Trust Exchange builds the European standard for backability.
Two questions decide whether a young company gets backed. What is it worth, and whether the people behind it can be trusted to build it. Across Europe both are answered by assertion. There is no independent way to measure either, and no shared language an answer could be read in.
We build that instrument, and we set that language.
Martin and Camille came at this from opposite sides of the same table.
Camille Accolas, co-founder.
Martin Studer, co-founder.
Camille Accolas, co-founder.
Camille spent a decade moving between founders and the people who fund them across Europe. She built the first venture programme for nature and biodiversity, taking it from an idea to 500 applications in 3 years, more than 20 teams supported, and over 1 million dollars into early-stage companies that had no established way to be valued.
Martin Studer, co-founder.
Martin spent 30 years on the side that decides. Senior roles at EY and Zurich Insurance Group, a CFA, and more than 400 board and committee meetings across industries. Long enough to know what a promise is worth before anyone has tested it, and how rarely the two match.
We work in opposite directions, and that is the point. Martin goes down. Analytical, starts from a blank page, and will have built the whole structure before anyone has agreed there is something to solve. Camille goes out. Detail-driven and action-first, takes an outline and makes it real enough to put in front of people. Vertical and horizontal. The standard needs both, because a method nobody adopts is a paper, and a network with no method behind it is a mailing list.
Neither of us could do this alone. That’s why we’re doing it together.
VALUATE™, our own methodology.
All assessments run on VALUATE. Trust Exchange holds the standard. It works in 3 layers.
VALUATE™, our own methodology.
All assessments run on VALUATE. Trust Exchange holds the standard. It works in 3 layers.
Our values are anchored and strong.
01
Reciprocity
We are all here to share and give, so that we can receive and learn.
02
We welcome humans, not brands. All we ask is that you are present, and yourself.
03
We create spaces that foster and accelerate trust and collaboration.
We are the meeting ground for unlikely encounters, supporting individuals and organisations in moments of change and transition.
Let’s reshape exchange, restore trust and redefine worth.
Tell us what you are building and where you are stuck. Book a discovery call, or send a note. We read everything.
