Helvo: New banking platform for Swiss SMEs

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND — 17 JUNE 2026

The Swiss fintech startup Helvo SA, headquartered in Crissier, launches today its beta version of a new banking platform for Swiss small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). The platform has been shaped over recent months through testing and feedback from alpha phase customers, operating real businesses across the country.

Built in partnership with Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AG, Helvo combines modern financial software with regulated Swiss banking infrastructure, fit for business onboarding and day-to-day financial operations. The Helvo platform connects activities like payments and invoicing directly into bookkeeping and reporting, reducing manual work, manual reconciliation and administrative complexity.

«Switzerland is home to one of the world’s most established banking sectors, yet many Swiss SMEs still spend hours every week managing financial admin across disconnected tools, spreadsheets, and manual processes»
Julien Barbotin-Larrieu CEO of Helvo

«For many founders, the challenge is not access to financial tools, but the growing complexity of managing too many separate systems across banking, invoicing, payments, bookkeeping, and reporting. Helvo was created to solve that problem by building a financial operating system for Swiss SMEs, bringing core financial and banking workflows into one integrated platform»
Julien Barbotin-Larrieu CEO of Helvo

Helvo was built from the ground up for Swiss SMEs, with workflows, compliance infrastructure and financial functionalities designed around how businesses in Switzerland actually run. Rather than adding another standalone financial tool, Helvo aims to simplify how Swiss SMEs can manage their finances by bringing essential workflows into one connected environment. More than 99% of businesses in Switzerland are SMEs, accounting for around two-thirds of jobs across the country.

«Swiss SMEs are the backbone of the Swiss economy, yet many founders still lose valuable time navigating financial admin that adds little value to their business», says Barbotin-Larrieu. «Helvo was built to give founders more clarity, less operational burden, and more time to focus on building their companies.»

Helvo’s Beta opens today to a limited group of participants across Switzerland.

Public access to the platform is expected to begin later in 2026.

For more information:

Marielle Morerod
Press Agent HELVO SA
Mobile: +41 79 607 93 92
E-mail: [email protected]

About Helvo

Helvo is building the financial operating system for Swiss SMEs. By simplifying the journey from incorporation to growth, Helvo helps businesses become financially operational faster through an integrated platform for business accounts, payments, invoicing, payroll and accounting.

Founded in 2024 and headquartered at Millennium in Crissier, Switzerland, Helvo combines regulated Swiss financial infrastructure with intelligent automation to reduce complexity and give entrepreneurs greater visibility and control over their finances. Today, Helvo employs 22 people across Switzerland and Finland, bringing together expertise in banking, technology, compliance and entrepreneurship.

By reducing administrative burden and connecting essential financial tools in one platform, Helvo helps business owners spend less time managing paperwork and more time growing their businesses.

For more information, visit www.helvo.com.

About Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AG:

Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AG is a publicly traded Swiss universal bank founded in 1868. Today, it forms a corporate group together with Finstar AG and Swiss Bankers Prepaid Services AG (Swiss Bankers). As of the end of December 2025, the group employed 502 full-time equivalent staff members. The regional bank operates 13 branches and 1 advisory office in the canton of Aargau. In the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) sector, the group provides digital banking services to various financial intermediaries, such as neobanks or fintech startups. HBL Asset Management is active in professional asset management and supports the group in the BaaS business with investment solutions. HBL Solutions designs and implements banking services for non-banks as well. For all its solutions, the bank uses the Finstar core banking system, which is developed by Finstar AG and also sold to third-party banks. In 2025, Hypothekarbank Lenzburg acquired Swiss Bankers, which operates as an independent subsidiary focused on the card and payment business. Hypothekarbank Lenzburg has received various awards for its technological innovation. Additionally, in 2026, HBL Asset Management was awarded the LSEG Lipper Fund Award for the second consecutive year for its Swiss franc bond fund.

More at: www.hbl.ch, www.finstar.ch, www.hblasset.ch, www.hblsolutions.ch, and www.swissbankers.ch.