Featured in Founded - the trade-off surgeons face every day
Founded, a Swiss startup media, published a feature on Dexterous Endoscopes and the problem we are solving in the operating room. Surgeons today must choose between flexible instruments that navigate well but lack force, and rigid instruments that are precise but limited in reach. Our variable stiffness endoscope addresses this trade-off directly, transitioning between soft and rigid states on demand with a simple button press, without requiring any new infrastructure in the operating room.
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https://founded.ch/bessere-werkzeuge-fuer-operation/
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Dexterous Endoscopes won the Newcomer of the Year award, recognising the best newcomer in the Top100 Swiss Startup ranking 2026, at the award night in Zurich.
FIT supports Dexterous Endoscopes with a CHF 100k Tech Seed loan
The Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT) has granted Dexterous Endoscopes a CHF 100,000 Tech Seed loan to continue preclinical trials and prepare the regulatory and industrialisation stages of its variable stiffness endoscope.
Our new home: Biopôle, supported by the Biopôle Starting Fund
Dexterous Endoscopes has opened its office at Biopôle in Lausanne and has been awarded CHF 63,000 from the Biopôle Starting Fund.
