Meet the winners of the Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2021
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The Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2021 shines the spotlight on one of the most critical topics in our digital and decentralized world: cyber security. Five startups from three countries convinced the jury and will participate in an exploration program with Swisscom experts.
For the ninth time, startups from around the world applied to be part of the Swisscom StartUp Challenge and win a coveted spot in the exploration program. This year, the program’s focus was on cyber security, and a jury consisting of members of the Swisscom Group Executive Board, Swisscom Security Group, Swisscom Ventures, and Venturelab went through 80 applications to pick the five winners of the Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2021: CAOS, Code Intelligence, CYSEC, Grip Security, and xorlab.“These young companies are full of drive and are declaring war on cybercriminals. I’m delighted that our program can help young entrepreneurs get off the ground and bring valuable innovative power to Swisscom and Switzerland,” explained Roger Wüthrich-Hasenböhler, founder of the Swisscom Startup Challenge and Head of Swisscom Digital Business.
The cyber security experts from Swisscom and Venturelab will accompany the five winners during the exploration program to help the startups advance their products, prototypes, and solutions. The one-week program will provide the entrepreneurs with access to Swisscom’s infrastructure, individual training, and mentoring and networking opportunities with experts and partners.
Learn more about the winners of the Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2021:
CAOS: Managing multiple identities within modern IT systems is expensive, inefficient, and often anything but secure for a single person. St. Gallen-based startup CAOS has developed an identity management solution that provides secure user authentication and integrates customer use cases to boot.
Code Intelligence: Code Intelligence operates a CI/CD-agnostic platform for automated software security testing. The platform helps developers protect against unexpected edge cases and fix bugs during development and achieve reproducible test results. Founded in 2017, Code Intelligence is headquartered in Bonn, Germany, and supports leading companies such as Bosch, Deutsche Börse, and Deutsche Telekom.
CYSEC: CYSEC’s goal is to become the leading European provider in Confidential Computing by 2025. The Lausanne-based cybersecurity company employs a team of 25 experts who develop ARCA Trusted OS, a software-based solution for protecting containerized platforms, applications, and workloads. ARCA protects highly sensitive data and workloads deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or in embedded platforms. CYSEC is a Venture Leader Technology 2021 and one of the TOP 100 Swiss Startups 2021.
Grip Security: Israeli startup Grip provides a new approach to SaaS security. Grip enables organizations to detect nearly 100% of SaaS applications in use (known and unknown) and prevents data loss by controlling, monitoring, and securing employee access and usage from any device and location.
xorlab: xorlab is a Swiss cybersecurity company that provides intelligent software to detect and defend against sophisticated, highly targeted email attacks. Originating from the ETH Laboratory for Software Technology in 2015, xorlab now has a team of 16 dedicated security experts and passionate software engineers. xorlab was a Venture Kick winner in 2016 and one of the TOP 100 Swiss Startups from 2016 to 2020.
