Category : Switzerland

UBS Venture Unit Leads New Wealthtech US$50M Series C Funding Round

New York-based asset management platform Ethic has closed a US$50 million Series C funding round led by the Jordan Park Group, with participation from UBS’ venture unit UBS Next. The round also saw participation from existing investors including Oak...

Portofino Technologies Raises US$50M to Scale Its HFT Crypto Infrastructure

Digital asset trading technology provider Portofino Technologies has raised over US$50 million in equity funding from Valar Ventures, Global Founders Capital and Coatue to scale its technology across the full crypto infrastructure value chain. The co...

Banks Jump on the Metaverse Bandwagon

Banks from around the world are actively exploring the opportunities brought about the metaverse, purchasing virtual land and establishing presence on popular platforms. They believe these virtual environments will help them better engage with younge...

ECB Selects 5 Companies to Jointly Develop Prototype Digital Euro User Interfaces

The European Central Bank (ECB) will collaborate with five companies to develop potential user interfaces for the digital euro to test how well the technology behind a digital euro integrates with prototypes developed by companies. Simulated transact...

Wealthtech InvestSuite Secures €6 million Series A, Adds New Board Members

Wealthtech solutions provider InvestSuite has completed a €6 million Series A investment round, bringing the total raised to €15 million since inception. Founded in 2018, the company develops white-label portfolio construction, digital investing and...

New Swiss Fintech Startup Map September 2022 Welcomes Fiat24

Swisscom has released the updated Swiss Fintech Startup Map for September 2022, welcoming this time only one new Swiss Fintech Startup. The map provides regular updates on the Swiss fintech landscape in the region now displays a grand total of 373 Sw...

Stableton Hires Former GenTwo CMO

Alternative investment platform Stableton Financial has hired Sandra Chattopadhyay in its newly created role of Head of Content & Communications, responsible for the firm’s global content, communication and media activities. Sandra has 20 year ex...

2022 Swiss Fintech Awards Winners Share Updates, Ambitions

Stableton Financial and DeepJudge, two of the winners of this year’s Swiss Fintech Awards, have been reaping the fruits of the publicity accompanying the renowned startup competition, using the new-found exposure as an opportunity to expand to new ve...

Top 16 Upcoming Fintech Events Taking Place in Q4 2022 in the US

Home to more than 150 fintech unicorns, the US is a fintech powerhouse and one of the world’s biggest fintech ecosystems. Given the country’s leading position in the global fintech scene, a number of large-scale events and conferences are being held...

Press Communication in the Metaverse: Rent a PR Cooperates With Zreality

Access to the metaverse is complex and expensive, which is why it is so far used almost exclusively by large companies. The Zurich and Verbier-based PR agency Rent a PR, which has been providing on-demand public relations and communications consultin...

FNZ Group to Acquire German Wealthtech Specialist Diamos

London based Wealth management platform FNZ announced that it has agreed to acquire investment management solutions provider DIAMOS AG to bolster FNZ’s client proposition in the German market. DIAMOS will also provide FNZ with its technology expertis...

Stableton Strengthens Executive Management Team

Alternative investment platform Stableton announced the promotion of Roman Loosli, Freddie Cunningham and Christian Schmid to the firm’s executive management team. The move also sees the promotion of Roman Loosli from Head of Data & Solution Arch...

Crypto Financial Product Provider 21.co Raises US$25M at Unicorn Valuation

Crypto solutions provider 21.co has raised a US$25 million round led by Marshall Wace at a US$2 billion valuation, making it Switzerland’s largest crypto unicorn. The round, which included investors, such as Collab+Currency, Quiet Ventures, ETFS Capi...

8 Climate Fintech Startups from Europe to Watch

Driven by a supportive policy context and the multitude of initiatives introduced by governments across the region, Europe is rising to leadership in the field of climate fintech, being home to four times as many climate fintech companies compared to...

The Top 7 Swiss Fintech and Proptech Scale-up Startups in 2022

5 fintech and 2 proptech scale-ups made this year’s TOP 25 Swiss Scale-ups Awards organized by Venturelab with Credit Suisse and the Swiss Venture Club. The scale-ups ranking was created to recognise Swiss companies aged five to 10 years who are no l...