Meet the 10 Fintech Startups Selected for the Venture Leaders 2022 Cohort
by Fintechnews Switzerland October 20, 2022Venturelab has selected 10 Swiss fintech startups for the fifth edition of the Venture Leaders Fintech programme, organised in partnership with Swissnex and supported by EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), ETH Zürich, and Walder Wyss.
The 10 startups, dubbed the Swiss National Fintech Team, will kick off their roadshow in November at the Fintech Connect event in London where they will also participate in the Fintech Expo.
The Venture Leaders programme aims to provide promising Swiss startups a platform to build their network, attend advanced trainings, and showcase their startup to raise funds.
Venturelab has been orgnising the programme for the past 18 years with previous editions involving roadshows to Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Barcelona.
Venture Leaders Fintech alumni include startups such as Qumram (acquired by Dynatrace), AAAccell (acquired by LPA Group), and Sonect who was made the TOP 100 Scale-Ups 2022 rankings.
Sandipan Chakraborty
“Venture Leaders is a program that helps founders expand their vision beyond Swiss borders and amplifies their aspirations to become a global leader. If you need to do a litmus test of a market by engaging with potential customers or connect with local investors to access their network, Venture Leaders is the right program to give you tangible results in just one week,”
said Sandipan Chakraborty, Founder and CEO of Sonect and Venture Leader Fintech 2017.
Jordi Montserrat
“This Venture Leaders Fintech 2022 team offers an impressive range of products serving SMEs, investors, financial institutions, and NGOs to help them bring their business forward. From implementation simplicity to cost-efficiency, these new solutions are here to make a difference. We look forward to the London Roadshow,”
said Jordi Montserrat, CEO of Venturelab.
The Venture Leaders Fintech Team 2022
AIDONIC (Zug)
AIDONIC is an end-to-end payments infrastructure and data management platform for humanitarian organizations to accelerate financial inclusion with real-time impact tracking. AIDONIC empowers philanthropic actors to deliver aid faster, cheaper, and fully transparently, powered by blockchain technology.
amnis (Zurich)
amnis aims to reshape international banking for SMEs across Europe. In addition to currency exchange and cross-border payments, the global business account includes real-time P2P transfers and individual IBAN accounts to receive funds in 20+ currencies, beginning with a free starter plan.
Aktionariat (Zurich)
Aktionariat offers a technical solution that allows shares to be tokenized and easily traded by using the Ethereum Blockchain. Aktionariat not only enables tokenization for business customers but also creates their own decentralized and automated marketplace.
grape (Zurich)
grape is a digital B2B insurer. As a next-gen insurance company, grape provides its enterprise customers insurance contracts bundled with a B2B SaaS product that saves them time managing their claims, enhances absences management, and improves their employees’ health.
Fidentity (Berne)
fidentity creates trust between two parties by providing digital identification and signing at the highest level of legal compliance in an integrated solution. fidentity is extremely simple to use and provides the highest security coupled with flexible modes of integration.
LEVA (Zurich)
LEVA is an award-winning online platform enabling the establishment and management of investment syndicates. In less than two years, business angels, wealth managers, family offices, and fund managers from all over Europe have launched over 250 syndicates on the LEVA platform.
Money Masters (Geneva)
Money Masters works to make financial education accessible, fun, and simple. They have created a gamified and interactive education platform that makes it easy to learn about money – in essence, “The Duolingo of Finance.”
nobank (Zug)
nobank believes that non-custodial wallets are essential for the future of Web3. Existing wallets are still too complicated to onboard the next billion users, which is why nobank makes Web3 accessible and genuinely useful to everyone by offering the simplest way to directly interact with assets on the blockchain.
Splint Invest (Zug)
Splint Invest empowers individual investors by providing a sustainable platform that makes alternative assets accessible for everyone through fractional investing.
ZEMP (Lucerne)
ZEMP reinvents tired stationary retail to a mobile global sales platform for every mobile device user in the world. Converging POS and PAY into one seamless intuitive retail solution for B2C or B2B, it is available as a standalone app or integrated in any payment, banking or service product.
