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Zurich/Dübendorf/Bastrop - Swissloop Tunneling has won the Not-a-Boring-Competition 2024 in Texas and claimed the Champion Award. The team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich was supported by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology.

Bellinzona - BancaStato, the cantonal bank of Ticino, will from now on be awarding the Premio BancaStato per la Sostenibilità Aziendale to a trio of SMEs every two years. This award comes with prize money of 80,000 Swiss francs. The aim is to recognize effective sustainability strategies developed by companies.

Schaffhausen - 2HS AG has launched the one-graphene platform, where the startup specializing in graphene nanoelectrics offers synthetic single-crystalline CVD graphene films. 2HS is collaborating with the Beijing Graphene Institute for this.

Zug/San Francisco - Xterio and the gaming platform Forge have announced a partnership. Xterio, a developer of high-quality Web3 games, launched its SocialFi rewards campaign on Forge on April 16. This platform gives Xterio access to an enormous pool of new users, enabling it to scale its products.

Zurich - Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) are developing a robot that can operate in low gravity environments. The device could potentially assist the exploration of mineral resources and research into the origins of the universe.

Zurich - Fotokite has generated gross proceeds in the amount of 10 million Swiss francs in its latest Series B financing round. With this investment, the company will strive to further internationalize the markets for its aerial reconnaissance system for emergency services. In addition, research and development activities are also to be bolstered.

Glattfelden/Luxemburg/Denver - Vantage Data Centers, based in Denver in the USA, is investing a sum of more than 370 million Swiss francs in a second hyperscale data center in Switzerland. Its first data center, Zurich 1, is located in Winterthur, while the second, Zurich 2, is set to commence operations this summer in Glattfelden.

London - Only the USA and the UK rank higher than Switzerland in the QS World University Rankings 2024 for subjects listed in the top 10 worldwide. It also leading the category of education in the hospitality industry. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich is number one for three subjects.

Zurich - Circunis has secured financing to establish an online marketplace that can be used to trade surplus food and by-products. Following in the footsteps of the Migros Pioneer Fund, the Seedling Foundation has now come on board and pledged its support up to 2026.