ZIMT is a product strategy and design studio in Zürich. We help organisations imagine, define, and launch products at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds.
Every object is getting a memory, a voice, and an address.
Every product is becoming a service.
The companies that treat the physical world as programmable will define the next decade.
We don't sell software. We don't sell headcount. We bring the judgment that comes from having done it ourselves.
For two decades, our team has worked at the frontier of connected products — founding ventures, leading engineering teams of fifty, shipping custom hardware, and operating platforms that manage over ten billion physical products and their digital identities.
We stay small on purpose. Every engagement is led by senior people who have built what they advise on. When execution is needed, we assemble hand-picked teams from a trusted network across Europe — directed by us, accountable to you. We treat every technology as an ingredient, not an ideology.
Vlad Trifa, PhD
Vlad has spent his career making the physical world programmable. A pioneer of the Web of Things — his ETH Zürich research led to the W3C Web of Things standard — he co-founded EVRYTHNG, the platform managing digital identities for over ten billion products (acquired by Digimarc), and served as CTO/CPO of Ambrosus. He founded ZIMT to do the part he loves most: figuring out what to build, and making sure it gets built right.
The companies we've built for — as ZIMT, and across two decades before it.
Every engagement starts with a conversation.
If there's a fit, we'll both know quickly.