Swiss FinteCH Ecosystem Directory v1.0

Ecosystem Directory v1.0
September 14th, 2015
Contributing members:
Alexandre Gaillard, John Hucker (CFA), Thomas Kern
Prepared for NYC Trade Mission

Swiss FinteCH Ecosystem Map
Over 250 points, including:
● FinTech companies
● Investors
● FSIs
● ICT companies
● Incubators, labs
● Academia
● Associations
● Government
● Media
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Table of contents
04 - 23 FinteCH companies
24 - 25 Investors
26 - 28 FSIs
29 - 30 ICT companies
31 - 32 Incubators, think-tanks, labs
33 Academia
34 - 35 Associations
36 Government
37 - 38 Media
39 - 40 Events
41 Swiss FinteCH Pitch
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Crowdhouse is the first Swiss property crowdfunding portal.
www.crowdhouse.ch
hedgeanalytics is a spinoff of ZHAW one of the leading
universities of applied sciences in Switzerland. Its main focus
is in the analyis and quantifying of risks of highly complex
hedge fund portfolios. www.hedgeanalytics.ch
DealMarket objective is to support financial professionals in
improving their operational efficiency and investment
performance. Our offering includes the Marketplace, an
unfiltered view of the global deal market, where searching
and posting of investment opportunities is free of charge.
www.dealmarket.com
In contrast to crowdfunding companies, investiere is a hybrid
model that combines the established practices of traditional
venture capital with elements of e-finance and social media.
www.investiere.ch
Fundbase delivers to qualified investors a seamlessly
integrated and web-based platform to discover, execute and
monitor complex investments such as hedge funds and other
high-conviction investments along with the long-only part of
their portfolio. It builds on trusted real world connections
between qualified investors and fund managers utilizing the
latest in technology. www.fundbase.com
SwissMetrics is a dynamic startup from Switzerland that has a
mission to enhance the way companies monitor their credit
risk. As finance professionals, we have developed a SaaS
platform with the aim of promoting smarter collaboration within
companies to work for a common goal – saving money
through risk minimization. Being customer centric, we are
introducing practical and innovative forward looking tools to
enable you to monitor the financial health of your customers,
suppliers and potential acquisitions. www.swiss-metrics.com
Go Beyond enables novice to sophisticated and small to
large investors to build, manage and exit diversified portfolios
of direct investments in young, fast-growing companies.
Operating in multiple European locations and in the USA
through Go Beyond Network, its team is comprised of
seasoned entrepreneurs and general managers who are now
business angels. www.go-beyond.biz
FinteCH companies - alternatives
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At Contovista everything is about making banking a delightful
experience. To live up to that claim we offer innovative client
facing products that can be easily integrated into existing
banking solutions. www.contovista.com
Personal Finance Management, Fintech,ICT, Personal
Finance, Software, Financial Services. www.qontis.ch
FLYNT reinvents platforms, services and experiences that
put clients in control of their wealth. We see wealth as a
means to follow life’s dreams, ambitions and aspirations.
Wealth is a gateway to opportunity. Our mission is to
transform how our clients realise these opportunities – in the
most fluid, dynamic and rewarding way possible. www.flynt.io
Accounting made simple. Run myAccounts has invented the
automated accounting process for SME. www.runmyaccounts.
ch
MoneyPark combines modern financial advice, maximum
honesty and comprehensibility. Maximum honesty is based
on independence: MoneyPark's financial advisors are
remunerated partner independently, i.e. recommendations to
you are not based on any partner related incentive, which is
why we can guarantee maximum independence. www.
moneypark.ch
MyDepotCheck is a comparison platform, including investor
profile, portfolio check, and product recommendations. www.
mydepotcheck.com
Numbrs brings all your accounts together in one easy-to-use
app and makes it easier for you to access your accounts,
manage your finances and perform transactions. Numbrs
simply sits on top of the bank infrastructure and puts the right
tool in your hand to manage your various accounts. It is not a
financial institution and we do not provide any financial
services. www.centralway.com/en/numbrs
FinteCH companies - banking
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Advanon is the leading online invoice financing platform that
focuses on small and medium-sized enterprises. We have
seen a rapid development in the last couple of months and
are planning to extend our services quickly. Our innovation
lies in the fact that our technology makes it easier for SMEs
to provide essential information about their invoices. By using
financial analytics and state-of-the-art web-technologies our
platform creates a both easy and secure way of providing
just the information the investor needs to make intelligent
investment decisions, fast. www.advanon.com
We help you create your budget and show you on which
property is in question, or what maximum investment, taking
into account investment volume and justifications. www.die-
hypothek.ch
bob Finance offers innovative financial services online. www.
bobmoney.ch
eCollect is a modern webbases dept collection service
specialized for online dept collection in the domains of
eCommerce, hosting, digital goods, SAAS, internet services
and gaming. www.ecollect.ch
We connect. Fintech,Lending (Business),Lending
(Consumer),Social investment. www.creditgate24.com
enyfinance is a new generation of online financing. www.
enyfinance.ch
We have made it our mission to help you in choosing the
right lender and get you a loan. With just one application, we
are looking for the best and tailored to your personal situation
offer. A reputable and professional advice is our priority. We
are before, during, and since, according to your contract at
any time for your questions. This service is free for you.
www.credix.ch
hypoguide is aportal for online mortage comparision. www.
hypoguide.ch
FinteCH companies - credit (1/2)
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The next generation mortgage platform. hypoplus is a sister
company of comparis.ch. www.hypoplus.ch
Spahypo is a modern way to provide and renew mortgages.
www.sparhypo.ch
Want a mortgage record or renew a mortgage? Then you are
on our website just right. In addition to the important
information we can offer you an interest calculator and free
and non-binding mortgage on offers which may be obtained
directly from our website by an expert. www.hypothek-
vergleich.ch
With Z-Rechnung you have the possibility create, send
invoices online and herby to automate your invoicing. www.z-
rechnung.com
The iKentoo solution innovates and shakes the world of
collections systems by exploiting the iPad and Internet
technologies. Your body is always updated and your data is
automatically backed up to a secure area. You get all the
classic features of a traditional fund, with the added bonus of
the ability to manage the system from your backoffice, n
'anywhere on the Internet. The cost of implementation is less
because you can use your existing network, and you can
benefit from the affordable subscription iKentoo and iPad.
www.ikentoo.com
FinteCH companies - credit (2/2)
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As Switzerland's leading crowd-investing platform, c-crowd
brings together innovative entrepreneurs and investors.
www.c-crowd.com
Feinheit combines webdesign and marketing with
crowdfunding for clients - “FEINFUNDING”. www.feinheit.ch
Cashare is the first crowdfunding platform in Switzerland with
the products "Crowd Lending" (arranging loans between
private individuals, also known as "social lending" or "P2P
lending") and "Crowdsupporting" (financing of projects and in
return benefits in kind for supporters). www.cashare.ch
Open crowdfunding platform to finance projects by pre-
ordering. www.goheidi.ch
Business project funding with crowd-financing. Direct-lending’
s platform allows SMEs with corporate customers to advance
cash against their unpaid invoices from a pool of global
investors. This gives businesses instant liquidity and
investors earn a healthy return on their cash holdings in a
non-correlated asset class. www.direct-lending.net
Moboo means "my one business" Moboo.ch ... The first Global
Platform solidarity financing local projects! Opportunities
Switzerland participatory financing, made by and in
Switzerland! www.moboo.ch
FinteCH companies - crowd (1/2)
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Crowdfunding platform for Switzerland. www.projektstarter.ch Veolis is a leading crowdfunding plattform to structure and
finance sustainability projects (renewable energy, energy
eficiency, mobility) and cleantech companies. www.veolis.ch
RaiseNow supports ambitious fundraisers to grow their online
fundraising. With solutions for all digital touch points – from
SMS donations and mobile phone apps right up to peer-to-
peer event fundraising and donation forms. We integrate
your email and social media channels and make everything
tightly work with your existing fundraising and donor
database. www.raisenow.com
Wecan.fund is an online #Crowdlending marketplace which
allows savers to lend money directly to SME in #Switzerland.
www.wecan.fund
splendit connects students who need money with people who
look for a sensible investment. www.splendit.ch
wemakeit is the largest crowdfunding platform in Switzerland
and one of the largest in Europe. At wemakeit, people sell
design products, develop apps, publish cookery books, get
startup companies going and bring out music records – lately,
they also buy farms. www.wemakeit.com
FinteCH companies - crowd (2/2)
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The leap from the virtual to the real! We promote the concept
of cripto money. Develop alternative payment solutions and
commercial products based on technology Bitcoin. www.bitc.
ch
Cold Bitcoin-storage in Swiss mountains. KYC-support for
Bitcoin-businesses. Idendity-support for Bitcoin-users. Swiss
precision for your Bitcoin-business. www.cryptocash.ch
Bitcoin Suisse AG specializes in alternative finances / non-
banking assets, outside of the traditional financial system &
banking establishment, so called "decentralized finance" or
"digital finance". We provide financial services, such as
acting as intermediary in financial transactions. We also
provide consulting & solutions based on decentralized
technology. We drive a project to establish Bitcoin ATMs
(BTMs) in all the large Swiss population centers. And we
issue physical Bitcoin Certificates. www.bitcoinsuisse.ch
Digital Bitbox is a Bitcoin hardware wallet packed with security
in a minimalist design. Safely create & keep private keys and
sign transactions & messages with peace of mind. www.
digitalbitbox.com
Say goodbye to complex Bitcoin services and hello to your
new personal Crypto Finance solution , a web platfor and
wallet. www.bity.com
Develops programming language for decentralised
applications. Bitcoin,Community Software, ICT, Internet, Open
Source, Software, Software Development, Virtual Currencies.
Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart
contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without
any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party
interference. www.ethereum.org
Buy/sell bitcoins (in person, securely and immediately) with a
professional and legal Swiss company. www.btcsuisse.ch
icevault has released a solution that stores private keys offline
in Swiss vaults, a concept, which they coined “deep cold
storage” in the Bitcoin space. Icevault seems to be the answer
to long-term storage needs with security at the highest level,
acting essentially as your Bitcoin savings account, where you
can receive funds safely from any third parties (clients,
employers, etc.) and from any of your existing wallets. www.
icevault.ch
FinteCH companies - crypto (1/2)
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iProtus developed a full featured Bitcoin peer to peer node
(server) from scratch, implementing the protocol solely from
the specifications. www.iprotus.ch
SwissMine Ltd aims to be the trusted, full-service partner for
the digital currency market. By leveraging our digital currency
market expertise, the SwissMine team aims to deliver
innovative, competitive, secure and fully proprietary solutions
for our partners. Our focus is on one single ecosystem of
digital curren. www.swissmine.ch
monetas is a swiss database for companies and persons!
Here you will find commercial register and credit rating
information, which is updated on a daily basis, and much
more on Swiss companies, as well as additional information
on the networking of authorised signatories. www.monetas.
ch
Since January 2014, SBEX has developed financial services
related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. The
brokerage activity is the first milestone towards the global
remittance service with a human centric approach where the
user has the control over his money. It’s an interconnected
platform for acquiring & selling Bitcoin via Kiosks ( for cash )
and the online platform fastcoin.ch (bank transfer). www.sbex.
ch
Metaco® has the first Blockchain infrastructure to enable
smart contract trading. Metaco delivers instant market access
to bitcoin users and businesses. Bringing Tradition to Bitcoin.
Bitcoin, Fintech, Virtual Currencies. www.metaco.com
Xapo combines the convenience of an everyday bitcoin wallet
with the security of a deep cold storage vault. www.xapo.com
Buy Coins Instantly No Account Needed. www.shapeshift.io Yacuna is focused on the future of digital currency and its
potential to reinvent finance. Yacuna´s vision is big and our
mission has only just begun. www.yacuna.com
FinteCH companies - crypto (2/2)
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additiv develops and implements digital innovations and
business models for financial services providers. additiv
employs an interdisciplinary team of financial professionals,
marketing and design specialists, data mining experts and
software developers. additiv works with banks, asset
managers, and insurance companies. www.additiv.ch
The CREALOGIX Group focuses on e-finance, e-business and
education and is renowned for innovative products and
efficient service. www.crealogix.com
AdNovum specializes in the implementation of demanding IT
projects. Our solutions meet the highest of quality
requirements. We specialize in the design, implementation
and maintenance of software and security solutions that
comply with stringent business and technical requirements.
www.adnovum.ch
Finnova AG has its headquarters in Lenzburg and at other
branch offices in Chur, Seewen, Lausanne and Singapore. Its
standard solution, Finnova Banking Software, is currently used
by around 80 universal banks and 20 private banks. www.
finnova.com
Established in 1985, Avaloq is a technology-driven financial
services provider for wealth management, universal and
retail banks. We serve more than 140 financial institutions in
the most demanding financial centres around the world.
www.avaloq.com
Kern & Partner is an independent company providing
financing, advisory, business development and project
management services to early-stage and growth companies
active in the high-tech sector. The objective of Kern & Partner
is to create value by improving performance and accelerating
the execution of business plans. www.kernpartner.ch
Cognism is the automation tool for financial narrative at a
very affordable price.We automate throughout the narrative
building process, aggregating the news and enhancing it with
our own propriety analytics to save your time. www.cognism.
com
NetGuardians takes a unique approach to fraud and risk
assurance solutions by leveraging Big Data to correlate and
analyze behaviors across the entire bank system – not just at
the transaction level. This broader vision is the secret to our
creative edge. www.netguardians.ch
FinteCH companies - ICT (1/2)
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OneVisage is a Swiss cyber-security companywith the vision
to bring secure and convenient authentication services to
mass-markets using standard mobile devices. Current
password-based or biometric solutions don’t match security,
usability and/or cost-efficiency criteria to address digital
mass-markets, the idea was born to use 3D facial
authentication on standard smartphones and tablets. www.
onevisage.com
Your Data in Context. Fintech, ICT, Intelligent Systems,
Software. Leader in digital research. Squirro, we are a group
of passionate internet geeks and entrepreneurs with high
ambitions. Our work is dedicated to simplifying the everyday
need to find, remember, organize and share important
information. www.squirro.com
Big Data: Record it. Replay it. Prove it. Predict it. Archiving
solutions,Big Data,Big Data/Analytics, Cloud, E-commerce,
Fintech,ICT,Internet,Mobile,Social Software,Software. www.
qumram.com
Temenos Group AG (SIX: TEM), headquartered in Geneva, is
a market leading software provider, partnering with banks and
other financial institutions to transform their businesses and
stay ahead of a changing marketplace. Over 2,000 firms
across the globe, including 38 of the top 50 banks, rely on
Temenos to process the daily transactions of more than 500
million banking customers. www.temenos.com
Sayula Engineering AG was incorporated in 2009 with the
vision to provide integration services of market data systems
for exchanges, market data vendors and finanicial institutions
across Europe and the UK. www.sayula.com
ti&m is a Swiss leader in digitization, security, as well as
innovation projects and products.
www.ti8m.ch
The science of risk and supply chain intelligence by Dr. Kamil
J. Mizgier www.scirisk.com
FinteCH companies - ICT (2/2)
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FinteCH companies - insurance
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123vergleich.ch - the portal for free insurance comparisons,
and offers expert advice. 3 Steps to best offer: Compare -
Request offer - save on premiums? www.123vergleich.ch
FinanceFox provides an easy overview of all your insurances
in one spot. Independant consultancy 100% independant and
biased by any insurance company which is why we will always
make sure that you get the best offer and the greatest savings.
www.financefox.ch
My insurance for dogs and cats. www.animalia-sa.ch Knip is an innovative digital insurance manager that allows
users an easy to understand overview and analysis of existing
insurance policies, tariffs and services. www.knip.ch
Comparison of the best offers in Switzerland within minutes.
Simple, anonymous and free of charge. As a FINMA
regulated insurance broker, our employees support you
personally helping you to select the right product which fits
your individual needs. www.anivo.ch
moremoney4you.ch is a platform to manage your insurance
contracts providing a unique value proposition: customers
earn comissions which normally go to insurance brokers.
www.moremoney4you.ch
What insurance do you need? Inform yourself. Determine
your needs. Compare solutions. www.bfox.ch
MyLibery has the objective to create a digital future finance
and insurance adivisor. MyLiberty is operated by lnteractive
Advice AG, owned by Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Braingroup und
die Obvious Design. www.mylibery.ch
esurance is an independent insurance broker to manage and
compare your insurances online. www.esurance.ch
Online Insurance ICT, Insurances, Price Comparison, Rating,
Recommendations, Software.www.smartie.ch

10 × 10 is the leading information platform for Exchange
Traded Products, with a strong focus on exchange-traded
funds. www.10x10.ch
We will revolutionise the retail trading and investment space.
We will act with complete integrity and empower our clients by
providing the most innovative, transparent and intuitive
execution of financial products in the marketplace. We will
create a level playing field by providing a one stop offering,
best possible service and unique tools to help our clients
become happy and successful investors. www.ayondo.com
AAccell LLC is a spin-off of UZH, we cooperate on the
academic side with scientists of the Swiss Finance Institute,
in particular with the renowned group of finance and
insurance mathematics of the ETH Zürich, or with spin-offs
like BhfS and, on the practical side with a global network of
business professionals. www.aaaccell.ch
Calfor LLC is the leader in real-time sentiment analysis of
large numbers of documents. Our expertise in semantics,
sentiment analysis and big data technologies brings us into
the position to support all types of decision-making processes
where quantitative and qualitative data analysis is essential.
www.calforfinance.com
Addfin is an online secured platform that helps you to
structure and manage your office, wealth management and
client relations from anywhere. It offers a wide range of
modules and core solutions which can be activated
individually. This platform enables structuring of the overall
investment process that is provided to professional investors.
www.addfin.com
CARBON DELTA cooperates with the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research (PIK) and rating agency
Independent Credit View (I-CV) in developing carbon ratings
that help investors to improve the assessment of the climate
risks in their portfolios. www.carbon-delta.com
The regulatory surge and its requirements are demanding an
increased level of client interaction. Advice Online offers a
solution which will enable you to deal with these challenges
in an efficient yet legally compliant manner. Time spent with
clients should be reserved for more important matters than
formalities. www.adviceonline.ch
Compare Invest is a free service made available by Liberty
Pensions.The online platform is a transparent decision-making
tool designed to assist private and professional investors of
pension assets (vested pension benefits, extra-mandatory
pension fund assets or pillar 3a tied retirement savings capital)
in the selection of appropriate investment solutions. www.
compare-invest.ch
FinteCH companies - investing (1/4)
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Scientific studies show that collective knowledge is better
than individual expert opinions. Become now part of
crowdinvest.ch and compete with the financial experts. www.
crowdinvest.ch
fundinfo is a leading international platform for information and
mandatory publications of investment funds. We believe that
sustainable, profitable investments require well informed fund
investors. www.fundinfo.com
Dufour Capital is an asset manager with a strong focus on
modern information technology, data analysis and practical
research for new investment solutions www.dufour-capital.ch
We are a startup company based out of Geneva in
Switzerland, specializing in big data and predictive analytics,
artificial intelligence and machine learning. We provide a new
generation automated trading platform for Forex market
traders.www.grydl.com
ECUREX is the Swiss-based digital finance marketplace for
professional traders and financial institutions. ECUREX is the
first Swiss-based digital finance marketplace to be fully
compliant with the Swiss Banking Act, the Swiss and U.S.
AML Acts and with FATCA.www.ecurex.com
InCube is a Swiss-based FinTech company offering advisory
services, high performance computing technologies, software
solutions and investment products and services. Our clients
are primarily financial institutions, trading firms and institutional
investors. www.incubegroup.com
FinGraphs is a technical analysis application offering a
unique and didactic methodology to analyse and follow any
markets over investment horizons ranging from several years
to Intraday or Intra-hours. FinGraphs is powered by
Management Joint Trust SA (MJT) an institutional market
advisor founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1969.www.
fingraphs.com
InvestGlass is an integrated system for professional
relationship managers (RMs), wealth managers (WMs), Chief
Investment Officers and Chief Compliance Officers. There is a
lot of slippage in the private banking and wealth management
www.investglass.com
Finhorizon fairvalues© provides the basis for a consistent
client advisory process which fulfills the regulatory
requirements and allows the ongoing testing of investments
regarding clients’ suitability and appropriateness.
fairforecasts© is a novel quantitative approach to analyse big
data and render smart data to assess the potential of
investment alternatives.. www.finhorizon.ch
Investment Navigator supports you in the advisory process for
funds and ETFs. Regulatory, tax and product-specific
information and rules are efficiently provided and checked in
the Swiss and cross border advisory processes. www.
investmentnavigator.com
info@swissfinte.ch
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Where asset managers and investors meet. Investors can
trade with direct investments like shares, futures, forex,
precious metals and commodities. www.investory.ch
Quantesys identifies and interprets behavioral anomalies to
enhance investors' profit and reduce their portfolio volatility.
Data Management, Fintech. www.quantesys.com
The meetinvest, mission is simple: to give people the power
to invest like an expert and connect with other like-minded
people for free. It is our belief that the tools that professionals
use on Wall Street should be available to everyone
worldwide in a simplified and understandable format and at
no cost. www.meetinvest.com
A best-in-class management tool for structured investments.
www.quotip.com
Onfintur is a finance portal startup founded in Basel in
October 2014. It provides financial information and enables
the user to test different portfolios. www.onfintur.com
Sentifi is the leading platform to access, monitor and
collaborate on the wisdom of the financial crowd. This can
help participants in the financial markets to be closer to the
heartbeat of market stakeholders and eventually do better
long- and short term investment decisions. www.sentifi.com
The bridge to eVesting. Pure Value Metrics wants to put
investors into a unique position to actively manage, decide
and transact within financial markets by using their expertise,
together with the highly cost effective digital banking
capabilities of its partners. www.purevaluemetrics.com
swissQuant Group develops and implements Intelligent
Technologies. More than 150 clients across the globe,
including several Fortune 500 companies, benefit on a daily
basis from the use of our software systems and analysis tools.
www.swissquant.com
quedos was founded in 2013 to revolutionize the way wealth
managers and their clients interact. Their headquarters are
based in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland.The founders
have extensive private banking knowledge and share the
same passion to design next generation solutions for wealth
managers www.qedos.com
Redefine self-directed investing and trading Investor remains
in full control - pain taken out from everything else. Continuous
research packed in actionable insights. Personalised and
guided opportunity discovery. Objective, quantitative methods
Automatic order execution. www.tradegear.ch
info@swissfinte.ch
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The investment platform to manage and optimize your
trading strategies. www.tradesq.co
The WealthArc vision is to become the worldwide SaaS
platform with solutions for institutional investors. We build our
international company on Swiss values: trust, reliability and
simplicity. WealthArc disrupts the asset management industry
through continuous innovation. WealthArc’s mission is to
empower each wealth manager to be a trusted adviser. www.
wealtharc.com
Vision: To combine our asset management experience with
the scientific methods of modern portfolio theory into an
online wealth management platform that is easy to navigate
and that offers full transparency to the investor. www.
truewealth.ch
Empower organisations to unlock the potential of their data
Banking Infrastructure,Big Data,Big Data/Analytics,Data
Curation,Data Management,Data Mining,Enterprise Software,
Fintech,Platforms,SaaS. www.wealthport.ch
info@swissfinte.ch
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Specialising in services related to the share register. e.g.
share registers, the support in general meetings, as well as
capital market transactions. www.areg.ch
Compare was yesterday! The Money Guru tpowered by
moneyland.ch akes care for free to all financial matters.
Simply write an SMS www.moneyguru.ch
Business software has to be easier to handle, niftier and
more available! And it should cost less money! Small
businesses should be able to work with state of the art
technology allowing them to simplify their administration and
to sell more. Manage your contacts and tasks, handle
offering and invoicing and much more. www.easysys.com
moneyland.ch was founded with the goal of offering
consumers an independent and useful financial portal.
Moneyland’s special focus is given to the intelligent
comparison tools for matching Swiss financial services
providers, insurance companies and banks. www.moneyland.
ch
We create explainer videos for the financial industry. directly.
provocatively and with pure aestetic beauty. www.financial-
explainer.com
The largest offer portal in Switzerland. Offerten24 brings
buyers and sellers together easily. Prospective buyers can
quickly find institutions providing and get up to 3 matching
company directly a tailor-made offer. 100% free of charge and
without obligation. www.offerten24.ch
FinanzMonitor – your portal for the money topic in
Switzerland. FinanzMonitor provides you all informations for
the topics pension funds, investing, mortages and health
insurances enabling you to save money on longterm.www.
finanzmonitor.com
Legalize your domestic help! E-commerce,ICT,Insurances,
Legal services,Retail,Tax services www.quitt.ch
Setting the Standard as the first secure communication
platform for Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Due
Diligence (CDD) purposes for the Financial Industry. www.
kyc-exchange.net
FinteCH companies - other
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Avance Pay is a rapidly growing Swiss high-tech company
which was founded by leading experts in the field of
electronic transactions and financial services.www.avance-
pay.com
Since 2001, we've been providing businesses and
organisations in various vertical markets with state-of-the-art
web applications integrated with on-demand payment
processing. www.givengain.com
Payments - The simple and convenient Way to pay. www.
byjuno.ch
IOU is a startup based in Zurich, Switzerland. The three letters
stand for «I owe you». IOU offers roommates, travel groups
and clubs a service that aims to support them in the
management of shared expenses.www.iou.ch
Large payments. Here, now, safely. Fintech,Mobile
commerce,Payment Systems,Payments. www.cashsentinel.
com
Kickshops is an e-commerce platform that’s incredibly easy to
set-up without knowing how to design or code. Shop owners
can setup and manage their online store and accept credit
card payments from any device. www.kickshops.com
Essential for Mobile Payment pay with your mobile simple,
safe and confortable. e24 conceives and implemenst
integrated mobile payment solutiond for national and
international customers in B2b-/B2C. www.e-24.ch
Klimpr turns your phone into a digital wallet giving you instant
access to your money. Klimpr believe that using financial
services should be as simple as communicating with friends,
making dinner table reservations, or getting directions. www.
klimpr.com
getBUTIK is a fullservice provider which offers a one stop
web shopping solution based on its partnerships with
financial services and logistics providers. www.getbutik.com
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milliPay is the service provider for micropayment-systems.
milliPay is made up of a team of specialists from various
fields who work together with their partners to achieve a
common goal: We make paid content affordable. www.
millipay.ch
Use your loyalty points and miles to pay instantly, easily and
securely. Whether online or in store - enjoy the freedom of
redeeming them for whatever you want, wherever you are.
www.pointspay.com
Mobino is a Swiss company incorporated in Geneva in 2011.
Our mission is to create simple, safe and universally
accessible payment systems, designed for the 21st century.
www.mobino.com
Powerpay agregates the invoices of different partners to one
monthly invoice. www.powerpay.ch
MUUME allows you to pay fast, simple, and safe. No more
digging for money in wallets and pockets. No more need to
sign receipts at the cash register. Simply scan the QR code,
check the amount, and pay with a click. www.muume.coml
Online and mobile based payment solutions created for
developers. Accept and manage online transactions easier
than ever via a set of clean and flexible APIs. www.
securionpay.com
Moving Media is the owner of the Payment21®-brand, and a
registered financial intermediary providing AML-compliant
digital money transactions. The company’s Bitcoin Cashier
System provides payment processing services to audited
ecommerce platforms and certified e-banking applications
around the globe. www.payment21.com
The sellXed payment modules allow you to easily accept
payments in your web-shop - without any kind of programming
skills. In addition to the payment module for your shop, you
also gain access to an extensive service package as well as to
our updates and upgrades. www.sellxed.com
Payrexx enables you to perform online payments with
leading payment providers in four simple steps. www.
payrexx.com
We are a Mobile Wallet Service Provider, providing white label
Mobile Transaction Platform solutions and range of mobile
wallet applications for Value-added and Location-based
services. We provide a scalable, robust and user-friendly
platform for conducting secure transactions in physical, virtual
and proximity environments, such as mobile banking, www.
smartlink.ch
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SwissPay.ch is a unique & disruptive mobile payment
solution and technology. SwissPay.ch will change the
common way to pay : it's easy.. www.swisspay.ch
TawiPay helps you find and compare the best solutions to get
your money across the globe. You tell us where you are, the
amount and the currency of the funds you want to send, and
where the recipient is. We’ll show you the best way to get your
money where it needs to be, and also give you a clear and
transparent breakdown of the fees you’ll pay. www.tawipay.
com
Pay in restaurants without waiting for the bill. www.tastier.ch TWINT represents innovation in the area of mobile payment
and mobile marketing. TWINT AG was founded in July 2014
with the objective of developing a digital wallet for use in
Switzerland. TWINT is a 100% subsidiary of PostFinance,
Switzerland’s leader in payment transaction processing. www.
twint.ch
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On 100-days.net Initiators (musicians, artists, designers...
you!) display their projects and leave them there for up to
100 days (you are free to choose the project duration) to be
funded by Boosters. www.100-days.net
Steinbeis Consulting for Impact Investing is an enterprise that
brings together technologies, entrepreneurship and capital in
order to help solve social and environmental problems with
for-profit businesses in selected developing and emerging
countries. www.steinbeis-impact.com
Crowdfunding. I believe in you is the first crowdfunding
platform which is dedicated to the funding of swiss sport
projects. www.ibelieveinyou.ch
The Sosense Crowdfunding Platform is developed and
operated by Sosense, a pioneer in digital social innovation,
based in Zurich and Berlin. The aim of this platform is to
empower individuals and corporations to make donations
directly to impactful social entrepreneurs and social
businesses around the world. We partner with corporations
and organisations that are interested in engaging their clients
and employees in corporate social responsibility (CSR)
activities. www.sosense.org
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b-to-v is both venture capital firm and a leading investor
network. To our members, we provide an incomparable deal
flow, in the form of lead- and co-investment-opportunities,
collaborative investment processes and access to a unique
network of like-minded entrepreneurs. To companies we are
a reliable partner when it comes to capital access,
entrepreneurial intelligence and professional support. www.b-
to-v.com
Go Beyond enables novice to sophisticated and small to large
investors to build, manage and exit diversified portfolios of
direct investments in young, fast-growing companies.
Operating in multiple European locations and in the USA
through Go Beyond Network, its team is comprised of
seasoned entrepreneurs and general managers who are now
business angels. www.go-beyond.biz
Creathor Venture manages funds of more than EUR 180m
and invests in technology-oriented companies in Mobile, E-
commerce, Digital Media, Cloud Technology, Internet of
Things, Shared Economy, Fintech, eHealth and Life Science.
www.creathor.de
Verve Capital Partners Ltd. operates investiere.ch, a disruptive
early-stage and equity gap financier. It is a new, agile form of
financing, combining best practices of traditional venture
capital with e-finance and social media. www.investiere.ch
CTI Invest is the leading financing platform for Swiss High-
Tech Start-up's presenting EARLY but also LATER stage
Start-up's and the leading force in the professionalization of
the Business Angels and Venture Capitalist scene in
Switzerland and inviting Industrial Partners to participate to
the leading organizor of value-added events for Swiss high-
tech start-up companies. www.cti-invest.ch
Lakestar is a team that invests in outstanding entrepreneurs
worldwide. www.lakestar.com
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Polytech Ventures is an early stage VC firm based in
Switzerland and in the Silicon Valley with a strong
international focus.strategically located at EPFL in Lausanne,
one of the most dynamic and recognized innovation centers
in the world, and with a permanent presence in the Silicon
Valley.a team of seasoned investment professionals and
industry experts with over 100 years of combined experience
and an extensive industrial network. www.polytechventures.
ch
The Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC) is a Switzerland based
association that connects smart money investors to seed and
early stage Internet startups. SICTIC organizes the dealflow
and match making of startups and investors and facilitates the
process until the investment round closes. However, SICTIC
does not invest itself nor does it hold shares in startups. www.
sictic.ch
Redalpine is a European seed and early-stage venture
investor. We invest in disruptive technologies with focus on
highly scalable ICT and Life Science models. www.redalpine.
com
Swisscom Ventures is the venture capital arm of Swisscom
AG, the leading telecommunications and IT provider in
Switzerland. Since our inception in 2007, we have invested in
over 35 IT, digital media and telecommunication companies
from our offices in Switzerland (Zurich and Lausanne) and the
USA (Silicon Valley). www.swisscom.ch
SVC - Ltd. for Risk Capital for SMEs provides Swiss SMEs
and start-up businesses with venture capital of up to CHF
100 million. Innovative companies in various development
phases are supplied with venture capital in the form of
additional equity capital or as loans with profit participation.
www.svc-risikokapital.ch
Tavis Capital is the adivsor of the swiss SME credit fund. The
SME fund finances growth, innovation and succession
solutiond for swiss SME. www.tavis-capital.ch
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CS is a multinational financial services holding company,
headquartered in Zürich, that operates the Credit Suisse
Bank and other financial services investments. The company
is organized with four divisions: Investment Banking, Private
Banking, Asset Management, and a Shared Services Group
that provides marketing and support to the other three
divisions. www.credit-suisse.com
Saxo offers trading through its online platform SaxoTrader in
Forex, stocks, CFDs, futures, funds, bonds and futures
spreads. Private wealth management services are also
offered. The company functions as an online broker with a
bank license, without offering traditional banking products.
www.ch.saxobank.com
J. Safra Sarasin performs investment advice and asset
management for private and institutional clients, as well as
investment funds, with an emphasis on sustainable funds
and Environmental, social and corporate governance. It
offers further services in investment, corporate finance and
financial analysis. www.jsafrasarasin.ch
The Swissquote Group is the leading provider of online trading
services in Switzerland. Listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange
(symbol SQN). The headquarters are located in Gland (VD).
Other locations in Zurich, Bern, Dubai, Malta, London and
Hong Kong. The Swissquote Group currently employs 545
employees. www.swissquote.ch
Julius Bär Group Ltd. is a Swiss private banking group. It has
locations in more than 20 countries. Switzerland and Asia are
the group’s two home markets, with the head office being
located in Zurich. www.juliusbaer.com
UBS is a global financial services company, co-headquartered
in Zürich and Basel. The company provides investment
banking, asset management, and wealth management
services for private, corporate, and institutional clients
worldwide, and retail banking in Switzerland. UBS is the
largest bank in Switzerland, operating in more than 50
countries with about 60,000 employees. www.ubs.com
Pictet is a private bank and asset manager based in Geneva.
It belongs to the Henokiens, an association of family
businesses and bicentenary companies. Pictet ranks among
Switzerland’s leading private banks and is one of the premier
independent asset managers in Europe. It provides services
in wealth management, asset management and asset
servicing to private clients and institutions around the world.
www.pictet.com
Vontobel is a globally oriented Swiss private bank that is
headquartered in Zurich, with about 1,400 employees.
Vontobel specializes in wealth and asset management for
private clients and institutional investors, as well as investment
banking. Vontobel has branches at 21 international locations.
www.vontobel.com
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AXA offers private individuals and corporate customers a
broad range of personal, property, and liability insurance
solutions as well as customized life, pension and investment
products. The company employs around 4000 people. www.
axa-winterthur.ch
PartnerRe is an international reinsurance company. The
reinsured risks include the areas of property insurance,
liability, accident and motor insurance, catastrophe, life and
New Solutions. There are also special classes such as
agriculture, aerospace, credit and surety, energy, engineering,
transport, and specialty liability insurance. The focus is on the
non-life business. www.partnerre.com
Die Mobiliar is a Swiss insurance group. It is not active in all
segments of insurance, but is the market leader in
reinsurance of pension funds. www.mobi.ch
The Swiss Life Group is the largest life insurance company of
Switzerland. The firm's headquarters are in Zurich. The Swiss
Life Group has over 7,000 employees. www.swisslife.com
Helsana AG, headquartered in Dübendorf, is a major Swiss
health insurance company. The group employs
approximately 3,000 people and has a Switzerland-wide
network of 23 general agencies and 19 outlets. www.
helsana.ch
Swiss Re is the world’s second-largest reinsurer, based in
Zurich, Switzerland, operating through offices in more than 25
countries. www.swissre.com
Helvetia has branch offices in Switzerland, Germany, Austria,
Spain, Italy, France and Liechtenstein, and routes some of its
investment and financing activities through subsidiaries and
fund companies in Luxembourg and Jersey. The Group is
headquartered in St.Gallen. Helvetia is active in the life,
property and casualty and reinsurance business, with almost
7'000 employees providing services to more than 4.7 million
customers. www.helvetia.com
Zurich Insurance Group Ltd. is Switzerland's largest insurer.
The company is organized into three core business segments:
General Insurance, Global Life and Farmers. Zurich employs
around 60,000 people serving customers in more than 170
countries and territories around the globe. www.zurich.com

The Aduno Group offers safe easy cashless payment to
more than two million customers in Switzerland. www.aduno-
gruppe.ch
Partners Group AG (SIX: PGHN) is a global private markets
management firm with over EUR 33 billion in assets under
management in private equity, private infrastructure, private
real estate and private debt. The firm manages a broad range
of funds, structured products and customized portfolios for an
international clientele of institutional investors, private banks
and other financial institutions. www.partnersgroup.com
Glencore plc is an Anglo–Swiss multinational commodity
trading and mining company headquartered in Baar,
Switzerland. Glencore had a number of production facilities
all around the world and supplied metals, minerals, crude oil,
oil products, coal, natural gas and agricultural products to
international customers in the automotive, power generation,
steel production and food processing industries. www.
glencore.com
Thomson Reuters is a major multinational mass media and
information firm founded in Toronto and based in New York
City and Toronto. It is majority owned by The Woodbridge
Company, a holding company for the Thomson family. The
company operates in more than 100 countries, and has more
than 60,000 employees around the world. In Baar, Switzerland
their Global Resource Center is located, bringing together
various business lines and experts from Intellectual Property
and the Catalyst Lab for innovation. www.thomsonreuters.com
Leonteq is a technology and service platform with a leading
position in structured investment products in Switzerland and
an international presence through sales offices in Zurich,
Geneva, Monaco, Guernsey, Frankfurt, Paris, London,
Singapore and Hong Kong. Business areas are structured
solutions services, structured asset management & pension
solutions and White-labeling & platform development. www.
leonteq.com
The VZ VermögensZentrum AG is a Swiss financial services
provider headquartered in Zurich, with offices across
Switzerland. www.vermoegenszentrum.ch
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e-shelter develops and runs high availability data centers.
We design and build, operate and secure, on our own
premises and anywhere you need our security. www.e-
shelter.de
IBM asset and facilities management solutions help asset-
intensive organizations keep their plants and facilities running
at peak performance. Industry-specific solutions include life
sciences, nuclear power, oil and gas, transportation, service
providers and utilities. www.ibm.com
Ginetta is a leading local web and mobile develop and design
firm with a focus on user experience. They have numerous
finance, ICT, and FinteCH work to their credit such as
Crowdhouse, PostFinance, and Raiffeisen. www.ginetta.net
We’re a leading provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral
colocation data centre services in Europe. We support over
1,500 customers through 40 data centres across 11 countries,
enabling these customers to securely deliver mission-critical
applications and content to end consumers, with excellent
response time performance. Our state-of-the-art data centres
provide space, power and cooling with reliability and
performance that goes beyond industry standards. www.
interxion.com
Google Zurich brings Googlers together from 75 countries.
As a major engineering hub for EMEA, our hardware and
software engineers use every aspect of computer science to
push technology forward. When these teams partner with
Googlers in non-technical roles (which include sales jobs and
account manager positions), we solve some of the most
challenging engineering problems and make great products
that are used by millions of people. www.google.ch
Inventx is the Swiss IT partner for leading banks and financial
institutions. The basis for our business activities, our values of
innovation, interaction and Swissness. These values
determine our thoughts and actions, but also our behavior
towards customers, employees and other stakeholder. www.
inventx.ch
HP Financial Services offers a global portfolio of solutions for
leasing and IT lifecycle management services. We support
you for an upgrade to the latest technology platform, from
procurement to the end of its useful life. Our goal is to
improve your return on IT to reduce risks and optimize your
solution. www.hp.com/ch
We do awesome web projects. We consult, design, develop,
follow-up: We are your innovative partner from the 1st idea to
the end product and beyond. www.liip.ch
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A changing industry landscape is unlocking new
opportunities, and financial institutions are looking beyond
the near term to drive profitability and growth through
sustainable innovation. Microsoft technologies and solutions
are enabling this wave of innovation to meet new customer
expectations, improve transparency, meet regulatory
requirements, and stay competitive against non-traditional
industry entrants. www.microsoft.com
Safe Swiss Cloud is a safe and secure cloud computing
service based in Switzerland. We offer innovative compute,
storage and managed cloud services. www.safeswisscloud.ch
As a leading full web service agency, we offer professional e-
business and online communication services and bring you
measurable success. www.namics.com
SecureSafe is like a bank for digital assets. We’re located in
the heart of Switzerland, which is known for its political and
financial stability, strong legal system and its long tradition of
privacy - perfectly situated for protecting the most valuable
resource of the 21st Century: your data. www.securesafe.com
Global banks power their complex operations on Oracle's
platform applications and hardware. www.oracle.com
Swisscom is Switzerland’s leading telecom provider and one
of its foremost IT companies, headquartered in Ittigen, close to
the capital city, Bern. Outside Switzerland, Swisscom offers
broadband Internet in Italy with Fastweb. Around 21,000
employees generate revenue of approx. CHF 11.4 billion
annually. Swisscom is one the most sustainable companies in
Switzerland and Europe. www.swisscom.ch
Safe Host SA provides a complete range of data centre
services in its Tier III Data Centre in Switzerland. We provide
a number of best-in-class solutions to industry-leading
financial institutions, multinationals and international
organisations. Safe Host is ISO 9001 certified and a FINMA-
compliant company. www.safehost.com
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BlueLion is a nucleus for startups in the fields of ICT and
CleanTech. Our incubator was opened in May 2012 in the
ultra modern premises in Zürich-Schwamendingen. BlueLion
is a non-profit organisation supported by a prominent
sponsorship. BlueLion reports itself as a breeding ground for
future internet rockstars. www.bluelion.ch
FUSION is Switzerland’s Fintech Acceleration Program.
Based out of city center of Geneva, Fusion selects about 10
fintech startups from all over the world for its 12-months
acceleration program. Fusion capitalises on Switzerland’s
position as a global hub for financial services as well as its
world-beating reputation for innovation to drive the fintech
agenda. www.fintechfusion.ch
The bank of the future will feature touch screens and video-
conferencing systems. With the tip of a finger, visitors
navigate an electronic display for an initial assessment of
their projects, before meeting with a consultant. For more
extensive and detailed expertise on special issues, a video-
conference can be set up with Lausanne or Zurich based
specialists. www.credit-suisse.com
The researchers at the GDI investigate megatrends and
countertrends and develop future scenarios. Their insights are
recorded in various publications and discussed at conferences
and meetings. The GDI is a practice-oriented, independent
institution with a thematic focus on the early detection of
trends in retail and consumption. www.gdi.ch
economiesuisse as an umbrella organization the interests of
competitive, internationally integrated and responsible Swiss
economy. As the link between politics, business and society,
we are committed to optimal conditions for Swiss companies
- from SMEs to major corporations. With the major economic
policy actors and with the population, we maintain an open,
constructive and solution-oriented dialogue. Even with
referendums, we are aiming at the side of our partners to
achieve common goals. Our commitment to the industry is
geared to the principles of liberal, market economy and
sustainable growth. www.economiesuisse.ch
The IBM Research THINKLab - Zurich is a unique place in
Europe. It is located on the campus of IBM Research - Zurich -
home of two Nobel prizes. We offer senior decision makers an
experience that helps them envision how IBM can help them
transform the way they do business. An experience that
delivers the most inspiring innovations IBM has to offer. An
experience that connects clients directly to IBM researchers
and their work. Learn more about the THINKLab. www.
research.ibm.com
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Located in buzzing Zürich-West, we provide a space where
entrepreneurs and all kinds of innovators come together to
prototype new models for a world that works for all -
connecting all sectors, industries and cultural backgrounds.
Local partners with Swisscom, SIX, and Credit Suisse on
FinTech. www.zurich.impacthub.net
Technopark Zurich provides a stimulating environment that
facilitates innovation in the market and contributes to the
creation of new jobs and enhanced economic viability. www.
technopark.ch
The F10 FinTech Incubator is the new innovation center from
SIX located in the middle of the vibrant Zurich-West district at
Förrlibuckstrasse 10. Here we develop new prototypes at a
rapid pace and are driving product development and
technology solutions for the four business areas of SIX.
www.six-group.com
In a world of ever increasing complexity and interconnectivity,
think tanks — as a place where experimental and networked
thinking is encouraged — become more crucial than ever to
large organizations. Think tanks need to be able to
proportionately keep the balance between the known and the
unknown, as well as to navigate in uncertainty.UBS decided to
have such a think tank — UBS Y, this is who we are. www.
ubs-y.com
Launched in 2014, the Swiss Start Up Factory is a Zurich-
based incubator looking for thriving digital entrepreneurs: we
provide exciting opportunities from day one, through our
network in Switzerland and around the globe. www.
swissstartupfactory.com
W.I.R.E. is an interdisciplinary think tank which engages with
global developments in business, society and the life sciences.
www.thewire.ch
The Swiss Life Group is one of Europe's leading
comprehensive life and pensions and financial solutions
providers. In its core markets of Switzerland, France and
Germany, Swiss Life offers individuals and corporations
comprehensive and individual advice plus a broad range of
own and partner products through its sales force and
distribution partners such as brokers and banks. www.
swisslife.com
Y-START business incubator offers a full range of packaged
infrastructure and services, allowing start-ups to optimize
resources and accelerate their development. www.y-parc.ch
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Considered one of the most prestigious universities in the
world for engineering and sciences.
www.epfl.ch
Research university specialized in the fields of business
administration, economics, law, and international affairs
www.unisg.ch
Provides a dynamic location for high tech companies to
innovate, located at the heart of EPFL, Europe’s most
cosmopolitan science and engineering university. www.epfl-
innovationpark.ch
Brings the financial industry and financial professionals in
companies of all industries added value through training,
applied research, and consulting.www.hslu.ch
Engineering, science, technology, mathematics and
management university, consistently ranked among the top
universities in the world. It is currently ranked as 3rd best
university in the world in engineering, science and
technology, just behind the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Stanford University in the QS World
University Rankings. www.ethz.ch
The largest university in Switzerland, with over 26,000
students and 7 faculties: Philosophy, Human Medicine,
Economic Sciences, Law, Mathematics and Natural Sciences,
Theology and Veterinary Medicine. The university offers the
widest range of subjects and courses than any other Swiss
higher education institution. http://www.uzh.ch
One of the world's premier business and management
institutions. In 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, it was ranked first
in open programs worldwide by the Financial Times.
www.imd.org
Located in the city of Winterthur, with facilities in Zurich and
Wädenswil, is one of the largest University of Applied
Sciences in Switzerland and is part of the Zürcher
Fachhochschule. Currently, the university has eight schools,
covering architecture and civil engineering, health, linguistics,
life sciences and facility management, applied psychology,
social work, engineering and management and law. www.
zhaw.ch
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ActionJam is an association that was founded by experts and
executives from the Innovation Management of major Swiss
companies into life in order to better network and learn from
each other. www.actionjam.com
ASPB comprises 10 member banks. Its permanent secretariat
is located in Geneva. The ASPB's primary mission is to
represent the business interests of privately owned Swiss
banks specialising in asset management. It strives to establish
and maintain conditions that support the development of the
private and institutional asset management sector in
Switzerland. www.abps.ch
Alp ICT Cluster fosters synergies between Western
Switzerland’s ICT business community and those
organisations which can provide a range of support services
to the ICT sector. Alp ICT acts as a partner linking business,
R&D, financial and political players with a view to creating
economic value. “Powering business innovation”.
www.alpict.com
With over 2'300 members in Switzerland, it Iis the largest
society in continental Europe. CFA stands for Chartered
Financial Analyst and is a highly regarded professional body
www.new.cfasociety.org
Over 140 members. Membership of the Association is open
to all foreign banks, securities 'dealers, managers and agents
of Investment Funds. Other legal entities or private persons
can join the Association as observer without voting rights.
www.foreignbanks.ch
eZurich is the platform for minds, ideas and projects that want
to promote the ICT location Zurich.
www.awa.zh.ch
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An independent hub for #swissfinteCH. Our members are
individuals connected to the ecosystem. The group is
volunteer-led and engages with a strong network of partners
(i.e. corporations, associations, government, etc) to pursue
its aims. These include networking, advocacy, mentoring,
and funding, and evolve with the group. www.swissfinte.ch
Swiss Private Equity & Corporate Finance Association
represents Swiss private equity, venture capital and corporate
finance. Members of the SECA include equity investment
companies, banks, corporate finance advisors, auditing
companies, management consultants, lawyers and private
investors. www.seca.ch
SFI is a private foundation created by Switzerland's banking
and finance community in cooperation with leading Swiss
universities. It supports and advances research, doctoral
training and executive education in banking and finance. The
Institute is supported by the Swiss banks, the Swiss Stock
Exchange, Swiss universities and the Swiss Federal
Government. www.swissfinanceinstitute.ch
The SBA is the leading professional organisation of the Swiss
financial centre, with 310 institutional members and
approximately 18'200 individual members. Its main purpose is
to maintain and promote the best possible framework
conditions for the Swiss financial centre both at home and
abroad. www.swissbanking.org
We want to drive innovation, change and inspiration. We
teamed up to create synergies, support each other and enjoy
the exciting startup ride together! We as Swiss Finance
startups are at the forefront of this change. The SFS wants to
foster the common Swiss startup spirit, support the exchange
of ideas as well as industry know-how and help to educate
the outside, non-startup, world about our brilliant ventures.
Network, exposure, education, and support. www.
swissfinancestartups.com
The Zurich Banking Association represents the interests of the
financial center to authorities, politicians, and the public. With
its commitment to education and information, it aims to help
ensure Zurich remains a financial center of world importance
in the future. 50 banks are members, representing a total of
50,000 employees. The leading local insurance companies are
also members. www.zuercher-bankenverband.ch
Associations (2/2)
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FINMA is Swiss financial regulator. This includes the
supervision of banks, insurance companies, stock exchanges
and securities dealers, as well as other financial
intermediaries. FINMA is an independent institution with its
own legal personality based in Bern. It is institutionally,
functionally and financially independent from the central
federal administration and the Federal Department of
Finance and reports directly to the Swiss parliament. www.
finma.ch
The Swiss Business Hub United Kingdom is a partner of
Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE). Part of the Embassy of
Switzerland in London, it is responsible for facilitating business
relations. It supports Swiss primary exporters in their first
steps in the UK market. SBH UK has advised organisations
wishing to establish a subsidiary or a technological partnership
in Switzerland. www.eda.admin.ch/countries/united-
kingdom/en/home/switzerland-and/export-promotion/swiss-
business-hub.html
As the international contact partner for promotion and
marketing of the Greater Zurich Area economic region,
Greater Zurich Area AG (GZA) acts as a liaison between
international companies looking to settle in the area and local
interests and requirements. www.greaterzuricharea.com
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is the central bank of
Switzerland, and so is therefore responsible for the monetary
policy of the nation of Switzerland and also for the issuing of
Swiss franc banknotes. www.snb.ch
SECO is the federal government's centre of expertise for all
core issues relating to economic policy. Its aim is to ensure
sustainable economic growth by putting in place the
necessary regulatory and economic policy conditions. www.
seco.admin.ch
We are a nexus for knowledge exchange, devoted to
connecting Switzerland and North America in science,
education, art and innovation. www.swissnex.org
The State Secretariat for Education, Research and
Innovation SERI within the Federal Department of Economic
Affairs, Education and Research EAER is the federal
government's specialised agency for national and
international matters concerning education, research and
innovation policy. www.sbfi.admin.ch
We work all over the world to support entrepreneurs and
promote Switzerland as a business location. Our role as a
center of excellence for internationalization is to foster exports,
imports and investments, to help clients develop new potential
for their international businesses and to strengthen
Switzerland as an economic hub. We are a strong and trusted
partner for our clients, the cantons and the Swiss government,
with a global network of experienced advisers and experts.
www.s-ge.com
Government
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AGEFI is a daily French-Swiss newspaper primarilly dealing
with economics, finance and politics. www.agefi.com
The biggest Swiss economic newspaper is aimed at business
readers in German-speaking Switzerland. Mainly, this includes
people in small and medium enterprises. www.handelszeitung.
ch
BILANZ is a German language biweekly business magazine
published in Zurich, Switzerland. The leading Swiss business
portal. Research on companies, analyzes the economic,
services for investment, advice.... www.bilanz.ch
Le Temps (literally "The Times") is a Swiss French-language
daily newspaper published in the Berliner format in Geneva by
Le Temps SA. It is the only nationwide French-language non-
specialized daily newspaper of Switzerland. www.letemps.ch
cash is a banking news portal combining information and
banking. Money and finance topics are explained in a simple
way and financial services are offered. cash is a joint venture
of bank zweiplus and Ringier a leading publisher. www.cash.
ch
NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) Mediengruppe (also known as
AG für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung) is a media company which
deals with the activities related to newspaper, magazine, book
publishing and television broadcasting in Zurich, Switzerland.
www.nzz.ch
The financial and economic is a Swiss business newspaper,
which appears twice a week, on Wednesdays and
Saturdays. They appear with a paid circulation of 24'405
copies (WEMF 2014 [1]) and reaches 94,000 readers (MACH
Basic 2015-I). Edited she is the publisher Finanz und
Wirtschaft AG in Zurich, a subsidiary of Tamedia AG. www.
fuw.ch
PUNKTmagazin is a publication of financialmedia AG, a
idependent publisher in Zürich founded in 2006 and lead by its
owners. www.punktmagazin.ch
finews.ch is the "Intranet" of the Swiss financial sector. It
serves as a compass for employees in banks and insurance
companies, fund managers, asset managers, headhunters,
lawyers, trustees and IT professionals - all players in the
Swiss financial center. It is produced by an independent
team that has lots of experience in media and the financial
industry. www.finews.ch
Swiss National Radio and Television broadcaster. www.srf.ch
Media - mainstream
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A leading global Fintech blog based in Bern, shaping thought
leadership in global ecosystem, capital and investment
markets, and insurance. They recently opened Daily Fintech
Advisors to offer their services to banks, tech companies,
and startups. www.dailyfintech.com
DECODEUR is a specialized (French) website to track and
decipher the news and new trends #fintech (technology
related to finance) and # safety www.ledecodeur.ch
See more about Finance2.0 under "Events" www.finance20.
ch
Startupolic, combining the words startup and (work)aholic, is a
blog dedicated to share my passion about startups, especially
web and mobile startups. My name is Sébastien Flury and I’m
living in Northwestern Switzerland and Manager at Fusion
Fintech in Geneva www.startupolic.com
A leading media outlet for content, news, and events. Follow
them on Twitter @fintechCH www.fintechnews.ch
startupticker.ch is the online platform for young entrepreneurs,
innovators and supporters. The hub increases the visibility of
young Swiss companies and serves to highlight the diverse
and vibrant start-up scene. The news portal provides daily
information on company results, launch of innovations, growth,
financing, exits, support services, events and award tenders.
The most important news and events of the week from the
start-up community are sent out in a weekly newsletter. The
news portal communicates in English, German, French and
Italian www.startupticker.ch
Media - blogs
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Digitization of the economy and society is all encompassing.
The consequences f§or businesses and industries often
revolutionary and existential. The speed of innovation and
concepts so breathtaking that start-ups in no time large
corporations Markets dispute. Economic leaders are called
upon to keep the orientation in a process of change which
always requires new thinking, new rules, new partners and
strengthened their own change.DEF is the platform that
brings together all industries new trends, standards and the
people behind them. www.digitaleconomicforum.ch
finteCH meetup zürich is the place to connect with those in the
local FinTech scene or an interest in financial services,
technology, and innovation. It is the place to come together on
a regular basis to learn, share, and network. We are a
community of industry leader entrepreneurs, VCs, academics,
and others with a shared interest to foster a more resilient
future for the Swiss Financial Center. Ultimately, the objective
is to increase visibility of the opportunity for finteCH in Zurich
and help support the development of a local ecosystem. www.
meetup.com/finteCHandinnovation_meetup_zurich
At the conference "Finance 2.0" experts discuss
developments and provide innovative solutions for well-
known services - payments, savings, investments, financing.
The conference is aimed at strategic, product, marketing and
communication professionals at financial institutions and
specialists in the field of payment transactions, investments
and financing. www.finance20.ch
On 30 September, the Financial and Economic Forum leads
the evening event "Fintech 2015 - Boost Innovation" by,
among other things, will be launched at the competition for the
award. At the main event on March 31, 2016, the best teams
will finally be able to present their Fintech solutions after an
extensive selection process. The winner of this final round will
be announced in the Award Dinner immediately after the
conference end of March and receive a prize. www.forum-
executive.ch/fintech/index.php
This is a group for professionals thriving to change the
financial technologies. We started this group to gather banks,
brokers, asset managers, family office, software developers,
freelance, investors, incubators and any professional
involved with financial technologies. Our goal is to build a
powerful #swissfinteCH ecosystem. We are part of Swiss
FinteCH. www.meetup.com/financial-technology-switzerland-
meetup
THE BIGGEST EUROPEAN HACKATHON www.hackzurich.
com
Events (1/2)
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Events (2/2)
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Lift Events explores the business and social implications of
technological innovation through the organisation of
international event series and open innovation programs in
Europe and Asia. By gathering observers, explorers and
builders from around the world, Lift is a key partner for
organizations and individuals wishing to identify the current
challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging
technologies. In 2016, Lift comes to Zurich with a focus on
FinTech. www.liftconference.com
Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders
and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, Educate, empower
and Individuals, teams and Communities. Come share ideas,
form teams, and launch startups. There will be FinteCH
focused weekend coming up in both Zurich and Lausanne.
www.zurich.startupweekend.org
www.lausanne.startupweekend.org
On 25 and 26 September 2015, the second PostFinance
Hackathon will be held. We are looking for ideas relating to
"The Future of Finance" topic. The prize money amounts to a
total of CHF 40,000. The event will take place in Bern in the
Energy Lounge at PostFinance Arena. www.postfinance.ch
Swiss FinTech Pitch is the competition for the best
#swissfinteCH. Beyond the awards available, it offers
opportunities for the 10 companies participating to get real,
neutral feedback from judges and the audience, local and
international media coverage, exposure to leading investors,
and access to top corporate partners. Organized by volunteers
from Swiss FinteCH. www.swissfinte.ch/events/swiss-fintech-
pitch
The first #SIXHackathon is history! 30 hours spent
pondering, programming, testing and finally presenting their
project to the jury in the final. 102 participants faced up to the
challenge and competed against each other in a friendly
contest. www.six-group.com
The Forum is best known for its annual winter meeting in
Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps
region of Switzerland. The meeting brings together some
2,500 top business leaders, international political leaders,
selected intellectuals, and journalists to discuss the most
pressing issues facing the world. Often this location alone is
used to identify meetings, participation, and participants with
such phrases as, "a Davos panel" and "a Davos Man". www.
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We held the first #swissfintechpitch on August 27th, 2015 in Zurich to great success

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