ETH Zurich spinouts lifted their total funding haul to $173.3m from $123.1m in 2017.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) launched a record 27 spinouts during 2018, up from 25 spinouts in 2017 and 13 businesses founded on average in the early 1990s.
ETH Zurich’s spinout portfolio attracted a total of €170m ($173.3m) in funding, up from $123.1m of capital reported the previous year. The institute has now formed 407 spinouts in all since 1996.
Twelve of last year’s crop are working on computer science and communications-orientated technologies, continuing…
