Top 13 Fintech and Proptech Startups in Switzerland in 2022
Ten fintech and three proptech startups made the 12th edition of the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Awards organized by Venturelab with Credit Suisse and the Swiss Venture Club.
The 2022 ranking features 40 new nominees, as well as a fintech startup in first place for the first time since the ranking was created.
Of the 13 fintechs and proptechs, seven were repeats from the 2021 startup ranking, while one company – Sonect – graduated to this year’s scale-up ranking.
Meet the fintechs and proptechs that made the TOP 100 Swiss Startups 2022 list:
#1 – Yokoy (fintech)
Yokoy (formerly: Expense Robot) uses artificial intelligence to automate corporate spending and the credit card process.
Founded in 2019 by five founders, Yokoy now has over 500 customers, including companies such as Stadler Rail, On Running, Bobst, Zühlke and BDO.
The company acquired the competitor product FlowExpense in October 2020 and started its expansion into the DACH market with the opening of an office in Vienna in November of the same year.
In June 2021, Yokoy expanded its software offering from an expense tool to a comprehensive automation of the entire expense management process. It also opened an office in Munich.
Yokoy was ranked number 20 on the TOP 100 list in 2021.
#3 – Ledgy (fintech)
Ledgy is a stock management platform that helps companies manage their cap table, employee participation plans, funding rounds and investor relations.
The platform is used by companies like Raisin, wefox, Frontify, Codility, Utopia and others to democratize startup shares by turning employees into owners.
#17 – Inyova (fintech)
Inyova is a digital platform for investment with a sustainability effect.
#20 – Sygnum Bank (fintech)
Sygnum is a digital asset bank that gives institutional investors the opportunity to invest in the digital asset economy. The company holds a Swiss banking license and a capital markets services license in Singapore, and operates globally.
#23 — Neon Switzerland (fintech)
neon offers an account, app and card to receive, transfer and put money aside. Neon Mastercard has been named the cheapest credit card abroad by, among others, Kassensturz.
#27 — Deposit (fintech)
Imburse is a cloud-based middleware that connects large companies to the payment ecosystem, regardless of their existing IT infrastructure. Through a single connection to Imburse, businesses can collect or pay out using a variety of payment technologies and providers worldwide.
#30 — Relay (fintech)
Relai is a bitcoin-only investment app that enables anyone in Europe to buy and sell bitcoin in minutes, with no registration, verification or deposit required.
Relai app in numbers: 100,000+ app downloads; 40+ different countries in Europe; 30,000+ active (paying) users; CHF 6M+ monthly volume.
#50 – Alpian (fintech)
Alpian combines everyday banking services with available investment and private banking services in one mobile app. The company received a Swiss banking license in September 2022 and will launch its products and services to the public in the third quarter of the year.
#61 — Leva (fintech)
Leva is a FundTech (fundraising technology) company that develops cloud-based solutions to help projects and investors raise money. Users can manage all stakeholders through one dashboard and generate all necessary legal documentation to gather investors to reduce governance complexity.
#75 – Urbio (proptech)
Urbio is a SaaS platform that accelerates the transition of utilities to clean energy. The company automates the design of new energy resources such as solar energy or district heating with 90% time savings to better inform investment decisions.
#93 — Impact (fintech)
Impaakt uses collective intelligence to produce research and assessments of companies’ social and environmental impacts.
#86 — LEDCity (proptech)
LEDCity’s smart plug and play lighting system reduces energy consumption by 90 percent by controlling the light autonomously and dynamically. Their LED lights can also reduce energy, installation and maintenance costs, and collect useful data.
#95 — Oxygen at work (proptech)
Oxygen at Work uses a combination of natural plants, sensor technology and big data to improve indoor air quality and achieve energy efficiency in office spaces.
