Thirteen Swiss Startups selected for Tech4Trust Season 6

Trust Valley Day took place this Thursday at EPFL's Rolex Learning Center in front of a record attendance of more than 600 people. One of the highlights of the day was the announcement of the startups selected for the sixth season of the Tech4Trust acceleration program. Thirty two startups from Europe, Middle-East and North America have qualified - thirteen of them from Switzerland.

Selected from over 140 applications - a new high - this year's candidates come from a wide range of backgrounds and expertise. The companies selected come from countries such as Switzerland, France, the UK, the USA, Italy, Germany, Austria and the United Arab Emirates, to name but a few. This further underlines the program's growing global reach. In terms of expertise, AI, cybersecurity and authentication, as well as sectors such as government technologies, education, proptech and fintech, are part of the mix. The table with all selected companies can be downloaded below.

Speaking of the new startup cohort, the representation of women has risen from 23% last year to 62.5% for the sixth edition, a significant improvement. Twenty of the 32 companies have at least one woman at C or co-founder level.

Swiss Startups selected for Season 6 are:

  • Carbon X Tons (Vaud) Combines carbon offsetting with a fully collateralized financial product using blockchain technology.
  • CERTIFY Community SA (Geneva) Develops tools to manage and analyze the reliability of online information for media and organizations
  • DiploTools (Vaud) is a GovTech startup that equips diplomats and foreign ministries with cutting-edge digital tools to streamline operations, automate tasks, and enhance efficiency in international diplomacy​​.
  • Dtangle (Geneva) emerged from CERN's ecosystem to offer a no-code visual analytics platform enabling analysts and decision-makers to intuitively tackle complex data challenges with advanced visualization and exploration tools and consulting services
  • Egonym (Zurich) empowers businesses to harness visual data without compromising privacy by using a proprietary Generative AI to anonymize people’s identities while retaining data value, allowing companies to avoid regulatory violations and build public trust
  • Hafnova (Vaud) developed an AI-driven cybersecurity solution that blocks over 15 million malicious IPs and domains protecting corporate perimeters and mobile devices and enhancing network performance
  • Hoggo (Zurich) is an AI-driven platform for B2B trust where sellers can showcase & improve compliance and buyers can evaluate, manage and monitor them.
  • Light Frame is a VC-backed Swiss-American company developing next generation core banking technologies. The company is incorporated as a Delaware C-Corp and will incorporate a second entity in Switzerland shortly.
  • Panop (Vaud) is a Next Generation Attack Surface Management Solution, helping organizations to discover, classify and remediate vulnerabilities and weaknesses in their digital assets
  • Recarta (Vaud) customers are real estate portfolio owners to whom the startup provides a Contract Management System dedicated to Real-estate processes and challenges. The company has a bias toward delivering impact on the whole real estate ecosystem.
  • Spacetalk (Vaud) provides a multilateral and neutral space traffic coordination platform for all space actors worldwide. It enables operators to share their flight plans and manoeuvres in space for avoiding conjunctions.
  • Weprode (Vaud) specializes in education technologies and offers solutions to secure the digital transformation of schools and take back control of personal data.
  • Zephior (Vaud) is a Lausanne-based AI company that automates RFP processes for B2B enterprises, acting as a secure, centralized knowledge repository and ensuring data privacy through Swiss-based infrastructure.

Revving up for rapid but sustainable growth

The six-month Tech4Trust program is specifically geared to startups working in the fields of digital trust and cyber security. The aim is to get these businesses market-ready and revved-up for rapid but sustainable growth. It offers assistance to secure funding, start pilots and future-proof operations through first-class coaching, access to a wide network of industry experts, tailored workshops and informative events. So far more the Tech4Trust Accelerator Program has supported more than 160 startups which have raised CHF 350 million in Funding.

Contacted by Startupticker.ch, Lennig Pedron, Trust Valley Director shares the vision driving the growing momentum: "Digital trust is the key to solving today's global challenges. By fostering innovation in startups, and supporting the transformation of SMEs and major corporations, Trust Valley is helping to build a digital trust 'commons' that not only fosters a sustainable economy, but also strengthens democracy for the society."

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