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Build trust to bridge the gap: Our mentor Alban Salord explains how to overcome information asymmetry.

Focus on the client: Our mentor Carina Zuber shares how early product validation fit benefits startups in the long run.

Business versus tech: Our mentor Kasun Perera shares how tech entrepreneurs need to highlight the true value they are creating for customers of their solution.

Building a solid support network: Our mentor Suzanne Hraba-Reveney emphasises the importance of a nurturing culture within and surrounding a Startup.

Collaboration between incumbents and startups: F10 senior advisor and banking expert Marc Lussy provides the entrepreneurs in the F10 ecosystem with tips on how to approach banks in Switzerland.

For startups, the connections built during the F10 programs can be the door-opener to establish long-term relationships with investors. Read here how to get ready for investor meetings.

Renta 4 Banco and F10 are ready to shape the future of banking together.

SIX has partnered with the F10 Startup Exeon Analytics to complement its Cyber Security Services with Network Traffic Analysis as a Service (NTAaaS).

The practical use cases for Blockchain technology are potentially endless. David Vatchev, Venture Development Lead at F10 Corporate Member R3, provided glimpses into R3’s Blockchain ecosystem.

Fighting the tech talent gap: F10 mentor and remote work expert Rohit Mukherjee provides the F10 startups with guidelines on what to consider when building and managing remote teams.

Know who you are, surround yourself with the right people, be able to adapt and learn from your mistakes: F10 mentor and change manager Maren Schlieper shares valuable tips on growth and change.

F10 had launched the first FinTech Sandbox in Switzerland in fall 2019, and about 100 Startups in our programs have the opportunity to test and adjust their prototypes in the sandbox.

Adjust messaging, reassess product-market fit and prove expertise: Manuel Hartmann, the founder of the Sales Accelerator SalesPlaybook, provides tips on how Startups can improve remote selling.

F10 mentor and innovation strategist Brigitta Gyoerfi explains how entrepreneurs can stay attuned to the needs of their customers or potential clients during the pandemic.

The F10 Scaleup Program fosters collaboration between international post-revenue, post-seed Startups and the F10 Corporate Members. Read here why your Startup should apply to the Accelerator Program.

At the F10 Hackathons, lateral thinkers from all over the world come together to boost innovation in the finance industry. How can participants with different backgrounds cooperate effectively?

At the F10 Hackathons, we aim to generate new ideas and transform them into validated prototypes within 48 hours. We have listed five rules and tips to follow when brainstorming.

F10 ergänzt die erste FinTech Sandbox der Schweiz mit OpenPK-Project und OpenBankingProject.ch APIs. Die Sandbox wird von über 100 Startups in unseren Programmen genutzt.

F10 has added OpenPK-Project and OpenBankingProject.ch APIs to Switzerland's first FinTech Sandbox. End users of the sandbox are around 100 Startups in our programs.

We are excited to welcome game-changers from all over the world at the biggest FinTech Hackathon in Europe! Learn here how to prepare for 48 hours of programming and ideation and what to pack.

To develop business ideas further and amplify their impact, Startups need strong collaboration partners. We have listed three points that entrepreneurs need to consider when looking for partners.

Highly innovative, offering large numbers of skilled jobs and internationally known for being Startup-friendly: Switzerland and Singapore have more in common than just being important finance hubs.

The F10 Startup Sonect opened offices in Mexico City in November 2019. Sonect shares their latest success story and provides tips for other Startups with expansion plans.

Here come five reasons why Switzerland and Singapore should join forces in technical development and disrupt the financial world together.

F10 strongly believes that traditional institutions should collaborate – not compete – with more agile and disruptive Startups to stay competitive in the face of globalization and digitalization.

The F10 Co-Working Space is the place where the FinTech ecosystem comes together to further innovation across industries. Here are five tips about how to network in a Co-Working Space.

Read in this interview how the F10 Startup InterlockLedger wants to innovate the finance industry with blockchain.

F10 has recognized the need for scalable office space and opened the F10 Co-Working Space in Zurich, designed especially for growing Startups. What are the advantages of co-working for entrepreneurs?

Co-working offers many advantages: less distraction than working from public cafés, scalability, and access to relevant business networks. We have put together facts and figures about co-working.

We cannot wait for the biggest FinTech Hackathon in Europe to start and have put together a checklist what the participants need to prepare, pack and consider. It is time to get excited!

The closeness to established financial institutions, the availability of well-educated employees and the high quality of life make Zurich the most attractive place to run a FinTech Startup.

F10 holds Europe's biggest FinTech Hackathon and the winners get valuable prizes. What should be considered when building Hackathon teams? Learn more about the characteristics of successful teams.

We are excited to launch Europe’s biggest FinTech Hackathon in the city where it all started. Here are five reasons why you should hand in your application for the F10 FinTech Hackathon in Zurich now.

F10 is happy to welcome you to the first F10 FinTech Hackathon in Vienna! To facilitate your preparation for the coding get-together, we made a list with tips on what to pack and how to prepare.

Customer needs in the finance sector are changing and FinTech offers financial institutions opportunities to adapt to these changes. Help us create the future of finance at the next F10 Hackathon.

With the F10 FinTech Hackathon in Vienna coming up, we have analysed what successful teams have in common. The findings: gender-diverse teams perform best.

One goal of the first F10 FinTech Hackathon in Vienna is to boost innovation in the Central and Eastern European banking sector. Read here where the chances for FinTech in the CEE countries lie.

We are excited for the first F10 FinTech Hackathon in Singapore! To facilitate your preparation, we made a list what you need to bring and consider before the F10 Hackathon starts.

F10 guides and supports innovative Startups on their journey to successful companies. Here are five reasons to hand in your application to our renowned Incubation Program now.

After years of contributing heavily to the success of F10, Markus Graf, co-founder of F10, leaves Switzerland. In his farewell interview, Markus tells us more about the history of F10.

After taking part in FinTech Hackathons, they quit their jobs and started revolutionizing global finance: here are the stories of Startup founders whose lives changed drastically thanks to Hackathons.

F10 alumni Apiax and Enterprise Bot combined their FinTech and RegTech expertise to showcase their vision of a personal digital compliance officer. The Startups talk about their plans in an interview.

Diverse teams are shown to perform better than homogenous groups due to constant re-evaluation of facts and higher levels of objectivity. We aim for cultural and gender diversity in our programs.

Our aim in organizing the first F10 FinTech Hackathon in Singapore is to bridge the gap between the Swiss and Asian FinTech ecosystems. Learn more about financial technology in Sinpapore.

Megan Bingham-Walker, CEO of the F10 Startup Anansi, tells us how it all started, where their Startup’s name comes from and what their most important learnings within the last months were.

After writing successful Hackathon stories in Switzerland, it is time for F10 to spread the wings further. Read here why you should join the first F10 Hackathon in Singapore.

Here is the story of Startup entrepreneur Patrik Hansson and F10 mentor Jürg Steiger that met during Batch I of the F10 Incubation Program and are now furthering innovation in banking together.

Michael Klien, CEO of SafeSide, explains how his Startup revolutionizes life insurance, how they handle regulatory hurdles and why SafeSide decided to participate in the F10 Incubation Program.

2018 has so far been a successful year for F10 alumni Sonect: they announced a new partnership with a well-known bank, won an innovation award and are constantly expanding their network.

Douglas Bakkum, co-founder of Shift Cryptosecurity talks about the latest milestone as well as the changes the Startup he had co-founded underwent and provides advice for other entrepreneurs.

Switzerland is one of the few countries that has acknowledged the growing interest in crypto currencies and the blockchain technology that powers them.

The co-founders of the F10 Startup Wealth Initiative believe that it is time for private banks to play an active role in dealing with tangible assets and being part of the total wealth of clients.

The finance industry – banking in particular – is strongly influenced by new tech solutions. FinTech empowers every citizen around the world with simple mobile services and products by digital banks.

What is the link between finance and the Internet of Things (IoT)?‍ How can IoT Startups contribute to more innovation in finance? Learn more about the fruitful combination in this article.

With the solution developed by the F10 Startup Sonect, users can withdraw cash in combination with their next purchase, while dining out at a restaurant or even with their next pizza delivery.

Open banking is a fairly new phenomenon that allows collaboration between FinTechs and traditional firms to reshape the future of banking together. Learn more about open banking in this article.

With their virtual simulated bank powered by AI, the F10 Startup Traderion reduces the recruitment costs for financial institutions by 30 to 50 percent and significantly reduces employee turnover.

Expanding restaurant service potential by delegating mundane tasks to virtual waitstaff: this is the idea behind the F10 Startup APPETITA.

Lisa Schröder - who had started at F10 as an intern in 2017 and is holding the position of Operations & Program Lead at F10 Singapore in 2020 - told us why she has wanted to work in FinTech.

The F10 Startup Think Yellow is not willing to wait 100+ more years to address gender inequality. Learn more about their mission and gender lens investment.

"We all believe 100 percent in the success of Futurae, which is why we gave up our secure jobs and started to work for our idea", state the co-founder of the F10 Startup Futurae. Find out more.

The F10 Startup Veezoo democratizes the access to their data by offering a virtual assistant, that searches the data for the answers to the daily questions of a company.

The solution developed by the F10 Startup Riskifier empowers people to make better investment decisions through the gamificiation of investment risk profiling. Read here how it all started.

F10 on tour: we did Startup scouting in Denmark, the US, and Poland to establish valuable connections with innovative entrepreneurs from all over the world.

The F10 Startup Billte connects companies and consumers and digitizes as well as optimizes entire billing processes.

With the solution developed by the F10 Startup LINGS, insurance customers can fully insure the things they care about, with no fixed duration nor deductibles, with one click on their smart device.