Ten projects, seven of them from Switzerland, began the InnoJura accelerator in July 2026 at the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area – Jura site. The cohort was presented on October 7, 2026, in a press release relayed by Startupticker.ch. The program was initiated by Basel Area Business and Innovation and is supported by Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area. Its mission, according to the press release: to support start-ups and scale-ups in their development.
A support program, not a funding round
First point to establish: this is entry into a support program. The press release announces no fundraising, either for the projects or for the accelerator. Nor does it detail the program's concrete content: no duration, no mentoring, no quantified resources. What it does provide, project by project, is a “short-term need.” And the picture is clear: most are looking for pilot sites, industrial or scientific partners, and users for testing. Only three explicitly mention money: Mikram wants to finalize funding for its prototype, Neurobotix is seeking funding to get through its validation stages, and Conceptify is looking for investors.
Industry: precision, materials and local AI
Half the cohort targets industry. In Courrendlin, Mikram Sàrl, a spin-off of AdTime SA, wants to co-develop and industrialize a compact metal 3D printer with micrometer resolution, intended in particular for watchmaking, medtech and aerospace. The starting observation: the precision of current equipment often requires lengthy and costly reworking, especially for microcomponents. An academic and industrial consortium has been formed to carry this Innosuisse project and develop the prototype.
In Courroux, Neodustria draws on more than fifteen years of experience in industrial transformation to build an “industrial intelligence” platform that links 3D design, physical simulations, materials and economic data. The goal: to shorten validation cycles when a design change makes it necessary to recheck everything. The young company is looking for local industries to launch pilots, as well as scientific partners.
From Mulhouse, StorkMind, founded by Naïm Samet after more than 15 years in industrial R&D, offers local AI solutions to industrial SMEs: defect detection, production data analysis, and querying internal documentation in natural language, without exposing data. Lausanne-based Poerava brings an AI-powered lean coach into the daily work of production teams and is looking for its first pilot sites in pharma, medtech and precision industry. Finally, AXXIOS, in Enges (NE), acts on the frequencies of materials: standalone modules or a powder integrated into materials, with no power supply or sensors, to treat unwanted vibrations in industry, sports, transportation and medtech. The company is looking for industrial partners for pilot projects.
Sports, health and neuroradiology
Second group: the human body. In Porrentruy, Victor Baute, a nurse and athlete, is developing ÀNARA with Mike Andres, a copilot for endurance athletes. The app cross-references activity, recovery, sleep, nutrition and how athletes feel to help them decide: push, adapt or recover. It is entering the user-testing phase and is looking for athletes, coaches, clubs and partners in sports physiology.
Pentacore, based in Nürtingen, Germany, but established in the canton of Jura, is developing Orbisense, a digital advisor for sports and health professionals. The system replaces manual body measurements with data from a 3D “digital twin.” For its Jura pilot phase, the start-up is looking for sports centers, physiotherapy practices and nutrition experts.
The project from farthest away comes from Doha, Qatar. Neurobotix is developing a platform for the robotic navigation of cerebral catheters that combines AI, a digital twin and magnetic control. Born in 2020 from a collaboration between research and engineering, the initiative became a medical project in 2025. It is looking for hospital partners for testing in a preclinical environment, as well as access to vascular data and images.
Sensitive data and business decisions
Two projects target organizations. Basel-based Conceptify offers a SOC 2-certified adaptive intelligence platform, designed for regulated activities, that runs entirely on the client's infrastructure, without using its data to train models. Lausanne-based Orentir tackles succession planning for leadership positions. The project builds on more than 60 interviews with HR managers and positions itself, according to the press release, in anticipation of regulatory changes expected between 2027 and 2030. It is looking for a technical cofounder and pilot partners ahead of a larger-scale commercial launch.
What the selection suggests
The press release draws no conclusions about the regional ecosystem, but the list lends itself to interpretation. Three projects are based in the canton of Jura (Porrentruy, Courrendlin, Courroux) and a fourth, Pentacore, is established there. Several founders explicitly root their approach in the local fabric: Neodustria is looking for “local industries,” and Pentacore says it relies on “the regional MedTech ecosystem.” The targeted sectors recur from one project to the next: watchmaking and microcomponents, medtech, precision industry. Another common thread is data confidentiality, emphasized by Conceptify and StorkMind with solutions that stay with the client. Finally, three projects come from abroad (Qatar, Germany, France). At this stage, these are searches for partners and pilots, not signed contracts: the coming months will show which of them materialize.
Source: Startupticker.ch – L'accélérateur InnoJura dévoile sa cohorte 2026
