Prilly’s Visium has raised its first institutional round, backed by Columbus Venture Partners, Concentric, and prominent AI unicorn founders.

Visium SA, an AI and data company headquartered at the unlimitrust campus in Prilly, canton Vaud, specializing in regulated industries, has closed its first institutional funding round in an undisclosed amount. The round was co-led by Columbus Venture Partners, a Valencia-based life sciences venture capital firm managing over EUR 800 million in assets, and Concentric, a London-based activist venture fund focused on software-driven businesses transforming traditional sectors. Participating angel investors include Thomas Wolf, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, Peter Sarlin, founder of Silo AI, acquired by AMD, Sam Bourton, co-founder of QuantumBlack, acquired by McKinsey, and Peter Lindholm, co-founder of Frontier Car Group.

Founded in 2018 by CEO Alen Arslanagic and entirely bootstrapped for eight years, Visium has built a team of 100 AI experts across Europe, delivering more than 250 AI and data solutions for global clients in pharma, life sciences, and specialty chemicals. Its client base includes Roche, Novartis, and several top-20 pharmaceutical companies, as well as DSM-Firmenich. The company’s approach is AI-native rather than incremental: it rethinks business workflows from first principles, deploying forward-embedded AI engineers and domain specialists directly within client operations. This model is reinforced by a growing product portfolio, which includes Scribe, Devin, and Visium Data Foundation, that converts insights from consulting engagements into scalable, reusable solutions.

The funding will accelerate expansion across Europe and the United States. Alongside the financing, Visium has appointed four new Board members and three new Advisory Board members, deepening its scientific and commercial expertise. The company has previously been recognized among the Financial Times’ Top 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in Europe.

Visium is based at unlimitrust, one of the eight technoparks in canton Vaud and a hub dedicated to the Economy of Trust, an approach that places trust at the center of economic interactions, with transparency, accountability, and data sovereignty as its core principles. Founded by SICPA, a Swiss pioneer in secure authentication and traceability solutions with over 90 years of expertise, the campus brings together companies, start-ups, investors, academics, and institutions working on trust-related technologies.

At its heart, the Trust Village provides dedicated incubation support for emerging start-ups in digital trust and cybersecurity. For Visium, whose work in regulated industries depends on guarantees of data sovereignty and security, the campus provides a fitting home. Read more about unlimitrust and the Economy of Trust.