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Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) VC Funds in Switzerland

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC funds 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 50 Agriculture (agtech) VC Funds in Switzerland

Investor	Agriculture (agtech) Switzerland investments
Zürcher Kantonal Bank	7
Verve Ventures	5
Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT)	3
Climate Capital	3
4FO Ventures	2
SICTIC	2
Spacecadet Ventures	2
Capagro	2
Earthshot Ventures	2
Bulba Ventures	2
FJ Labs	2
ACE & Company	1
PortfoLion Capital Partners	1
Accion Venture Lab	1
InsurTech.vc	1
ITOCHU Corporation	1
Triodos Investment Management	1
Almaz Capital	1
Women's World Banking	1
10X Capital	1
Asahi Group Holdings	1
Boundary Holding	1
Übermorgen Ventures	1
Investbridge Capital	1
Underline Ventures	1
Brainforest	1
TLcom Capital Partners	1
Foundation for technological innovation	1
Privilege Ventures	1
TR Invest	1
Omidyar Network	1
Landscape Resilience Fund	1
Sucafina	1
VI Partners	1
ICOS Capital Management	1
Mercy Corps Ventures	1
fenaco	1
FYRFLY Venture Partners	1
Swisscom Ventures	1
Mulago Foundation	1
JD Investments	1
Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung	1
Luzerner Kantonalbank	1
Noveus Capital	1
Cavalry Ventures	1
Lowercarbon Capital	1
IDH	1
Ponderosa Ventures	1
KittyHawk Ventures	1
BayWa	1

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Zürcher Kantonalbank - as an independent, incorporated public-law institution - is wholly owned by the canton of Zurich.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, Japan, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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ARTIRIA Medical — Artiria Medical empowers catheters and guidewires. We develop cutting edge technologies to revolutionize the limits of neurointerventional procedures, enabling a seamless navigation and stroke treatment.
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Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Aktiia — Founded in Switzerland in May 2018 out of a passion to turn insights into action in the fight against hypertension, Aktiia’s groundbreaking medical technology provides people and their physicians comprehensive insights into blood pressure patterns that will inform the diagnosis and management of hypertension. Now available in the United Kingdom,Aktiia has received its CE Mark as a Class IIa medical device - signifying that the device has been assessed to meet high safety, health and environmental protection requirements in Europe. To learn more, visit Aktiia.com.
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ARTIRIA Medical — Artiria Medical empowers catheters and guidewires. We develop cutting edge technologies to revolutionize the limits of neurointerventional procedures, enabling a seamless navigation and stroke treatment.

The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) has been helping startups since 1994, encourages entrepreneurship & supports innovation.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Voltiris — Voltiris filters natural sunlight to transmit it to plants and recycle the "wasted" sunlight into green electricity.
PeriVision — At Perivision, we combine artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and the cloud to build the next generation systems to understand visual function. Our systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.
SwissInspect — SwissInspect is a platform for traceable structural digital twins of infrastructure. Detect and quantify damage using state of the art ai models.

Climate Capital is an investment firm that supports companies that directly or indirectly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Investment focus

Energy, Biotechnology, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Byterat — Byterat is a data platform for battery engineers that provides battery testing data.
Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
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4FO Ventures

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Positrigo — NeuroLF is an ultra-compact brain Positron Emission Tomography system. Our technology makes functional imaging accessible for people worldwide.
Ecorobotix — ecoRobotix contributes to an agriculture that respects the environment, focusing on soil and hydrological resources conservation and using a minimum amount of energy. ecoRobotix aims to offer precise, safe, reliable and affordable robotic solutions that simplify farmers’ life to produce healthy food. In particular, its revolutionary solar-poweredweeding robot offers a more sustainable use of herbicides while reducing farmers costs.
ARTIRIA Medical — Artiria Medical empowers catheters and guidewires. We develop cutting edge technologies to revolutionize the limits of neurointerventional procedures, enabling a seamless navigation and stroke treatment.

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Gaia Tech — Gaia Technologies turns agricultural sidestreams into high-value ingredients for cosmetics, food, and feed manufacturers.
PeriVision — At Perivision, we combine artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and the cloud to build the next generation systems to understand visual function. Our systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.
Health Yourself — Health Yourself is making routine healthcare services available digitally and from home. So far, we are offering lab tests from home, medication subscriptions and personalised supplements for health concerns ranging from sexual health to prevention.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

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Sock Finance — Sock is a mobile finance app that helps people build wealth in the world of digital currency. We provide an instant, trustworthy, and low-cost way to send money, invest, and earn with crypto anywhere in the world while maintaining self-custody.
Taxa Technologies — Designer probiotics for personal care

The First European Independent Venture Capital fund dedicated to AgTech and Food Tech

Investment focus

Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
France, Sweden, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

77 Foods — La Vie is developing a 100% vegetable edible fat with the ambition of offering different types of vegetable meats.
Agriodor — Agriodor is to provide concrete and effective alternatives to insecticides to help farmers produce more sustainably.
Cuure — We are building a great and honest company that delivers personalized vitamins and food supplements to everyone so they improve their daily wellness and consciousness

Earthshot Ventures invests in entrepreneurs making a dent in climate change. Collectively, our team has invested in 150+ climate startups over the last twelve years and celebrated more than 25 exits.

Investment focus

Transportation, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Mitra Chem — Mitra Chem is innovating and commercializing iron-based cathode materials to enable mass-market electrification for electric vehicles, energy storage solutions and beyond.
SuperCircle — SuperCircle develops a tech platform and reverse logistics system that powers circularity for retail brands. It links retail with the waste management industry to close the loop and eliminate post-consumer clothing waste.
Parade — Find and manage carriers, boost margins. Precise pricing, optimized bidding, shipper connectivity.

Empowering machine learning startups. Funding positive transformation.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Belarus, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Gero — Utilizing whole-exome sequencing data for in-human AI drug discovery
Zenia — Thanks to Zenia, yoga beginners now have easier and more affordable access to dive into yoga at home and practice with all the information they need. We believe nothing looks as good as healthy feels.Safety first. We’ve built Zenia to be a guide that adapts to your pace, monitors the progress, and gives gentle corrections. Whether you want tostart yoga, build strength, get in shape, feel better, or be inspired, the app will help you to achieve your goals.Easy. Safe yoga practice doesn’t need to happen at an offline yoga studio. You can access the Zenia studio online from the comfort of your home and, while you’re at it, get instant feedback from your teacher.
VOIR — Voir app lets you try on makeovers, accessories and hair colors in a real time. Mix different makeup ideas in order to create your perfect look. All beauty features are true-to-life. You can use selected style and colors in real life and look amazing.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mama — Hispanic super market with ready-to-eat food, frozen goods, and Venezuelan snacks at a great price. Delivered to your door across the US. From pantry to tropical fruits and homemade desserts, it's all in here!
ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
Midas — U.S. Treasuries, On-chain.

ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage. ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
Pledge — Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to measure, reduce and offset the climate impact of their products.

Portfolion is a CEE-focused multi-stage investor with a flexible fund structure that allows it to back companies from or before 1st client until the end of their journey. The fund manager has backed some of the CEE region’s most successful companies including SEON, Novakid, Tresorit, Packhelp, and Starschema.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Big Data
Series A, Seed, Series B
Hungary, Poland, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

deskbird — Most intuitive and people-centric - deskbird's hybrid workplace solution that employees will love. For all flexibe companies, from startup to corporate.
Mindgram — Mindgram is a science-based platform and mobile app for complete mental wellness.
Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
Channel19 — Channel19 is building a platform for small truckers to aggregate freight from all of their digital broker and load board relationships in one place and find the best freight to move for their business. Truckers using Channel19 earn up to 20% more revenue and can save over $3,000 per truck per year in dispatch.

InsurTech.vc is a venture capital firm in early stage and later stage investments.

Investment focus

Insurance, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Israel, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Sweetch — Sweetch is an Artificial Intelligence based platform for large scale prediction, prevention and outcome improvement of chronic diseases - diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity. They believe that every individual should live a healthier lifestyle. Currently, no scalable and cost-effective solution exists that helps the prediabeticpopulation, therefore providing some sort of guidance is vital. Sweetch reduces the risk of diabetes and improves outcomes of chronic diseases by implementing a personalized intervention that focuses on emotional support and motivation to drive behavior change.Sweetch developed a proprietary machine-learning platform that predicts an individual’s 3-year risk for developing Metabolic Syndrome related diseases – type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity.
Xilva — Invest in forests with a regenerative approach. Our forest investment platform allows you to invest in forests that are managed sustainably and regeneratively.
Expatrio Global Services GmbH —

The history of ITOCHU Corporation (hereinafter "ITOCHU") dates back to 1858 when the Company's founder Chubei Itoh commenced linen trading operations. Since then, ITOCHU has evolved and grown over 150 years into a sogo shosha, engaging in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products such as textiles,machinery, information and communications-related products, metals, products related to oil and other energy sources, general merchandise, chemicals, and provisions and food. In addition, ITOCHU has made multifaceted investments in insurance agencies, finance, construction, real estate trading, and warehousing as well as operations and businesses incidental or related to those fields.

Investment focus

Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eze — Wholesale Electronics: Shop Wholesale iPhones, MacBook, iPad, Samsung Watch, Apple accessories & other electronics in bulk at wholesale prices
ElevateBio — We provide the tools, time, and environment to innovate and accelerate development of life-saving Cell and gene therapies.
Veloce Energy — Veloce Energy is innovating technology and financing models to reduce physical and financial barriers to EV Charging infrastructure deployment

Triodos is a global pioneer of sustainable banking. Their mission is to make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
India, Germany, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
La Bolsa Social — La Bolsa Social is an equity crowdfunding platform that aims at funding the growth of companies with a positive social and environmental impact. The platform is focused on the investors who seek a comprehensive profitability in the economic, social, and environmental sectors. It connects impact investors with companies that improve society and theenvironment. Its objective is to improve the financing of companies with growth potential that has a positive impact on society and the environment and promoting ethical finance. Founded in 2015, La Bolsa Social is authorized in Spain by the CNMV.
Bridge Taxi Finance — Bridge Taxi Finance offers bridge parts, accessories, vehicle management, bridge services, and panel services.

Almaz Capital is an international venture capital firm investing in early stage, capital efficient technology companies. A unique bridge fund headquartered in Silicon Valley, Almaz Capital connects Eastern European/former Soviet engineering and entrepreneurial talent to the U.S. market and helps build global businesses. The firm invests inhigh-growth sectors such as artificial intelligence and blockchain applications, data engineering, cybersecurity, industrial IoT, networking architecture and infrastructure. Its investors include Cisco, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. Founded in 2008, Almaz Capital has invested in over 30 portfolio companies and has had nine exits to date.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Russian Federation, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low/no-code solutions with ready-made constructors that reduce the need for large resources and decrease time to market
ZEDEDA — ZEDEDA provides a simple and scalable cloud-based orchestration solution that delivers visibility, control and security for distributed edge computing.
WORKERBASE — Agile manufacturing to increase production flexibility and ensure business continuity. Intelligent process execution for the connected worker to increase operational flexibility and reduce costs in Industry 4.0

Women's World Banking is dedicated to providing women with the means to gain Financial Inclusion through access to finance and technology. Contact us today

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series B, Funding Round, Seed
India, Kenya, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
Bike Bazaar — Bike Bazaar is a two-wheeler life cycle company where you can buy, sell, exchange any two-wheeler or avail finance for your vehicle. The company provides a range of affordable solutions and hassle-free experience along the two wheeler lifecycle, which include financing to purchase new and pre owned two wheelers, access to green bikes, insurance,and a transparent marketplace for buying and selling of preowned two wheelers.Bike Bazaar was founded in 2017 and is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Sitara — Sewa Grih Rin provides affordable housing finance to the under-served low income households in urban and peri-urban locations.Incorporated in 2011, SEWA Grih Rin Limited was envisaged as a means for the under-served households to access affordable and formal housing finance in urban & peri-urban locations. We learnt that low-income householdsheld two facets of their life very close to their heart: they treasured the education of their children; and aspired to self-own a property, a home of their own.SEWA Grih Rin Limited’s work is aimed at directly improving the quality of life of informally employed households, especially their women members, by creating a tangible financial asset in their name. We provide an affordable alternative to those households whose credit capacity falls behind the widening financing gap given the informal nature of their employment.

10X invests across the capital structure, alongside the world's top technology investors. They align Wall Street and Silicon Valley by bringing institutional capital to high growth ventures in private and public markets, helping founders and investors achieve scale and liquidity while retaining upside and control.10X was founded in 2004 andis based in New York.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jupiter — Jupiter is a grocery automation service that takes care of the shopping, delivery, and even meal-planning.
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Maximus — Elevate energy, sex drive, and promote hair growth with our doctor-prescibed programs. Featuring enclomiphene testosterone improvement. Find your protocol.

The Asahi Group aims to satisfy its customers with the highest levels of quality and integrity, while contributing to the promotion of healthy living and the enrichment of society worldwide.

Investment focus

Family, Nutrition, Recycling
Funding Round, Series A
Japan, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

JEPLAN — JEPLAN Creates New Recycling Infrastructures & Managements For the Future of Our Planet.
Embion Technologies — EMBION, an EPFL spinoff provides disruptive platform technology to innovate next-generation plant based bioatives for human and animal nutrition, affordably.
Little Houses Group — The goal of the Little Houses Group is to create a network of community-led spaces that improve people's lives through education, support, and recreation. Our clubs will be hubs for people to enjoy face-to-face interaction in a world that can be so focused on being online. The opportunity to see old friends and meet new ones, a haven forparents, a place where children can be children, and where everyone can be seen and heard.

Boundary Holding is a European deep tech investment firm with presence in Luxembourg and France that invests in technologies enabling 4th industrial revolution.

Investment focus

Drones, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Aero41 — Aero41 is developing a drone entirely dedicated to crop protection, a flexible and intelligent platform that will integrate AI and collect data to make crop protection more and more eco-responsible while being effective to ensure the necessary yields.
Neo Medical — Neo aims at transforming the current approach to spinal surgery by providing a unique answer to the worldwide strive for healthcare cost optimization through efficient, versatile and high quality systems.
Remidio Innovative Solutions — Remidio is engaged in designing & developing Smart, Innovative & Disruptive Imaging Technologies in Vision Care, using a product development approach called “Design Thinking”.As part of the Design Thinking process, Remidio takes into account different facets of a customer’s experience with a product, as part of its overall productdesign approach, with the intent of inventing a new customer experience with the product.Customers can be an amazing resource to glean insight and understanding, but they are generally not able to articulate their latent and anticipated needs. Remidio hence focuses on making quick functional prototypes, that can then be given to the customer to understand these latent needs while observing their use of the prototypes.Founded by professionals with a passion for product innovation, Remidio is currently focussed on creating game changing products and solutions in the ophthalmology space.We look at constraints posed by a developing nation context- infrastructure, skilled resources and affordable pricing as an opportunity to innovate.We bring to market very high quality products that are reliable and extremely simple to use.

We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Renewable Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Finland

Portfolio highlights

InPlanet — Our vision is to to remove gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere while regenerating soils in the tropics.
Openvolt — A developer friendly API for unlocking access to smart meter data across Europe. Build more impactful apps in Energy Efficiency, ESG, EV Charging, Demand Response and a host of other use cases.
E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.

Founding Member and Managing Director

Investment focus

SaaS, AgTech, Farming
Seed, Series A
Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Breedr — Save 200+ hours per year with livestock & beef cattle management software and finish 5 months earlier and trade directly, plus loads more, on Breedr.
Infrascreen — The transparent aluminium screen for extra energy-savings in greenhouses. Thanks to it's low-e coating, it saves up to 20% more than a regular energy-saving screen

Underline Ventures partners at the earliest stages with Eastern European founders building high-growth startups with global ambitions

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed
Romania, United States, Serbia

Portfolio highlights

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Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online
SERA Intelligence — SERA Intelligence is an AgTech company that offers a cultivation management & analytics platform for greenhouses using machine learning.

We build ventures by leveraging science, technology, entrepreneurship and our unique access to indigenous and local knowledge.

Investment focus

B2B, Forestry, Marketplace
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Xilva — Invest in forests with a regenerative approach. Our forest investment platform allows you to invest in forests that are managed sustainably and regeneratively.

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

Foundation for technological innovation provides support for start-up founders with projects based in the business and residential area.

Investment focus

AgTech, Medical, Medical Device
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Gaia Tech — Gaia Technologies turns agricultural sidestreams into high-value ingredients for cosmetics, food, and feed manufacturers.
Pulsewave — PulseWave AG is a digital health care company redefining the way arterial sclerosis is clinically diagnosed and monitored over time. PulseWave’s development, the TempleGuard combines a wearable biosensor device worn conveniently and permanently with patient’s eyeglasses and cloud-based data analytics with powerful proprietary algorithms thatdistill data from millions of heartbeats into clinically actionable information. PulseWave believes improvements in blood pressure monitoring and characterization have the potential to change clinical management of patients.

Privilege Ventures is the venture capital arm of Privilège Management and invest in seed and early stage companies. Geographical focus is Switzerland and the rest of Europe. Focus sectors are industrial-tech, med-tech, wearables and in general ICT.

Investment focus

Health Care, Hardware, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Wyth — Wyth makes technologies that help humans create meaningful relationships by bringing emotions, stories and connections beyond the interface.
Smeetz — Smeetz is the future of a unified, data-driven and dynamic pricing-oriented commerce for attractions and cultural venues.
Avelo — Our mission is to save lives by bringing fast and actionable infectious disease diagnosis closer to the patient. Avelo's solution is a breath collection device. It works with existing molecular tests to detect multiple respiratory tract infections causing pneumonia

Private Investment Company

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Apps
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Spain, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

CompPair — CompPair is an EPFL spin-off solving damage issues for the composite materials industry by developping smart sustainable textiles.
Pipra — PIPRA AG (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk assessment) is developing a cutting-edge AI-based pre-operative test to assess a patient's risk of suffering from cognitive disorders after surgery.
Fidentity — Fidentity wants to inject trust from the real world into online interactions.

Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to theircommunities.They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Education
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vyng — Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond.Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and isbacked by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.
Doubtnut — Doubt solutions for Maths, Science, CBSE, NCERT, IIT JEE, NEET & Class 6 to 12. Click, type question to get instant video answers solved by Doubtnut team.
RailYatri — Indian Railways Train Enquiry, Insights & IRCTC eTicket booking - RailYatri

The LRF aims to mobilize finance for climate adaptation projects for sustainable agricultural & forestry supply chains & that improve the resilience of smallholder farmers in developing countries.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Organic Food
Debt Financing
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Koa Switzerland — Exploring the cocoa fruit's full potential with Koa. Craft delicious creations, packed with flavour and positive impact. Learn more about the 100% natural cocoa fruit products.

Sucafina operates as a coffee company. Sucafina help roasters find the right coffee for any quality or budget, macrolot to microlot

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Image Recognition
Series A, Corporate Round
Brazil, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Csmart.ai — Csmart | Towards Innovation in Coffee. AI-based technologies for coffee sorting
Farmer Connect — Farmer Connect is an ag-tech scaleup that provides software to help smallholder farmers connect digitally to the agriculture supply chain using AI and blockchain technology.

VI Partners are Venture Capitalists successfully financing outstanding teams and innovations in the Healthcare and Technology space since 20 years.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Series A, Series B, Series C
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xeltis — Xeltis is pioneering a restorative approach in cardiovascular therapy.
LeaseTeq — LeaseTeq bietet Privat- sowie Unternehmenskunden das erste komplett digitale Leasingangebot.
Unique — Try Unique Finance GPT to increase productivity by automating manual workload through AI and ChatGPT solutions.

Icos Capital accelerates sustainability by investing in breakthrough technologies that can deliver reduction and / or avoidance of 1 G T CO2e by 2050 Lower 1GT CO2e by 2050 The Challenge >Annual global greenhouse gas emissionsin gigaton of carbon dioxide-equivalentshttps://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissionsThe Opportunity >A multi-trillion market about to double in size in the next decadeClimate Tech is now a fast growing market ... Read More

Investment focus

Solar, Water, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
The Netherlands, Switzerland, Israel

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WholeFiber — Verbeter je darmgezondheid met prebiotische vezels van Wholefiber. Ontdek de voordelen van natuurlijke probiotica en prebiotica voeding voor een gezonde darmflora.
Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
PEF Technologies — PEF Technologies offers a non-thermal method of digesting food that uses durational electric fields. The product has an extended shelf life due to the nanoPEF food processing, but the bio accessibility and bioavailability of the nutritive components, as well as any heat treatment, are often removed. Their juice preservation method, known aspasteurization, gives juice a shelf life while still maintaining its flavor and nutritional content.

Our impact investing arm, Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises that increase the resilience of people and communities in frontier markets.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Kenya, United States, Nigeria

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Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency

fenaco is an enterprise organised as a cooperative. It originated in 1993 from the amalgamation of six agricultural cooperative associations. You can find out more about us here.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Agriculture
Seed
Switzerland

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YASAI AG — Urban vertical farming service company developing and operating farming technologies for B2B and B2C customers. YASAI offers Vertical Farming as a Service based on a circular economy. Our mission is to contribute to circular & local food systems to grow more with less for the health of people, plants & the planet.

Fyrfly Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on data and intelligence. The firm prefers to invest in startups and early-stage companies in the information technology sector.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland, France

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rready — Boost internal innovation and engage employees with ready-to-use programs, accompanied by experts in intrapreneurship.
Nova — Automate & scale your customer acquisition with AI. Take your personalized marketing to the next level with Nova. Request a demo and discover how our platform can transform your business.
Portal AI — Unlock Brand Value with Intelligent Marketing.

Swisscom Ventures is an venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, that specializes in early stage tech investments founded in 2007.Swisscom Ventures invests in growth companies with emerging business models and technologies of strategic relevance to Swisscom's core business. As a value-add investor, Swisscom brings its investees the technicalexpertise and strategic insights of an incumbent telecom operator. We act as a bridge to Swisscom's operational business units, which portfolio companies can also leverage as a test environment for their products and services.Swisscom Ventures seeks minority stakes in companies related to the information/communications/entertainment space.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Switzerland, United States, France

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ecoRobotix — ecoRobotix contributes to an agriculture that respects the environment, focusing on soil and hydrological resources conservation and using a minimum amount of energy. ecoRobotix aims to offer precise, safe, reliable and affordable robotic solutions that simplify farmers’ life to produce healthy food. In particular, its revolutionary solar-poweredweeding robot offers a more sustainable use of herbicides while reducing farmers costs.
Flyability — Flyability is an EPFL spin-off dedicated to creating safe, collision-tolerant robotics to access inaccessible places, replacing dangerous human operations with unmanned devices.
AccelerComm — Our patented, market-leading IP solutions for 4G and 5G are configurable for quick, high-performance implementations across a wide range of applications.

Mulago finds and funds high-performance organizations that tackle the basic needs of the very poor. We fight poverty. Our job is to find the organizations best able to create change and give them what they need to do it.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Ghana, India

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Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGOâ€™s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
Hello Tractor — Hello Tractor is an award winning agtech social enterprise that focuses on connecting tractor owners and smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa through a farm equipment sharing application. We have over the years emerged as the leading provider of technology solutions designed for the tractor services market, capturing 75% of private commercialtractor inflows to Nigeria, expanding to a total of 16 markets across the continent as well as reaching well over 500,000 smallholder farmers.
Particles for Humanity — Particles for Humanity transforms medical technologies originated in academic labs into products that meet the health care needs of people in developing countries.

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Investment focus

Health Care, AgTech, Medical
Series A, Series C
China, Switzerland, United States

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LifeDojo — LifeDojo is turning the traditional corporate wellbeing model upside down, by giving employees a platform to design their own health behavior change programs. The result? Large, self-insured employers achieve unprecedented engagement, leading to 45% of employees creating new health habits that stick for 6+ months. With a demonstrable 4.4x ROI ina $31B industry where long-term behavior change is rare, LifeDojo is being trusted by the world’s largest companies to reduce healthcare costs, improve productivity, and inspire a genuine culture of health.
SiBionics — SiBionics is a medtech specialized in R&D & commercialization of implantable medical devices and medical imaging artificial intelligence.
AgroSustain — AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. It aims to reduce food waste and support organic food production by developing farm to fork solutions, like biological fungicides and coatings.

Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung is a Swiss investment firm owned by the Eckenstein family. It invests money in companies such as technological startups across Switzerland. Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung has a headquarters in Basel in Switzerland.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Software
Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United States

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b-rayZ — Optimize and streamline your breast imaging workflow with AI excellence and precision from b-rayZ. Your trusted partner in breast diagnostics.
NeoPrediX — NeoPrediX develops decision support tools with maternal, neonatal and perinatal screening platforms to evaluate, optimize and personalize medical strategies in pediatrics. We utilize intelligent algorithms and digital health solutions for neonatal and perinatal care based on deep medical data and science, developed by experienced scientists,pediatricians, and neonatologists. We transform medical data into intelligent predictions to support clinical decisions.
Viebeg — A diversity of products for a diversity of health care needs.

Luzerner Kantonalbank (LUKB) is the leading bank in Canton Lucerne. As a traditional full-service provider, it offers all of the services that clients have come to expect from a modern bank, with a focus on basic banking, mortgages, financing for small and midsized enterprises (SMEs) and wealth management advice.

Investment focus

Software, Property Management, AgTech
Series A
Switzerland

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Bluetector — Bluetector focuses on the treatment of manure and biogas digestate.Farms have much too much manure and not enough land to spread their manure. Farmers have to transport their manure over hundreds of kilometers and pay up to $ 25 per cubic meter. Our technology costs $ 4 per m3 and turns the manure into clean water, eliminating the need fortransport.
emonitor — Emonitor offers a complete set of tools for the real estate marketers, agents, developers, asset managers, investors, and city planners to bring people and their homes together.
crowdhouse — Crowdhouse makes real estate, as the biggest asset class in the world, efficient, transparent and accessible for everybody with it’s end to end digital eco system for real estate investments, transactions and financing.

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Investment focus

Software, E-Learning, Construction
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Argentina, Switzerland

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Mootral — Mootral believes that embedding health benefits and productivity gains into climate change mitigation solutions is the only way forward for sustainable animal agriculture.
Offsight — Factory ready project management software for the modular and offsite construction industry. We solve the delivery, quality, traceability and communication challenges of modular, offsite and project based manufacturing.
Senti Biosciences — Senti Biosciences is a developer of a programmable biology platform for cancer therapies. Its therapeutics specialize in cell engineering and biological programming to build the future of gene and cell-based therapies that enable physicians to give patients life-saving treatments at an affordable cost.

Cavalry is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on European technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland

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Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
Charm — We build tools to make the command line glamorous.
Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.

Lowercarbon Capital backs kickass companies slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky, and buying us time to unf**k the planet.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Energy
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

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Eli — Streamline access to rebates, tax credits, and financing for your home energy and electrification projects with Eli.
Antora Energy — Antora converts low-cost, intermittent renewable electricity into a reliable, on-demand source of zero-emissions industrial heat and power.
Clairity Technology — Clairity Technology is a climate startup that creates low-cost, scalable technology to harvest carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative is a social enterprise that works with businesses, financiers, governments and civil society to realize sustainable trade in global value chains.

Investment focus

Water, AgTech, Farming
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
Mozambique, Switzerland, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

LendXS — LendXS is a digital credit services platform which provides loan performance management tools for rural financial institutions
Koa Switzerland — Exploring the cocoa fruit's full potential with Koa. Craft delicious creations, packed with flavour and positive impact. Learn more about the 100% natural cocoa fruit products.
Chicoa Fish Farm — Rethinking the Potential of African Aquaculture

We believe that a radical change to our food, agriculture, and ocean sectors is necessary to meet our climate, biodiversity, water, and human health goals.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Biotechnology, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

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Terradot — Our mission is to regenerate earth by building the most impactful and scalable permanent carbon dioxide removal solution on the planet.
Umaro Foods — Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.
Ant Robotics — Ant Robotics with image recognition and deep learning algorithms helps to identify and remove harmful weeds among crops.

KittyHawk Ventures is a generalist frontier technology investor with a focus on seed stage investments in longevity, MedTech, healthcare, ClimateTech, aerospace, computing and more. We support world changing entrepreneurs who are mission driven to solve hard technical problems that support people and planet and move our world forward.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, France

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Beltways — The world's fastest, smartest, and safest accelerating walkways.
Glass | Government Ecosystems — GLASS is a software ecosystem powering high-performing governments. We build purposeful, transformative technology for XXI century governments, using Artificial Intelligence to digitize, streamline and scale good processes and decision-making.Regardless of size, public systems, or challenges, we make it easy for governments to do what'sright, empowering them to run efficiently and to offer high-quality public services that are universally accessible to all.We believe that a new blueprint for good governance is possible, and are creating the tools to make that happen, today.
Lykos Therapeutics — Lykos is aspiring to challenge the status quo through the development of novel therapies and therapeutic approaches to treat mental health conditions.

BayWa is a global corporation with the core segments of agriculture, energy and construction as well as the innovation and digitalization development segment. As a global player, it develops leading solutions and value-added projects for the basic needs of nutrition, energy and construction. Seat of 1923 founded parent company is Munich. It has itsorigins in the cooperative agricultural trade with the task to provide the rural area with everything that agriculture needs. The cooperative idea and the regional connection are still shaping the company. Traditionally, the core markets lie in southern Germany and Austria, but within the scope of a growth strategy BayWa has expanded strongly internationally in recent years. In the meantime, the company is the largest agricultural trader in Germany and one of the leading international suppliers of agricultural raw materials. The Renewable Energies business segment has developed into a significant pillar. BayWa re, which bundles all activities in the field of renewable energies, is driving its project business around the world with great success.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, AgTech, Agriculture
Series A, Seed, Series D
Israel, Germany, Switzerland

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Neggst — Neggst develops plant-based whole egg alternative that consists of a white, yolk, and a biodegradable shell. The company has begun pilot projects with several food service providers and is planning on launching at supermarkets.
Equinom — Equinom is a fully integrated food-tech company, combining agricultural know-how, culinary expertise and deep technology to develop delicious, nutritious, affordable and sustainable non-GMO plant-based ingredients – from the ground up.Sustainable, plant-based proteins are key to feeding Earth’s 10B people by 2050 The plant-based food market grew27% in 2020 and is projected to reach $162B by 2030.The industry is unable to supply the full demand for food vs. feed For decades, crops have been farmed primarily for animal feed – not for human consumption. To be palatable in human food, these crops require extensive and expensive processing. . With limited processing facilities equipped for this use, the industry is on track to supply only 50% of projected demand for plant-based foods.What is Equinom doing about it? Equinom is using science and technology to develop superior ingredients naturally, at the source – in a fraction of the time typically required to breed new crops. Equinom crops are bred naturally, without genetic editing or modification, and are optimized to make meat and dairy analogues more delicious, nutritious, cost-effective and sustainable. Ingredients designed by deep tech to bring out nature’s best The company’s proprietary Manna™ technology platform uses AI to speed the development of superior, high-yield, non-GMO ingredients as nature intended – featuring the quality traits that satisfy consumer expectations. The technology also ensures biodiversity and climate resilience that are critical to ensure food security in light of climate change. What makes Equinom a compelling foodtech investment and collaborator? Working with great partners including Meatless Farm, Roquette with GoodMills Group., Equinom is recognized as a trusted developer and supplier of unrivaled ingredients. Prestigious strategic investors such as BASF and Roquette have helped position Equinom as one of the breakout Round C companies to fuel the worldwide surge in plant-based eating.
AgroSustain — AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. It aims to reduce food waste and support organic food production by developing farm to fork solutions, like biological fungicides and coatings.

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