Swiss National Fintech Team 2022: 10 Fintech startups prepare to expand their global reach with Venture Leaders

Venturelab is proud to announce the selection of ten ambitious Swiss fintech startups ready to increase their presence and boost their growth on the international stage. The 10 startups will kick off their Venture Leaders experience in November and will represent Swiss innovation at Fintech Connect in London, the premier conference at the heart of one of the most dynamic entrepreneurship ecosystems in Europe. This is the fifth edition of the Venture Leaders Fintech roadshow.

Venturelab has been organizing international roadshows for the Swiss National Startup Team for 18 years. The ambitious entrepreneurs and their promising startups selected to participate in the program are introduced to leading experts, investors, and potential customers in technology hubs around the world, including Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Barcelona, and London

Swiss fintech startups attracted close to CHF 755 million in investments in the first three quarters of 2022, signaling great potential for growth and global expansion to the sector’s leaders.

The Venture Leaders Fintech roadshow 2022 will take the Swiss National Fintech Team to the Fintech Expo in London, a vibrant venue allowing startups to cultivate their network and expand their reach. The roadshow is organized in partnership with Swissnex, and supported by EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), ETH Zürich, and Walder Wyss.

Venture Leaders Fintech alumni include high-flying startups such as Qumram (acquired by Dynatrace), AAAccell (acquired by LPA Group), TP24, Lend, Sonect, CreditGate24, Algotrader, and many more.

"This Venture Leaders Fintech 2022 team offers an impressive range of products serving SMEs, investors, financial institutions, and NGOs to help them bring their business forward," says Jordi Montserrat, CEO of Venturelab. "From implementation simplicity to cost-efficiency, these new solutions are here to make a difference. We look forward to the London Roadshow."

Sandipan Chakraborty, founder and CEO of Sonect and Venture Leader Fintech 2017, explains what can be gained from the experience: “Venture Leaders is a program that helps founders expand their vision beyond Swiss borders and amplifies their aspirations to become a global leader.”

Sonect made steady gains since participating in Venture Leaders Fintech 2017. Following the roadshow, it secured various investments, allowing it to expand its business in European markets, most recently, also in Mexico. The Zurich-based company made the TOP 100 Swiss Startups ranking every year from 2018 to 2021 and was chosen as one of the TOP 100 Scale-Ups in 2022.

“If you need to do a litmus test of a market by engaging with potential customers or connect with local investors to access their network,” Chakraborty says, “Venture Leaders is the right program to give you tangible results in just one week!”

This year’s Venture Leaders Fintech will introduce themselves and their startups at a virtual kickoff session on November 2, 2022. This event will be open to the public and will provide a showcase for the 10 game-changing innovations that the 2022 Swiss National Startup Team will be presenting in London. Register here.

About Venture Leaders  
The Venture Leaders — the members of the Swiss National Startup Team — have a clear goal: envisioning themselves as global players, they want to take the first step toward global expansion. Venturelab has 18 years of experience bringing Switzerland’s best entrepreneurs to the heart of the global technology hubs: Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Barcelona, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong. Companies founded by the 450 Venture Leaders alumni have created more than 3,600 jobs and raised more than CHF 2.14 billion in capital. For more information, visit www.venture-leaders.ch, and discover all the alumni here.

Venture Leaders Fintech 2022: Meet the Winners

AIDONIC AG | Severiyos Aydin | Zug
AIDONIC is an end-to-end payments infrastructure and data management platform for humanitarian organizations to accelerate financial inclusion with real-time impact tracking. AIDONIC empowers philanthropic actors to deliver aid faster, cheaper, and fully transparently, powered by blockchain technology.

Amnis Treasury Service AG | Miachel Wüst | Zurich
amnis aims to reshape international banking for SMEs across Europe. In addition to currency exchange and cross-border payments, the global business account includes real-time P2P transfers and individual IBAN accounts to receive funds in 20+ currencies, beginning with a free starter plan.

Aktionariat AG | Nicola Plain | Zurich 
Aktionariat offers a technical solution that allows shares to be tokenized and easily traded by using the Ethereum Blockchain. Aktionariat not only enables tokenization for business customers but also creates their own decentralized and automated marketplace.

grape insurance AG | Gregory Inauen | Zurich 
grape is a digital B2B insurer. As a next-gen insurance company, grape provides its enterprise customers insurance contracts bundled with a B2B SaaS product that saves them time managing their claims, enhances absences management, and improves their employees' health.

Fidentity AG | Thorsten Hau | Berne  
fidentity creates trust between two parties by providing digital identification and signing at the highest level of legal compliance in an integrated solution. fidentity is extremely simple to use and provides the highest security coupled with flexible modes of integration.  

Leva Capital Partners AG | Cosimo Donati | Zurich 
LEVA is an award-winning online platform enabling the establishment and management of investment syndicates. In less than two years, business angels, wealth managers, family offices, and fund managers from all over Europe have launched over 250 syndicates on the LEVA platform.

Efrontier Markets SA (Money Masters) ( | David Giron | Geneva 
Money Masters works to make financial education accessible, fun, and simple. They have created a gamified and interactive education platform that makes it easy to learn about money – in essence, “The Duolingo of Finance.”

nobank | Kristina Morf | Zug
nobank believes that non-custodial wallets are essential for the future of Web3. Existing wallets are still too complicated to onboard the next billion users, which is why nobank makes Web3 accessible and genuinely useful to everyone by offering the simplest way to directly interact with assets on the blockchain.

MARK Investment Holding AG (Splint Invest) | Aurelio Perucca | Zug
Splint Invest empowers individual investors by providing a sustainable platform that makes alternative assets accessible for everyone through fractional investing.

Zemp Business Solutions AG | Oliver Zemp | Lucerne 
ZEMP reinvents tired stationary retail to a mobile global sales platform for every mobile device user in the world. Converging POS and PAY into one seamless intuitive retail solution for B2C or B2B, it is available as a standalone app or integrated in any payment, banking or service product.