Tech4Trust Season 3 Finalists revealed

Tech4Trust Awards Ceremony will be the culmination of an impressive 3rd edition: 30 startups (12 for the first edition and 27 for the second) have indeed completed an intense and unprecedented journey to boost their development. Speaking of the rising interest in the program startups, Lennig Pedron, the executive director of Trust Valley, explains: "The success stories speak for themselves. Tech4Trust supports startups when they need it most, which saves them 1 to 3 years in bringing their projects to market. Boosting the financing of startups is an essential part of innovation. The networking of actors and potential investors is increasingly efficient and effective. Before, there were no investors. Now there is a lot of investor interest in this field.”

After an intensive 6-month acceler ation program (7 Roadshows, 10 workshops and an all-female panel in the Valais Roadshow), 12 finalist startups were selected by a high-level advisory committee, composed of more than 30 members from governmental and academic institutions as well as captains of industry. The selection was based on detailed criteria (team, products, market and partnerships, finance, sustainability) and the evaluation of performance since the beginning of the program. The prizes to be awarded are valued at approximately CHF 150,000 in cash and in kind.

The 12 nominated finalists (9 Swiss) among the 30 startups in one sentence:

Swiss startups:

• Hestia.ai : Develops software, infrastructure and expertise for a digital world that respects users and their data.
• kaiosID: Protects your products and your brand with a simple smartphone scan.
• Morphotonix: Provides tamper-proof security features embedded directly in products, preserving material purity and providing instant authentication.
• OriginAll: Enables stakeholders, and most importantly people, to fully benefit from safe and secure trade and consumption.
• Prodaft: Monitors thousands of incidents and provides actionable information.
• Saporo: Improves cyber resilience by prioritizing and reducing user and system access risks.
• Smartcockpit: Highlights the decision required for the business, captures and measures the impact of all decisions made.
• Tune Insight: Orchestrates secure collaboration on sensitive or confidential data between multiple organizations to enable them to extract collective insights.
• Zenpulsar: Artificial intelligence solution dedicated to promoting online integrity.

• Photocert (UK): Validates the authenticity of photos and videos and provides valuable image analysis.
• RKVST (formerly Jitsuin - UK): Unites developers and business users to ensure that shared data produces good policy decisions.
• Xiphera (Finland): Designs hardware security solutions using standardised cryptographic algorithms.

Before the announcement of the winners at the end of the ceremony, a "Grand Oral" will take place, during which the 12 finalists will defend their innovations and explain how they have made the most of the program. A cocktail will be served at the end of the evening.

(Press release - ES)