Switzerland’s GDP is projected to reach $1,100 billion USB by the late 2020s, which reflects a steady rate of growth that has increased in pace in recent years, while remaining largely unaffected by major world economic events like the financial crisis of 2008.
Geneva is Switzerland’s capital city and an international destination for financial services and precision manufacturing. Swiss banks and Swiss watches are lauded for their discretion and precision respectively, each of which reflects the national culture’s values of quality and tradition. Geneva is also an international center for diplomacy and the country’s national financial center, with commodity trading, wealth management, private banking and trade financing dominating the sector. See what other companies are keeping the Swiss economy ticking along.
Companies in Geneva
- Oracle
- Lombard Odier Group
- fortil
- Gunvor Group
- Model N
- Seedstars
Geneva Companies to Know
IT firm Techno Exponent offers a full suite of web development services with strong expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Techno Exponent maintains a diverse developer team with fluency in Java, Django, Python, and many other programming languages, tools and platforms. The company deploys its team on an outsourced contract basis as well as for discrete projects.
Internet Society is a multinational organization that advocates for the development of the internet as a social good. The Geneva Node of the Internet Society functions as a nonprofit to grow internet access and infrastructure, advance cybersecurity initiatives and shape national tech policy. It lobbies for an open, secure and globally accessible internet for all.
Oracle is a computer technology enterprise that provides cloud computing services and database software to other businesses. It is the largest such provider anywhere in the world, and the creator of the world’s only autonomous database, which is used to manage and protect customer data. In Geneva, the company has partnered with the European Organization for Nuclear Research to build capacities for grid technology.
Datatonic is a software and technology consulting firm that focuses on cloud data and generative AI. Its work establishes cloud infrastructure and protocols for data and analytics within its clients’ operations. The company also operates Datatonic Academy, a Google Cloud training partner that provides tech upskilling programs for corporate teams and individuals.
Lombard Odier Group is an iconic private Swiss bank. It has been in operation since its founding in 1796 and manages over 192 billion Swiss francs at any given time. The company offers asset management, private banking and wealth planning to entrepreneurs and other clients of means around the globe, with offices and booking centers across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Brazil.
Ferring Pharmaceuticals is a specialty research and development company in the biotechnology sector. It is notable for its work in reproductive, gastroenterological and urological medicine as well as in maternal health. Ferring is a leader in the cross-industry exploration of the human gut microbiome and its potential contributions to pharma and medicine.
Model N is a financial services software company that makes digital revenue management tools. These products are designed for the pharma, medtech, life sciences and technology industries and offer strategic management in government pricing, provider management and other niche industry areas. Model N’s Geneva office is the locus of the United States-founded company’s presence in the European market.
Commodity brokering firm Trafigura serves as a supply chain partner to its clients throughout the stages of logistics processes. It offers services in sourcing, storing, processing and delivering energy and infrastructure products, including raw materials like fuel, gas, metals and minerals. Trafigura is the largest private entity in the global metals trade.
Gunvor Group is a commodities trading company that deals in energy products. The resources it trades in include crude oil, distillates, natural gas and biofuels. The company operates a global network of offices, including physical trading locations in Geneva, Houston, London, Stamford, Singapore, Dubai and Shanghai.
Alcon is a medical device and technology company that specializes in ophthalmic treatments and care. It produces contact lenses, intraocular implants and other eye care solutions as well as equipment for eye surgeons. The company invests heavily into research and development processes, which has spawned numerous first-to-market products and devices.
Unilabs is a diagnostics company that offers laboratory, imaging and pathology services across fifteen global nations. The company is one of the major European providers of such services, which it offers to government organizations, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and healthcare providers. Patients rely on the Unilabs network of laboratories to access blood and stool testing.
Edwards Lifesciences is a medical technology company. It specializes in producing and honing two particular classes of medical device: artificial heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring systems. The company was founded on mitral valves and has carried on its tradition of innovation by initially developing the SAPIEN bovine transcatheter aortic heart valve.
Consultancy fortil focuses on strategy for every facet of the engineering process, from project management and utilities to supplier quality control. The company was founded by a team of engineers and says it works according to an articulated vision that prizes profitability, engineering expertise, organizational efficiency and social responsibility.
Mediterranean Shipping Company is a transport and logistics company that runs international shipping lines. Founded in Italy in 1970 with the purchase of a single cargo ship, the company is now based in Switzerland and the largest container shipping company in the world. It operates a fleet of 850 vessels across 155 countries.
Global Blue is a software company that provides products for e-commerce and financial services organizations. Its offerings are in the tourism shopping tax refund category, which takes standard mandatory point-of-sale tax collections on retail purchases and returns it to the consumer as a tax refund. Global Blue’s products facilitate these tax returns.
Tech and business process consultancy Capco guides financial services and energy industry clients through digital transformations and business process overhauls. The company’s aim is to help client brands move away from outdated systems and processes and toward deep tech, disruptive business models and leading-edge software products.
Seedstars is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups across industries. The fund, which manages $30 million USD, offers its investment support at the pre-seed and seed stages, as well as through Series A funding. As is standard in venture capital, the company’s business model is in launching and exiting companies.
Benevity makes corporate purpose software, which are tools that digitize and optimize an organization’s corporate social responsibility initiatives and analyze the impact of their work. Benevity manages and tracks metrics on employee groups, impact reporting, partnerships and other areas where companies are doing good in an intentional way.
Verysell Group is an IT management and software development company that focuses on applications for artificial intelligence. The group, which is headquartered in Geneva and serves 16 countries and four continents, operates an Applied AI lab that works on innovative AI solutions to industry wide problems in financial services and other data-heavy industries.
Celanese is a chemical manufacturer that produces and supplies ingredients for chemical markets including the pharmaceutical, medical, construction and aerospace sectors. Its product catalog includes numerous registered and trademarked ingredients, such as Butoxyl, an ester of acetic acid that is used as an additive and solvent in brush-applied paints.
