Acquisitions in Bern, Switzerland

RealWear has acquired Almer Technologies, a Swiss maker of ultra-compact AR headsets, in a deal strategically and financially backed by TeamViewer. The acquisition brings Almer's subscription-based hardware renting model and engineering team into RealWear to accelerate industrial AR adoption and expand capabilities for frontline workers globally.

MTD Group (Medical Technology and Devices) has completed the acquisition of Ypsomed’s pen needles and blood glucose monitoring systems businesses. The deal expands MTD’s diabetes and obesity care portfolio, increases European production capacity to over 2.5 billion pen needles, and provides entry into high-growth markets including China and India while prompting a significant investment plan for European production sites.

]init[ AG, a portfolio company of Rivean Capital and EMERAM Capital Partners, has acquired Swiss IT consulting firm Ironforge Consulting AG effective 1 September 2022. The add-on strengthens ]init[’s international public sector offering and provides Ironforge with additional scale and end-to-end digitalisation capabilities to serve Swiss federal and administration-related customers.

Miss Group, the Perwyn-backed web hosting platform, has acquired Hoststar, one of Switzerland’s largest web hosting providers headquartered in Fraubrunnen. The deal expands Miss Group’s Swiss presence and customer base (Hoststar serves ~80,000 customers and ~180,000 domains), furthering the platform’s roll-up strategy in the DACH region and adding to recent Swiss acquisitions that lift combined turnover above €10 million.