Switzerland's goNEON secures €160K Venture Kick grant to accelerate AI infrastructure design

The development of civil infrastructure - roads, public utilities and transport lines - is inherently slow and complex. Before any blueprint can be approved, planners must ensure that project proposals align with not only local building codes, but also technical engineering standards and physical site constraints. Since each design iteration relies on specialised experts using software tools that rarely integrate with one another, testing the viability of a single concept is time-consuming.

goNEON Agentic Systems, a Swiss start-up and ETH Zurich spin-out co-founded by Raphael Eder and Dr Lukas Ballo, has developed an agentic AI platform to streamline this process. Engineers input their technical requirements, applicable regulatory frameworks and real-world site constraints, and the platform then generates multiple design alternatives that are both technically feasible and compliant with regulations in few minutes. The goal is to provide planning teams with a broader range of validated options to consider before making a decision.

The start-up has just secured €160,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick, which it will use to advance its ongoing pilot projects and finalise key commercial use cases to anchor the platform's market expansion.

Sources: goNEON | tech.eu

Founders: Raphael Eder, Lukas Ballo