Swiss startup miros raises €1.1M for bookable workpods

The Lausanne startup, spun out of EPFL’s robotics lab, has deployed 15 pods across Switzerland and made its first international move with a unit in Toulouse. Its founder’s longer-term ambition: making commercial real estate itself modular and on-demand.

The problem miros is solving is visible in any busy train station, airport, or hospital: people who need to make a private call, focus on work, or take a video meeting, and have nowhere appropriate to do it.

The company builds bookable, connected workpods, enclosed acoustic spaces users can locate, reserve, and unlock via a mobile app, and places them in public and semi-public venues where such infrastructure has historically not existed.

The Lausanne startup has raised €1.1 million (CHF 1 million) in a pre-seed round from business angels to expand the network.

miros was founded in 2023 by Dr Fabio Zuliani, who completed his PhD at EPFL’s ...