A jury of 19 experts from the Swiss fintech space have reviewed around 70 applications (out of a total of 100 submissions) of fintech start-ups 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”.
The top start-ups of the Swiss FinTech Awards in 2026 are:
Swiss Early Stage Top 5 Fintech Startups (Alphabetical Order)
Credura
Credura is a digital insurance assistant bundling everything in one app with independent advise and automatic optimisations.
ForenSwiss
ForenSwiss uses generative artificial intelligence to combat online crime and money laundering.
Porters
Porters is a AI-native, agentic outsourcing partner for various banking operations.
Qubera
Qubera offers an AI infrastructure that allows to extract insights of alternative investments in minutes so clients can make investment decisions with full auditability.
Wealthcom
Wealthcom is an AI-native wealth management platform including portfolio management, oder management and more designed for independent financial advisors, external asset managers and family offices.
Swiss Growth Stage Top 5 Fintech Startups (Alphabetical Order)
AIDONIC
AIDONIC is a blockchain-based execution infrastructure to deliver humanitarian, climate and public sector capital faster, transparently and at scale.
BLP Digital
BLP Digital offers intelligent, end-to-end ERP automation for finance, procurement, sales and more.
Calvin Risk
Calvin Risk provide solutions for AI model validation, model testing and governance.
LEND
LEND is a marketplace lending platform for loans that connect borrowers directly with investors. What normally is retained by the bank benefits the clients.
Relai
Relai offers its users a simple, user-friendly and secure access to Bitcoin.
Swiss AI Start-ups Drive Innovation in the Finance Industry
This year’s Top 10 of the Swiss FinTech Awards reflects both the strong pace of innovation in Switzerland’s fintech landscape and the major advances in artificial intelligence. Half of the nominees explicitly use or address AI to optimize part of the financial sector’s value chain or process chain, ranging from fighting online crime and AI agent-based outsourcing or automation to wealth management and governance topics.
These AI-focused start-ups are complemented by notable companies in the fields of blockchain, insurtech, and lending. The Top 10 of the Swiss FinTech Awards send a clear signal that the wave of AI innovation has now firmly reached the financial industry.
Since their inception in 2016 the Swiss FinTech Awards have established themselves as the most important award in the fintech industry honoring outstanding innovators, start-ups and shapers of the Swiss fintech ecosystem on an annual basis.
Previous winners of the awards include companies like Yokoy, Taurus 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 2026 will be announced at the Swiss FinTech Awards Night taking place on June 23 in Zurich – a part of the first ever, international Swiss Fintech Week.
Featured image credit: Edited by Fintech News Switzerland, based on background image by Swiss Fintech Awards
