Tech4Trust: NativeAI joins the Swiss digital trust cohort
Tech4Trust is not a general accelerator that happens to admit security companies. Digital trust is the entire subject, which is why we applied.
NativeAI is in the cohort of Tech4Trust Season 7, thirty companies selected from 152 applications. The season starts in October 2026.
One subject, not a category
Most accelerators run a portfolio across sectors and take in a security company when a good one applies. Tech4Trust is built the other way round: digital trust and cybersecurity are the subject of the entire programme. It is run by Trust Valley with the EPFL Innovation Park, it runs as a season in stages rather than as a single event, and it carries prizes of up to CHF 150’000 and a network of more than 75 partners from industry, universities and the public sector.
That focus is what decides who is in the room.
The market is in the room
In a Swiss digital trust programme, the coaches and partners come largely from the organisations that buy, regulate and audit security technology in this country. For a company like ours that is not an added benefit of the programme. It is the market itself.
NativeAI Guard protects how employees use public AI tools and how an organisation’s own AI agents behave, both inspected on our own servers in Switzerland. The people who sign for it are CISOs, data protection officers and risk owners in banks, insurers, clinics and public administrations. None of them buy from a product page. They buy on evidence, on references, and on whether the company behind the software can still be reached in three years.
What we want out of the season
The part of our sales cycle we most want to shorten is the security and procurement review. In a regulated Swiss organisation it runs for months before a pilot is allowed to start, and it moves faster when the evidence a risk function will ask for exists before anyone asks for it. Which evidence that is, precisely, is worth learning from the people who do the asking, and many of them are in this programme.
The rest follows from that. ISO 27001 certification is in progress and answers part of it. Thirty companies working on trust at the same time, in the same season, will tell us what the other part is.
Thank you to Trust Valley, to the EPFL Innovation Park and to the selection jury for the place in the cohort. We are looking forward to October.
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