Spin-offs / Start-ups
Company spin-offs from ETH are one direct and very effective form of technology and knowledge transfer that boost the innovative strength of Switzerland's economy. Academic spin-offs are, besides sale of licenses and partnerships with other companies, a third method of technology transfer.
It can be considered the most challenging type of commercialization as the technology, the market, and the company itself all must be developed from scratch.This is where the "ETH transfer" office supports the highly motivated scientists in setting up their start-up enterprise with external partners.
Find a current list of all spin-offs from the Department of Computer Science here.
Acquisitions and IPOs of D-INFK spin-offs since 2000
Source: Industry and Knowledge Transfer
More companies founded by computer science graduates from ETH Zurich
In addition to the official D-INFK spin-offs, many other start-up companies have been founded by one or more D-INFK graduates, either directly during or after their studies, or sometimes years later. Until now, ETH Zurich has not had an official system for tracking these start-ups. Therefore, the following list is only an excerpt and by no means complete.
Download List with companies founded by computer science graduates from ETH Zurich (PDF, 133 KB)
More information
- ETH spin-offs A-Z
- ETH transfer: spin-off support
- ETH Pioneer Fellowships
- external page ETH Entrepreneur Club
- external page STARTUP CAMPUS: offerings
- external page Business tools: courses (in German)
- external page Venture: competition
- external page Venturelab: programmes for start-ups
- external page Gründen: information for founders in Greater Zurich (in German)
- external page Startzentrum: offerings for new founders (in German)
The latest articles about our spin-offs
Secure agentic AI systems
Invariant Labs is a new ETH spin-off co-founded by Professors Martin Vechev and Florian Tramèr, D-INFK alumnus Mislav Balunovic and doctoral students Marc Fischer and Luca Beurer-Kellner. With Invariant Analyzer, their open-source analysis tool, they aim to enhance the security and reliability of AI systems by using deterministic security measures.
Revolutionising network monitoring
NetFabric, a newly founded ETH spin-off with D-INFK participation, is on a mission to build the next-gen network observability platform. They are using AI and advanced modelling to provide real-time insights and predictive capabilities. Professor Martin Vechev, affiliated Professor Laurent Vanbever, postdoc Benjamin Bichsel and others are part of the co-founding team.
Plug-and-play robots for material handling
Flink Robotics, a newly founded D-INFK spin-off, is crafting cutting-edge software for next-generation robots to enable automation anywhere and for everyone. Professor Stelian Coros, doctoral student Simon Huber and former postdoc Moritz Geilinger are the co-founders.