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Top 30 Automotive VC Funds in Switzerland

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 30 VC funds that invest in Automotive startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Automotive VC Funds in Switzerland

Investor	Automotive Switzerland investments
GoBeyond	5
Founderful	3
Serpentine Ventures	3
VI Partners	2
Technology Fund	2
Zürcher Kantonal Bank	2
Lakestar	2
TRUMPF Venture	1
EOS VC Fund	1
Redalpine	1
Bâloise Holding	1
Tamedia	1
Capital Risque Fribourg	1
Stratasys	1
AXA Venture Partners	1
Block.one	1
Samsung Catalyst Fund	1
Verve Ventures	1
Monte Carlo Capital	1
Notion Capital	1
TR Invest	1
Unruly Capital	1
A3 Angels	1
Smac Partners	1
Anker Capital	1
SICTIC	1
N&V Capital	1
LETA Capital	1
ACE & Company	1
Syensqo Ventures	1

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GoBeyond is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small and large, novice to experienced investors. It offers a unique deal platform, portfolio tools, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services, training and certified deal leaders.Its clients are individuals, familyoffices, professional groups and corporations. It is active in the EU, Switzerland and the US. GoBeyond also offers educational training modules for angel investors in 11 categories.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Medical, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LEND — LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.
AVAtronics — AVA Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Solution is a breakthrough in Audio Industry. AVA is the first and only TRUE WIDE-BAND ANC in the market capable of selectively cancelling all annoying noises we want to get rid of without compromising the quality of Music or speech.
Blumer — Blumer is a social networking platform that provides social networks that can monetize time by consuming advertisements, selling nfts, and making crypto transactions. It offers social networks, crypto, digital marketing, and blockchain.

Wingman Ventures is Switzerland’s leading pre-seed fund backing founder teams building tech companies with the potential to become global market leaders. We have a track-record of supporting exceptional founders in creating breakthrough companies and it is our passionate conviction that the Swiss startup ecosystem is just starting to write its bestsuccess stories.As founders, we always valued feedback from experienced entrepreneurs. In fact, it was critical to our success.Wanting to dedicate our know-how, experience and energy to the new generation of startup founders, we founded Wingman Ventures. As wingmen and wingmates we fly on the wings of ambitious founder teams and help them navigate around storms and avoid severe turbulences on their way to building successful companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nala Earth — Nala empowers companies to measure, manage and report their impact and dependency on nature - compliant with regulation.
Chiral — Next-generation electronics with nanomaterials
Cultivated Biosciences — Cultivated - Creamy, dairy-free indulgence

Serpentine Ventures (SERV) is the investment arm of the Swiss startup group. Serpentine refers to the meandering roads found across the Swiss Mountains. Unreachable mountain peaks become accessible by following the serpentine path.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Automotive
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

DuraMon — DuraMon provides sensor for monitoring durability in concrete.
Arda Biomaterials — Arda Biomaterials transforms waste feedstocks into smarter, circular biomaterials for fashion, home goods, automotive and more.
Antefil Composite Tech — Microengineered hybrid fibres for lightweight structures. What are hybrid fibres? The fastest, most affordable, scalable, and high-quality solution for the production of energy-efficient lightweight structures. Hybrid fibres are glass reinforcement fibres which are individually coated with a meltable, recyclable plastic.They provide all the material needed to produce lightweight composites in a perfect mix - at

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Climate protection through innovative technologies. The Technology Fund offers loan guarantees to Swiss companies whose novel products contribute to a sustainable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

FGen — FGen is a Swiss start-up company founded 2011 in Basel as a spin-off from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of the ETH Zurich. As a contract reasearch organization we collaborate with partners from Biotech, Life Sciences, and Pharma in order to establish efficient bioprocesses and to develop new biopharmaceuticals.
Calopad — Calopad, awarded by the Swiss Confederation, offers a unique and the most holistic solution in pain therapy and muscle regeneration. The therapeutic deep heat of 42 degrees solves any muscle pain, muscle tension, or muscle spasms of chronic patients in the long term and in a highly efficient way through new forms of therapy. With the associatedapp, Calopad brings the physiotherapist digitally into any user's home and enables personalized all-around care in real time - utterly independent of time and place. In the future, the modular design will make it possible to combine different therapies such as heat, cold, or light with just one device, opening up the possibility of new therapeutic successes.
Selfrag — SELFRAG AG is specialized in the development of high voltage pulse power products, plants and systems for selective fragmentation of solid materials.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Odne — Curing with light
ARTIRIA Medical — Artiria Medical empowers catheters and guidewires. We develop cutting edge technologies to revolutionize the limits of neurointerventional procedures, enabling a seamless navigation and stroke treatment.
Cultivated Biosciences — Cultivated - Creamy, dairy-free indulgence

Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund. The company has expandedand broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London.Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
Mindgard — Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprise to test, detect, and respond to cyber threats against their AI models.Given that businesses are increasingly focused on offering AI-driven services such as LLMs, securing this new way of conducting business is equally important. Mindgard ensures that your business can safely and securelymove into the new AI world and continue to protect your digital assets, brand and reputation.Our platform enables enterprise customers to determine, detect, and remediate against any adversarial attack vulnerabilities within all their AI models. This answers the “What is my AI risk?” and “How do I mitigate my AI risk?” questions that currently cannot be answered using traditional Cyber Security platforms. By designing our platform from the ground up to integrate with existing AI and Cyber Security operational tooling, Mindgard can be seamlessly added to your organization, providing repeatable and automated AI model vulnerability testing.The Mindgard platform has been in development for over 4 years based on cutting edge PhD-led, AI & cyber security research, also used by the global Intelligence Community. As well as providing a library of adversarial attacks based on deep research, leveraging our platform that can automate repeated security testing, detection, and response across the entire AI estate. By leveraging the Mindgard platform, our clients free up precious AI and cyber security resources and at the same time understand, detect, and mitigate risks across their entire AI model portfolio, which currently takes too long and is too expensive. Our platform ensures that business can rapidly embrace LLMs and other AI technologies whilst protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation within the new AI world.
Project B — Project B provides Operations System for Employee Financial Data.

The corporate venture capital arm TRUMPF Venture extends TRUMPF’s comprehensive activities to promote innovation and to detect disruptive technologies and business models early on. TRUMPF is the world technological and market leader for machine tools used in flexible sheet metal processing as well as industrial lasers. TRUMPF Venture investsglobally in early-stage start-ups active in areas complementary or adjacent to the TRUMPF core, such as Advances Photonics and Smart Factory. Funded start-ups benefit from an extensive network, deep domain knowhow, proven skills in scalability as well as support to access the TRUMPF group and its ecosystem. The requirements for a potential investment are a strategic fit, a high innovation leverage and differentiation in business model or technology, an experienced management team and risk adequate financial returns.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

nyris — Our custom search engines make it easy for people to find products, spare parts, and components for industry and eCommerce
Quside — Our QRNGs let innovators build advanced solutions for cybersecurity and computation.
iThera Medical — Due to its spatiotemporal resolution, penetration depth, sensitivity and specificity, optoacoustic imaging (OAI) can be used for a multitude of applications.

Galaxy Digital is a NYC-based multi-strategy investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Gaming
Grant, Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wyden — AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.
SparkChange — SparkChange is a provider of specialist carbon investment products and data, enabling investors to achieve both financial returns and positive environmental impact. The company was established by experts in environmental products and capital markets technologies to set a new standard in carbon investing. For more information, visit:https://sparkchange.io/
Timeless — Buy shares in exclusive assets such as rare sneakers, watches & luxury cars from as little as €50 per share (incl. VAT).

redalpine is a thesis-driven vc with deep expertise in software and science. since 2006. we believe in the power of big ideas and in empowering game changers. we don't just invest, we co-create a better tomorrow. together with you.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aktiia — Founded in Switzerland in May 2018 out of a passion to turn insights into action in the fight against hypertension, Aktiia’s groundbreaking medical technology provides people and their physicians comprehensive insights into blood pressure patterns that will inform the diagnosis and management of hypertension. Now available in the United Kingdom,Aktiia has received its CE Mark as a Class IIa medical device - signifying that the device has been assessed to meet high safety, health and environmental protection requirements in Europe. To learn more, visit Aktiia.com.
Infinite Roots — Mushlabs is a biotech company using fermentation to create the next generation of sustainable foods from the roots of mushrooms.
Morressier — A platform geared towards the scientific community. From managing abstracts to presenting research content in a virtual conference or in-person meeting.

Bâloise Holding provides insurance and pension solutions. Bâloise Holding offers various non-life insurance products, including accident, health, general liability, motor, fire and other property, marine, credit protection, and legal expenses insurance. Bâloise Holding was founded on 1863 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Investment focus

Service Industry, Information Technology, Automotive
Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Houzy — Houzy develops a digital platform for homeowners. It brings stakeholders around a home digitally together and uses smart tools to help the owner save money, time, and nerves. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
TRONITY — TRONITY is a german based startup that offers a software-only solution for managing electric vehicle insights. The solution allows consumers to access, own, and manage all aspects of their electric vehicles without the need for any additional hardware. In addition to providing access to a fully digital driver's logbook, the solution alsoallows customers to compare their own vehicle data with that of a virtual fleet. Through an active driver engagement TRONITY helps drivers of electric vehicles to optimize their driving experience.For more information, visit http://www.tronity.comTRONITY - Your Car. Your Data.
Vianova — Join us in creating safer, greener cities with Vianova. Partner with 80+ cities and 30 companies for carbon neutral and efficient mobility.

Tamedia’s digital holdings are grouped under the umbrella of Tamedia Digital. They pursue ambitious goals: they see ourselves as a growth driver for the entire group and aim to further accelerate the digital transformation.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Neon — Neon is an independent Swiss mobile account.
Monito — Monito is a comparison website for international money transfer services. They compare and review more than 450 money transfer operators, to help you find the best option for each of your international transaction.They have affiliation partnerships with money transfer operators, which allow us to sustain their operations, they insure that all theinformation they provide is always accurate and transparent.
Picstars AG — Picstars ist die Influencer Marketing Agentur der Schweiz. Wir liefern kreatives, inspirierendes und datengesteuertes Influencer Marketing.

Capital Risque Fribourg is a venture capital that provides funding opportunities for startups and SMEs. The company’s product portfolio includes creating jobs in Canton, Entrepreneurial quality design, industrialization, shareholder loans, identifying promising markets, and more. Capital Risque Fribourg was founded in 1998 is headquarteredFribourg, Switzerland.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Sports, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Neur.on — Neur.on is a Legal tech firm that provides translation solutions for legal professionals.
Bionomous — Bionomous - the world's first provider of AI-powered solutions for screening, sorting and dispensing of small biological entities. We are an innovative, agile
Seprify — Enabling sustainable products

Stratasys is a maker of additive manufacturing machines for prototyping and producing plastic parts. The company markets under the brands uPrint and Dimension 3D Printers and Fortus Production 3D Printers. The company also operates RedEye On Demand, a digital manufacturing service for prototypes and production parts. Stratasys manufactures 3Dprinters for Hewlett Packard, which it sells under the brand Designjet3D. In 2011 Stratasys acquired 3D printer maker Solidscape Inc. According to Wohlers Report 2011, Stratasys had a 41 percent market share in 2010, and has been the unit market leader for the ninth consecutive year. Stratasys patented and owns the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM®) process. The process creates functional prototypes and manufactured goods directly from any 3D CAD program, using high-performance industrial thermoplastics. The company holds more than 285 granted or pending additive manufacturing patents globally. Stratasys products are used in the aerospace, defense, automotive, medical, business and industrial equipment, education, architecture, and consumer-product industries.

Investment focus

3D Technology, 3D Printing, Robotics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Inkbit — Inkbit creats a next-generation additive manufacturing platform that combines 3D printing with machine vision. MIT-trained scientists and engineers combines expertise in industrial systems, design software, and material science to identify and seize opportunities for mass-market additive manufacturing.
9T Labs — We invented a new way of manufacturing carbon composites. With our patented 3D printing technology you can produce carbon composites in high volumes, at low cost.
Desktop Metal — Desktop Metal is reinventing the way design and manufacturing teams produce and 3D print metal parts - from prototyping through mass production. The team is built around the disciplines of materials science, hardware and software engineering, and design. They have raised $97 million in equity funding with investment from technology leadersincluding Google, BMW, Lowe’s, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Located just outside of Boston we are assembling a team of experts and are looking to hire curious and driven engineers, scientists, and designers.

AVP invests in enterprise software, fintech/insurtech, digital health, and consumer tech, as well as other relevant technologies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Qloo — Qloo is the cultural AI. Qloo has developed cutting-edge machine learning processes and AI algorithms to predict taste for any target audience and map relationships within and between cultural domains, including: Music, Film, TV, Dining, Nightlife, Fashion, Books, Travel and Tech.Qloo has mapped more than a quarter-trillion culturalcorrelations, and makes this intelligence readily available to individuals, developers, and leading brands. Qloo's cultural AI is currently powering personalization and informing key decisions for market leaders in tech, financial services, entertainment, automotive, fashion, CPG and hospitality. Qloo is headquartered and lovingly built in NYC.
Radius Agent — A nationwide real estate network with endless possibilities.
CryptoNext Security — CryptoNext is a spin-off from Inria Paris and Sorbonne University. The quantum computer disruption is an opportunity, a source of progress for many fields, but also a serious threat to the security of electronic communications. A large-scale quantum computer will break the cryptography that permits to secure Internet. Their vision is that quantumcomputers is a risk that we cannot ignore.

Block.one is a blockchain software company that offers technology and products to help people architect integrity into our world.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Grant, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Upland — Play. Earn. Connect & Rebuild The World
Chintai — Chintai is a B2B SaaS company that uses high performance blockchain technology to remove inefficiencies within the value chain of regulated assets. We provide a comprehensive digital asset compliance framework for primary, secondary, custody and cap table management. The platform is designed for asset managers, challenger banks and SMEs to easilyembrace blockchain technology.
CoinDCX — CoinDCX is India's largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange where you can buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with ease. CoinDCX, with its #TryCrypto mission, provides Indian crypto audience with a simple cryptocurrency trading app for seamless crypto-to-crypto (c2c) and fiat-to-crypto (f2c) experience.

Samsung Catalyst fosters innovation through guidance, expertise and connections, transforming innovative ideas into world-changing products at scale.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Skylo — Never lose coverage again - connect your existing NB-IoT devices directly over both cellular and satellite networks seamlessly
Eliyan — Ultimate Chiplet Systems at a fraction of total cost of ownership. Without the downsides of advanced packaging, you achieve higher number of cores, compute performance, test coverage, and yield.
Celestial AI — We develop audacious AI computing platforms that elevate performance, energy and economic efficiencies, enabling our customers to rapidly deploy innovations in their AI applications.

Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Monte Carlo Capital was founded in 2009 by former investment banker Ian Sosso, winner of the 2019 “Best European Early Stage Investor” award from EBAN, the Brussels-based European trade association for business angels representing the 30,000 European angel community with a presence in 50 countries. Monte Carlo Capital combines the best featuresof business angels and venture capital. We invest via fund and via SPVs. We have been the Lead in many of our investments and are increasing our Co-Investments with some of the world’s leading VCs. Typical investments start at pre-seed/seed and we regularly follow on to Series A & Series B rounds. Monte Carlo Capital invests across sectors, including Saas, Fintech, DeepTech and Health Care, in the US, Europe and the UK.Our solo managing partner was a former investment banker, spending most of his career in Asia and the UK. He retired about 15 years ago, and set up his own angel group. After being quite successful, he decided to launch the fund (January this year).

Investment focus

Medical Device, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

LeaseTeq — LeaseTeq bietet Privat- sowie Unternehmenskunden das erste komplett digitale Leasingangebot.
Rollstack — Rollstack is a tool that helps you create stunning and high-quality charts in minutes, embed data, and automate the creation of data-driven decks and docs - all within your favorite tools (Google Suite, Notion, Powerpoint)
Auriga Space — Next-generation space launch company providing frequent, sustainable and affordable transport to low Earth orbit

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Increase your sales efficiency by 65% with Xaver. Enhance productivity and unlock more time for customers using our specialised AI-driven sales solutions tailored for the financial sector, ensuring every agent becomes a high-achieving expert.
ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
Tomorrow Things — TomorrowThings builds digital twins in a one-click fashion to enable sustainability with the power of simplicity.

Private Investment Company

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Investing in the crazy before it becomes normal

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

4QT — Cleantech, Construction, Electrification
Kateri — Kateri is a carbon producer that helps to unlock the potential of grasslands to sequester carbon.
Volteras — Volteras collects, standardizes, and optimizes data from hundreds of energy devices into a single data model. Volteras Connect enables businesses to use this data to produce new revenue streams, reduce costs, and create new business models. It aspires to be the link between electric vehicles and anything they may come into contact with, fromchargers and house batteries to energy suppliers and mapping software.

A3 Angels provide support to alumni of Swiss engineering or business schools who want to launch technology companies. Investors pool individual seed investments. A3 Angel provides support in the form of a deal flow, screening, due diligence support, administrative support and investor or mentoring education. We typically look at 50 entrepreneurapplications every year and perform due diligence on 10. We also provide start-ups with a network of 600 EPFL alumni who have interest in our entrepreneurial activities in Switzerland and abroad. A3 Angels was founded in 2008 by EPFL alumni in order to support entrepreneurial efforts in the field of high-technology in Suisse Romande. A portfolio of 30 companies has been supported by 60 members who delivered over 200 hours/year of mentoring to entrepreneurs. A3 Angels also contributed to more than 3M CHF seed investments in syndicates with other regional business angel networks.

Investment focus

Medical, Robotics, Marketing
Seed, Angel
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).
DomoHealth — Join us in revolutionizing patient care using the power of AI-assisted digital health platform and safety solutions. Enhancing digital health with the best platform, application and devices for the direct benefits of patients and healthcare professionals.

Smac Partners focused on early-stage ICT technologies and services of start-ups. The investment geographies are mainly Europe and Israel, with leverage of a global network.The secondary investments provide highly flexible customised solutions to optimise the value of single assets or entire portfolios of corporate and institutional venturecapital companies.In 2001 they started with Siemens Mobile Acceleration as a corporate venture arm of Siemens Mobile. In 2006 they performed a secondary transaction of the total Siemens fund with the new name Tempo Park Fund 1. smac | partners advises the fund with originally more than 30 ICT early-stage investments in the USA, Asia, Europe and Israel.In 2007 smac partners executed a typical tail-end secondary venture capital transaction by acquiring a portfolio from Vertex Venture Capital, Israel. This fund, smac partners Fund II, comprises nine ICT portfolio companies.In 2008 smac partners closed its third fund in 3 years, smac partners Fund III, and so far has acquired stakes in 10 ICT-companies in Finland, Israel and USA.Their exceptional background and remarkable global network in the ICT industry and relevant communities substantially underpins smac | partnersâ€™ passion for â€œleading entrepreneurs to successâ€.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Wireless
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Oversi Networks — Oversi is an Israeli OTT (over-the-top) caching and content delivery company. Oversi offers a multi-service platform for accelerating delivery of OTT content, including Internet video, P2P (peer-to-peer) and other media applications. Oversi's video cache and P2P cache solutions enable service providers to cope with the huge traffic load ontheir networks while improving subscribers' QoE (quality of experience). By assuring QoE, Oversi's solutions open up new monetization opportunities and facilitate the delivery of tiered services, increasing ARPU (average revenue per user). Oversi systems are deployed in service provider sites around the world. The Company has offices and representatives in EMEA, the US, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. For more information, please visit their web site, www.oversi.com.
Mobixell Networks — Mobixell Networks provides intelligent mobile Internet solutions to mobile operators that optimize data networks and maximize data profitability. Mobixell’s flagship product, Seamless Access, enables mobile operators to intelligently manage, optimize, and monetize the surging mobile data and video traffic while giving subscribers an exceptionaluser experience.Mobixell has dozens of deployments around the world, including Verizon, Vodafone, Bharti, Orange, XLcom, TIM, and Telefonica. Founded in 2000, Mobixell has offices in the US, UK, and Israel, and presence in Germany, Switzerland, Finland, India, Indonesia, and China.
Alchip — Alchip Technologies, Inc. offers silicone design and manufacturing services for complex and high-volume system-on-chip (SoC) designs.With the increase of the complexity of IC design technology and the demand of pushing products into the market, Alchip is dedicated to provide resolution schemes with the highest cost-benefit ratio for clients,making sure that clients can tape out successfully once and push their products into the market quickly, and it is committed to transcending clients' expectation of product quality, reliable service, and timely production in large numbers, becoming the best silicon design service partner of clients.

WHAT WE DO We advise small and mid-sized Swiss companies on a variety of corporate finance issues. Our aim is long-term, functional, and market-adequate solutions. Services WHO WE ARE We are a consulting company featuring an international team which distinguishes itself with many years of practical experience

Investment focus

Leasing, Logistics, Real Time
Seed, Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

LeaseTeq — LeaseTeq bietet Privat- sowie Unternehmenskunden das erste komplett digitale Leasingangebot.
Hive-Zox — Hive-Zox offers connected Monitoring as a Service (cMaaS), a complete Real-Time Visibility platform.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

N & V Capital is a family-owned venture capital boutique focused on European investments. With generations of entrepreneurial experience, we seek scalable ventures driven by technology or scientific progress. We engage primarily up to Series A rounds, preferring early-stage involvement to support visionary founders aiming for sustainablegrowth. Our commitment is for the long term, and we are driven by pragmatism, open-mindedness, and hands-on assistance wherever required.

Investment focus

Health Care, Leasing, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

LeaseTeq — LeaseTeq bietet Privat- sowie Unternehmenskunden das erste komplett digitale Leasingangebot.
Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
Virtonomy GmbH — Virtonomy is shortening time-to-market of medical products by conducting data driven studies on virtual patients.

Our goal as an investment firm is to deliver high returns to our investors by financing improvements in the world through IT and new technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Russian Federation, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Gaviti — Gaviti is an automated receivables platform that accelerates cash flow and improves DSO by an average of 30%.
ShapesXR — Design in 3D for VR, AR, or MR apps together in real-time. Build interactive prototypes and present to stakeholders. Import from Figma and export to Unity.
C Teleport — Book, change and cancel business and marine travel 100% online. Control budget and track expenses all in one place.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Solvay Ventures is the Venture Capital arm of Solvay through a 100 millions $ evergreen fund.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle, Chemical
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Zeda — PrinterPrezz is driven by a mission to bring more ideas for innovative medical devices to market faster, connecting medicine and manufacturing to become the first Medifacturing™ company in the world. By developing advanced medical devices using processes that combine expertise in 3D printing, orthopedics, and semiconductor technology.
Tau Group — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.
Compact Membrane Systems — Proven, practical solutions for industrial point-source carbon capture and other challenging chemical separations.

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