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Bluelion asks for your time. Your equity stays yours.
Zurich’s nonprofit startup hub pairs a free accelerator with paid workspace, corporate introductions and a route to city-backed climate grants. The useful part is what happens between the introductions.
The Zurich Startup That Turned Bitcoin Into a Stock Ticker
Hany Rashwan and Ophelia Snyder built 21.co on a contrarian bet: that the fastest way to get crypto into a portfolio was not an app, but a boring ticker symbol your bank already knows how to buy.
UBS
How a 163-year-old Swiss bank became the world's largest wealth manager - by absorbing the rival that nearly took the whole system down with it.
On
On is a Swiss performance sportswear company founded in Zurich in 2010 that designs premium running shoes, apparel, and accessories. Built around its patented CloudTec cushioning - a sole of hollow rubber pods engineered to feel like 'running on clouds' - On grew from a specialty-running startup into a NYSE-listed brand (ticker ONON) with roughly $3.3 billion in projected 2025 revenue. Backed by tennis great Roger Federer since 2019, it competes with Nike, Adidas, and Hoka through design-led innovation, a fast-growing direct-to-consumer business, and manufacturing bets like robot-sprayed LightSpray uppers.
Classtime
Classtime is a Zurich- and US-based education technology company building a web-based platform for formative and summative assessments. Teachers use it to create and grade quizzes, run collaborative challenges, and watch student understanding update in real time across any device. Founded in 2016, it serves hundreds of thousands of teachers and learners in more than 60 countries, with a free library of 30,000+ standards-aligned questions and a focus on grounding its design in learning science.
Cowbell
Cowbell is a Pleasanton-based insurtech that sells adaptive cyber insurance to small and mid-sized businesses, using an AI-driven continuous underwriting platform that scores cyber risk and can issue a policy in under five minutes.