Top 100 2025

On a growth path: Switzerland’s most promising scale-ups in 2021

01.09.2021 16:33 Isabelle Mitchell

As startups cannot appear in the TOP 100 for more than five years after incorporation, a growth jury was asked to select the TOP 25 scale-ups. These companies, aged five up to 10 years, show the greatest potential for further growth.

Entrepreneurship is not an exact science; startups do not automatically become scale-ups five years after their foundation. Engineering and biotech companies often take longer than ICT companies to reach this expansion phase. But all scale-ups have several things in common: The founders have proven that their innovations work, they have attracted customers, and they are now scaling their business models.




This article was first published in the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Magazine 2021.

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