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Zurich, 20 January 2025 – SwissHacks,Switzerland’s premier fintech and innovation hackathon, is back for its 2025 edition – promising to be a milestone event for collaboration, creativity, and emerging talent. Building on the success of SwissHacks 2024, which brought together 100 participants from six countries, this year’s edition aims to double in size, with up to 200 participants from diverse backgrounds tackling cutting-edge challenges.
Organized by the Swiss Financial Innovation Desk (FIND) and powered by Tenity, SwissHacks 2025 is a leading Swiss government-driven hackathon officially endorsed by the Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN), the organizers of Singapore Fintech Festival and Point Zero Forum.
The hackathon unites creative minds, developers, designers, entrepreneurs and innovators to tackle real-world challenges and transform concepts into actionable solutions that carry on beyond the weekend of the hackathon.
Official endorsement by the Global Finance & Technology Network
SwissHacks 2025 is officially endorsed by GFTN. This endorsement highlights SwissHacks as a key platform for innovation, further solidifying its reputation in the global fintech ecosystem. The collaboration with GFTN ensures a broad reach and provides participants with the opportunity to showcase their solutions on the world stage.
"For the last 15 years, tech-driven innovation has profoundly reshaped the financial industry, transforming everything we thought we knew. As we face unprecedented challenges alongside groundbreaking new technologies, it is vital that we continue to push forward. This is why we are proud to support SwissHacks 2025and eagerly await the visionary solutions that will emerge from this hackathon”,adds Matthias Kröner, Head of EMEA at GFTN.
Challenges driving innovation
SwissHacks 2025 actively fosters public, private, and academic collaboration, offering unique opportunities for cooperation.
This year’s edition will, for the first time introduce a challenge defined by Innosuisse,marking a significant step in fostering public-private collaboration for innovation. In addition, the hackathon will feature a variety of highly relevant challenges by leading partners, to be revealed soon, ensuring diverse opportunities for participants to address pressing industry problems.
“Contributing to the widespread availability of high-quality, consistent and up-to-date data is essential to support the decisions and strategies of the players in the Swiss start-up ecosystem. We are therefore very pleased to be running the Public Sector Challenge together with Startupticker.ch. We are looking forward to a number of exciting innovations. This is how public-private cooperation can be strengthened in a targeted way”, says Maria Anselmi, Head of Division Start-ups and Next-Generation Innovators at Innosuisse.
For Eva Selamlar, Head of FIND and initiator of this hackathon: “SwissHacks is an initiative that perfectly aligns with one of FIND's key objectives: fostering collaboration and networking between representatives and talented individuals from academia, the financial sector, and fintech. By providing a platform for these groups to meet, SwissHacks serves as a bridge and enables innovation to flourish. At FIND, as a concierge for financial innovation, we are proud to facilitate these connections because this is how meaningful innovation takes shape and drives impact.”
Winners taking the stage at Point Zero Forum 2025
SwissHacks 2025 doesn’t end with the Closing Ceremony. Winners of SwissHacks 2025 will earn the opportunity to:
These opportunities underscore SwissHacks’ mission to provide visibility and support for emerging innovators.
Early-bird pre-registration now open
Applications for SwissHacks 2025 officially open from 13 February 2025. However, pre-registration is now open for early-bird participants keen to secure their spot.
“SwissHacks2025 builds on the incredible success of our previous edition. With expanded challenges, stronger partnerships, and unprecedented opportunities for participants to gain global exposure, this year’s hackathon is set to drive impactful innovation,” concludes Andreas Iten, CEO & Co-Founder at Tenity.
Event details:
For more information and to pre-register, visit www.swisshacks.com
About SwissHacks
SwissHacks is Switzerland’s leading fintech hackathon, connecting innovators,startups, corporates and public sector leaders to solve real-world challenges. Organized by the Swiss Financial Innovation Desk (FIND) and powered by Tenity, SwissHacks empowers participants to develop groundbreaking solutions and accelerate their ideas to global audiences.
About FIND
As an independent unit within the State Secretariat for InternationalFinance of the Federal Department of Finance, FIND serves as the catalyst for financial innovation in Switzerland. FIND's mission is to promote financial innovation through concierging dialogue and collaboration between innovation projects, research, investors and authorities at both national and international levels.
FIND operates with the goal of promoting financial innovation in Switzerland, contributing to the consolidation of Switzerland's status as a global financial hub. By bringing together various stakeholders in the financial innovation ecosystem, FIND plays a pivotal role in enhancing dialogue and cooperation to drive forward the future of finance in Switzerland andbeyond.
About Tenity
Tenity is a leading global innovation ecosystem and early-stage investor, with offices in Zurich, Singapore, Tallinn, Madrid, London, and Istanbul. Tenity's vision is to accelerate the future of finance by bringing together ambitious founders with leading companies, investors, and mentors.
Today, Tenitycounts six hubs, runs corporate innovation programs in more than 15 countries,has worked with 65+ corporate partners and has supported more than 1600 startups through its programs.