March 11, 2026
Nutrix is a Swiss healthtech company building hormone intelligence tools to make prevention and chronic-care support more precise, more personal, and easier to scale.
By combining AI-driven coaching with non-invasive hormone monitoring, they aim to help people understand what’s happening in their bodies earlier, and then take the right action, at the right time, with the right support.
Based at Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area – Novartis Campus, Nutrix continues to develop and scale its platform from the heart of the Basel Area’s life sciences ecosystem.
Nutrix’s approach brings together software and biosensing, turning complex biological signals into clear, practical guidance for patients and the professionals who support them.
At the center is gSense, Nutrix’s proprietary AI software platform. It collects health and lifestyle data and translates it into personalized coaching and support, helping people follow a plan, understand progress, and stay engaged over time. For patients, the benefit is simple: clearer insight, better adherence, and more confidence in day-to-day health decisions.
Imagine gSense as your personal health assistant. It takes information about your lab test results, physical activity and body composition. We analyze all this data and provide personalized coaching and medical awareness support for users.
Maria Hahn, Co-Founder & CEO of Nutrix
Alongside gSense is Nutrix’s biosensor work, including cortiSense – described as the first non-invasive salivary cortisol monitor. Cortisol is often called the “stress hormone,” and Nutrix’s ambition is to make it measurable in a patient-friendly way, so people can understand physiological stress patterns earlier and act before they compound into bigger health issues. Nutrix also develops tSense for testosterone, bringing similar “at-home” monitoring potential to another key hormone.
“What’s very unique is that we have both software and hardware,” says Maria Hahn, Co-Founder & CEO. “As an add on to our AI platform, we are now introducing cortiSense, a non-invasive device for monitoring hormones. Today we already validated the device for monitoring cortisol, the key hormone behind sleep, mood and metabolism.”
Nutrix’s journey in the Basel Area has been shaped by a mix of early support, the right people, and steady execution.
“I’m originally from Poland. I have lived in Switzerland for 11 years and I’m based in Basel,” Maria says. “When I thought about launching my company, I investigated partners who could help and be on this journey with us. Basel Area Business & Innovation was a frictionless solution, and this is how we started.”
Nutrix’s collaboration with Basel Area Business & Innovation began in 2019 with early-stage support through what was then called its Venture Mentoring service (now known as VentureConnect), including input on intellectual property and patent strategy. This helped the team put strong foundations in place at a formative stage.
As a next step, Nutrix joined the DayOne Accelerator in 2020. “DayOne allowed us to connect with partners that still work with us today.” She adds: “We met our patent attorney there who protects our technology. We met the finance and accounting team there. We also had our core coaching with Innosuisse and we work with the same coach we met during the initial incubation phase.”
In 2021, Nutrix became a resident at Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area – Novartis Campus, and the team has continued to build from there ever since. “We moved to the very first office at the Novartis Campus and we kept developing our technology from that moment on.”
Nutrix works from the coworking space run by Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area on the Novartis Campus. It’s the only coworking option on this campus and it keeps the team close to partners, peers and a dense innovation ecosystem.
Maria Hahn puts it simply: “I would advise startup founders to look for other startup founders because they did it already. They went through the journey and they can provide the most valuable advice. Advice that is practical and pragmatic.”
That mindset is exactly what coworking enables: daily access to peer founders, fast feedback and the kind of conversations that move a team from building to scaling.
From here, the team continues to develop its platform and build towards scalable delivery – across both the software and biosensor sides of the company.
For Nutrix, being on Novartis Campus is less about a fixed seat and more about tapping into the ecosystem.
“I like the ecosystem for innovation here. Truly innovative products and services require talent and conversation, enriching conversation.”
Maria Hahn, Co-Founder & CEO of Nutrix
Nutrix collaborates with universities in different countries, but the Basel Area has played a specific role in helping them pressure-test their work in the local ecosystem.
“We also had the possibility to present our technology here in Basel during events, get feedback, get the conversation going,” Maria says. “That helps us create a better solution.”
“Nutrix is in a transition phase from startup to scale-up,” Maria says. “We already provide the service, already create positive impact, and validated clinical healthcare outcomes of our platform.”
Now the focus is on manufacturing and scale. “We’re also building the manufacturing site to provide our hormone monitoring platform at scale, to many people globally.”
Nutrix has five patents pending and is expanding across Latin America, Japan and the US, with its team continuing to build from Novartis Campus.
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