{"id":6215,"date":"2024-04-16T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2024-04-16T10:41:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T08:41:10","slug":"foundation-report-march-surprising-decrease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/foundation-report-march-surprising-decrease\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation report March: Surprising decrease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a notable shift from historical trends, March 2024 saw a decline in company foundations compared to February. Across Switzerland, the total of newly founded companies stood at 4,349, marking a decrease of 9.92% from the previous month. This represented a significant year-over-year decline of 13.64% from March 2023, highlighting a surprising downturn in the Swiss startup landscape.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Detailed Analysis of March 2024 Startup Decline<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, 13599 new start-ups were counted in the first three months, compared to 13453 in the current year. Due to the sharp decline in March, the two years were almost on a par when comparing the first three months. The difference was -1.07%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloudy outlook in French-speaking Switzerland<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There were a total of 1242 start-ups in French-speaking Switzerland, making it undisputedly the region with the highest number of start-ups. Compared to last month, there was a decrease of 8.94%, as 1364 commercial register entries were counted in February. In Vaud, there was only a slight decrease of 4.92 percentage points compared to the previous month. The 464 new start-ups were 5.88% below the previous year’s figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northwestern Switzerland took second place with 1006 new companies. This figure corresponds to a decrease of 4.73% compared to February and 11.44% compared to March 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharp decline in Zurich<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

While 923 new start-ups were recorded in Zurich in February, the number in March was 764, a decrease of 17.23 percentage points and a year-on-year decline of 7.51%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was also a marked decrease in Central Switzerland, which was 12.96% compared to the previous month and 20.91% compared to the previous year. The highest number of commercial register entries was in the canton of Zug, with a total of 241.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eastern Switzerland and Ticino follow the trend<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In March, no region was able to boast an increase, meaning that there was also a decrease of 8.05% in Eastern Switzerland. The number of commercial register entries in the entire region was 548 and the difference compared to March 2023 was therefore -14.77%. In Thurgau, there was actually an increase compared to the previous month, which was 7.63% due to 141 newly founded companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ticino recorded 218 start-ups this month and the change compared to February was -6.44%. The relative change compared to the previous year was similar to that of Thurgau at -14.17%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forecast and Implications for Future Company Foundations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The decline in March came as a surprise, as this has been a strong month in recent years. Compared to the previous year, the difference was as high as -13.64%. As there has been less activity in company formations in recent years, this is also expected for April 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a notable shift from historical trends, March 2024 saw a decline in company foundations compared to February. Across Switzerland, the total of newly founded companies stood at 4,349, marking a decrease of 9.92% from the previous month. This represented a significant year-over-year decline of 13.64% from March 2023, highlighting a surprising downturn in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[467,1],"tags":[670,667,668,669,666],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":301,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-1Cf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6219,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions\/6219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}