Tech4Trust Season 7 Announced at Trust Valley Day 2025 in Geneva

For its fifth edition, the Trust Valley Day on 2nd December 2025 was held for the first time at the CICG Geneva and brought together more than 1,000 participants. On this special occasion, the new Tech4Trust Season 7 cohort was announced. Of the 29 companies from nine different countries around the world, 15 are from Switzerland.

In front of a packed audience at the CICG, Raphaël Conz, Managing Director of Department for Economic Promotion and Innovation of Canton de Vaud, took the stage to officially unveil the new cohort of Tech4Trust Season 7 startups each one ready to build trust in the digital age. 

During the day, the selected ventures were present at the booth area, participated in a selected Investor lunch and were able to pitch their solution to the more than 1000 participants of the conference.

Since its creation, Tech4Trust has established itself as Switzerland’s leading accelerator in digital trust, supporting early-stage startups across cybersecurity, trusted AI, compliance, cloud security, data privacy and critical infrastructure protection. Over its six completed seasons, the program has supported +200 startups, helping them raise CHF 400 million and benefitting from the support of 75+partners across industry, academia and the public sector.

Meet the 15 Swiss Startups setting new standards in Trust & Innovation:

• Aurigin.ai (Zurich): Market-leading audio deepfake detection technology protecting enterprises, banks, and governments from AI voice fraud attacks.
• Besso (Bern): AI-powered trade compliance platform automating regulatory monitoring to deliver real-time insights and cost savings.
• ClairVault (Vaud): Regulation-compliant encryption solution enabling businesses to securely process and analyze confidential data without decryption.
• Haidi (Vaud): AI-powered planning platform transforming raw business data into actionable KPIs, forecasts, and decisions.
• KrakInsight (Vaud): Advanced zero-trust security platform providing intelligent network behavior analysis for tailor-made cyber threat protection.
• Matis (Neuchatel): User-friendly multispectral camera system with intuitive interface for pigment mapping and artwork analysis.
• Modulos (Zurich): Swiss AI governance platform helping organizations comply with regulations like the EU AI Act through automated risk management.
• ComplianCert – RT Europe SA (Vaud): AI-powered compliance meta-platform automating regulatory compliance and cybersecurity challenges through advanced language models.
• Sharelock (Vaud): AI platform accelerating investment due diligence by automating secure data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• SolidCrypt (Zoug): BASF spin-off offering quantum-resistant cryptographic technology that is more environmentally friendly than conventional approaches.
• Swiss Veritas (Zurich): AI-powered quality inspection and blockchain authentication platform for brands’ outsourced production.
• TeamFence (Ticino): Swiss cybersecurity startup protecting employees and businesses from cyber threats with comprehensive digital safety solutions.
• TofuPilot (Vaud): Plug-and-play platform collecting, visualizing, and analyzing hardware test data to improve manufacturing quality and efficiency.
• Tookle (Vaud): Easiest platform for tech startups to raise capital 
• Unlyme (Vaud): Swiss privacy-first SaaS company building AI-powered cloud solutions for secure work and collaboration.

The other 14 selected startups from around the globe are:

• Accredify (Singapore): Leading platform for issuing and verifying secure digital credentials, trusted by governments and enterprises worldwide.
• Artifeel (France): French deeptech company providing AIoT-based autonomous security and real-time monitoring systems for critical infrastructures.
• Betterdata (Singapore): Privacy-preserving synthetic data generation platform enabling enterprises to safely augment AI and machine learning projects.
• Cheqd (UK): Trust and payment infrastructure powering digital credential businesses, AI agents, and eID ecosystems through privacy-preserving solutions.
• CloudGeni (Norway): Deterministic AI platform that converts cloud infrastructure into code and keeps it audit-ready by automating remediation and drift management.
• Distinkt (Spain): Phygital security middleware providing end-to-end encrypted solutions for supply chain transparency and product authentication.
• Factiverse (Norway): AI platform extracting reliable real-time insights from text, video, and audio to help organizations make informed decisions and mitigate risk.
• Inhubber (Germany): AI-enabled contract management platform with digital signature support that makes contracts understandable, interactive, and automated.
• Kimaru (Japan): Enterprise Decision Intelligence platform for supply chains using AI and causal decision diagrams to recommend governed next actions.
• LlamitAI (UK): AI solution combining machine vision and natural language processing to automate document handling and save companies 80% in time and money.
• Omnio (Bulgaria): Modular RegTech platform automating AML compliance for financial institutions through no-code rules and real-time monitoring.
• RICH (UK): Blockchain-based IP protection platform enabling researchers and creators to prove authorship and verify human vs. AI creation.
• Syntonym (UK): Patent-pending lossless anonymization technology enabling camera-based AI to perceive the world while irreversibly removing biometric identifiers.
• XWORKS (UK): Platform turning waste data into verified Digital Product Passports, enabling SMEs and corporates to monetize compliance in the circular economy.

As for their technology focus, this promising Tech4Trust Season 7 cohort is built for the future: tackling everything from advanced AI, compliance, encryption, and blockchain to data privacy, biometrics and quantum security. 

Lennig Pedron, Trust Valley’s CEO tells us more: “The acceleration of AI, cybersecurity, compliance and quantum-safe technologies shows that digital trust is becoming the backbone of global innovation. This year’s cohort demonstrates the strength of Switzerland’s ecosystem and the power of public–private collaboration to nurture technologies that industry and society can rely on. With Season 7, Tech4Trust continues to transform groundbreaking ideas into trusted solutions for the world.” 

Applications for Season 7 reflect the strong global demand for trusted technologies: 128 startups applied from 24 countries, illustrating Switzerland’s growing international visibility in digital trust and responsible innovation.