Pometry Wins 2025 Swiss Cyber Startup Challenge

LONDON, UK – 30 October 2025 – Pometry, the temporal graph analytics company, today announced it has been named the winner of the 2025 Cyber Startup Challenge, organised by the Cyber-Defence Campus of armasuisse Wissenschaft und Technologie (Federal Office for Defence Procurement).

The challenge, now in its sixth year, promotes collaboration between research, industry, and government to pioneer new technologies forcyber defence. Pometry was selected from a strong international field for itstime-based graph platform, which provides real-time analysis of dynamic data relationships.

Unlike traditional systems that capture static snapshots, Pometry’s technology enables analysts to see how data and relationships evolve, connect, and behave over time. This temporal-first approach is critical for detecting modern, sophisticated cyber threats, uncovering hidden patterns, and identifying complex fraud, which often unfolds across different time scales.

As part of the award, Pometry will conduct a proof ofconcept (PoC) with the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) and the Swiss Armed Forces, applying its solution to a real-world national security environment.

"We are exceptionally proud to win this prestigious challenge and for the recognition from armasuisse," said Dr. Ben Steer,Chief Technology Officer at Pometry. "In cyber defence, adversaries are always adapting and probing for new vulnerabilities. To defeat them, you must be able to analyse data temporally and stop them proactively, before a threat crystallizes. This win underscores the power to deliver this next-generation capability, and we look forward to replicating the success we have had with other commands and now deploying it with the Swiss Armed Forces."

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Read the official announcement: https://www.ar.admin.ch/en/newnsb/JOIPFkGSG2ST1J2Q8RjIv

About Pometry

Pometry is a temporal graph intelligence company, pioneering a new dimension of data analysis that empowers organizations to make forward-looking, proactive, decisions by understanding how data evolves over time.

Using a high-performance temporal graph engine, Pometry’s platform helps organizations uncover sophisticated risks and previously invisible opportunities by unifying siloed data and revealing the entire history of how relationships and behaviours change. It solves critical challenges in advanced fraud and AML detection, AI-native application development, and startup acceleration where understanding temporal context provides a decisive competitive advantage.

The Pometry temporal graph engine enhances analytical performance with query resolutions up to 200x faster than state-of-the-art graph systems and 1000x faster legacy graph databases, capable of ingesting 2.8TB of data in just 26 minutes on a laptop. This efficiency allows startups to maximize their runway by running complex graph machine learning on lean hardware, while enterprises can dramatically accelerate investigation times and reduce false positives.

Founded by experts in high-performance computing and graph analytics, Pometry is dedicated to building the foundational data layer for the next generation of intelligent applications. For more information, visit www.pometry.com or follow us on LinkedIn.