Axelra

Axelra is recognized as one of Europe’s leading startup hubs for 2024 by the Financial Times, ranking #1 in Switzerland and #32 in Europe. The company offers a service called ‘PowerWeek,’ which allows for the exploration of new technologies and validation of ideas within 100 hours. Axelra provides a comprehensive venture building service that encompasses ideation, validation, launching, and scaling early-stage tech ventures. The company aligns its interests directly with its ventures by contributing up to 50% of its costs as sweat equity.

Axelra has developed a variety of innovative digital products and platforms. For Digit Soil, it created a digital product that measures soil enzyme activity and provides personalized fertilization guidance. The company launched the ‘Beyond Beauty Club,’ which includes a 3D AI avatar of Dr. Simon Ourian for personalized skincare consultations. Axelra built ‘fliggs mobile,’ the first all-digital Web3 MVNO in the American market, integrating a non-custodial wallet into their mobile app.

In Switzerland, Axelra created ‘Matchspace Music,’ the largest music lesson provider with over 650 certified teachers. The company developed ‘SIBEX,’ a decentralized platform for secure exchange of crypto assets using atomic cross-chain swaps. For Moflix, Axelra built a mobile app-based subscription service offering a fully digital customer experience for telecom services. They also developed a proof of concept for Sensirion to use NFTs for creating and delivering calibration certificates for regulated market sensors.

Axelra’s other notable projects include ‘Grizzly.fi,’ a liquidity aggregator focused on simplicity and safety in liquidity mining, and ‘Freya Savings,’ a sustainable 3a retirement solution in Switzerland in collaboration with Graubündner Kantonalbank. The company developed a health challenge app for VIABZ that encourages employees to exercise for 15 minutes daily through gamification. Additionally, Axelra built ‘Livealytics,’ a platform providing IoT tracking and analytics as a service for retail and live-marketing.