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Zug has established itself as a key location for cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. The Swiss canton is home to a high concentration of businesses focused on digital assets and financial technology.
Highly funded ventures define the landscape, including the smart contracts platform Tezos with $242M raised. Regulated crypto bank AMINA Bank AG also highlights the area's financial strength, having secured CHF230M.
Below is our list of 25 Zug startups worth keeping an eye on.
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Backed Finance brings real-world assets, such as stocks, onto the blockchain by issuing fully-backed tokens. This allows traditional securities to be integrated and traded within the decentralized finance space.
AMINA Bank AG operates a fully regulated bank that creates a bridge between digital and traditional assets. This allows clients to securely manage, trade, and store cryptocurrencies alongside their conventional financial holdings in one place.
Centrifuge operates a protocol for tokenizing real-world assets, bringing items like invoices and royalties onchain. They enable businesses to use these newly tokenized assets to access liquidity from the decentralized finance ecosystem.
Tezos has built an open-source platform where users can create smart contracts for digital assets and applications. The blockchain's design includes a self-amending protocol, allowing it to upgrade over time without network disruptions.
SEALCOIN builds a platform that enables autonomous, real-time transactions between IoT devices. The technology is designed to power a machine-to-machine economy for applications in energy trading and data exchange.
Wire builds a secure collaboration platform that provides end-to-end encryption for messaging, calls, and file sharing. The technology is primarily used by enterprise and government organizations to protect sensitive communications and ensure data sovereignty.
Validation Cloud builds a high-speed infrastructure platform that connects organizations to Web3. They offer staking, node APIs, and data streaming to help developers build and scale blockchain applications.
Nillion builds a decentralized network that provides a new way to process and store information securely. Their technology enables computation on private data without revealing the raw information to any party.
Bitcoin Suisse has built a crypto-finance platform that provides trading, prime brokerage, custody, and lending services. They serve a global client base of institutions and private individuals with a secure, all-in-one solution for managing digital assets.
Those top ten companies offer just a glimpse of the activity happening across Zug. Many more founders are building in areas like fintech and crypto, and have raised over $380 million combined.
The group includes newer companies just getting started and more established names that continue to grow. Here is a look at the other startups helping to shape the local ecosystem.
| Startup | Industry | Year Founded | Amount Raised | Last Funding Round |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 2017 | CHF36.1M | Series B | |
| Hardware | 2022 | $97M | Venture Round | |
| Crypto | 2021 | $16.9M | Seed | |
| Biotech | 2014 | $102M | Venture Round | |
| Fintech | 2014 | $32M | Debt Financing | |
| AI | 2019 | $2.5M | Seed | |
| Fintech | 2021 | CHF5.6M | Equity Crowdfunding | |
| Crypto | 2021 | $5.6M | Venture Round | |
| Healthcare | 2021 | CHF5.3M | Seed | |
| Media | 2021 | $2M | Pre-Seed | |
| Healthcare | 2000 | $39.7M | Venture Round | |
| Hardware | 1992 | $2.5M | Debt Financing | |
| Crypto | 2022 | $3.7M | Seed | |
| Retail | 2016 | $10.1M | Series A | |
| Food | 2019 | $23.4M | Venture Round |
