Top Tech Startups in Zurich, Switzerland in 2026

Blockstream is the leading Bitcoin company, providing cutting-edge infrastructure solutions for enterprises, institutions, and individual Bitcoin users. We develop industry-leading Bitcoin self-custody solutions, Bitcoin-based financial products, second-layer scaling technologies, and enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure. OUR PRODUCTS: - The Liquid Network: sidechain-based settlement network for traders and exchanges - Blockstream App: A multi-platform, feature-rich Bitcoin and Liquid Wallet - Blockstream Jade: A fully-open source hardware wallet for Bitcoin and Liquid - Blockstream Enterprise: Enterprise-grade custody and treasury management tool - Blockstream Satellite: the Bitcoin blockchain beamed from space - Many major contributions to Bitcoin open source software and research

DriveWealth is a financial technology firm pioneering embedded finance, fractional investing in US equities, and API-driven brokerage infrastructure. We’ve built patent-pending technology to fractionalize US equities and were the first to receive a license to do so in 2015. We help banks, fintechs, RIAs, and global brands build investing experiences in 153 countries. Some of our partners are Revolut, Hatch, MoneyLion, Stake, and Avenue.

Skandax Nexus is a technology-driven organization dedicated to harnessing AI, Blockchain, Quantum and Decentralised sustainability solutions to build a decentralized, intelligent, and eco-conscious world.

Named "Best Apps of the Year" by Google Play, SideChef is an all-in-one home cooking platform that provides over 20,000 interactive smart recipes from over 300 content partners, with grocery delivery in one-click, dynamic recipe guidance featuring hands-free voice commands, step-by-step photos, how-to videos, and built-in timers. SideChef offers in-app meal planning, e-commerce fulfillment, and smart kitchen connectivity. SideChef is available for free on iOS, Android, Amazon Alexa, Google Home Hub, Samsung Bixby, and Portal from Facebook devices. SideChef powers the smart kitchen experience for world class partners such as Electrolux, LG, GE Appliances, V-Zug, BSH, Haier, and more. For Shoppable Recipe e-Commerce, SideChef partners with Walmart and Amazon Fresh to deliver recipe ingredients from over 3,000 stores across the USA with expansion into international markets in 2022. The SideChef platform is made up of over 16M users worldwide. As a company, we are 70 team members strong, from 16 different nationalities, from all over the world, that believes diversity and team work together can create the extraordinary. For more information, visit sidechef.com. CEO & Founder, Kevin Yu | Forbes Next 1000 of 2021 "Best Meal-Planning Apps of 2021" by Lifestyle Asia Singapore "Best Cooking Apps 2021 for Aspiring Master Chefs" by Tech Times "Best cooking app of 202" by BestApp.com "Best apps of 2017" - Google Play "Favorite cooking app" of The New York Times "Best entrepreneurial companies" - Entrepreneur.com (2018, 2019, 2020) "Favorite cooking app' - The New York Times "Best free Android cooking apps of 2016" - Phone Arena "Best Apps of 2014" - USA TODAY "Top 30 Android Apps" - The Guardian

At Provable, you’ll join an elite team building infrastructure, products, and services for the Aleo ecosystem and other ZK technologies. We’ve published landmark papers such as Zexe (eprint.iacr.org/2018/962) and Leo (eprint.iacr.org/2021/651). We hope to create a safer, decentralized world with advanced privacy technology.

Amun is a leading cryptocurrency issuer which aims to make purchasing crypto more accessible, and efficient. Under its 21Shares brand, Amun is the world's largest issuer of crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs). The 21Shares suite of ETPs has simplified access to crypto for both institutional and retail investors in the traditional finance community. In a similar fashion, Amun aims to provide tokens that will make it easy for the crypto community to access sophisticated strategies that are not otherwise readily available in this space. Amun 21Shares is a team of entrepreneurs, engineers, and financial product developers who are uniquely placed to revolutionize cryptocurrency investing through the issuance of our broad range of tokens. Our goal is to make these tokens present a new paradigm in cryptocurrency investing and to facilitate their use. Our investment in superior technology and automation has enabled us to both release products, as well as work directly with top organizations including the Bitcoin Cash Foundation, Bitcoin Suisse, Binance, Bitwise, Coinbase, FlowTraders, Sygnum, and the Tezos Foundation as launch partners or customers of Onyx, our full stack issuance platform.

Caplena is the feedback intelligence layer trusted by brands and market research agencies to turn open-ended feedback into precise insights, without the rigidity of traditional CX platforms. Built with Swiss precision, Caplena combines deep analytical power, unmatched flexibility, and intuitive simplicity, so experts can conduct sophisticated analysis independently, while everyone else can explore and act on insights effortlessly. More than 200 organizations — including DHL, Lufthansa, and Euromonitor — trust Caplena to understand their customers and employees with human-level accuracy, leverage agentic workflows and make insights-led decisions. Headquartered in Switzerland with an international team of data and UX specialists, Caplena is dedicated to making feedback analysis more accessible, more reliable, and genuinely more enjoyable — without bottlenecks.

Briidge.one, builds applied AI into how professional firms actually operate, not as another bolt on subscription but as systems grounded in a firm's own record, running inside the workflows people already use and owned outright once we hand over the keys. Another AI subscription doesn't change a firm. AI changes a firm when it runs inside the actual work, grounded in the firm's own data. Most professional firms, MSPs, private equity, investment firms, law firms, real estate, other professional services carry client relationships and institutional knowledge scattered across 5-10, sometimes 15 disconnected tools. Hours leak, records fragment and decisions wait on someone's memory instead of on data that should already be there. How we work We're a company, not a subscription. Every engagement runs through five stages: 1.Diagnose- an audit of how the firm actually operates, run by the people who will build the solution 2.Design- a roadmap naming which workflows, in what order, and what each is worth 3.Build- AI grounded in the firm's record, shaped to the workflow rather than a template 4.Integrate- connected to the tools the firm already runs, so one record moves instead of being retyped between systems 5.Improve- iteration after handover, sized to what's at stake. We build on the platforms professional firms already rely on Atera, ConnectWise, NinjaOne, HaloPSA, Datto, Autotask, DealCloud, Affinity, Datasite, Intralinks, Carta, PitchBook, Clio, iManage, NetDocuments, DocuSign, Yardi and MRI rather than asking firms to rip out what already works. What we put our name on: No outside logos to borrow. Clients own the code, the schema and the data outright with documentation complete enough for another team to take over. No lock in, nothing trained on a client's record and an exit built into every engagement from day one. We're building the team that will define what applied AI looks like for the firms that run the professional world.