Twenty Female Founders Featured In Expanded Swiss AI Report

Twenty female founders feature in a newly published Swiss report that adds robotics to its coverage. ETH AI Center and Greater Zurich Area AG published the second edition of the report.

The “Top 100+ Women in AI + Data + Robotics in Switzerland 2026” report includes 19 startups. Its entrepreneurship category presents twenty female founders turning research into companies across AI, data science and robotics.

Twenty Female Founders In An Expanded Report

The edition brings researchers and founders from Lausanne, Lugano, Lucerne, Valais and Eastern Switzerland alongside Zurich. It also features long-form portraits of eleven women, according to Startupticker’s report coverage.

The publication covers academic research, startups, established industry and infrastructure, alongside policy, ethics and ecosystem-building. Its entrepreneurship category includes ETH/EPFL spin-offs and new ventures working on aerospace, governance and other applications.

That startup focus connects with Her Forward’s coverage of support for women founders. The Swiss report identifies founders and their work rather than presenting a single startup support programme.

Robotics Enters The Report’s Coverage

The addition of robotics brings physical applications into the report’s stated scope alongside AI and data science. Featured ventures describe work involving human interaction, ocean environments, aircraft and the maintenance of computing infrastructure.

Prof. Yulia Sandamirskaya’s Auroniq Robotics / YuRo develops robots intended to interact safely with people. The report includes robotic assistants for elderly-care environments among the venture’s applications.

Helen Oleynikova’s Exclaim Robotics develops autonomous robots for the physical maintenance of AI data centers. Its examples include replacing drives, handling cables and servicing optical components.

Camilla Mazzoleni’s Forgis develops an AI intelligence layer for manufacturing, including industrial foundation models and adaptive automation. Its stated aim is to make factory systems easier to program and operate.

Lucille Sophie Thomanek’s Wingtra develops autonomous VTOL drones and an integrated surveying and mapping workflow. The report describes aerial geospatial data, maps and 3D models among that workflow’s outputs.

Those projects sit within the same entrepreneurship category as Patricia Apostol’s Bubble Robotics. That company focuses on offshore and ocean applications and autonomous robotic systems.

The report also includes Jasmine Kent’s Dufour Aerospace, which develops electric/hybrid aircraft and drones. Its cargo, logistics and public-safety applications extend the category beyond software-based business processes.

These applications describe different forms of physical technology within the expanded publication’s entrepreneurship coverage. The report presents them alongside ventures developing software for legal work, finance, healthcare and document-heavy business processes.

Dufour Aerospace’s Aero-200 is designed for advanced air mobility and medium-sized drone markets. Elsewhere in aerospace, Julie Böhning’s PAVE Space develops propulsion systems and in-space transportation infrastructure.

AI Ventures Address Accountability And Infrastructure

The report’s startup coverage also examines how companies govern AI actions and automate existing work. Elena Maran’s Alethesis AI assesses agents’ planned actions and determines their risk before execution.

Consequential actions are routed to an accountable human, according to the report’s description of the venture. Nikki Böhler’s Intersections addresses responsible AI and digital transformation through research, ethics and civil society.

Nina Habicht’s dreamleap builds an “Agentic OS” for regulated industries, automating customer service, reporting and other workflows. The report credits the company with 100,000+ automations across 160 international clients.

Carla Bünger’s Phoenix Technologies / Phoeniqs develops sovereign Swiss cloud and AI infrastructure. The report highlights six sovereign data centers and AI compute operated under Swiss law, including finance and pharma infrastructure.

Her Forward also covers financing for female entrepreneurship and training for women business owners. These offer related reading on enterprise support beyond the Swiss report’s technology focus.

Twenty female founders appear within a publication that now covers robotics as a third field. Readers can find eleven long-form portraits alongside its wider account of research, entrepreneurship, industry and infrastructure.