blaze is EPFL’s execution-focused accelerator for student-entrepreneurs moving from a working prototype to market entry.
In 2026 blaze moved away from two fixed cohorts a year: applications for the Validation Sprint are now reviewed on a rolling basis, and projects join the programme as soon as they are selected. This page is updated as new projects come on board.
Meet the 12 projects supported by blaze in 2026.
Building a next-generation CTRM for SMEs.
Most Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) systems are incredibly large and rigid, perfect for a large scale corporation but incredibly expensive and far from nimble enough for SMEs. With our modern technology, modular approach and local/privacy-first infrastructure, we hope to give trading firms more freedom over their own operations and processes.
Founded by Arthur Lassagne, Louis Grange and Daniel Ataíde.
Automate timesheets, save time and increase revenue.
Lawyers lose hours a month to manual timesheets and lose revenue every time billable work goes unrecorded. Timeback captures all your digital work and uses AI to write your entries automatically. Review, then sync to billing in one click. Hours back for lawyers, revenue back for the firm.
Founded by Jeff Tamburi and Alexandre Zreikat
AI-powered collaborative platform for market research teams.
Revealy AI is an AI-powered collaborative platform that accelerates market research and customer discovery. It helps teams find and reach relevant people, create and distribute surveys, recruit participants for interviews, and manage the entire research process in one workspace. Revealy then analyzes the collected data and turns interviews, survey responses, and outreach into structured insights that teams can use to make better decisions.
Founded by Melchior Rüfenacht.
Observability for robotics software.
Understanding how a robot thinks is complex, iterative and time-consuming. It used to be easily interpretable, as scripted robots failed like standard machines. Today, AI-powered robots fail like software, without leaving any trace in the records.
Momentum offers an agentic observability software that enables engineers to interrogate and understand the behavior of any robot in real time.
Founded by Aksel Acar, Caspar Henking, Simon Pierre and Cédric Zanou.
Next generation of order book exchanges.
ArcBook is developing execution infrastructure that lets professional market makers and quantitative trading teams express how inventory should trade across a price range as transparent, bounded onchain policies. Its prototype explores whether richer programmable orders can reduce order-management overhead and improve control over liquidity while remaining usable by existing routing systems. The project is currently validating customer needs and benchmarking the approach.
Founded by Ryad Aouak.
Portfolio-tied market intelligence for Swiss wealth managers, traceable to the source.
Independent wealth managers start each day facing hundreds of market stories, only a handful of which matter to the portfolios they actually manage. Aletheia is a Swiss platform that closes that gap: it monitors the news, connects it to real positions, and delivers daily briefings, analysis, reports and portfolio-tied intelligence where every statement can be checked against its original source. The manager keeps the final decision.
Founded by Giulio Garotti (Technology & Engineering) and César Goetgheluck (Strategy & Finance).
Plateforme de soins à domicile.
CareHomie makes it easier to access home care in Switzerland. Our platform helps patients, family caregivers, and healthcare professionals quickly find, compare, and connect with trusted nurses, physiotherapists, and other home care providers based on their needs, location, specialties, and availability. We bring transparency, simplicity, and choice to a fragmented home care journey.
Founded by Emma Barbier and Charles David Sasportes.
The all-in-one platform for the management and listing of your coliving.
A transparent and secured rental cycle, fully integrated from search to move-in inspection, from termination to move-out. Colivioo is a dual-platform that accompanies the renting user throughout the entire coliving journey. From finding the perfect room to move-out, we make the complex rental process effortless.
The managing user benefits from everything they need to manage their coliving properties efficiently: access to the local demand, centralized and digitalized applications, fully integrated room management, and an intelligent, secured renting process.
Founded by Yael Frischholz and Fabrizio Gargaglione.
KINETICS AG builds cybersecurity solutions where security professionals and AI agents operate together. Built for operator-led assessments in critical infrastructure, our platform increases execution speed while preserving control. Every action is recorded and interruptible, with flexible deployment options for private models.
Founded by Daniel López Gala (CEO), Mario Rico Ibáñez and Adrián Martínez López.
Process intelligence platform built from your team’s know-how, showing where AI fits.
Every company wants to use AI. Few know where to start, because how a company works lives in people’s heads, not documents.
Consularis’s AI agents talk to your team, probing and following up to get the real company knowledge. You get a living map of how your company really runs and a context layer your AI tools can plug into, hosted entirely in Europe. We deliver in days what used to take months of consultant interviews.
Founded by Paul Richard, Alessio Zazo and Jin Kilidjian.
The intelligence layer for agrivoltaics.
Dual Energy builds software for agrivoltaics — solar plants that share land with crops. One platform covers a project’s full life, from origination to operation: a physical digital twin of the plant, Machine Learning models of crop growth, and project-level financial simulation. Developers and investors can verify that a design holds on both sides — energy and agriculture — across a 35-year asset life.
Founded by Giacomo Aglio (CEO), Eugenio Serafino, Angelo Giovine and Massimo Perfetti.
Individual development made simple.
EasyIDP is a digital platform that helps sports clubs and coaches structure and track the individual development of every athlete. It combines individual development plans, player self-evaluations and coach feedback with graphical analytics to visualize progress and identify relevant patterns over time.
By turning regular feedback into actionable insights, EasyIDP makes professional individual development more efficient, accessible and athlete-centred.
Founded by Niels Uythoven (CEO) and Luca Prudente (CTO).