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 5-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 organisations actually addressing trust issues.
In a nutshell:
High potential startups for a valuable peer2peer support
High quality contacts with corporates, mentors, experts and academics
Prestigious partners from the Trust Valley ecosystem (public, private & academic actors)
Strong presence in Switzerland but hybrid program that can be followed wherever you are
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.
In the field of cybersecurity, authentication, access control, artificial intelligence, data privacy, blockchain, anti-counterfeiting, traceability, GDPR, forensics, quantum, authenticity verification or related.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Registration
Before September, 5th, 2020
Selection of participants
End of September 2020
Announcement of participants
October 2020
Acceleration program
October 2020 – March 2021
Closing ceremony
End of March 2021
GOALS & BENEFITS
Visibility & Sales
Showcase innovative products/services and connect with potential customers
Pilots & PoCs
Creating synergies with research departments from corporate companies
Academic Partnerships
Creating opportunities for joint research projects with labs & professors
Mentoring
Exclusive 1-1 coaching by a pool of experts to accompany the startups during the program
Fundraising
Meeting investors, support in clarifying needs and development of pitching skills
Learn new skills
Workshops led by experts on tech, sales, management, legal aspects and fundraising
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 2020
Category "EARLY"
- Bug Bounty Switzerland : Crowdsourced cybersecurity for a safe digital Switzerland aiming to help large organizations to master their digital transformation.
- Cryptolex : Cryptolex allows everyone to access and use the Blockchain by recreating the process of certification and traceability.
- CyQuant : bridges cybersecurity and insurance by providing a platform for insurers to estimate risk exposure for companies and help IT security market close the gap.
- Cysec : provides a confidential computing solution applied to the edge that protects data in use by running your critical applications in a trusted execution environment.
- Diadem Technology : provides an easy, transparent and efficient contracting & billing system for Mobile Network Operators using smart contracts.
- DuoKey : helps companies store highly confidential documents and benefit from cloud services while protecting data with privacy and trust.
- ONLIFE+ powered by Edenair : provides the platform ONLIFE+ which allows to digitalize one’s life and spare time.
- KETL : is a Swiss AI-Infused SaaS solution to manage documents, emails and workflows dedicated to professionals who value privacy and productivity.
- Kimbocare : provides transparency and trust in the delivery of healthcare in developing regions.
- Orbitalize : is a mobile and web application that empowers public authorities and event organizers to oversee drone operations in their local airspace.
- Origin Food : enables transparency & collaboration across supply chains, with a focus on product traceability and product compliance.
- P3KI : is a decentralized and offline authorization solution that brings human trust to digital devices.
- Rumya : Digitalization facilitator helping companies comply with privacy regulations from data subject’s rights management to data breach and consents management.
- Sarus : empowers enterprises to leverage their most sensitive data assets for analytics and AI applications with the highest standards of data protection: differential privacy.
- Strong.Network : defines and automatically reinforces the rules of collaboration around code development by protecting data confidentiality and monitor intellectual property.
- UBCOM : is cybersecurity provider helping organizations to reveal their cyber exposure and digital awareness through a cost effective tool compliant with international standards.
- X80 Security : Automated Cyber Defenses by generating threats in a simulation environment.
- Zimt : is a digital traceability startup helping food businesses increase transparency & consumer trust.
Category "GROWTH"
- Clearwater Dynamics : provides horizon smart threat detection for Microsoft SaaS applications. Tackling event fatigue and the cyber skills shortage.
- Cyber-Safe Label : is the Swiss cybersecurity label that tackle SMEs’ risks and help them build trust with their partners.
- decentriq : enables secure data ecosystem by making data analytics confidential by design. decentriq enables businesses to identify analytics potential in datasets without having access to data.
- Inpher : provides XOR secret computing allowing advanced analytics and AI applications on distributed data sources without exposing or transferring sensitive data.
- Nym Technologies : is building the next generation of privacy infrastructure. A decentralized and incentive mixnet that can make any internet communication private, going beyond a VPN.
- PXL Vision: is providing highly secure and fully automated AI-based identity verification solutions.
- We can Group : created a decentralized network for major Swiss financial actors which allows them to share standard data with a high level of security and auditability.
- YESWEHACK : is providing a bug bounty & VDP platform relying on a global community of experts to minimize time to vulnerabilities detection and remediation.
ADVISORY BOARD 2021
Lajla Aganovic
Swisscom Ventures
Anne Headon
UNIL
Dr. Lan Zuo Gillet
Foundation EPFL Innovation Park
Marc Barbezat
Canton of Vaud
Vincent Bieri
Nexthink
Leo Bolchanine
AdNovum
Yan Borboën
PwC Switzerland
Raphaël Conz
Canton de Vaud
Olivier Crochat
C4DT, EPFL
Stéphane Duguin
Cyberpeace Institute
Philippe Emery
SYZ
Cédric Enzler
eXpert Solutions
Guy Escarfail
SGS
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
Gérard Le Roy
SICPA
Frédéric Mauger
Sysmosoft
Dr. Fabrice Moscheni
Fastcom Technology SA
Reshad Moussa
GEOSATIS
Christophe Nicolas
Kudelski Group
Nicholas Niggli
Republic and State of Geneva
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
COACHES & MENTORS
Amine Tazi
Brigitte Roy
Dr. Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Dr. Mathieu Verbaere
Emilie Michel
Fabien Jacquier
Fabrice Guye
Gianfranco Moi
Jérôme Bailly
Liana Ugnat
Marie de Freminville
Mathieu Delavy
Morgane Pfefferlé
Nicolas Vernaz
Olivier Hayat
Paul Such
Pedro Paiva
Philippe-Emmanuel Maulion
Ria Kechagia
Sandra Dängeli
Sanja Fabrio
Sonia Duc
Vera Steullet
TESTIMONIALS
PROGRAM LED BY
Lennig Pedron
Director
Emilie Dondelet
Marketing & Communication
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