Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Switzerland in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Switzerland in December 2024
Investor | Artificial intelligence Switzerland investments |
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Daniel Gutenberg | 4 |
Alex Ott | 3 |
Mehdi Ghissassi | 3 |
Flavio Pfaffhauser | 3 |
James Isilay | 2 |
Paul Wahl | 2 |
Ariel Luedi | 2 |
Penny Schiffer | 2 |
Remy Lazarovici | 2 |
Oliver Samwer | 2 |
Siraj Khaliq | 2 |
Stef van Grieken | 2 |
Mihai Faur | 2 |
Manfred Petri | 2 |
Young Sohn | 2 |
Bhavik Bajaj | 2 |
Gian Reto à Porta | 2 |
Raul Vejar | 2 |
Andy Honess | 2 |
Laurent Dassault | 1 |
Ryan Gariepy | 1 |
Paris Hilton | 1 |
Julius Koehler | 1 |
Diana zur Löwen | 1 |
Thomas Kunz | 1 |
Tirto Cuaca | 1 |
Daniel Kottlarz | 1 |
Philipp Stauffer | 1 |
Ruedi Noser | 1 |
Family & Friends | 1 |
Myke Naf | 1 |
Bill Ackman | 1 |
Elyes Mrad | 1 |
Edward Ludwig | 1 |
Konstantin Othmer | 1 |
Thomas Rauber | 1 |
David Nothacker | 1 |
Matthias Hilpert | 1 |
Darian Shirazi | 1 |
Gilles Despas | 1 |
Sandeep Raju | 1 |
Peter Letmathe | 1 |
Deniz Devrim Cengiz | 1 |
David Helgason | 1 |
Matt Mickiewicz | 1 |
Friedrich Georg Hoepfner | 1 |
Brigitte Mohn | 1 |
Nicolaus Schefenacker | 1 |
Ursula Soritsch-Renier | 1 |
Nelson Dumas | 1 |
Daniel joined VI Partners in July 2003 as a Venture Partner focusing on IT. He started his career as Chairman and CEO of Gutenberg Communication Systems AG, a company he founded in 1991. Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in 2000, he became Country Manager of Telindus for Switzerland, Austria andHungary during the next two years, and he was also a member of the Executive Board. Since 2002 he has been taking consulting and advisory board assignments for various companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
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Alex Ott founded CrossContinentalVentures in 2002. He is a veteran in the enterprise software industry with operational and board level experience on four continents.He has been partnering with many entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and Israel in building thought leading technology enterprises that seek to make a difference such as QlikTech whomhe was an investor and is a current board member.Before founding CrossContinentalVentures, Alex was a member of the Executive Committee of Siebel Systems, where he was responsible for building a major presence in EMEA as VP and General Manager, growing revenues, customer and employee base tenfold in just two years. He then ran the Americas geography, Siebel’s largest market with revenue responsibilities of over $1B.Prior to Siebel Systems, Alex played key executive roles within SAP AG (member of the extended global board) and SAP America (Executive Committee member) for almost a decade. Latterly, he held the position of CEO SAP International and Senior VP of Latin America, dramatically growing revenue and profitability through a sustained increase in SAP's Latin American infrastructure and the establishment of new subsidiaries.Alex holds a degree in Economics and Business Management from University BA of Mannheim, Germany.
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Investment focus
- Software, CAD, CRM
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
- Squirro — Elevate your enterprise operations, accelerate innovation, and enhance human performance with reliable and accurate generative AI that employees trust.
- NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.
Mehdi Ghissassi serves as the Head of Product Management at DeepMind.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
- Biolevate — Accelerating Therapeutic Innovation: AI-Enhanced Workflow Automation
- Graph Therapeutics — Graph is a precision immunology techbio that leverages perturbation modeling from primary patient cell samples combined with multi-omics data to deliver transformative targeted therapies and biomarkers for immune-driven diseases. Graph believes that due to an incomplete understanding of complex immune-mediated diseases, millions of people are leftwithout adequate treatment options - and AI trained with complex disease data can solve this.
Flavio is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Beekeeper, Entrepreneur and Early Stage Investor in B2B SaaS companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
James Isilay - CEO @ Cognism
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Switzerland, Isle of Man
Portfolio highlights
- viso.ai — The end-to-end computer vision infrastructure to train, develop, deploy and operate computer vision at scale.
- viso.ai — The end-to-end computer vision infrastructure to train, develop, deploy and operate computer vision at scale.
- Hyperbound — Scale sales training by simulating AI role-plays for cold calls, warm calls, discovery calls, & more. Customize AI buyers for your ICP. Close your skill gaps.
Paul Wahl
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, CRM
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
- NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, Augmented Reality
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Switzerland, Austria, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- CREAL — CREAL makes Hi-Fi light-field projector for smart eyewear which ultimately everyone will use everyday for everything from cooking to neurosurgery.
- Squirro — Elevate your enterprise operations, accelerate innovation, and enhance human performance with reliable and accurate generative AI that employees trust.
- Fluent Commerce — Fluent Commerce, a leading order management system, improves the customer experience, optimizes fulfillment & solves inventory visibility issues. Learn more!
Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Finance
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Versameb — Versameb AG is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company located in Basel, Switzerland managed by an experienced scientific and business pharmaceutical industry team. The company’s focus is the development of novel RNA-based therapeutics. Versameb’s proprietary VERSagile technology platform enables efficient development of functional mRNAmolecules for customized protein expression and modification in multiple disease areas with high unmet medical need.
- Enterprise Bot — Cost-effective Conversational AI solutions transforming customer interaction for global enterprises. Discover cutting-edge chat, email, and voice tech.
- Scientific Visual — Scientific Visual supplies quality control workstations to visualize defects in non-polished sapphire such as watch covers, ingots and wafers.
Remy Lazarovici
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, PaaS, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Userled — Userled is a no-code interface and AI-powered platform that automates the distribution of personalizing marketing experiences across all ad and email platforms, empowering revenue teams with person-level engagement insights without cookies. Customers can deploy multiple personalized campaigns across all their target platforms from email, Linkedin,Meta, and more.
- viso.ai — The end-to-end computer vision infrastructure to train, develop, deploy and operate computer vision at scale.
- viso.ai — The end-to-end computer vision infrastructure to train, develop, deploy and operate computer vision at scale.
Oliver Samwer was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1972. Oliver holds M.Sc. degree in Business Administration from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Upon graduation, Oliver and his two brothers founded Alando.de in 1999. After the sale of Alando.de to eBay Inc., he was Managing Director of eBay, responsible for Germany, Switzerland andAustria. In 2000, Oliver and his two brothers founded Jamba! AG, which was acquired by Verisign Inc. in 2004. In 2007, Oliver founded Rocket Internet. Since 2014, Oliver has served as Rocket’s Chief Executive Officer. Oliver is responsible for strategy development and implementation, business development and investor relations.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
- Pivot — Pivot operates as a fintech company.
- enshift — Streamlining local clean energy for large-scale real estate.Easily simulate, plan and realise your buildings’ journey to energy independence and ‘net zero’. With just an address, instantly discover the financial and environmental returns your building can generate by transitioning to clean energy. Once you’re ready select and contract your idealconstruction and financing partners and reduce transition risks.
Siraj is a Partner on the investment team at Atomico. As a former computer scientist and co-founder/CTO of the successful Atomico investment The Climate Corporation, Siraj now continues his love for entrepreneurship “on the other side of the table” as a venture capitalist. He focuses on companies enabled by machine learning, AI and computervision, (particularly in intelligent assistants), IoT, Agtech, and works with a number of portfolio companies.Siraj founded The Climate Corporation in 2006, a company that pioneered the use of machine learning in helping farmers to optimize crop yield. Climate (acquired by Monsanto in 2013 and now a subsidiary) still sits at the vanguard of precision agriculture, an industry that is expected to play a key role in delivering the yield boosts needed to feed humanity in the decades ahead.Prior to this, Siraj was an early engineering hire at Google in 2001, and one of the founding engineers for the Google Book search project. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BA Hons in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, UK. Siraj speaks fluent English, advanced Urdu, and just enough German to be dangerous.An enterprising child, Siraj taught himself to code in C at age 13, and wrote and sold his first piece of software, a database for medical research, at 15. He is a fan of functional programming languages, and still enough of a geek to spend the occasional weekend trying out new languages and frameworks.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Switzerland, France
Portfolio highlights
- Jua — A new paradigm in weather forecasting. AI learning physics. Delivering accuracy beyond expectation. Covering use cases beyond belief. Accessible to everyone, wherever in the world they are. The world's first end to end deep learning model for weather forecasting, delivered on an intuitive platform for anyone to customise it. Startups,governments and large companies alike can now develop global, high frequency and high accuracy weather models within days.
- Altruistiq — Altruistiq is a decision-making environment for business sustainability teams.
- RosieReality — Rosie is an educational app for iPhone and iPad. The app is perfect for curious kids of ages 9 and up. Kids program Rosie the Robot using magical 3D shapes to explore AR puzzles.
Stef van Grieken serves as a co-founder and CEO at Cradle.
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Investment focus
- PaaS, SaaS, Software
- Seed
- Switzerland
Mihai Faur
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Investment focus
- PaaS, SaaS, Software
- Seed
- Switzerland
Manfred Petri was named managing director of mpnewco GmbH, a small private equity holding company since 2004. He has been investor and advisor in renewable energy companies. Prior to joining mpnewco GmbH, he was the Managing Director of Gerhard Petri GmbH & Co. KG in Hof. He has over 20 years of executive level experience in designing,manufacturing and selling power accessories. During his leadership he oversaw the expansion of company activities to Australia, New Zealand, USA and Eastern Europe encompassing a territory with 600 customers in 52 countries. He founded/acquired the subsidiaries in Czech Republic, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Poland, which led to increase product development that led to several international patents. He was responsible for the vertical integration of the business segments and enormous growth of the company that made the family owned business Gerhard Petri GmbH & Co. KG most attractive to integrated health solution that ties health education, nutrition, community health worker training, telemedicine and e-medical record keeping together to increase access to health and reduce health stresses in different communities several international buyers including Nexans S.A. (French cable manufacturer), which ultimately acquired Gerhard Petri GmbH & Co. KG in 2002. His career started by joining the Gerhard Petri GmbH & Co. KG in Hof/Germany, a family owned business designing, manufacturing and selling power accessories (cable connectors, cable lugs etc.). Petri received his MA from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich/Germany, and his PhD/Dr. phil. (Dissertation supported by "Studienstiftung des Dt. Volkes"). He is fluent in German, English, Latin and has basic knowledge in French
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Investment focus
- Video, Mobile, Sports
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Fastree3D — Fastree3D imaging sensors help recognize and measure distance to fast moving objects in real-time, enabling driving assistance or autonomous navigation. Fastree3D SA is a fabless semiconductor company, spin-off from EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland founded in September 2013 (UID CHE-291.330.490). The company subsidiary Fastree3D B.V. performs researchwith TU-Delft, Netherlands (KvK 58866973).
- Smart Mobile Labs — Welcome to the Real Real-Time
Young Sohn is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose passion is building businesses and fostering emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the world for the better. Currently, Sohn serves as Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics and Chairman of the Board of HARMAN. He leads Samsung’s strategy forglobal innovation, investment, and new business creation, and led the company’s $8 billion acquisition of HARMAN. Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, Sohn served as CEO of two successful, public Silicon Valley companies and on the boards of Arm, Cadence, Cymer (ASML), and others. Under his leadership as CEO and board member, he took PLX Technologies, Synnex Technologies, and Inphi public. He was also a seed investor in some of the industry’s most innovative companies, including Bitfury, Fungible, Graphcore, and Zoom.Sohn is a leader of the global Tech for Good movement. He helped launch the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), the world’s largest startup competition for entrepreneurs addressing global challenges. He also serves as a North America board member at MIT Sloan, a senior advisor to the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, a board member at Cadence, and an advisor for the University of California Innovation Council. Sohn holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management. An avid outdoorsman, Sohn spends his personal time kite surfing, cycling, running, hiking, and competing in triathlons.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Revolear — Revolutionize your dealmaking with Revolear, the end-to-end platform for structuring, proposing, negotiating, and approving deals. Designed for Humans. Powered by AI.
- Unique — Unlock the power of generative AI in Finance with Unique FinanceGPT. Get custom use cases and accurate insights in a secure, enterprise-ready platform.
- Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.
Bhavik Bajaj
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
- ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
- THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
Gian Porta currently works as the Board Member for Relio. He previously worked at Contovista as the Co-Founder and CEO. Gian Porta attended University of Zurich in 2005.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Yokoy — Yokoy automates spend management for medium and large enterprises with artificial intelligence, combining expense management, supplier invoice management, and smart corporate cards into one single intuitive platform. In March 2019, Yokoy Group AG was created as Expense Robot GmbH.
- Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
- Snipd — Get the Snipd podcast app now. Highlight & take notes in 1 click, including automatic summaries. Browse episodes via AI-generated chapters. Share podcast clips on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn. Export to second brain & notes apps. Discover, highlight & share podcast clips for knowledge seekers.
Raul Vejar - Advisor @ Pramata
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed
- Switzerland, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Optix — Optix is the only coworking space automation software that enables you to automate, optimize, grow and engage your community.
- BigOmics — Get robust and reproducible results in a few clicks with Omics Playground: your user-friendly Omics Data Analysis Software.
- MightyHive — MightyHive is the premier Programmatic Solutions Partner for forward-thinking marketers and agencies, wherever they are on the path to programmatic self-sufficiency. MightyHive empowers clients to build data-driven organizations that drive results through programmatic insourcing, full-service management, and strategic advisory services. One of thelargest and fastest-growing programmatic buyers in the world, MightyHive has helped hundreds of clients adopt programmatic, and has a global presence with offices in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, London, and Singapore.
Andy Honess - Founder and Owner @ JumpXL
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed
- Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
- CreditEnable — Get the most affordable business loans with CreditEnable! Explore low interest rates, check eligibility in one minute, and apply for your dream business loan today. Dream Big. Borrow Smart!.
- NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.
Born July 7, 1953 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Laurent Dassault is the son of Serge Dassault (1925). Married to Martine de Souza Lambrey Dassault in 2002. He Has two sounds, Julien and Adrien, from His previous wedding with Martine Raych.After 13 years in banking, Laurent Dassault in 1991 joined the group founded by his grandfather Marcel Dassault. AtDassault Investissements, he handles indirect compensation involved in military aeronautical contracts.He has also developed—and increased the value of—the firm’s investments in the arts and vineyards. Profoundly forward-looking and business oriented, Laurent Dassault enjoys creating, innovating and building. He is also deeply involved in many charitable and humanitarian organizations.Laurent Dassault today sits on some 30 boards involved principally in the financial, industrial and artistic sectors.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Cyber Security, Professional Services
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Respaid — Respaid is a fintech startup that is revolutionizing debt recovery for businesses. Our platform combines the expertise of amicable debt collectors with AI technology to deliver a faster, more efficient, and more personalized debt recovery process. With a success rate of 50% in just 20 days, Respaid's platform is 3 times more efficient and 6times faster than traditional debt recovery agencies. We offer transparent pricing based on successful debt recovery, making it easier for businesses to manage their cash flow.But we're more than just a debt recovery platform. At Respaid, we are committed to making a positive social impact by donating a portion of our revenue to families in financial hardship through our partnership with charitable organization. This helps us give back to the community and create a sustainable, long-term solution for families in need.Join Respaid in revolutionizing debt recovery and making a positive impact on society. Whether you're a small business or a large corporation, we have the expertise and technology to help you recover unpaid debts quickly and efficiently.
- Manager.one — manager.one offers you a fixed monthly rate with an online business account and unlimited Visa Corporate cards.
- Carré d'Artistes —
Cat meme connoisseur and autonomous systems guru, Ryan fulfills his duties as Chief Technology Officer while resisting the urge to express all of his thoughts solely via block diagrams.As CTO, Ryan drives the development of Clearpath’s autonomous control software while providing technical strategy for the company’s product lines and managingexternal research partnerships. An avid speaker in the robotics community, Ryan has been invited to speak at over a dozen international robotics events. He has also presented on behalf of the Canadian High Commission in London, England, and on behalf of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots at the United Nations. Co-founder of the Robot Operating System developers’ conference and a Director of the Board for the Open Source Robotics Foundation, it is no wonder why Ryan was recognized on Business Insider’s Top 40 Under 40 List alongside his business partners.
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Investment focus
- Robotics, Computer Vision, Industrial Engineering
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Ascento — Secure, maintain, and inspect outdoor assets by reducing the intervention times and augmenting data capturing capability.
Since starring in The Simple Life, Paris Hilton has built a global empire from the ground up as a businesswoman, influencer, activist, DJ, designer, investor, recording artist, philanthropist, host, actress, chef, model and author. In 2001, Variety declared Paris Hilton a “Billion Dollar Entrepreneur.” In 2006, she created Paris HiltonEntertainment (now known as 11:11 Media), a multi-billion-dollar company that started with 45 branded stores and 19 product lines, which have surpassed over $4 billion in revenue. She’s launched 27 fragrances globally and has won numerous accolades including the 2019 Best Mass Fragrance Award from WWD. Today, 11:11 Media is a global media platform with verticals covering TV (Slivington Manor Entertainment), audio (London Audio), digital (11:11 Digital), licensing, NFTs, impact and more. Always attuned to emerging trends and opportunities, Hilton continues to expand 11:11 Media and use her platform to inspire, empower and create lasting positive impact.Through Hilton’s production company, Slivington Manor Entertainment, and a multi-year partnership with Warner Bros., Hilton released Cooking with Paris (a new twist on a cooking show; released on Netflix in August 2021), released Paris in Love (a docu-series covering Hilton’s life leading up to and including her wedding; released on Peacock in November 2021) and is in development on various other TV projects. Hilton’s podcasting and audio company, London Audio, is underpinned by a multi-year partnership with iHeartMedia. Hilton hosts her own podcast, This is Paris, and recently launched a new podcast, Trapped in Treatment, that exposes the troubled teen industry. As an investor, Hilton is committed to supporting and investing in the next generation of entrepreneurs and building a strong investment portfolio (with a focus on female entrepreneurs and companies positively impacting the world) that includes companies such as Daily Harvest, R3SET, Viome, Origin Protocol, Genies, Good Catch, Zen Water, Yat, Podz, and many more. Hilton has also solidified herself as an NFT leader as was recently seen by her being named #7 on Fortunes’ 50 most influential people in NFTs, through being awarded “Winner of Best Charity NFT” at the 2020 NFT Awards and through her selling 25,000+ NFTs in her February 2022 “Paris: Past Lives, New Beginnings” NFT drop. In staying true to her goal of fostering empowerment and in collaboration with Sevens Foundation, Paris curated and launched “Empowered By Paris: Empowered Women Empower Women Exhibition”, which is an NFT exhibit dedicated to showcasing and equipping female artists with a platform to succeed. Paris also recently launched “Paris World” in Roblox, where more people showed up for Paris’ NYE ball drop in Paris World than Times Square!Through her powerful activism work, Hilton has spearheaded impactful policy change across the United States and abroad. In the critically acclaimed This is Paris YouTube Originals documentary (which has garnered over 46 million views to date), Hilton revealed the abuses she suffered as a teenager within the Troubled Teen Industry and has since dedicated her platform to reforming the industry. In one year, her vocal advocacy influenced the passage of U.S. state laws in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Oregon, Utah, as well as a law in Northern Ireland. In partnership with Breaking Code Silence, a nonprofit whose goal is to eradicate the abuse of institutionalized children, Hilton was accepted by Rise Justice Labs, the world’s first civil rights accelerator, to develop the federal Accountability for Congregate Care Act that will positively impact 120,000 youth annually. Her participation in the #BreakingCodeSilence movement has significantly increased awareness of the Industry with a media reach valued at $77M in ad equivalency and the aggregate readership of articles referencing Paris & the cause at 41B. Hilton also recently received a grant from the Hilton Foundation to develop a novel mental health support model for impacted survivors. Philanthropy is an important part of Hilton’s life and will continue to be a principal pillar of her platform.This is just the start for Paris Hilton and 11:11 Media. Paris and her team will continue to elevate with purpose and contribute to society by creating thought provoking, impactful, premium entertainment experiences and products. Whether it is Paris World, inventive new NFT drop formats, a beauty product line, a cookware/kitchen product line, or new TV shows and podcasts, 11:11 Media is poised to impress and will be a company to watch.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Real Estate
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Afterparty — Your favorite creators are here! Get 1 on 1 unfiltered experiences with creators through Afterparty livestreams or chat 24/7 through AI powered conversations
- CreatorDAO — CreatorDAO is a decentralized community that invests in creators by providing capital, technology, and operational support.
- Shibuya — Welcome to Shibuya, a platform for high potential short films. We provide creators with a full-stack solution to fund films and shorts, build community, and foster an engaged fanbase. Fans can fund their favorite films, participate in the creative process, and join communities for the films they love most.
Julius Koehler is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sennder.
He was the Head of Sales at Styla and Senior Director of Business Development at WATCHMASTER.COM.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Spain, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Degura — Degura provides portals for the pension plans of the companies.
- Root Global — Root Global is the ClimateOS of the F&B industry. Turn emission reduction targets into reality, with verified data collection and quantifiable reduction levers all the way to your agricultural producers.
- Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.
Diana zur Löwen
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, EdTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Debt Financing
- Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Nelly — Nelly provides tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments.
- Junto — Elevate your business performance with impactful leadership training. Junto's leadership development programs equip your people with the skills and behaviours to thrive.
- Calvin Risk — We help companies manage the risks of their AI algorithms!
Thomas Kunz is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Retail, Shopping
- Angel, Convertible Note
- Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- RELE.AI — RELE.AI is a Swiss & Israeli startup in the instant messaging space, having developed a SaaS product offering. Bring enterprise systems to WhatsApp, build customized workflows, manage client conversations and share information with teams in a secure and intuitive way without leaving the Personal WhatsApp and any other instant messenger. Fuseany enterprise system: our development framework provides all the tools to bring any system to WhatsApp and other instant messengers. RELE.AI's instant messaging micro application processes and connects any relevant data with the users.
- Pure Beauty — Pure Beauty is an e-commerce platform that offers products in different categories.
Tirto Cuaca
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Investment focus
- Payments, Fraud Detection, Machine Learning
- Angel
- Switzerland
Daniel Kottlarz is a founder of MYBOTSHOP.
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- Robotics, Computer Vision, Industrial Engineering
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
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- Ascento — Secure, maintain, and inspect outdoor assets by reducing the intervention times and augmenting data capturing capability.
Philipp Stauffer is a co-founder and managing director at Fyrfly Venture Partners.
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland, France
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- Bizzy — Bizzy is engaged in the creation of behavioral email marketing strategies to boost the performance of e-commerce businesses. Bizzy was founded by Chiara McPhee and Jennifer Kessler in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.
- SourceDNA — SourceDNA is a web service that helps developers & service providers find who's using their code. It continually scans app stores and uploaded binaries for matches against the user's components. SourceDNA works cross-platform and with multiple source languages. It spots code included in iOS and Android apps, Windows software, andLinux services, using an existing build from a single platform as a reference.
- Unique — Try Unique Finance GPT to increase productivity by automating manual workload through AI and ChatGPT solutions.
Ruedi Noser
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- GovTech, Big Data, Politics
- Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland
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- 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.
Family & Friends
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- Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United States, The Netherlands, Egypt
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- thrie — Transportation
- Alphunt — Building the golden era for designing new materials, chemicals, catalysts, and drugs through generative AI.
- Bite - build your social circle — Bite is a social app focused on creating and facilitating hangouts. So you can build or maintain your social circle
Myke Naf is the Managing Partner of Übermorgen Ventures.He attended University of St.Gallen.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany
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- Yokoy — Yokoy automates spend management for medium and large enterprises with artificial intelligence, combining expense management, supplier invoice management, and smart corporate cards into one single intuitive platform. In March 2019, Yokoy Group AG was created as Expense Robot GmbH.
- Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
- Frontify — Best-in-class software for simplifying brand management through a platform that connects everything (and everyone) important to the growth of your brand.
Bill Ackman is the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management.
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- Financial Services, Health Care, Logistics
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Switzerland
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- Bremont — Bremont Watches are an award winning British luxury watch company inspired by a love and passion for aviation, engineering & adventure. Shop now with 4 years 0% finance.
- Strive Asset Management — Strive is an asset management firm whose mission is to restore the voices of everyday citizens in the American economy by leading companies to focus on excellence over politics.
- Canadian Pacific — Canadian Pacific Railway was founded in 1881 to link Canada's populated centres with the vast potential of its relatively unpopulated West. This incredible engineering feat was completed on Nov.7, 1885 - six years ahead of schedule - when the last spike was driven at Craigellachie, B.C.
Elyes Mrad
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- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- ZYTLYN Technologies — Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, ZYTLYN is a data analytics and AI company, helping customers address their most urgent problems and opportunities with granular, qualified, and actionable data, predictions and insights. Its Prediction as-a-Service product gives customers the ability to optimize critical decision making through predictiveinsights. Together with customers, ZYTLYN is helping the world’s largest industries adapt, recover and grow faster, with a total addressable market of close to $50 billion.
Edward Ludwig has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Boston Scientific since March 2014. Edward is the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Becton, Dickinson and Company (“BDX”), a global medical technology company, having served in that position from February 2002 through June 2012. Edward also served as BDX’s ChiefExecutive Officer from January 2000 to September 2011 and as its President from May 1999 to December 2008. Edward joined BDX as a Senior Financial Analyst in 1979. Prior to joining BDX, Edward served as a Senior Auditor with Coopers and Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) where he earned his CPA and as a financial and strategic analyst at Kidde, Inc. Edward serves as Lead Director on Aetna Inc.’s Board of Directors and chairs its Finance Committee and is a Member of the Board of Directors of Xylem, Inc. Edward serves as the Non-Executive Chairman of POCARED, a privately held firm in Israel. Edward is also a Member of the Board of The Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, which is dedicated to studying, documenting and advancing the principals of Higher Ambition Leadership that drive the most successful enterprises in terms of longer term shared value creation. Edward served as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross (2005-2013), and the Columbia Business School Board of Overseers (2010-2015). Edward also served as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hackensack University Medical Center Network Board of Trustees. Edward received a B.A. degree in Economics and Accounting from The College of the Holy Cross and a MBA degree from Columbia University.
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- Medical, Health Care, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Switzerland, United States
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- Spiden — SPIDEN - Products that enable real-time and continuous monitoring of blood biomarkers for treatment of critical and high-risk patients.
- Velano Vascular — Establishing a new standard of care for inpatient blood draws by improving the experience and reducing pain, risks and inefficiencies of existing practices.
Konstantin Othmer is the Co Founder & CEO at Speechpad.
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- Internet, Photo Editing, Automotive
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, Latvia, Australia
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- Spiden — Spiden develops an optical + AI based technology to analyse blood, urine and other body fluids for the first time non-destructively and in real-time.
- Web3 Pro — The easiest onramp to Web3 for Enterprises with our leading white-label products. Engage consumers with NFT PRO. Establish your brand presence in digital worlds with GEER. Leverage the power of NFRs across your business with NAAS.
- Blockfolio — Blockfolio offers mobile portfolio tracking and management for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry.Blockfolio is the network for mobile cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and management. Millions of people trust Blockfolio to stay connected to the pulse of the industry through market data, news, and direct updates from leaders of top cryptoprojects. Blockfolio is committed to providing free access to our users and token team partners.
Thomas Rauber is the Owner and CEO of TR Invest SA. He attended IMD.
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- Manufacturing, Apps, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Switzerland, Spain, Sweden
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- Mobbot — MOBBOT provides an integrated solution for the digitalization of the shotcrete process. The technology increases productivity, reduces costs and CO2 emissions by optimizing the shotcrete process.
- CompPair — CompPair develops sustainable composites with an ultra-fast repair technology to extend their lifetime and reduce waste.
- DAAV — At DAAV we are working on providing mobility services for people with reduced mobility in indoor environments.
David Nothacker is the Co-Founder & CEO at Sennder.
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- Software, Apps, Procurement
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Spain, Switzerland
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- Twain — You now have world-class selling skills at your fingertips. Use Twain for free to see what your sales pitch is missing.
- Degura — Degura provides portals for the pension plans of the companies.
- simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
- Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
Darian Shirazi is the General Partner of Gradient Ventures.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
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- Medmo — Medmo is an all-encompassing solution for providers to order, schedule, and track medical imaging appointments for their patients. Improve completion rates with less staff burden and lower costs.
- Resend — Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.
- Leya — By streamlining and simplifying legal workflows, we empower elite law firms and legal professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. Enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks and deliver exceptional results for their clients.
Gilles Despas - Advisory Board Member @ Ulmon
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- Real Time, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Albatross AI — Albatross: leading the revolution in user engagement. Our AI technology delivers unparalleled user experiences, maximizes conversions, and unlocks revenue growth. Say goodbye to manual A/B testing and poor recommendations.
Sandeep is a co-founder at Samaaru India. As Chief Investment Officer at Pioneering Ventures, he co-led the incubation of Samaaru as a PV group company and serves as a board member overseeing platform services, new business incubation, and investor relations. Sandeep earlier served in P&L leadership, M&A, investments and incubation rolesat Infosys and Wipro. He learnt venture development skills by training on board-sponsored projects at Infosys including the Life Sciences Practice (incubation lead and first employee), Lodestone ($350 mn acquisition), OnMobile (NSE: ONMOBILE), Yantra (now IBM), Stratify (now Iron Mountain), CiDRA, Workadia and Infosys China. Over two decades, he has learnt from stressed venture and market situations during three downturns. As an executive, entrepreneur or lead investor, he has helped create ~1000 new jobs, led multi-cultural teams of ~1500 associates, worked on venture transactions worth ~$0.5 billion, delivered ~6x growth over 6 years as a P&L leader, and co-created ~7x value with co-investors in recent years.
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- Semiconductor, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round
- Switzerland
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- Synthara Technologies — Synthara is a Zurich-based artificial intelligence (AI) company that provides system-level solutions for businesses to enhance their products or services with smart features. The company portable and wearable gadgets such as virtual reality headsets, small wireless monitoring cameras, sensor networks, have limited smart features because computingpowerful algorithms cannot be run on them. Synthara IPs provide server-class performance with an extremely low energy requirement for neural networks (10 TOPs/Watt).
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.
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- AgTech, Drones, Fashion
- Series C, Series A
- Switzerland
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- Gamaya — Gamaya addresses the need to increase efficiency and sustainability of large industrial farming, as well as the productivity and scalability of small-holder farming, by deploying the world’s most advanced solution for mapping and diagnostics of farmland. Gamaya farmland analytics solution improves production efficiency and risk management byfacilitating optimum decision making, including use of chemicals and fertilizers, and resulting in larger and better yields, while minimizing the impact on the environment.
- Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
- HYT Watches — HYT Watches is a watch brand evolving in the upper luxury market creating exclusive hybrid mechanical timepieces for watch connoisseurs. Its hydro-mechanical engineering lab is currently involved in the hybrid development of watches. HYT Watches is based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Deniz Devrim Cengiz
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
- Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
- Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
- Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Denmark, Finland
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- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Matt Mickiewicz is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of SitePoint. Mickiewicz also co-founded the web companies Flippa, 99designs, and Hired.Born in Kraków, Poland, living in Hameln -Germany, and currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, Mickiewicz created his first website at the age of 14 called Webmaster-Resources.com, whichlater became SitePoint. At 16, Mickiewicz traveled to Melbourne with his mother and met his soon-to-be business partner and co-founder, Mark Harbottle. At 16, Mickiewicz found himself closing $10,000 advertising deals between classes at high school. Mickiewicz barely finished high school and did not attend college.In 2008, Mickiewicz spun off 99designs from SitePoint, which went on to raise $35 million in capital from Accel Ventures, Michael Dearing / Harrison Metal, Dave Goldberg (SurveyMonkey), Anthony Casalena, and Stewart Butterfield (Flickr). In June 2009 Mickiewicz and Harbottle launched Flippa.com, the largest marketplace for buying and selling websites in the world. In the fall of 2012, Mickiewicz co-founded DeveloperAuction.com which raised $2.7 million was later renamed Hired. The company later raised a $15 million Series-A round in March 2014. By December 2014, Hired was reportedly valued at $200m and had raised an additional $15m in the capital in its Series B round.Mickiewicz was named a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur by Forbes and INC in 2011, a Smart Company 30 under 30 in 2012, and frequently speaks at conferences and seminars worldwide.
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- Human Resources, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Australia, Canada
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- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.
- Continuum Technology — Connecting world-class executive talent to the best venture-backed companies for consulting, advising and full-time roles.
Friedrich Georg Hoepfner - Managing Director @ Hoepfner Brau
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- Software, SaaS, Video
- Seed
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
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- Kamedi — Kamedi is going to provide users a device for the hyperthermic treatment of irritated skin after insect bites, the heat_it.
- GotPhoto / fotograf.de — fotograf.de/GotPhoto provides photographers a SaaS system for selling photos online.
- HQS Quantum Simulations — HQS Quantum Simulations is developing quantum algorithms to predict molecular properties for performance materials, specialty chemicals and pharmaceutical companies.The development of specialty chemicals, performance materials, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is an iterative, time-consuming and often very expensive process: Designing productsbased on functional molecules, formulations or solid-state compounds requires many – often hundreds – subsequent synthesis, formulation and testing steps to yield the desired specifications. Simulations are a powerful tool to decrease the time-to-market and decrease cost for R&D and product development cycles, but can’t be used in an efficient way in many cases or is simply not advanced enough to tackle certain problems. Shifting from conventional to quantum computers promises to overcome these hurdles, but is not yet available for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.
Dr. Mohn has been CEO of the German Stroke Foundation in Guetersloh since 2000. She has been heading the health program at the Bertelsmann Stiftung since 2001 and has been a board member of this foundation since 2005. Dr. Mohn is a member of the supervisory board of the Bertelsmann AG and of the Rhoen-Kinikum AG, a member of the BertelsmannVerwaltungsgesellschaft mbh, and a member of the advisory board of MediClin AG.Dr. Mohn worked as a consultant with McKinsey and with Pixelpark, she was with the American publishing company Bantam Doubleday Dell and worked as an editor for the Muenster Chamber of Commerce and for the Institute of World Economics. Dr. Mohn earned a Ph. d. in Politics, Art History and German, a Master of Philosophy and she attained an MBA.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Fitness
- Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland
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- Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
- SPRK.global — AI-driven technology platform approach to eliminate food waste in the supply chain, while driving down climate damage. Become a partner and scale the impact.
- Rainfall — Rainfall is a privacy-preserving intelligence platform that uses Edge-AI and Web3 technology to unlock the economic value from your data.
Nicolaus Schefenacker is the Co-founder and managing director at Sennder.
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- Software, Apps, Restaurants
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Spain, Switzerland
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- Degura — Degura provides portals for the pension plans of the companies.
- simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
- Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
Ursula Soritsch-Renier is the Chief Digital and Information Officer at Saint-Gobain.Ursula Soritsch-Renier attended Executive Eduction at Harvard.
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- SaaS, Messaging, Information Technology
- Angel
- Switzerland
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- RELE.AI — RELE.AI is a Swiss & Israeli startup in the instant messaging space, having developed a SaaS product offering. Bring enterprise systems to WhatsApp, build customized workflows, manage client conversations and share information with teams in a secure and intuitive way without leaving the Personal WhatsApp and any other instant messenger. Fuseany enterprise system: our development framework provides all the tools to bring any system to WhatsApp and other instant messengers. RELE.AI's instant messaging micro application processes and connects any relevant data with the users.
Nelson Dumas is a recognized stakeholder in the Swiss startup ecosystem. His investments include world-class projects like Abionic, Daphne Technology, Haya Therapeutics or DistalMotion.
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- Jewelry, Medical, Health Care
- Seed, Series C
- Switzerland
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- Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
- ID Genève — We make watches that reflect the values and principles of people who are committed to fight climate change and who wish to have a positive social and environmental impact. The materials used are circular and have a lower carbon footprint than the industry average.
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