A 4-month startup acceleration program for companies developing innovative solutions to improve trust in an era of disinformation, cyberthreats and global misuse of our private and personal data.
A global need
Building and maintaining trust has become a major challenge in our era of massive data collection, disinformation and cyberthreats. Adding to this the GDPR introduction and the risks associated to a non-conformity with the policy, the need for innovative solutions to support companies in their efforts to establish trust with all their stakeholders is critical:
- Access to sensitive data need to be controlled more efficiently.
- Authentication methods need to be of utmost reliability with the least possible user experience cost.
- Exchange of information needs guaranteed security, and privacy must be preserved.
The challenges faced are numerous, and the solutions exist. There is a need to connect the different actors offering solutions with the organisations facing problems in a collaborative manner.
About the program
Next program start date
October 2020
Registration
Summer 2020
Duration
4 Months
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Program eligibility
All startups developing innovative solutions to foster trust in our society is welcome to apply to this program. However, priority will been given to startups:
- Incorporated for less than 7 years.
- Already having a product ready to be sold.
- Are in the phase of acquiring their first customers.
- Are in the field of cybersecurity, authentication, access control, data privacy, anti-counterfeiting, traceability, GDPR, authenticity verification or related.
- Committed to attend diligently all the program activities
Visibility
Showcase innovative products / services of start-ups to potential customers in Lausanne, Zurich, Sion, Yverdon, Geneva, …
Sales
Connecting startups with new potential customers and giving access to our partners networks, including solution integrators
Pilots / PoCs
Creating synergies with research departments from corporate companies
Academic Partnerships
Creating opportunities for joint research projects with labs & professors from universities
Mentoring
9h of exclusive 1-1 coaching by a pool of experts to accompany the startups during the program
Fundraising
Meeting investors, support in clarifying needs and development of pitching skills
Cash Prize
3 Cash prize will be awarded to selected startups
Learn new skills
4 Workshops led by industry experts on tech, sales, management, legal aspects and fundraising skills
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TESTIMONIALS
COMPETITION
To reward the best projects, the Canton de Vaud and selected partners are sponsoring special prizes at the end of the acceleration program to selected start-ups that meet the following conditions:
- Has made substantial progress during the acceleration program: validated their business concept through thorough market investigation, established a viable business model, built a great operational team, potentially initial sales.
- Founders have demonstrated a strong entrepreneurial mindset, are able to effectively motivate and lead a team, to develop a strong business network, and to communicate effectively with board members /investors /stakeholders /customers/ to reach their objectives.
- Has shown a strong commitment to the program activities.
The selection of the prize winners is done by a jury composed of experts of the sector, the management of the acceleration program and representatives of the prizes sponsors.
SELECTED START-UPS 2019
- Access Informer: Access Informer is a simple yet powerful solution for companies to collect, analyze and monitor user authorizations across key systems, including SAP, Active Directory, SharePoint and network shares.
- CybrQ: CybrQ is a SaaS platform with self-service solutions ranging from Apps/Devices, Browsing, e-Mail, Authentication to Cyber Awareness.
- Decentriq: Decentriq is enabling businesses to identify analytics potential in datasets without having access to the data. We provide a privacy-preserving way of calculating the overlap between the desired characteristics of a dataset and the actual data.
- Ex0-SyS: Ex0-SyS develops Alph@TaV Vault, which protects your data by allowing you to encrypt all types of files and folders, offering you absolute protection against unauthorized access. It is intended for everyone and is, by nature, independent of any external control.
- Laava: Laava’s Smart Fingerprint™ is a better unique identifier combining authentication, consumer engagement, and supply chain functionality at a much lower cost than other solutions.
- MedCo: MedCo is the first operational system that makes sensitive medical data available for research in a simple, privacy-aware and secure way. It enables hundreds of clinical sites to collectively protect their data and to securely share them.
- Megaverse: Megaverse is developing adaptive learning in cyber awareness.
- NextDay.Vision: NextDay.Vision offers you to replace passwords by authenticating yourself in a simple, efficient and secure way on a multitude of services using a security key, your face or a phone.
- OneVisage: OneVisage proposes 3 software development kits that bring one or multiple concurrent factors, including 3D facial biometry (who I am), 3D graphical authentication (what I know) and Premier ID that mixes multiple factors.
- PRYV: PRYV is a compliance software for personal health data privacy and consent.
- Quantum Integrity: Quantum Integrity develops artificial intelligence for DeepFake detection.
- ScanTrust: ScanTrust provides a cloud-based, Internet-of-Packaging platform for product authentication and supply chain visibility.
- Teserakt: Teserakt develops software to enable strong encryption between industrial IoT systems.
- Veintree: Veintree extends portable QR and barcode readers with a “biometrical IR video reader” add-on, allowing anonymous and GDPR compliant registration of human venous networks (and human-centered actions).

Dr. Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Founder, Teserakt

Jérôme Bailly
Business Developer & Marketer for the Token Economy, Crypto Valley Association

Dr. Laurent Balmelli
Professional in Cybersecurity

Kerry Choun
Co-author “The Storyboard Approach”

Sébastien Contreras
Information Security Manager, Tetra Laval International

Raffaello Dolci
Head of Swiss Digital Acceleration Team, Cisco

Edoardo Gerosa
Manager and Vigilant Service Lead, Deloitte Switzerland

Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Academic Director, C4DT

Dr. Klaus Julisch
Lead Cyber Partner, Deloitte Switzerland

Cliff Kamara
Chief Security Officer, Deloitte Switzerland

Nicolas Loeillot
Chief Innovation Officer, Groupe Mutuel

Christopher Lübbers
Speaker Coach, Lübbers.team

Massimo Lucchina
Head of Business Development Europe, Samsung

Marco Macciò
DevOps Senior Architect, ELCA

Frédéric Mauger
Partner & Cofounder, Sysmosoft

Miso Milicevic
Lead Product Manager, SecuTix

Reshad Moussa
CTO, Geosatis

Pedro Paiva
IoT/Digital Business Transformation Leadership

Prof. Sylvain Pasini
Professor in computer security, HEIG-VD
Head of Y-Security competence center

Benedict Stalder
Managing Director, BST Management Consulting

Alexander Stoeckel
Director Venture Capital, PMI

Paul Such
Founder & Director, Hacknowledge

Vlad Trifa
Co-founder, Web of Things

Dr. Mathieu Verbaere
Head of Architecture, ELCA

Lan Zuo Gillet
Deputy Managing Director at EPFL Innovation Park

Bastien Rojanawisut
Incubator & Acceleration Program Manager at EPFL Innovation Park