Yokoy Joins F10 Scale-up Program to Accelerate the Business Expansion

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Melanie Gabriel

Co-founder and CMO, Yokoy

F10 FinTech Incubator and Accelerator announced the 12 startups selected from over 80 applications for the Scale-up program.

Yokoy is one of them and get the chance to drive innovation to shape the FinTech industry of tomorrow.

Together with 11 other innovative startups we will have the chance to work with prestigious F10 corporate members. Among them: Baloise, Generali, Julius Bär, R3 and SIX. Additionally, the program allows us to connect with the wide F10 ecosystem and gain access to their investor network.

Driving innovation to shape tomorrow’s industries

F10 is an ecosystem of start-ups, companies, experts and investors . Its vision is to reshape the global financial world through talent, technology and commitment. As a FinTech Incubator and Accelerator located in Zurich and Singapore, F10 supports and guides start-ups in the transformation of their ideas into successful businesses. At the same time it promotes cooperation with international organisations.

80 applications from all over the world

More than 80 FinTechs with market traction and revenue generation from different countries had applied to participate in the boot camp that will kick off on May 4, 2020. 12 post-revenue startups got selected. “The diversity and quality of applications were more than satisfying and leave us very optimistic about starting the new program. 

We had the chance to select 12 of the most promising Startups from Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. And not only the feedback from the Startups was exceeding our expectations, our involved F10 Corporate Members for the Scaleup – namely, SIX (the Swiss Stock Exchange), Julius Bär, the Baloise Group, R3 and Generali are also excited to kick-off the Accelerator Program” said Deborrah Schaer, Lead Accelerator and Startup Coach at F10.

Program extended with pilot projects, POCs and corporate partnerships

The goal of the scaleup program is to bring projects to the next level with the support of coaches, mentors and industry experts. F10 redesigned this year’s program to facilitate the startups to secure pilot projects, POCs and partnerships with corporates from the swiss banking and insurance industry.

We are very proud that Yokoy has been selected for this sought-after scaleup program. We are very much looking forward to innovate together with the 11 other selected startups from Germany (Keyrock, Stackfuel, Troy, and Yukkalab), Hong Kong (Know your customer), USA (Askdata), UK (Healthyhealth and Knexus), Singapore (Merkle Science and Responsiblecyber), and Switzerland (Evolute).

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