Anapaya
Venture Round in 2024
Anapaya Systems AG is a company based in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2017, that specializes in providing advanced Internet services built on the SCION Internet architecture developed at ETH Zurich. This architecture enhances internet communication by offering secure inter-domain routing, optimized multipath communication, and robust mechanisms for quality of service and DDoS defense. Anapaya's platform addresses the inherent flaws of the traditional Internet by enabling clients to manage their networks more effectively, without reliance on conventional Internet Service Providers. Through its innovative approach, Anapaya aims to deliver a secure, resilient, and flexible Internet infrastructure that meets the demands of modern society.
Fundcraft
Series A in 2024
Fundcraft operates a financial platform designed to transform fund management for private equity, venture capital, funds of funds, and feeder funds. The platform centralizes and automates various fund activities, including transfer agency, accounting, portfolio and risk management, and compliance. By serving as a regulatory and administrative partner, Fundcraft provides fund managers with greater transparency and control over their administrative operations, fostering a collaborative digital environment. This approach aims to streamline processes and enhance the efficiency of fund management.
FactEntry
Acquisition in 2024
FactEntry is an independent provider specializing in bond data and documentation, with a strong focus on the debt capital markets and regulatory standards. Established in 2007, the company delivers comprehensive and meticulously maintained fixed income data, tracking over 700,000 bond issues through advanced methods such as parsing, automation, artificial intelligence, and manual intervention. FactEntry's dynamic database serves as a crucial resource for market participants, offering detailed insights into bond trading, pricing, valuation, and regulatory reporting. Beyond data provision, the company also offers consultancy services, collaborating with clients to address their specific requirements in an increasingly complex financial landscape.
Relio offers digital banking services tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises worldwide. It provides savings accounts, money transfers, bill payments, and transaction monitoring tools, aiming to simplify financial management for complex businesses.
KeyRock, established in 2017, is a Belgian-based company specializing in crypto asset financial infrastructure. It offers market making and liquidity services to the cryptocurrency ecosystem, utilizing in-house algorithmic trading bots and high-frequency trading infrastructure. The company's services, including order book replication, trade execution, and spot execution, enable clients to operate exchanges and brokerages efficiently within the cryptocurrency market.
vestr
Venture Round in 2022
Vestr is a technology company that specializes in providing a comprehensive software-as-a-service platform designed for the management of actively managed investment products. The company focuses on digitizing the entire value chain of active management, offering tools that facilitate portfolio management, order execution, and performance reporting. By streamlining these processes, Vestr enables issuers and portfolio managers to concentrate on their core competencies while efficiently managing their portfolios. The platform addresses the complexities of active management, allowing clients to make informed investment decisions and mitigate risk without issuing its own structured products.
Toqio is a technology company founded in 2019 by Eduardo Martinez and Michael Galvin, with offices in London, Madrid, and Nairobi. It specializes in providing a platform that enables organizations to develop customized fintech solutions, either as mobile applications or web-based services. Toqio offers software integration tools tailored for the financial industry, facilitating various functions such as digital banking, onboarding, transaction monitoring, and the distribution of financial products and services. Its platform includes a marketplace of partners and supports configuration and customization, allowing companies to rapidly deploy data-driven financial propositions to their customers.
Yokoy is a FinTech company that automates spend management for medium and large enterprises. Its platform combines expense management, supplier invoice management, and smart corporate cards into one intuitive system powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning.
ClimateTrade
Seed Round in 2022
ClimateTrade operates a blockchain-based platform facilitating the trading of carbon credits. Its mission is to accelerate sustainable development by making it easy for businesses and consumers to offset their carbon footprint and access climate-related products. The company's pioneering Carbon API enables businesses to offer carbon-neutral products and services, certified on blockchain.
Yokoy is a FinTech company that automates spend management for medium and large enterprises. Its platform combines expense management, supplier invoice management, and smart corporate cards into one intuitive system powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning.
TP24 is a financial technology company based in Zurich, Switzerland, that specializes in providing business loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Founded in 2016, the company focuses on lending solutions that utilize receivables as collateral, enabling SMEs to access the financing they need for growth and operations. TP24 operates across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, offering innovative financial services tailored to the needs of businesses in these markets.
Toqio is a technology company founded in 2019 by Eduardo Martinez and Michael Galvin, with offices in London, Madrid, and Nairobi. It specializes in providing a platform that enables organizations to develop customized fintech solutions, either as mobile applications or web-based services. Toqio offers software integration tools tailored for the financial industry, facilitating various functions such as digital banking, onboarding, transaction monitoring, and the distribution of financial products and services. Its platform includes a marketplace of partners and supports configuration and customization, allowing companies to rapidly deploy data-driven financial propositions to their customers.
Anapaya
Seed Round in 2021
Anapaya Systems AG is a company based in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2017, that specializes in providing advanced Internet services built on the SCION Internet architecture developed at ETH Zurich. This architecture enhances internet communication by offering secure inter-domain routing, optimized multipath communication, and robust mechanisms for quality of service and DDoS defense. Anapaya's platform addresses the inherent flaws of the traditional Internet by enabling clients to manage their networks more effectively, without reliance on conventional Internet Service Providers. Through its innovative approach, Anapaya aims to deliver a secure, resilient, and flexible Internet infrastructure that meets the demands of modern society.
Edgeless Systems
Seed Round in 2021
Edgeless Systems is a cybersecurity startup based in Germany that specializes in confidential computing technology. The company focuses on enhancing the security of applications and workflows by enabling the encrypted and verifiable processing of sensitive data at scale. Edgeless Systems offers an enterprise solution named Constellation, which isolates entire Kubernetes deployments and workloads from the underlying infrastructure, ensuring that even cloud providers cannot access any data. This transforms public cloud environments into private clouds, providing organizations with heightened data protection. Additionally, Edgeless Systems is dedicated to developing an open-source software stack for cloud-native applications, allowing developers to create confidential cloud-native apps while maintaining encryption, particularly in the Go programming language.
Obligate
Seed Round in 2021
Obligate operates a financial platform that enables the issuance and transfer of on-chain bonds, commercial paper and electronic negotiable instruments. The platform employs distributed ledger technology and smart contracts to tokenize and securely manage financing instruments, eliminating intermediaries to reduce issuance costs and shorten settlement times. By issuing, transferring and closing electronic notes, the company aims to improve data integrity and liquidity management for corporates, banks and investors, enabling real-time actions and transparency. Founded in 2019 and based in Zurich, Obligate positions itself in a regulated environment where digital instruments are subscribed and traded with electronic signatures, facilitating faster financing cycles and more efficient capital markets.
Relio
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Relio offers digital banking services tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises worldwide. It provides savings accounts, money transfers, bill payments, and transaction monitoring tools, aiming to simplify financial management for complex businesses.
KeyRock, established in 2017, is a Belgian-based company specializing in crypto asset financial infrastructure. It offers market making and liquidity services to the cryptocurrency ecosystem, utilizing in-house algorithmic trading bots and high-frequency trading infrastructure. The company's services, including order book replication, trade execution, and spot execution, enable clients to operate exchanges and brokerages efficiently within the cryptocurrency market.
RaiseNow AG is a prominent provider of digital fundraising solutions, established in 2013 and headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, with additional offices in Berlin and Munich, Germany. The company operates an online fundraising platform designed to assist fundraisers in enhancing their online and mobile fundraising efforts. Its platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools for various digital touchpoints, including SMS donations, mobile applications, peer-to-peer fundraising, and customizable donation forms. By integrating email and social media channels, RaiseNow ensures seamless connectivity with existing fundraising and donor databases. The company serves over 170 prominent non-profit organizations and social enterprises, including notable clients such as Médecins Sans Frontières, Save the Children, the Red Cross, and Amnesty International, as well as emerging social good startups. In 2020, RaiseNow became a subsidiary of Altruja GmbH, further expanding its capabilities in the digital fundraising landscape.
Vestr is a technology company that specializes in providing a comprehensive software-as-a-service platform designed for the management of actively managed investment products. The company focuses on digitizing the entire value chain of active management, offering tools that facilitate portfolio management, order execution, and performance reporting. By streamlining these processes, Vestr enables issuers and portfolio managers to concentrate on their core competencies while efficiently managing their portfolios. The platform addresses the complexities of active management, allowing clients to make informed investment decisions and mitigate risk without issuing its own structured products.
Coinfirm Limited, founded in 2016 and based in London, is a provider of blockchain analytics and compliance solutions aimed at enhancing the safety and integrity of the blockchain economy. The company develops a verification and compliance platform that offers insights into entities and transactions, facilitating the institutional adoption of blockchain and digital currencies. Coinfirm's offerings include Compliance-as-a-Service, risk management, business intelligence, and API solutions, which are designed to protect clients from engaging with counterparties involved in illicit activities such as money laundering and terrorism financing. With extensive coverage of over one million cryptocurrencies and protocols across 66 blockchains, Coinfirm serves a diverse range of clients, including virtual asset service providers, major financial institutions, and governmental entities, thereby supporting informed decision-making and regulatory compliance in the complex landscape of digital assets.
PXL Vision
Seed Round in 2020
PXL Vision is a Swiss identity verification software provider focused on automated, AI-based onboarding and fraud prevention. Its cross-platform Daego solution creates trusted digital identities for customer onboarding by verifying identity documents and performing liveness checks through computer vision and machine learning. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Zurich, the company operates research and development centers in Novi Sad and Yerevan to advance high-performance ML-based verification. PXL Vision serves industries such as insurance, gambling, fintech, banking and healthcare with a modular, configurable system that supports fully automated identity verification, reduces dropout, improves onboarding conversion, and helps businesses comply with regulatory requirements while protecting customer data. The company emphasizes reliable verifications and safe digital interactions by leveraging proprietary machine learning to confirm document authenticity and user identity.
Yokoy is a FinTech company that automates spend management for medium and large enterprises. Its platform combines expense management, supplier invoice management, and smart corporate cards into one intuitive system powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Archilyse
Series A in 2020
Archilyse AG is a Zurich-based software company founded in 2017 that specializes in numeric architectural analysis. The firm offers a Software-as-a-Service solution that enables real estate professionals, including portfolio managers and developers, to analyze and optimize various processes throughout the real estate lifecycle. Archilyse's software converts 2D floor plans into 3D models and utilizes a range of simulations—such as view, geometrical, connectivity, and physical analysis—to derive valuable insights about architectural quality. The application allows users to visualize data through heatmaps and export key performance metrics for further analysis. By addressing the information imbalance in the real estate sector, Archilyse enhances the decision-making capabilities of its clients, promoting a more data-driven approach to property evaluation and portfolio management.
PXL Vision
Seed Round in 2019
PXL Vision is a Swiss identity verification software provider focused on automated, AI-based onboarding and fraud prevention. Its cross-platform Daego solution creates trusted digital identities for customer onboarding by verifying identity documents and performing liveness checks through computer vision and machine learning. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Zurich, the company operates research and development centers in Novi Sad and Yerevan to advance high-performance ML-based verification. PXL Vision serves industries such as insurance, gambling, fintech, banking and healthcare with a modular, configurable system that supports fully automated identity verification, reduces dropout, improves onboarding conversion, and helps businesses comply with regulatory requirements while protecting customer data. The company emphasizes reliable verifications and safe digital interactions by leveraging proprietary machine learning to confirm document authenticity and user identity.
TP24 is a financial technology company based in Zurich, Switzerland, that specializes in providing business loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Founded in 2016, the company focuses on lending solutions that utilize receivables as collateral, enabling SMEs to access the financing they need for growth and operations. TP24 operates across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, offering innovative financial services tailored to the needs of businesses in these markets.
Vestr is a technology company that specializes in providing a comprehensive software-as-a-service platform designed for the management of actively managed investment products. The company focuses on digitizing the entire value chain of active management, offering tools that facilitate portfolio management, order execution, and performance reporting. By streamlining these processes, Vestr enables issuers and portfolio managers to concentrate on their core competencies while efficiently managing their portfolios. The platform addresses the complexities of active management, allowing clients to make informed investment decisions and mitigate risk without issuing its own structured products.
Founded in 2015 in Zürich, Switzerland, Shift Cryptosecurity specializes in the design and manufacture of the BitBox, a highly secure hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies. The BitBox functions as a digital vault, enabling users to store, protect, and transact their digital assets while keeping them offline. This approach offers optimal security through advanced cryptographic measures and physical isolation, safeguarding users from potential threats such as hackers and malware that target computers and mobile devices. By providing a reliable and user-friendly solution, Shift Cryptosecurity empowers individuals and organizations to manage their assets and private information with confidence.