Top 5 Agriculture (agtech) Angel Investors in Switzerland

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Agriculture (agtech) startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Agriculture (agtech) companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Agriculture (agtech) Angel Investors in Switzerland

Investor	Agriculture (agtech) Switzerland investments
Rayyan Islam	1
Ruedi Noser	1
Fabio Borzatta	1
JP Duque	1
Peter Letmathe	1

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Rayyan Islam is the Co-Founder and General Partner at 8090 Industries. As serial entrepreneur, investor and advisor focused on industrial technology and the low-carbon economy, the companies Rayyan's invested in, sourced and advised have grown to over $8B in market value and have gone to raise further financing from the likes of SequoiaCapital, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Venrock, Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Rayyan previously spent time helping source technology investments for multiple family offices globally, particularly focused towards industrialists based in the Texas and American midwest region and began his VC career at leading East Coast seed stage venture firm, Romulus Capital, where he sourced the firm’s most valued investment, EquipmentShare.A product manager by trade, he worked stints at Spotify, was on the founding team of a subscription airline and began his career supporting M&A transactions for industrial clients at Deloitte as well as economic developments efforts for Deloitte Consulting’s Emerging Markets Practice. Rayyan is a Forbes 30U30 Fellow, served as a United Nations Youth Delegate and is a recipient of the Outstanding Youth Delegate Award.Influenced by his family upbringing in Bangladesh, he personally witnessed energy security issues and the ramifications of climate change at a young age and its impact on communities around the world. Determined to make a serious dent on the issue, Rayyan supports a cadre of climate solutions, drafted policy recommendations to President Joe Biden’s climate transition team and is the editor of Decarbon Weekly, a decarbonization focused newsletter which counts leading climate scientists, members of state and local governments, climate tech founders and ESG focused investors and foundations amongst its subscription base. Rayyan co-founded the industrial decarbonization fund at 8090 Partners, in partnership with prominent industrial and energy families from around the world to invest, support and accelerate breakthrough technology companies decarbonizing every industrial sector driven by radical economic advantages.Rayyan and his work has been featured on Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Huffington Post and Forbes.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Biotechnology, Energy
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
Cache — Biomolecules are the next bits of the 21st century. So we're developing the first wet operating system for storing, accessing, and computing biomolecules at scale to make them widely accessible and useful. We're enabling the storage and access to the whole data universe—digital and biological—forever so that we don't have to deleteor dispose of anything ever again.
Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.

Ruedi Noser

Investment focus

GovTech, Big Data, Politics
Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Farmy.ch — Farmy.ch is an online marketplace for local and organic food, directly from farmers and food makers. It places a lot of importance on the selection of producers and its uncompromising focus on quality and transparency. The company smart logistics and own fleet and e-mobiles deliver these goods incomparably fresh, emission-reduced, and time-savingdirectly to users’ front doors with its own fleet of e-mobiles.Farmy.ch provides online retailing of fresh and local food products with more than 10'000 hand-picked products from more than 1'000 authentic producers. It also offers products include fruits and vegetables, cheeses from Swiss dairies, meat, delicacies, and sweet temptations from real bakers and confectioners, as well as pantry and drugstore items. Farmy.ch was founded in June 2014 by Roman Hartmann and Tobias Schubert and is based in
politik.ch – PolitAnalytics — PolitAnalytics is a data and knowledge management platform for experts in politics, fully neutral and non-partisan. We serve policy makers, public affairs / government relations experts, thought leaders and pundits, compliance managers and risk assessors, politicians and their staff, as well as scientific researchers and journalists.We usethe power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide predictive policy making analytics. Our customers can track the political development of their topics quickly and in real time, while the platform provides estimates of the speed of legal implementation, or the likelihood of success, along with knowledge management and collaboration features.

Fabio Borzatta

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Agriculture, Organic Food
Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Farmy.ch — Farmy.ch is an online marketplace for local and organic food, directly from farmers and food makers. It places a lot of importance on the selection of producers and its uncompromising focus on quality and transparency. The company smart logistics and own fleet and e-mobiles deliver these goods incomparably fresh, emission-reduced, and time-savingdirectly to users’ front doors with its own fleet of e-mobiles.Farmy.ch provides online retailing of fresh and local food products with more than 10'000 hand-picked products from more than 1'000 authentic producers. It also offers products include fruits and vegetables, cheeses from Swiss dairies, meat, delicacies, and sweet temptations from real bakers and confectioners, as well as pantry and drugstore items. Farmy.ch was founded in June 2014 by Roman Hartmann and Tobias Schubert and is based in

Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Colombia, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
Pura Mente — Meditation app in Spanish
Plurall — At Plurall, we are applying technology, data science, and a hyper-focus on customer to deliver mission critical financial services to those entrepreneurs and SMEs who have been left out of the digital revolution. Despite decades of product design, market presence, and market dominance by incumbents, we believe the ideal financial servicesplatform – one that is accessible, instantaneous, friendly, and transparent – hasn’t been built yet.With the support of Visa and leveraging in proven technology from well established fintech suppliers in Latam, we will launch our MVP in the 1st Q of 2022. Our waitlist is available at www.plurall.com

Peter Letmathe served as Member of Executive Board at Nestlé S.A., a holding Company of Nestle Philippines, Inc. Mr. Brabeck-Letmathe has been leading Nestlé Group since 1997. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Nestlé S.A. from 1997 to April 2008. Peter Letmathe joined Nestle SA in 1968 and served as its General Manager since 1992. Heserved as an Executive Vice President of Nestlé S.A., since January 1992 and devised and implemented its brand strategy, consisting of a clear hierarchy of strategic brands on the global, regional and local level. He served as the Chief Executive Officer since April 1998. He served as Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of Nestlé Ecuador since 1981, as the President and the Managing Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nestlé Venezuela since 1983, as Senior Vice President in Charge of the Culinary Products Division of Nestlé, International headquarters Vevey since 1987 and Executive Vice President of worldwide responsibility for Strategic Business Group 2, Marketing, Communication and Public Affairs of Nestlé S.A. since 1992. He served as the Salesman and Specialist for new products at Nestlé, Austria since 1968 and served as a National Sales Manager and Director of Marketing of Nestlé, Chile from 1970 to 1980. He has been the Chairman of Nestlé S.A. since April 14, 2005. He has been Chairman of Credit Suisse (Australia) Limited since 2008 and Chairman of Delta Topco since 2012. He serves as the Chairman of Nestlé Health Science S.A. He serves as Vice Chairman of L'Oreal India Pvt. Ltd. He has been the Vice Chairman of the Board of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings Inc., since June 26, 2003. He serves as Vice Chairman of Winterthur (Switzerland). He served as Vice Chairman of Alcon, Inc. He also served as Vice-Chairman of AXA Leben AG (formerly, Winterthur Life Insurance Company) and AXA Versicherungen AG (formerly, Winterthur Group). He serves as a Member of Foundation Board at World Economic Forum. He serves as a Director of L'Oreal USA, Inc. He served as a Director at Alcon Inc. from 2002 to May 2, 2006 and Lead Independent Director of Credit Suisse Group from March 2001 to 2002. He served as a Director of Winterthur Swiss Insurance. He serves as Member of ERT (European Round Table of Industrialists), the Bretton Woods Committee's International Council, as well as of the International Association for the Promotion and Protection of Private Foreign Investments (APPI) and Avenir Suisse. He graduated from the University of World Trade in Vienna with a Degree in Economics.