A 6-month program open for international startups
Program fees are offered to selected startups
BENEFITS for STARTUPS
Gain visibility to potential customers
Access to the Trust Valley ecosystem and its top-level partners
Get fundraising with the right investors
Exclusive coaching & mentoring sessions with a high-level experts
Synergies with corporate companies & academics
Strategy improvement through workshops & roadshows
TRUST, A CRITICAL NEED
Building and maintaining trust is a major challenge for tomorrow’s society and economy. Good news is innovative solutions do exist.
With a 6-month program, Tech4Trust aims to boost startups developing innovative solutions to tackle the major challenge of trust and make sure to connect the participants with the organizations addressing trust issues.
PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
All startups developing innovative solutions to foster trust in our society are welcome to apply.
Priority will be given to startups:
Incorporated for less than 7 years
Already having a product ready to be sold.
In the phase of acquiring their first customers.
Committed to attend the program activities.
Expertise wanted
Threat Intelligence, Quantum security, Forensics, Neurotechnology, Industrial IoT, Critical Infrastructure, SCADA, Robotics, AI, Access Control, Cybersecurity, Authentication, Data Privacy, Blockchain, Anti-counterfeiting, Traceability, GDPR, Authenticity Verification, Cloud Security, Anonymized, Data Management, Edge Cloud, Digital self-determination.
Fields
Space, Smart Cities, Agritech-food, Health, Finance & Insurance, Mobility, Education, Industrial Sector, ICT
Timeline
- 5th of September: Application deadline
- End of September: Examination/review of each file – selection of participants –possible oral interview with Advisory Board
- 4th of October: Announcement of the selected startups
- October 2021 – March 2022: Acceleration program
- 6th of April: Closing ceremony
Any questions?
COMPETITION
To reward the best projects, selected partners are sponsoring special prizes at the end of the acceleration program to most promising start-ups selected by an Advisory Board
PwC SecTech Award
60’000 CHF Consulting Services
Winner: 30’000 CHF
2nd: 20’000 CHF
3rd: 10’000 CHF
And more to be revealed soon…!
PARTNERS
SELECTED STARTUPS SEASON 3
- Adresta AG : Adresta connects the manufacturer, retailer and watch owner with one another – creating a new level of interaction for the watch ecosystem.
- Binare Oy : Binaré offers a cloud based service with optional professional services that is easy to use and accessible to any organization
- CollectID : CollectID protect your brand and connect customers with your products, transform your products into a superior communication and sales channel
- CondensationDB : Condensation is an open-source zero trust, distributed database enabling to build modern applications while ensuring data ownership and security
- Farmer Connect SA : Farmer Connect helps farmers connect to the supply chain with the Farmer ID app, get proof of their identity and income so they can get loans, help businesses store & share information about their products.
- Fully-Verified : Banking-grade identity verifications for the fintech industry
- GeneLook : GeneLook is a digital health company empowering rare/chronic disease patients to be actively involved in their healthcare. They are building the future of patient-centric precision medicine based on trust and data sharing.
- Global Data Excellence SA : GDE provides an end-to-end AI platform, DEMS-Nixus for corporate governance that allows a dialog between machine and human in natural language for automated Data Cleansing, Business Intelligence, Data Governance and Data Sharing.
- Hestia.ai : Hestia.ai builds sustainable personal data pipelines, respectful of the data contributors and responsive to changing circumstances.
- Jitsuin Inc : Archivists Inc empowers developers to build applications that provide the provenance, governance and integrity of enterprise assets that businesses and their partners need in a zero trust world
- kaiosID : Kaios creates a smart identification solution to tackle counterfeiting, grey market, increase consumer engagement and build trust.
- Learning Robots : Learning Robots’ mission is to teach Artificial Intelligence in high schools and universities thanks to a small robot and a software that propose simple learning scenarios, up to programmation in Python language of new algorithms.
- Logmind : Logmind aims to empower IT teams in modern organizations with automatic detection and diagnosis of complex problems from their IT infrastructure.
- MOABI SAS : Moabi is a software editor which delivers SaaS and on-premise solutions for automted security audits to assess cybersecurity posture of third party software and internal development.
- MORPHOTONIX : Morphotonix protects people’s health and well-being by providing instant authentication and anti-counterfeiting solutions with the lowest C-footprint to brands.
- OriginAll S.A. : OriginAll provids tools and platforms in the fight against counterfeiting and illicit trade.
- OrphAnalytics SA : OrphAnalytics is B to B providing for users (Schools, Universities, Police departments, Investigation teams, research group) by IA investigation or judiciary reports, software, or servers.
- Photocert : Photocert establishes and certify the authenticity of pictures and videos with the aim to provide processes automation and trustworthy remote digital inspections.
- Privacy1 : Privacy1 offers Zero Trust data protection that combines security and privacy awareness on the data itself. Enables encryption, entitlement and processing
- PRODAFT SARL : Prodaft offers proactive threat intelligence to its customers against the constantly evolving attack techniques in the cyber world.
- Profiscope / Codescoring : Codescoring creates automated solutions for source code analysis using modern approaches to data analysis and machine learning.
- QRCrypto SA : QRCrypto provides full security from 2G to quantum with patented quantum-resistant SIM card and dedicated secure communication packages beyond quantum.
- RealTyme : RealTyme is an innovative Swiss technology start-up that cares about people’s privacy and digital well-being.
- Retreeb : Retreeb is the first payment solution which integrates its social responsability in the heart of a sunstainable business model.
- Saporo : Saporo anticipates attacks to allow organisations to be more resilient.
- Smartcockpit SA : Smartcockpit supports ISMS, Privacy Management and Digital self-determination. Their solution can scale to a full digital governance for the entire organization.
- STACKSCIENCES SA : StackSciences mission is to bring pragmatical solutions to software engineers so that they can deliver secure and reliable Cloud based applications.
- Tune Insight : Tune Insight enables organizations to make better decisions by extracting collective insights from confidential data collaborations, while they remain in full control of their own data.
- Xiphera : Xiphera designs hardware-based security solutions with standardised cryptographic algorithms. Their cryptographic expertise, experience in system design, and knowledge on digital logic help to protect our customers’ critical information.
- ZeNPulsar : ZeNPulsar helps organizations fight fake news, maintain their reputation and neutralize disinformation. They build the future of cyber forensic through multidimensional DeepTech to advance online trust and integrity.
ADVISORY BOARD 2021
Lajla Aganovic
Logitech
Anne Headon
UNIL
Marc Barbezat
Canton of Vaud
Vincent Bieri
Nexthink
Leo Bolchanine
AdNovum
Ubavka Cutile-Nikolova
VP at Barclays Private Bank
Yan Borboën
PwC Switzerland
Raphaël Conz
Canton de Vaud
Olivier Crochat
C4DT, EPFL
Stéphane Duguin
Cyberpeace Institute
Philippe Emery
SYZ
Cédric Enzler
eXpert Solutions
Antoine Geissbühler
Université de Genève
Patrick Ghion
Police de Genève
Bolko Hohaus
SICTIC (Swiss ICT Investor Club)
Jean-Philippe Lallement
Foundation EPFL Innovation Park
Dr. Vincent Lenders
Cyber-Defence Campus armasuisse
Sylvain Jaccard
Switzerland Global Enterprise
Gérard Le Roy
SICPA
Frédéric Mauger
Sysmosoft
Christophe Nicolas
Kudelski Group
Nicholas Niggli
Republic and State of Geneva
André Duvillard
Réseau national de sécurité
Line Pillet
HES-SO Valais-Wallis
Sylvain Pasini
HEIG-VD
Patrice Perche
Fortinet
Jean-Marc Rickli
GCSP, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Paul Such
Hacknowledge
Dr. Mathieu Verbaere
ELCA
Alain Couttolenc
Chief Development and external relations Officer
Yohann Perron
Innovaud
Guillaume Pahud
SGS
Caroline Kokocinski
UNIL
Francesca Bosco
CyberPeace Institute
Christophe Bouillard
Chief Information Security Officer
Olivier Busolini
SYGNUM
COACHES & MENTORS
Amine Tazi
Brigitte Roy
Carlos Moreno
Dominique Guinard
Dr. Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Em. Davor Pavuna
Fabien Jacquier
Fabrice Guye
François D’Haegeleer
Gianfranco Moi
Jérôme Bailly
Jérôme Michaud
Julien Levis
Laura Venchiarutti-Tocmacov
Laurent Balmelli
Marcel Egger
Marie de Freminville
Mathieu Delavy
Micha Roon
Morgane Pfefferlé
Pascal Marmier
Pedro Paiva
Philippe Niederhauser
Philippe-Emmanuel Maulion
Ria Kechagia
Sandra Dängeli
Sébastien Genet
Vera Steullet
