DuoKey Joins Trust Valley as Contributor Partner
Lausanne, 24 October 2024 – Trust Valley is pleased to announce that DuoKey, a Swiss-based cloud security and encryption company, has elevated its partnership status to become a contributor partner. This advancement marks a significant milestone in DuoKey’s journey, which began when the company joined the Trust Valley ecosystem through the Tech4Trust acceleration program, in which they secure third place in the season 2’s cohort.
DuoKey is an enterprise cloud security leader specialised in key management, encryption and confidential AI. The company, headquartered in Prilly at the unlimitrust campus, helps businesses in the finance, health and automotive industries protect their confidential data and comply with regulations using advanced encryption technologies. In 2024, the company was awarded the best growing startup award by the InCyber Europe Forum, further validating its rapid growth in the sector.
Trust Valley is a private-public partnership dedicated to digital trust and cybersecurity on a mission to foster trust, innovation, and collaboration in today’s digital economy. Founded in 2020, the initiative brings together 50+ partners from the academic, public, and private sectors. The initiative’s vision is to enable a safe, secure and responsible digital economy.
The evolution of DuoKey from a Tech4Trust incubator participant to a contributor partner of the Trust Valley highlights the success of the ecosystem approach. Not only does it underscores the effectiveness of the Trust Valley’s startup support model in nurturing and scaling promising cybersecurity startups into established industry players, but it also contributes significantly to Trust Valley’s mission of promoting a secure digital economy through innovation and expertise in encryption, cloud security and confidential AI.
« Being part of Trust Valley through the Tech4Trust was key to the development and growth of our company in our early days. » explains Nagib Aouini, CEO of DuoKey. « It brought us the necessary visibility and opportunities to close our first clients. We are now looking forward to repaying the ecosystem by sharing our expertise and actively participating in the Trust Valley’s initiatives, strengthening this digital trust hub. »
This partnership represents another step forward in strengthening Switzerland’s position as a global leader in digital trust. « DuoKey’s progression within our ecosystem demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach for supporting fast-growing cybersecurity companies, » explains Lennig Pedron, CEO of Trust Valley. « DuoKey’s transition from an incubator participant to a contributor partner today showcases the growth opportunities within our ecosystem and reinforces our commitment to enable a safe, secure and responsible digital economy ».
About DuoKey
DuoKey is an entreprise cloud security leader specialised in key management and encryption for cloud environments, such as Microsoft365, Salesforce, Google and AWS. DuoKey helps businesses and organisations in the finance, automotive and health sector worldwide protect their confidential data, maintain data sovereignty and comply with regulations with advanced encryption and key management
Learn more about DuoKey: https://duokey.com
About Trust Valley
Trust Valley is the Swiss centre of excellence in digital trust and cybersecurity created to bring together a unique ecosystem of over 400 organisations and 500 experts in the region. Its mission is to promote, connect and network public, academic and private players in the sector, with the aim of enabling the development of innovations and talents in the fields, and start collaborative projects, such as the Tech4Trust startup acceleration programme and Trust4SMEs support programme in cybersecurity and digital trust for SMEs. The Trust Valley founders are the State of Vaud, the Republic and State of Geneva, EPFL, HEIG-VD, HES-SO Genève, IHEID, UNIGE, UNIL, ELCA, GCSP, Kudelski, SGS, SICPA and WiseKey.
More information on https://trustvalley.swiss