• Eldico Scientific AG

Timeline

ELDICO Scientific, a Swiss deep-tech instruments, systems and service company, was founded in June 2019 with the aim of filling a gap in the market: a dedicated instrument for determining the three-dimensional structures of nanoscale materials, previously unmeasurable. The need for such an instrument has become more and more evident in related research in the last couple of years, and the founders could not let such a great opportunity go unseized. Since its founding, ELDICO Scientific has been an advocate for an improved approach to nano-scale research. Rightly so, because the potential of the emerging total available market for an instrument like the one the company proposes adds up to an impressive EUR 10 billion, with more than 8,000 potential customers in the global pharmaceutical, agrochemical, energy and academia sectors, to name a few.

ELDICO ED-1: FIRST UNIT STARTS OPERATION IN BASEL

04.02.2022

ELDICO ED-1: FIRST UNIT STARTS OPERATION IN BASEL
ELDICO ED-1, the electron diffractometer from ELDICO Scientific is going to be installed and taken to operation in February 2022 in Basel. Here, in one of the centres of the global pharmaceutical industry, the groundbreaking device will be operated by specialist personnel for a consortium of academic and industrial users.

Swiss Innovation Forum

18.11.2021

Swiss Innovation Forum
Swiss Innovation Forum 2021, Switzerland’s biggest Innovation event, taookplace in Basel on the 18th of November. ELDICO presented its brand new electron diffractometer, the ELDICO ED-1 in the Future Expo.

Organic samples measured succesfully

01.10.2021

Organic samples measured succesfully
Eldico ED-1, the dedicated electron diffractometer proves, with readily available experimental data, that even under ambient conditions, challenging samples such as organics can be structurally solved, leading to equally good or even surpassing results from previous research.

IUCr Conference in Prague

24.08.2021

IUCr Conference in Prague
Between the 14th and 23rd of August, Prague hosted the 25th IUCr congress. ELDICO joined as a gold sponsor, discussing about the great potential of electron diffraction for crystallographic research, with tremendous influence on various day-to-day applications. We also displayed our instrumentation model there. 

EU Seal of Excellence

24.06.2021

EU Seal of Excellence
Proud to have been granted the European Commission’s Seal of Excellence: an award aimed at recognizing the disruptive innovations that can change the future of research. The seal exclusively certifies a small number of high-quality proposals running for HORIZON2020 funding.  

First sample measured

01.06.2021

First sample measured
ELDICO’s unique dedicated electron diffractometer – the world’s first – delivers proof-of-concept on real samples by solving its first structure ab initio. We successfully perform initial measurements on real samples in the previous week.

Pharmatech Outlook Award

31.03.2021

Pharmatech Outlook Award
ELDICO is recognized by Pharma Tech Outlook as a top solution provider for laboratory instrumentation as a disruptive innovation in the field of laboratory automation and equipment.  

First light

15.01.2021

First light
Significant milestone for ELDICO: our engineers succeed in getting the first light on our alpha system, followed by some nice diffraction patterns a couple of days later.

R&D 100 award recipient

21.10.2020

R&D 100 award recipient
ELDICO Scientific receives the award for “the development of the electron diffractometer, selected as one of the 100 most technologically significant new products of the year in the analytical/test category.”

Venture Kick: scoring a hat trick and receiving further investments

30.07.2020

Venture Kick: scoring a hat trick and receiving further investments
The award-winning Swiss deep-tech start-up beats its Venture Kick competitors for the third time in a row and wins 150,000 Swiss francs. Venture Kick is one of the largest Swiss start-up support programs, annually enhancing innovative companies with investment funds in a competitive three-stage process.   

Succesful funding round

05.07.2020

Succesful funding round
With additional funding of almost CHF 1.5 million, raised from private and institutional investors, ELDICO’s product development gets a boost. In addition to several industry-savvy private investors from Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands, the company’s backers also include the Aargauische Kantonalbank (AKB) and the Swiss start-up promotion organization Venture Kick.

World-famous scientific advisory board assigned

03.04.2020

World-famous scientific advisory board assigned
ELDICO Scientific appoints a first-class Scientific Advisory Board consisting of pioneers in electron crystallography. Five outstanding representatives from science and industry now support the company in developing its electron diffractometer.

ZKB Pionierpreis

17.02.2020

ZKB Pionierpreis
ELDICO Scientific takes second place in the Pionierpreis competition. We have thus outdone more than 30 competitors from the Swiss start-up community, all of them excellent candidates and competitors, and cashed in CHF 10,000 prize money. Priceless: the large public attention.

ECM32, Vienna: product concept presentation

22.08.2019

ECM32, Vienna: product concept presentation
With a disruptive horizontal design and an innovative probe handling mechanism, the dedicated Electron Diffractometer from ELDICO attracts the community’s attention at Europe’s biggest gathering of the crystallographic community with more than 1,100 international visitors.  

Swiss Innovation Challenge finalist

26.06.2019

Swiss Innovation Challenge finalist
With over 100 innovation projects, the Swiss Innovation Challenge is the largest and the most competitive start-up competition in Switzerland. ELDICO reaches the finals, achieving a Top 10 score.

ELDICO Scientific AG is incorporated

15.05.2019

ELDICO Scientific AG is incorporated
ELDICO Scientific, a Swiss deep-tech and hardware manufacturing company, is incorporated in June 2019 with the aim of filling a gap in the market: a dedicated instrument for determining the three-dimensional structures of nano-scale materials, previously unmeasurable. 

Patent application

14.05.2019

Patent application
ELDICO’s disruptive innovation: the novel electron diffractometer has begun the process of applying for a patent.

International publication and “Breakthrough of the Year” nomination

16.10.2018

International publication and “Breakthrough of the Year” nomination
The findings of the Nano-Argovia Project are published in the international version of the world-leading German scientific publication and awarded as a “Breakthrough of the Year” by the scientific journal SCIENCE.

Proof of Principle achieved (ETH Zurich, C-CINA Basel)

28.02.2018

Proof of Principle achieved (ETH Zurich, C-CINA Basel)
Proof-of-concept achieved (ETH Zurich, C-CINA Basel) as part of a Nano-Argovia project of the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) on scientifically and industrially relevant samples.   
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