Swiss Vault

What Swiss Vault does

Swiss Vault Systems designs, builds, and markets economical data storage systems targeting enterprise customers with petabyte-scale retention requirements across healthcare and genomics, mobility, telemetry, fintech, agtech, and media verticals. Its product stack combines SuperNAS, a proprietary energy-efficient hardware platform (specified at 400W per petabyte) engineered for high-density, modular, rack-compatible deployment, with the Vault File System (VFS / VaultFS), a software-defined storage layer using configurable erasure coding to deliver self-healing data protection with fractional parity overhead as low as 10%, multi-drive-failure tolerance, and automated data management without manual intervention. Together, the integrated platform supports a 100-year data retention posture, claims up to 50% storage volume reduction versus off-the-shelf solutions, and is positioned for both centralized data center and distributed edge deployments (Edge Computing Node).

The company monetizes through hardware sales, software subscriptions, and bundled hardware-plus-software offerings sold on multi-year contracts that convert capital expenditure into operating expense for customers. Distribution is hybrid: direct enterprise field sales supplemented by channel partners (Western Digital, JetStor), an OEM/white-label arrangement with iBridge Cloud Technologies under California's Software Licensing Program, and consortium-led market development through the Active Archive Alliance and European research projects (Sustronics/EECONE, EIC GHG). Headquartered in Allschwil/Basel, Switzerland with a US office in Princeton, New Jersey, Swiss Vault reports 11-50 employees, has raised on the order of $2.14M in disclosed funding (predominantly the 2020 European Innovation Council grant), and has accumulated a roster of named enterprise customers including Insilico, Smartpipe, Ircona, iBridge Cloud Technologies, Kwaai, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Mass Open Cloud Boston University alongside multiple industry awards spanning HPC, sustainability, and innovation since 2022.

Name

Swiss Vault

Legal name

Swiss Vault GmbH

Website

https://swissvault.global

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Swiss Vault designs and markets energy-efficient data storage systems combining proprietary SuperNAS hardware with the VaultFS software-defined file system, targeting enterprises in healthcare, genomics, mobility, fintech, and media that need sustainable, self-healing, petabyte-scale storage with 100-year retention profiles.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Data Storage Systems

NAICS

Computer Storage Device Manufacturing (334112), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Computer Storage Devices (3572), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Storage Arrays (SAN/NAS/Object Storage) (HDACACAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Backup Appliances & Integrated Systems (HDABAEAE), Data Protection & Backup Appliances (Backup Targets, Dedup Appliances) (HDACACAI), Storage Media & Components (HDD/SSD/Flash, Controllers) (HDABAEAM)

Keywords

• Data storage hardware
• Software-defined storage
• Self-healing file systems
• Erasure coding storage
• Sustainable data storage

Headquarters

HQ city

Calgary

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales: Sale of SuperNAS storage servers and custom-designed hardware solutions with energy-efficient data storage capabilities.
2. Software Subscription: Vault File System (VFS) offered on a subscription basis to help lower capital costs for customers, converting CAPEX to OPEX.
3. Combined Hardware/Software Solutions: Integrated solutions combining proprietary hardware and software offered together, potentially on subscription basis.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Swiss Vault designs and builds energy-efficient data storage hardware (SuperNAS) and a proprietary software-defined storage file system (VaultFS) that uses erasure coding to deliver self-healing, resilient data storage with overhead as low as 10%. The integrated hardware/software platform targets enterprise customers with petabyte-scale data needs across healthcare, genomics, mobility, fintech, media, and telemetry verticals, enabling 100-year data retention strategies with 10x energy efficiency versus standard systems.

Product overview

Swiss Vault offers a unified data storage platform combining SuperNAS hardware with VaultFS software-defined storage. SuperNAS provides modular, rack-compatible storage hardware with industry-leading energy efficiency of 400W/PB, while VaultFS is a parallel distributed file system that uses erasure coding to deliver self-healing, resilient data storage with overhead as low as 10%. The integrated platform enables organizations to deploy edge data centers, manage petabyte-scale archives, and achieve up to 10x energy savings compared to standard solutions. Swiss Vault also offers industry-specific solutions for healthcare and genomics, mobility, telemetry, fintech, agtech, and media verticals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• VaultFS: Vault File System (VFS) - breakthrough software-defined storage product providing self-healing, distributed data storage with automated upgrades, extending hardware life and reducing e-waste and energy consumption
• Vault File System

Products and services

• SuperNAS

Quantifiable outcome

• Energy consumption: 750W/PB vs 7,200W/PB standard systems (10X improvement)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability6 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• University of GothenburgcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2021Collaboration established through EIC GHG Co-creation Peer-to-Peer initiative for building low E-waste electronic data storage products. University contributes nanophotonics sensors for e-waste recycling and electronic data storage applications.
• Western DigitalcoreTechnology or IntegrationPartnership showcasing combined solutions using WD's high-capacity SMR drives with Swiss Vault's intelligent data management software for backup, active archiving, and big data workloads.
• iBridge Cloud TechnologiescoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartneriBridge provides GPU and data storage managed services powered by Swiss Vault via California Software Licensing Program (SLP) contract vehicle. Powers Kwaai's pAI-OS platform.
• KwaaicoreTechnology or IntegrationNonprofit AI lab's pAI-OS (Personal AI Operating System) powered by Swiss Vault storage. Kwaai selected iBridge with Swiss Vault for storage infrastructure in beta program.
• JetStorcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership delivering sustainable, scalable storage solutions with VaultFS software integrated with JetStor products.
• Binghamton University's ES2 CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMembership in Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems to promote renewable energy and green initiatives for sustainable data storage for 100-year research and healthcare data.
• Active Archive AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndustry alliance with Fujifilm, Seagate, HP, IBM, Iron Mountain to promote modern active archiving technologies and address data storage challenges of the 21st century.
• Sustronics Project ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean research project with 46 partners from 11 countries on greener, innovative future for electronics industry. Includes partners like Infineon, Essity, and multiple universities.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Pure Storage: All-flash enterprise storage vendor with a strong sustainability narrative (reducing energy and e-waste via Evergreen upgrades). Comparable value proposition around long hardware lifecycles, energy efficiency, and modern enterprise data management.
• NetApp: Enterprise storage incumbent with ONTAP-based hybrid and all-flash arrays serving similar healthcare, genomics, and HPC verticals. Broader portfolio but overlaps with Swiss Vault on data management, retention, and tiered storage use cases.
• Dell Technologies (PowerStore/PowerScale): Broad enterprise storage portfolio (PowerStore, PowerScale/Isilon, ECS) competing across the same healthcare, genomics, AI, and media verticals. Incumbent in large enterprise deals that Swiss Vault must displace or partner around.
• IBM Storage: Enterprise storage and tape archival systems (Spectrum Scale, Diamondback) targeting long-term retention and HPC workloads. Fellow Active Archive Alliance member; competes on enterprise archival use cases.

Direct peers

• Quantum Corporation: Long-term data storage and active archive specialist with focus on data durability, tiered storage, and petabyte-scale workloads. Comparable to Swiss Vault's 100-year retention and active archive positioning; also a fellow Active Archive Alliance member.
• Spectra Logic: Long-term data preservation and active archive specialist (BlackPearl, Vail) with strong focus on 100-year retention and tape/disk hybrid solutions. Closest peer in the long-term archival value proposition and sustainability narrative.
• Infinidat: Enterprise storage arrays with InfiniBox and InfiniGuard platforms emphasizing high performance, capacity density, and 100% availability guarantees. Competes in the same large-enterprise storage market and similarly emphasizes reliability and TCO.
• Qumulo: Software-defined file storage platform with strong presence in genomics, healthcare, and media verticals — many of the same verticals Swiss Vault targets. Competes on data management simplicity, scalability, and hybrid deployment flexibility.
• VAST Data: Software-defined, high-density, energy-efficient storage platform for AI, HPC, and large-scale archive workloads. Direct competitor in the same software-defined storage category targeting similar data-intensive customers with comparable erasure coding and scale-out architecture.

Emerging players

• WekaIO (WEKA): AI-native parallel file system optimized for GPU-intensive workloads, genomics, and HPC — overlapping directly with Swiss Vault's AI/HPC storage positioning. Often paired with NVIDIA reference architectures like Insilico's DevBox.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors7 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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