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LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.

Our patented technology allows our clients to get advanced foot-traffic analytics by counting smartphones as a proxy to the number of people who are in their location. In real-time. Our customers can also engage with clients by sending them messages to their smartphones while they are in one of their locations. No apps. No beacons. No SDKs. No logins. No kidding!

Biowatch is a user-friendly wrist veins biometric reader that functions as a security solution for mobile payment protection and smart device interaction. Users can access the app for enrolling their vein pattern and selecting applications and devices that needs to be connected to their Biowatch, wear their BioWatch and activate it by matching their vein pattern with their enrolled reference, get PKI encrypted user code transmitted from their Biowatch, and start opening doors without the use of keys and passwords. Biowatch was launched by Joe Rice and Matthias Vanoni and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Inpher, Inc. operates a platform and framework to build applications for end-to-end encryption and cloud based unstructured data search. The company develops privacy-preserving analytics and machine learning technology. It offers users to search and retrieve ranked results on their data without the cloud service provider knowing the query of the results. The company’s computing platform provides confidential data processing across organizations and jurisdictions. Inpher, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Relai provides a platform for anyone to invest in Bitcoin most conveniently. The app offers a stable process that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute. Neither registration, onboarding, KYC verification nor deposit is required. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Procsea is the first business-to-business seafood marketplace. Procsea specialises in the trade of traceable wild and farmed seafood, connecting buyers and sellers together in real time. Buyers have access to a multitude of carefully selected suppliers, directly from the European ports, without the middle man.

Ava AG develops Ava, a sensor bracelet that is worn during the night, which measures physiological parameters and predicts a woman’s next fertile window and ovulation. Its bracelet displays fertile window and ovulation information on the accompanying phone application. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland. It has an additional office in Hong Kong.

Inpher, Inc. operates a platform and framework to build applications for end-to-end encryption and cloud based unstructured data search. The company develops privacy-preserving analytics and machine learning technology. It offers users to search and retrieve ranked results on their data without the cloud service provider knowing the query of the results. The company’s computing platform provides confidential data processing across organizations and jurisdictions. Inpher, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Relai provides a platform for anyone to invest in Bitcoin most conveniently. The app offers a stable process that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute. Neither registration, onboarding, KYC verification nor deposit is required. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Codecheck AG develops a smartphone application which provides the product description with all the ingredients along with comments by other consumers after you scan the product with the smartphone. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Glue is a contemporary, new solution which enables financial institutions to quickly develop innovative financial services for today’s consumers. These services are delivered by creating a customer centric environment, overlaying the core legacy systems. The Glue is a unique enabling yet non-disruptive solution which helps to protect and prolong the lifespan of your existing infrastructure investments.

Abionic SA develops disrupter nanotechnology based diagnostic solutions. The company develops abioSCOPE, a biomedical screening platform that allows users to test patients from a single drop of blood in record time; abioSCOPE, a reader that tests nano fluidic sensors; and abioGUIDE, an application for smartphones and tablets. Its products are used in clinical laboratories and at the point-of-care to improve medical diagnosis, and other applications in allergy and sepsis. Abionic SA has a strategic agreement with Genentech. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Procsea is the first business-to-business seafood marketplace. Procsea specialises in the trade of traceable wild and farmed seafood, connecting buyers and sellers together in real time. Buyers have access to a multitude of carefully selected suppliers, directly from the European ports, without the middle man.

Earny allows for entering data securely into a central platform that is automatically included in a company’s payroll.

Beekeeper AG develops a team communication application. Its application enables communicating with frontline and mobile workforce; and provides communication and productivity tools, such as messaging, content management, engagement analytics, employee surveys, and others for internal teams. It serves hospitality, retail, logistics, transportation, food, manufacturing, NGO, and event-management industries in the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland with operations in Kraków, Poland; Berlin, Germany; and Oakland, California.

kwik is an open platform for repetitive purchases, enabling brands, retailers and service providers to sell Direct to Consumers. Their platform interfaces to existing ordering systems in addition to any delivery and payment services.

Lightbend provides a reactive application development platform for building distributed systems. These distributed systems, which include microservices and streaming fast data applications and can effortlessly scale on multi-core and cloud architectures, based on a message-driven runtime. Many admired brands around the globe are transforming their businesses with the Lightbend's platform, engaging billions of users every day through software that is changing the world. Lightbend as founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

KiWi is the mobile terminal with the lowest commission in the market to accept credit or debit cards from your android cell phone without forced deadlines or monthly payments or annuities.

It is an independent software vendor. Our aim is to provide market leading and cost effective Information Governance for everyone. At They are proud of our mission to serve and inspire our customers to establish and operate an effective Information Governance solution.

Car IQ Inc. develops and operates a cloud-based vehicle management platform and payment gateway for auto dealer groups, car sharing clients, and autonomous drivers. It offers Car IQ, an automotive grade payment solution that enables users to initiate payments directly from the vehicle without the use of a credit cards. The company’s platform uses sensor data from the car and enables vehicles to connect to service and repair providers. Car IQ Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.

NetGuardians is a leading software company recognized for its innovative solutions to keep operational risk under control. Using smart behavioral analysis methods, they have designed technology that quickly identifies atypical activity, effectively controls data leaks, and alerts you to potential internal fraud. Bundled for the banking sector, their solution can also be easily configured for any field of activity.

One Visage is a cyber security company that offers a digital identity platform for financial services, and  identity and access management providers, and integrators and mobile operators. The company makes use of their proprietary 3DAuth digital identity technology that can be installed on any consumer mobile phone instead of the current password-based and biometric solutions. One Visage is found in 2013 and is based in Switzerland.

Seevibes provides audience intelligence to support performance marketing across various devices and advertising networks. It offers performance marketing services, such as CRM data for efficient remarketing. The company also provides Seevibes Audience Management Platform that connects customer and proprietary audience data to deliver performance for digital campaigns. In addition, it offers Engagement Graph, a map of the engagement of people on Facebook and Twitter that provides social media data, natural language processing, profile enrichment, geo-profiling, machine learning, language detection, brand affinity, and performance metrics. Seevibes was founded in 2011 and is based in Montreal, Canada with additional offices in Toronto, Canada; New York, New York; Paris, France; and Lausanne, Switzerland.

KiWi is the mobile terminal with the lowest commission in the market to accept credit or debit cards from your android cell phone without forced deadlines or monthly payments or annuities.

Codecheck AG develops a smartphone application which provides the product description with all the ingredients along with comments by other consumers after you scan the product with the smartphone. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

CloudGuide SL develops a smartphone application for cultural institutions, museums, monuments, parks, and art galleries. Its application allows visitors to access the official content of their favorite museum; gives recommendations of new exhibitions and local museums; gives the exhibition background content through audios, videos, texts, and images; and provides access to entrance tickets, merchandising, and the museum’s association. The company also provides CloudGuide Education, a mobile application for youth, students, and children; and a content management system to upload content, change configuration parameters, and interact with visitors. In addition, it provides subscription plans. The company offers solutions in the areas of iBeacon and indoor localization, and audience studies. It serves customers in Spain and internationally. CloudGuide SL was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

Headnote Parent Inc. develops software tools for lawyers and legal professionals. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

ALTOIDA AG develops and markets a healthcare platform and application for Alzheimer’s patients. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Weft, Inc. operates as a global logistics data company that combines sensors and supply chain analytics to help businesses to gain real-time asset intelligence, reduce disruption, and improve operational productivity. The company provides insights and visibility through its Web and mobile-accessible operations room to help customers in making logistics decisions. It enables companies to track various internal and external things; access its platform to interface with their assets in real time by using Wi-Fi, BLE, GPS, satellite, and GPRS; interface with their assets against various analyses, including routes efficiency, fuel consumption, strike likelihood, traffic, throughput, anomalies, weather, and more; and know when something is going to be happened, which impacts their business to plan around it. Weft, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As of June 30, 2016, Weft, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Genscape, Inc.

Flowcast leverages its patented machine learning methodologies to create high-performing predictive models that assess risk and enable lenders to unlock credit to all size businesses at scale. Flowcast’s models offer unparalleled explainability in understanding the root cause of a business’ creditworthiness, the risk of delinquency, the timeliness of repayment and the likelihood of dilution of their transactions. Unlike traditional risk assessments, the API-based solution updates and monitors the risk assessment of the borrower in real-time based on alternative data and Flowcast’s proprietary data.

Nezasa operates the world's most sophisticated platform for creating, personalising and booking travel packages. Our software solutions provide the possibility to instantly plan and book itineraries in a user-friendly way as well as in-destination upselling opportunities. They allow to easily, flexibly and immediately adjust an itinerary to a traveller’s preferences at any time, while ensuring the consistency of the itinerary and handling the underlying complexity. In short: Nezasa will lift the travel industry to the next level!

yamo is on a mission to give parents healthier and easy food choices for their children. Its products are available online via a direct to consumer subscription model and through grocery stores. The latter includes Coop in Switzerland and select Edeka and Rewe stores in Germany.

Founded in 2014, Saphetor is a precision medicine company at the cutting edge of genome-scale analysis based on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). Capitalizing on the emerging trend in NGS to use large “panels” of genes, exomes, or whole genomes, Saphetor’s suite of services offers clinicians intuitive, data-driven solutions to make faster, more accurate diagnoses, and informed decisions for the selection of the best therapies, especially for cancer and difficult to diagnose conditions, such as rare diseases or cognitive impairment.

Lunaphore Technologies S.A. is a Swiss company developing next generation tissue autostainers for cancer research and tissue diagnostics. The award-winning technology based on microfluidics is called FFeX (Fast Fluidic Exchange). It aims to perform assays much faster than standard techniques and has demonstrated good results in tests with cancer patient samples. Lunaphore was founded in 2014 with the vision of bringing –omics like approaches to tissue analytics and has been recognized as one of the most innovative companies nationally and internationally.

Procsea is the first business-to-business seafood marketplace. Procsea specialises in the trade of traceable wild and farmed seafood, connecting buyers and sellers together in real time. Buyers have access to a multitude of carefully selected suppliers, directly from the European ports, without the middle man.

SwissPay.ch SA develops a monetization technology solution that generates revenue from mobile payment and advertising. Its solution combines video advertising with a frictionless payment option; allows advertisers to reward readers by offering them free editorial content; provides news publishers with a micropayment method relying on mobile operators; and generates a new video advertisement inventory providing advertising placements within the articles. The company also provides video advertising solutions; a payment tool that enables one-click payments; a back-office solution that provides real-time data; and a direct carrier billing solution that collects payments and active subscriptions on various devices. It serves merchants, publishers, and advertisers worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

SmallRivers develops web services that are facilitating the interconnection of people around shared interests. SmallRivers is a privately held startup incorporated in Switzerland (Lausanne) and located on the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL campus, Scientific Park.

BugBuster SA operates a Web testing platform for the automated testing and monitoring of Web applications. Its platform allows Web professionals to build functional tests without writing any code; manage test plans and review detailed bug reports; and monitor live sites with instant notifications when things break. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. As of June 19, 2015, BugBuster SA operates as a subsidiary of AppDynamics, Inc.

Lightbend provides a reactive application development platform for building distributed systems. These distributed systems, which include microservices and streaming fast data applications and can effortlessly scale on multi-core and cloud architectures, based on a message-driven runtime. Many admired brands around the globe are transforming their businesses with the Lightbend's platform, engaging billions of users every day through software that is changing the world. Lightbend as founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

The Glue is a contemporary, new solution which enables financial institutions to quickly develop innovative financial services for today’s consumers. These services are delivered by creating a customer centric environment, overlaying the core legacy systems. The Glue is a unique enabling yet non-disruptive solution which helps to protect and prolong the lifespan of your existing infrastructure investments.

ARTMYN provides a disruptive solution for highly accurate digitization of visual artworks, with interactive rendering on mobile devices and accessible via a simple web browser. A unique portable scanner captures gigabytes of data describing the artwork in its finest details, which, along with proprietary web technologies, result in a true-to-life visualisation. This complete new experience allows users to embark on an emotional journey where digital replicas can be explored just as if the originals were in their very own hands.

Qwil provides individual contractors, freelancers, and small businesses with financial tools and solutions. It offers an application that enables its users to manage and spend their earnings through their Qwil debit card. Qwil also enables its users to earn and spend money before they are paid for their services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Wheelhouse, Inc. develops a software which allows house and property owners to decide pricing of their properties on rent. The company's software helps analyze the pricing of the local home-sharing listings, local hotels, and current events. The company's pricing algorithm helps users determine pricing and optimize revenue and bookings. Wheelhouse, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Domo Safety provides smart home care services.