionals easier, to optimize patient outcomes through more efficient communication, and to provide better data protection, especially when interacting with patients. If our vision resonates with you, we warmly invite you to connect with us. Let's revolutionize healthcare together!...
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URBNC3

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Health and wellbeing
URBNC3 is on a mission is to revolutionize the footwear industry by offering on-demand, customized footwear through the use mobile scanning and 3D-printing technology. Our first product are fully tailored sandals to each individual feet, produced in Europe and based on vegan & sustainable materials. Thanks to our modular design, you can choose your individual style. The sandals reflect the unique footshape and footbed of each foot and come with extra arch support. Our goal is to develop a lifestyle product that incorporates health benefits for better walking. ...
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Valar

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Web3
Valar is bringing blockchain’s core promise of decentralization into reality.Valar is a **decentralized platform** connecting blockchain stakeholders to node runners, enabling **direct staking** of their assets. By increasing the number of nodes and the amount of online stake, Valar **protects on-chain assets** and empowers solutions leveraging blockchain tech. One month after Valar's launch on its first supported blockchain - Algorand, it has 200 users that are contributing more than $10M to the economic security of Algorand. Valar is expanding to other blockchains.Valar started when the team wanted to build applications that rely on high network decentralization to minimize risks but noticed that majority of blockchains have not yet reached their full decentralization potential. Hence, Valar presents the cornerstone for the team's next products....
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Versarys Bioscience

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Chemical processes + compounds, biotech and pharmaceuticals

Education

Global development
We develop co-culture devices that let microbial and mammalian populations interact via secreted metabolites while remaining separable to track each population individually, enabling controlled, scalable, high-throughput studies. Our MVP is already in use by 40+ labs worldwide. We’re expanding our product range to serve microbiology, immunology, and host–pathogen research across diverse use cases. The project originated during a PhD, where early prototypes were developed to overcome limitations in studying complex microbial interactions. The team was formed through the Business Concept course at StartUp Campus, combining scientific and entrepreneurial expertise....
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VZ Labs

Active

Agriculture, forestry, food and beverages

Consumer Apps

Energy and utilities
Our current mission is to uncover and craft the mechanics through which commerce will be conducted in a 5 year horizon. We are currently building Châtaigne, a service that allows restaurants to sell their food fully automatically, through natural language, on WhatsApp. We met at a San Francisco hackathon where we built Pay Parrot, a conversational commerce tool using LLMs, Stripe, and WhatsApp and won first place.After lunch with Stripe's CTO John Collison, we realized conversational interfaces could transform commerce entirely. We returned to Switzerland obsessed with the idea and launched Châtaigne to tackle food delivery first, choosing the industry's complexity as our proving ground....
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