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Zurich/De Pere - Constellation Clearsight, the North American energy inspection specialists, will in future make use of the airborne robots developed by Voliro for critical infrastructure inspection and maintenance activities. The two companies have now agreed terms on a long-term partnership.

Zurich - Climeworks has signed one of the largest agreements to date in the area of direct air capture with Microsoft. The software giant has tasked Climeworks with permanently removing a total of 10,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere over a period of ten years.

Lugano/Sausalito - DeNexus from California plans to expand in Europe out of Lugano. The cyber risk model provider for industrial companies, global insurers, and insurance-linked securities investors plans to create a new cyber knowledge hub there.

Opfikon - QualySense is developing a robot that can automatically sort coffee beans. Global companies like Starbucks and Nespresso now plan to implement the solution. Furthermore they have jointly invested 1 million US dollars in QualySense together with the Dubai Multi Commodities Center.

Zurich/Winterthur - The Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) is funding four innovation structures with a total of 16 million Swiss francs. These structures will intensify the exchange between higher education institutions in the canton of Zurich and real-world companies and partners in the long term.

Zurich - Adrian Glauser spent 14 years working on a measuring instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope. The Senior Scientist at the Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) responded to the first images from the impressive space telescope in an interview.

Zug/Zurich - Stableton Financial AG has closed a financing round in the amount of 15 million Swiss francs. The company, which operates a fintech platform for alternative investments, will seek to use this fresh capital injection to expand its activities in Switzerland in addition to securing international growth.

Zurich - Steiner AG and House of Lab Science are joining forces to set up innovation parks for life sciences firms. The first step includes plans for two new innovation parks. One of these is to be located in the Greater Zurich Area.

Manno/Lugano - The Italian food giants Barilla and Lavazza have launched the FoodTech Innovation Award 2022 in conjunction with Loomish, an investment firm based in the Greater Zurich Area. The initiative first came into being at the Ticino LifestyleTech Competence Center.