Seed Round — Basel, Switzerland — April 2026

The only complete map of Switzerland's digital attack surface. Updated daily.

Switzerland's new cybersecurity laws just made our product mandatory. 75,000 SMEs. No accessible solution. We are building it.

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2.5M+ .ch domains scanned
100% .ch namespace mapped
CHF 6M+ revenue at 10% penetration
85%+ gross margin at scale
ISG mandatory since Apr 2025
The Problem

Three laws. 600,000 SMEs. Zero accessible tools.

Switzerland's regulatory landscape has fundamentally shifted — and the mass market of SMEs has no compliant, affordable solution.

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ISG — Swiss Federal Law

Since April 2025, organisations must report cyberattacks to the NCSC within 24 hours. Fines up to CHF 100,000. Knowing your attack surface is the only defensible compliance strategy.

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DORA — EU Resilience Act

Operative since January 2025. Swiss financial institutions and their suppliers must conduct annual attack surface assessments. Creates indirect obligations for thousands of Swiss SME suppliers.

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NIS2 — Cascade Effect

European clients now audit their Swiss suppliers' cybersecurity posture as a condition of contract. A Swiss SME without evidence of surface monitoring risks losing enterprise customers.

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The Gap Is Enormous

Existing solutions cost CHF 10,000–25,000/year, require internal IT access, and target enterprise clients. 70% of Swiss SMEs have no formal cybersecurity posture — and no tool built for them.

No competitor holds what we built.

Before company formation, we independently enumerated the entire Swiss .ch domain namespace — over 2.5 million domains. This proprietary dataset is the foundation for every product feature and cannot be easily replicated. No domestic or international player holds this asset.

The dataset enables national-level risk benchmarking against Swiss industry peers, identification of .ch look-alike domains used for phishing, and longitudinal tracking of the Swiss internet attack surface over time. These are capabilities no generic global platform can offer.

"We have performed a complete enumeration of the entire Swiss .ch domain namespace. This is the foundation for a scalable SaaS product — and a moat that grows with every scan."

The Platform

Automated. External. Zero internal access required. Constantly.

HELVETISCAN monitors everything an attacker can see from the outside — no agent installation, no IT access, no technical expertise needed by the client.

TLS & Certs

Certificate Intelligence

Expired or weak TLS certificates, missing CT logs, outdated protocol versions — including certificates expiring within 30 days.

DNS

DNS & DNSSEC Analysis

Missing CAA records, absence of DNSSEC signing, wildcard exposure, and full subdomain enumeration including forgotten legacy assets.

HTTP

Security Header Audit

HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy — scored and benchmarked against Swiss industry peers.

Ports

Exposed Services

Open database ports, RDP, legacy protocols visible on the public internet — ranked by exploitability and business impact.

Email

Email Spoofability

Full SPF/DKIM/DMARC policy validation — not just presence detection. Identifies whether a domain can be impersonated today.

AI

AI Risk Narrative

LLM-generated plain-language risk reports explaining findings in business terms — structured for ISG, DORA, and FINMA audit requirements.

Brand Protection

Impersonation Detection

Continuous monitoring for typosquatted, homoglyph, and combo-squatted domains that impersonate your brand — catching phishing infrastructure before it is weaponised against your customers or employees.

Live Scan Data

What we found scanning every .ch domain.

These are not estimates. Every figure comes from production scans of the full Swiss namespace — the same engine that powers the platform.

HTTP / DNS

1 in 4 .ch domains is dead

76.4% of .ch domains return a live HTTP response. 450,916 domains fail DNS entirely — no active server behind them.

  • Apache: 38.3% · nginx: 34.0% · Cloudflare: 10.2%
  • WordPress powers 71.5% of identifiable CMS sites (~19% of all live .ch)
  • Top 3 NS providers control 29.3% of namespace — one outage is a national DNS event
HTTPS & TLS

28.3% still on plain HTTP

71.7% of live .ch domains end on HTTPS — but over a quarter of Swiss sites transmit data unencrypted in 2025.

  • TLS 1.3 adoption: 92.9% of HTTPS sites
  • Let's Encrypt issues 83.1% of certificates
  • 71,767 certificates expire within 30 days
  • 1,137,037 TLS sites have no CAA record — any CA can issue their certificate
Email Security

45.0% of domains fully spoofable

1,146,818 .ch domains can be impersonated in a phishing attack today — SPF absent or permissive, DMARC missing or on p=none.

  • DKIM adoption: only 6.8%
  • 25.5% of DMARC adopters use p=none (no enforcement)
  • Finance and pharma worst sectors: 48.5% of classified domains fully spoofable
Exposed Services

313,472 domains expose MySQL

Databases, file shares, and container APIs are directly reachable from the public internet on tens of thousands of Swiss domains.

  • SMB (file sharing) exposed: 87,292 domains
  • Docker API exposed: 1,742 domains
  • FTP open: 688k domains — 42% of all scanned
  • Finance sector: 37 Elasticsearch + 34 Redis instances exposed — often unauthenticated
Hosting & Sovereignty

40.6% hosted outside Switzerland

Data sovereignty is a live compliance issue. 207,977 domains have both foreign DNS control and foreign hosting — fully outside Swiss jurisdiction.

  • Germany: 17.3% · United States: 11.6%
  • Pharma lowest Swiss-hosting rate (49.9%); government highest (75.1%)
  • 944 finance + 601 healthcare domains route through Cloudflare (US jurisdiction)
Security Headers

49.1% send zero security headers

Basic browser-enforced protections are absent on nearly half of Swiss domains — HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options are the norm in every other developed market.

  • Legal sector worst: 61.6% of legal domains have no security headers at all
  • Government leads on HSTS (38%) but only 9.3% deploy CSP
  • Domains in high-risk jurisdictions: 501 in RU/BY/IR/CN/SY
CVE Risk

38% domains match CISA KEV entries

Over 977,666 domains of the Swiss namespace runs software with actively exploited vulnerabilities confirmed by the US CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

  • Apache alone: 682,438 domains · 40 distinct CVEs
  • Finance: 3,945 domains with Apache CRITICAL CVE matches · Healthcare: 2,954
  • Max exposure: 61 distinct CVEs on a single domain (Apache + PHP + OpenSSL + WordPress stack)
DNS / Security

Only 6.2% of .ch domains have DNSSEC enabled

93.8% of Swiss domains are vulnerable to DNS spoofing and cache poisoning — an attacker can silently redirect traffic or intercept email without the domain owner knowing.

  • Finance sector leads adoption at 12% — still leaving 88% exposed
  • Gov.ch highest at 41%, yet most citizen-facing services remain unprotected
  • SME adoption near zero: fewer than 3% of retail and hospitality domains are DNSSEC-signed
Exposed Services

34% of .ch domains expose an admin or login panel

Over 870,000 Swiss domains publicly expose control interfaces — login pages, dashboards, and management consoles — reachable by anyone on the open internet.

  • 18% running default or guessable paths: /admin, /wp-admin, /login, /phpmyadmin
  • Retail & hospitality sectors highest-risk: 51% expose a reachable login panel
  • Credential stuffing and brute-force attacks require zero prior reconnaissance on these targets
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The HelvetiScore™

A single composite risk index synthesising every scan dimension — TLS, DNS, email security, exposed services, headers, CVEs, and hosting sovereignty — benchmarked against 1.8 million .ch domains and calibrated by sector. No other Swiss tool produces this.

Sector Benchmarking

Know where you rank

Your score is benchmarked against every peer in your sector — legal, finance, healthcare, retail — so you see exactly how exposed you are relative to competitors.

Trend Over Time

Improving or deteriorating?

Weekly score deltas show whether your security posture is strengthening or degrading — essential for board reporting and NIS2 compliance evidence.

Actionable Priority

Fix what matters most

Every finding is ranked by its score impact. Clients get a prioritised remediation list — not a raw dump of data — so limited IT resources go to the highest-risk issues first.

HelvetiScore is the foundation of every report we generate — the single number that turns 50+ raw scan dimensions into a decision an SME owner can act on.

Competitive Landscape

An uncontested segment.

Every existing player has built upmarket. None of them have incentive to build a CHF 800/year automated tool for the SME mass market.

Criteria Swiss Post Cyber Exeon Analytics ImmuniWeb HELVETISCAN
Target Market Enterprise (250+) Mid-Market Enterprise SME (primary)
Annual Price CHF 200k+ CHF 50k+ CHF 15k+ CHF 800
Internal Access Required ✘ Yes ✘ Yes ⚠ Partial ✔ No
Swiss .ch Proprietary Dataset ✘ No ✘ No ✘ No ✔ 100% namespace
AI Risk Narrative ✘ No ⚠ Partial ⚠ Partial ✔ Yes
DORA-Ready Reports ✔ Yes ✔ Yes ⚠ Partial ✔ Yes
Self-Serve / No Sales Required ✘ No ✘ No ✘ No ✔ Yes
Market Opportunity

75,000 addressable clients. Zero direct competitors at this price.

Three high-priority verticals for go-to-market — each with a direct regulatory trigger.

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Basel Pharma & Life Sciences

Roche, Novartis, and 3,000+ Swiss suppliers under GDPR, NIS2, and FDA cybersecurity requirements.

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Swiss Financial Services

300+ fintechs, 200+ banks, thousands of insurance and asset management firms subject to FINMA and DORA.

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Professional Services

Law firms, audit firms, HR tech — increasingly required by enterprise clients to demonstrate cyber hygiene.

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Treuhand Network

80% of Swiss SMEs work with fiduciaries. 10 partnerships unlock access to their entire client base.

Traction & Milestones

Production-ready before the seed round.

Built by a technical founder. Every core module is operational.

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