About Us

About Us
We are a team of passionate people whose goal is to improve everyone’s life through disruptive products. We build great products and services to solve your daily business problems.
Our products are designed for companies willing to optimize their performance.
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy, that considers digitalisation as a strategic process, has driven our product offering and services. We stand for autonomy and empowerment of our customers by evolutionary implementation (technology follows learning curve), knowledge and learning community, as well as favouring of bottom-up approach with embedding application experience.
Strategic Partner-ship with leanBI
Since July 2022, GradeSens works in close partnership with leanBI, company well established in Predictive Maintenance since many years. Together, we offer you a broad spectrum of technology and competences including Deep Learning, Vision and Acoustic for Predictive Maintenance applications. Our DNA is engineering and we therefore address your Analytics with eyes of engineers.rounded corner style.
Other strategic partnership
GradeSens has established several strategic partnerships with Harmony Solutions (strategy, business development and finance) and with Contrinex (global sensors manufacturer). In 2021, we signed a frame agreement with Andritz Hydro, nr 1 hydro turbines supplier. We also collaborate with academic institutions including ROSAS (HEIA-FR, Switzerland) on life cycle engineering as well as HES-SO in Yverdon, Switzerland for the radio technology.
Awards
Sustainable Development Goals
GradeSens indirectly participates to the United Nations SDG . Especially the Goals 9 and 12.
Our Team
GradeSens was founded in 2018 by Yvan Jacquat, Dipl. Ing. from ETHZ with executive MBA and has more than 20 years of experience in industrial maintenance, Condition Monitoring and predictive analytics. The development of our technology is covered by Dr Didier Nicoulaz who obtained his microelectronics PhD in EPFL and has more than 20 years of experience in the development of high end technologies.

Yvan Jacquat
CEO

Dr. Didier Nicoulaz
CTO

Dr. Fabien Ravet
COO

Michel Vandenbroucke
CSO

Frédéric Steinmann
Head of sales, French

Philippe Muehletahler
Head of Administration

Massimo Ravasi
Head of Software
Timeline
2022
2nd fund raising
with Mateg AG joining our company as strategic investor.
2021
1st fund raising
Covered by Capital Risque Fribourg and private investors.
2020
First pilots in Intralogistics.
Amazon acquires Audible
First project in the Smart Monitoring of Aggregates...
2018
Founding of the company