The company is based in Technopark, Zurich, Switzerland, and has international subsidiaries operating in Shanghai and Boston.

Seed financing was gained from startup competition prizes and a research project for ETH Zurich.

In 2022, two lock-in amplifiers were launched, the GHFLI and the SHFLI, enabling users to measure signals also in the microwave regions, with maximum operation frequencies of 1.8 GHz and 8.5 GHz respectively, but still starting from DC at the low end.

[3] Since 2016 Zurich Instruments has also been developing quantum computing instrumentation technology in close collaboration with the groups of Prof. Andreas Wallraff at ETH Zurich[4] and Prof. Leo DiCarlo at Delft University of Technology.

[6] Zurich Instruments products include impedance analyzers, phase-locked loops, digitizers and boxcar averagers.