CHF 150k · Other round · AI · Zurich, Switzerland
goNEON, a Zurich-based ETH spin-off building agentic software for infrastructure planning, has received CHF 150k in Venture Kick funding. Venture Kick says the capital will help the company prioritise its strongest commercial pilots, turn recurring planning work into scalable product modules and validate the use cases for a broader infrastructure-planning platform.
From bespoke pilots to repeatable planning modules
Road, utility and transport planning still involves specialists moving between disconnected tools, local rules and manual engineering checks. goNEON says its N! agent takes engineering requirements, regulations and real-world constraints as inputs, then generates technically feasible options that planners can evaluate and refine. The product is positioned as decision support: engineers remain responsible for decisions while the software compresses scenario generation and checking.
That distinction matters commercially. A single customised planning project can produce useful software without creating a repeatable product. goNEON's funding plan focuses on finding the overlap between customers: recurring assessments, design rules and planning steps that can become reusable modules. Each workflow that can be configured rather than rebuilt should reduce delivery effort and make a software-led model more plausible.
The company had already generated more than USD 250k in paid pilot revenue and was working with cities and engineering firms across Europe when Venture Kick announced the award. Those are company-reported figures carried by Venture Kick, but they show customers paying for practical planning work rather than only testing a research prototype. Talent Kick had previously reported profitable pilots exceeding CHF 200k.
The capital tests where reuse begins
Infrastructure design is unusually sensitive to place. Regulations, street geometry, network constraints and engineering standards vary between projects and jurisdictions. goNEON therefore has to standardise the planning process without pretending every project is identical. Its constraint-aware approach can become valuable if the same underlying modules accept new local data and rules while preserving traceable engineering logic.
The next milestone is not simply generating more options faster. It is showing that the workflows selected from the pilot base can be deployed repeatedly, maintained as standards change and integrated into how planning teams already review projects. If goNEON can make that transition, the CHF 150k will have financed a move from project delivery toward a platform whose economics improve as more planning work becomes reusable.
