Registrations in 2026 ↗
46’542Year to date · through 02.11.2026Swiss company formation
A clearer view of
new beginnings.
Follow the formation of new businesses across Switzerland. Explore daily registrations, long-term trends and regional differences.
Explore the data ↓Year-on-year change ↔
+1.9%Compared with the same period in 2025New registrations in the last 30 days ◷
4’37104.10.2026 to 02.11.2026 · Completed days · Swiss timeA research collaboration
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+People and businesses
Who is behind new businesses?
Our register data tells more than the number of new businesses. Explore the people recorded and additional company characteristics.
Person data through 20.08.2026
Analysis with a fixed data snapshot. New analyses are published separately.
Women in new-registration entries
27.1%
Female share among person entries classified as female or male
20’587 female-classified entries out of 76’053 classified person entries
- Classified as female 20’587
- Classified as male 55’466
- Unclassified 5’816
Classification coverage: 92.9% of all recorded person entries
Person data for 53’180 of 55’653 companies (95.6%)
Classification uses register text and name statistics, not self-reported gender. Recorded people are not necessarily the economic founders; one person may appear in several companies.
Companies with a female-classified person
34.2%
of companies with recorded people have at least one female-classified person entry.
18’201 out of 53’180 companies with person dataTogether in the initial entry
8’596
companies have both female- and male-classified people in their new-registration entry.
Register roles, not verified founding teams.A view across years
Female classifications as a share of all female- or male-classified person entries. Unclassified entries are more frequent in 2025 and 2026. This does not establish a change in women’s participation in business formation.
- 202026.3%98.6% classified
- 202126.7%98.5% classified
- 202227.4%98.5% classified
- 202327.4%98.5% classified
- 202427.4%98.3% classified
- 202527.1%92.9% classified
Green business purposes
2.6%
of classified companies are identified as green based on their stated business purpose.
36’033 out of 1’378’843 classified companiesModel-based business-purpose classification, not an environmental certification. The full classified dataset, not an annual new-business rate.
Which sectors shape the dataset?
The five most frequent model-based sector assignments in the full classified dataset. They use the business purpose, not official confirmation of the sector.
1’385’036 companies with a sector prediction
- Trade and vehicle repair17.5%242’764
- Professional, scientific and technical services17.2%238’724
- Construction9.9%137’726
- Other services7.3%100’574
- Real estate6.9%96’168
Data and limitations
The analysis uses the first observed new-registration notice per company and deduplicates person entries within each notice. Counts represent entries and companies, not nationally unique individuals. Unknown gender classifications are shown separately. These measures differ from the FSO business demography statistics.
Person-analysis period: 03.02.2016 to 20.08.2026 · Source: internal register database
Green business purposes and sectors are analysed in different datasets. Individual classification dates are not stored.
Analysis dated 23.10.2026
01 / The daily signal
How Switzerland starts up.
Daily business registrations and their trend, with the detail you need to see what is changing.
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| Date | Series | Value |
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| 2026-11-02 | New business registrations by day | 191 |
| 2026-11-02 | Smoothed new business registrations by day | 224 |
| 2026-10-30 | New business registrations by day | 228 |
| 2026-10-30 | Smoothed new business registrations by day | 224 |
| 2026-10-29 | New business registrations by day | 207 |
| 2026-10-29 | Smoothed new business registrations by day | 224 |
| 2026-10-28 | New business registrations by day | 198 |
| 2026-10-28 | Smoothed new business registrations by day | 224 |
| 2026-10-27 | New business registrations by day | 223 |
| 2026-10-27 | Smoothed new business registrations by day | 224 |
| 2026-10-26 | New business registrations by day | 187 |
| 2026-10-26 | Smoothed new business registrations by day | 224 |
| 2026-10-23 | New business registrations by day | 247 |
| 2026-10-23 | Smoothed new business registrations by day | 224 |
| 2026-10-22 | New business registrations by day | 208 |
| 2026-10-22 | Smoothed new business registrations by day | 223 |
| 2026-10-21 | New business registrations by day | 174 |
| 2026-10-21 | Smoothed new business registrations by day | 223 |
| 2026-10-20 | New business registrations by day | 209 |
| 2026-10-20 | Smoothed new business registrations by day | 223 |
02 / The bigger picture
Every year tells a story.
Compare cumulative registrations with the previous year, or view the original totals.
The cumulative count for each year is compared with the immediately preceding year on the same calendar day. On days without publications, the latest value is carried forward only within the observed period. A comparison requires data for the previous year. Comparisons start in 2018 because 2016 is incomplete. Average over the seven calendar days ending on and including the plotted day. No complete average is available for the first six days. Select “Daily values” for the original values.
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03 / The direction of change
A closer look at momentum.
The annual percentage change in daily registrations, alongside the smoothed series.
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04 / A regional perspective
Different places. New possibilities.
Compare registrations per 1’000 residents across all 26 Swiss cantons.
A view across Switzerland
Where new businesses take shape
Compare business registrations per 1’000 residents across the cantons.
Business registrations per 1’000 residents
Leading cantons
How to read this: Registrations cover the full available period. Population figures use the reference values supplied with the dataset.
Data, research and the project
The stories behind the numbers.
Analysis from our database and insights from research. Every article identifies its data or original source.
Women in new-registration entries in 2025
20’587 person entries are classified as female, representing 27.1% of entries classified as female or male.
Background and context
A further 5’816 person entries have no unambiguous classification. Register notices contain different roles and do not establish a nationally unique count of women who are economic founders.
Making green business purposes visible
36’033 companies are classified as green in our data, 2.6% of classified companies.
Background and context
The analysis uses the business purpose described in the register. It is model-based and is not an environmental certification. It concerns classified company stock, not an annual green-business formation rate.
Gender norms and business formation
Swiss municipalities with stronger support for gender equality in 1981 have higher women-to-men startup ratios in 2016–2023. Ulrich Kaiser and José Mata’s study reports an association, not a causal effect.
Background and context
Kaiser presented the December 2025 discussion paper on LinkedIn on 14 January 2026. His follow-up on 15 January considers childcare alongside local norms. Both posts concern the same study and acknowledge Chiron Services as an industry partner.
StartupMonitoring’s launch
StartupMonitoring was announced on 18 May 2022 as a joint project of the UZH Chair for Entrepreneurship and Chiron Services. The platform explores SHAB business registrations by canton and legal form.
Background and context
This archive article documents the launch. The data monitor shows current figures and coverage.
Behind the numbers
Open a new perspective.
Start with the data.
StartupMonitoring is a collaboration between the Chair for Entrepreneurship at the University of Zurich and Chiron Services.
Discuss a research question ↗Official register information
Registration data comes from Zefix and publications in the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce (SHAB). Coverage includes newly registered businesses across sectors and legal forms.
Publication dates matter
Daily counts follow SHAB publication dates. The year-to-date comparison uses the same calendar cutoff in the previous year. Only completed days in Swiss time are displayed. The data monitor shows the latest included day.
Explore, compare, contribute
Choose a canton or legal form to explore the charts. Find individual companies and their notices in the register. We welcome questions, corrections and ideas for further analyses.