A jury of 20 experts from the Swiss fintech space have reviewed over 60 applications (out of a total of 100 submissions) of fintech startups and have picked the five most promising companies in the categories “Early Stage Start-up of the Year” and “Growth Stage Start-up of the Year” for their 2024 edition.
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While being diverse in its use cases, this year’s top 10 of the Swiss Fintech Awards showcases the vitality and maturity of the Swiss fintech landscape.
The ten nominated companies cover a vast range of innovative business models. Some aim at providing more and better investing opportunities to individual or business clients while others serve financial professionals and institutions with the help of technologies such as AI and blockchain to increase efficiency and transparency.
The top 10 of the Swiss FinTech Awards also feature startups in fields such as cyber insurance or sustainability reporting.
The top 10 Swiss Fintech Startups of the Swiss Fintech Awards 2024 are:
Early Stage Top 5 (Alphabetical Order)
CLIMADA Technologies aim at delivering transparent and regulatory-aligned climate change related reporting.
Cyberion is a insurtech start-up that specializes on providing insurance against cyber threats by offering vulnerability checks, insurance solutions and training.
Evorest want to digitalize the process to open and close rental deposits and make these unproductive rental deposits – worth around CHF 15 billion in Switzerland alone – investable.
Kaspar& want to make investing the new normal by democratizing and giving access to professional and easy to manage investment strategies.
Neur.on AI are addressing the burden of vast numbers of legal documents floating around in financial institutions that need accurate translation. By utilizing artificial intelligence Neur.on AI translate legal documents more cost-effectively.
Growth Stage Top 5 (Alphabetical Order)
ARF is a global transaction service platform offering scalable liquidity to financial institutions for cross-border settlements.
Divizend automate the process of reclaiming foreign withholding taxes for investors and other dividend receivers.
GenTwo expand the investment universe through assetization – driven by technology and innovations in securitization and tokenization.
Payrexx is a payment service provider that integrates a wide range of payment methods – both local and global options – to make online commerce accessible for all kinds of businesses.
WeCan is a blockchain-based solution for data management and secure communication both internally among employees and externally with clients.
Previous winners of the awards include companies like Yokoy or Crypto Finance as well as important shapers of the Swiss fintech landscape such as Tenity, SICTIC or former Federal Councillor Ueli Maurer.
The Swiss Fintech Awards is a broadly supported initiative what is made possible through the collaboration and support of the fintech and finance ecosystem including banks, insurances, investors, accelerators, media, academia, associations and more.
The winners of the awards 2024 will be announced at the Swiss Fintech Awards Night taking place on June 11 in Zurich.
