Almost 200 companies with market traction from various countries had applied to become part of the 3-month program. The Startups accepted into the Accelerator Program will have the opportunity to collaborate with the prestigious F10 Corporate Partners in Switzerland and connect with the international F10 ecosystem. Furthermore, they will get access to the F10 Investor Network and strongly improve sales, scaling as well as fundraising skills.

The program consists of three monthly 3-day bootcamps, the first one to start on 22 February, online due to continued lockdown restrictions in Switzerland. As soon as possible, F10 aims to return to in-person program delivery in Zurich as business relationships are best being built in-person. The cohort will conclude with a public Pitch Party on 5 May.

The F10 Acceleration Program, which premiered with its first cohort in 2020, aims to facilitate POCs, pilots and other collaboration between some of the most innovative Startups and Swiss banks, insurance companies and the Swiss stock exchange SIX. It is the door opener for post-seed Startups, helping them succeed in the Swiss ecosystem and boost innovation for F10 Corporate Partners - to build the financial and insurance services of tomorrow. Participating Startups will be supported by high-caliber Mentors and Investors at F10 in Zurich and will also increase chances to gain exposure in the Spanish and Singaporean ecosystem.

The 10 Startups selected for the F10 Acceleration Program Batch II in Zurich are:

Neuroprofiler uses behavioral finance and gamification to uncover the true ESG preferences of investors.

FQX provides an electronic promissory note (eNote™) infrastructure that enables liquidity crossing borders and markets without rule books and in a banking-grade DLT environment.

MinerEye enables the discovery of unstructured data for automated governance, data privacy and protection and cloud optimization.

Joulica elevates customer experience by orchestrating journeys across all interaction channels using rich real-time and predictive analytics.

Norbloc enables individuals, organizations and regulators to effectively manage and securely share verified Know Your Customer data via Blockchain.

Edgeless Systems builds the most secure platform to store, analyze, and share data, using Confidential Computing.

DigiShares provides a white-label platform for processes related to issuance, corporate management, and trading of tokenized securities

Crymbo is a unique SaaS-B2B-Network concept, tailor made for financial institutions allowing them to easily offer digital assets.

Elimity helps highly-regulated enterprises secure access to their IT assets as easily as possible.

Verif-y enables organizations to seamlessly authenticate counterpart identities without needing to see or store the data

«This program is a corner stone of our collaboration with our Corporate Partners,» says Gerrit Sindermann, General Manager and Country Success Lead Switzerland, «our team and involved Corporate Partners have thus been very demanding in the selection process, and our expectations are accordingly very high.»