Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Switzerland in February 2025

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.

Mehdi Ghissassi serves as the Head of Product Management at DeepMind.

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.

Flavio is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Beekeeper, Entrepreneur and Early Stage Investor in B2B SaaS companies.

Andy Honess - Founder and Owner @ JumpXL

James Isilay - CEO @ Cognism

Paul Wahl

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.

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.

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.

Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai

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.

Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.

Remy Lazarovici

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.

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

Stef van Grieken serves as a co-founder and CEO at Cradle.

Raul Vejar - Advisor @ Pramata

Mihai Faur

Bhavik Bajaj

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor in 50+ deeptech and web3 companies. He is the CEO at Zama, a homomorphic encryption startup. Rand started coding at the age of 10, created a social network at 14, and started his PhD at 21. He then created Snips, the first private-by-design voice assistant, which was acquired by Sonos. He was electedan MIT TR35, a Forbes “30 under 30”, and was a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris as well as a member of the French Digital Council.He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL).

Jari Ovaskainen - Business Development Director @ Modulight

Carter Reum is the co-founder of M13, which he and his brother Courtney Reum founded after selling their spirits company VEEV. He co-founded VEEV around the idea of creating a better way to drink, all the while becoming one of Inc. Magazine’s 250 fastest growing companies. Carter serves on the board of Daily Harvest and the Los Angeles CountyMuseum of Art has been recognized as one of Goldman Sachs’ Builders + Innovators Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and was selected as an Executive in Residence by the City of Los Angeles in 2017 to support the city’s branding initiatives. Carter co-authored Shortcut Your Startup with brother Courtney. He began his career as an investment banker in Goldman Sachs’ Industrials division and attended Columbia University for his Bachelor’s.

Felix R. Ehrat

Niels Gron

Daniel Kottlarz is a founder of MYBOTSHOP.

Konstantin Othmer is the Co Founder & CEO at Speechpad.

Thomas Rauber is the Owner and CEO of TR Invest SA. He attended IMD.

David Nothacker is the Co-Founder & CEO at Sennder.

Deniz Devrim Cengiz

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.

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.

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.

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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Thomas Kunz is an angel investor.

Philipp Stauffer is a co-founder and managing director at Fyrfly Venture Partners.

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Myke Naf is the Managing Partner of Übermorgen Ventures.He attended University of St.Gallen.

Elyes Mrad

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.

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

Darian Shirazi is the General Partner of Gradient Ventures.

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.

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.

Friedrich Georg Hoepfner - Managing Director @ Hoepfner Brau

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.

Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.

Tobias Redlin - Founder @ iGo3D