# Top 30 Biotech Angel Investors in Switzerland in June 2026 ## Penny Schiffer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Finance Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai ## Peter Herger - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Wellness, Neuroscience, Information Technology Peter Herger is a private investor. ## Ian Metcalfe - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology Ian Metcalfe is an individual investor. ## Marcello Campanelli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology Marcello Campanelli is a general manager at Parker Lord. ## Delia Schrafl - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Wellness, Neuroscience, Information Technology Delia Schrafl serves as an Advisor to the Investment Committee of Evoleen Invest AG. ## Lucian Wagner - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Skiing, Sports, Fitness Lucian has a truly global outlook with an extensive set of contacts in North America, Europe, and Asia. Lucian is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur with several successful start-ups to his credit. He has 20 years of semiconductor industry experience. Lucian was born in Germany, educated in the French school system, and went on to earn a B.Sc.in International Economics from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (with a minor in Russian) and an MBA from INSEAD. ## Tobias Reichmuth - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Internet Tobias Reichmuth - Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder @ Maximon ## Ulf Claesson - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage Ulf Claesson ## Nicolas Mermod - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Life Science Nicolas Mermod ## Igor Fish - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Life Science Igor Fish ## Arda Kara - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software Arda Kara ## Mathias Maurer - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Wellness, Neuroscience, Information Technology Mathias Maurer ## Piero Novelli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Wellness, Neuroscience, Information Technology Piero Novelli is the Chairman-Supervisory Board at Euronext NV. ## Miklos Stanek - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Miklos Stanek joined BackBone Ventures as Founding Partner & Chairman. ## Thomas Zehnder - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology Thomas Zehnder - Partner @ BlueOcean Ventures ## Ted Kummert - Type: Angel - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: CRM, Big Data, Life Science Ted joined Madrona in 2013 and brings his years of technical and operational leadership in enterprise technology to Madrona and the portfolio companies. As Venture Partner, Ted identifies new investments and provides strategic counsel and operational advice to Madrona portfolio companies. Prior to Madrona, Ted drove major product and businessinitiatives for Microsoft for more than two decades. At Microsoft, Kummert led teams across a broad set of technologies, including operating systems, consumer online services, enterprise security and enterprise application platform. As Corporate Vice President of the Data Platform Group, Kummert led the development of several key Microsoft enterprise products including SQL Server, SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse, Windows Azure Data Services and Microsoft's business intelligence and big data offerings. Widely known as the "data chief" of Microsoft, he led the data platform business through a period of significant growth and drove the cloud and big data strategy for the platform. Ted began his career at Apple and HP. ## Nicolas Weber - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Genetics, Oncology, Generative AI Healthcare has been my passion throughout most of my professional life – in international corporate environments and as entrepreneur and Business Angel. I co-founded medneo (https://www.medneo.com/) (Radiology as a Service) and OpenRad (https://www.openrad.com/) (IT rails for diagnostic imaging) and helped to buildit from zero to 550+ people – what a journey. I recently transitioned from Group CEO to the supervisory board. With medneo (https://www.medneo.com/) we are improving access to high-end diagnostic imaging (e.g. MRI, CT, etc.) for patients with a new pan-European operating model for medical service providers: Radiology as a Service. And with OpenRad (https://www.openrad.com/) we bring workflow IT to 3rd party diagnostic centers beyond medneo. I have developed the organization for CEOs to manage the brands independently and I support them actively as board director. Together with my two co-founders André Glardon (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreglardon/) and Matthias Issing (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthias-issing/) we – 3minds (https://www.linkedin.com/company/3minds-projects/) – are supporting outstanding impact entrepreneurs on their journey to improve our lives - as angels, mentors and in board functions. We engage directly and via amazing networks like Better Ventures (https://www.betterventures.io/) and Springboard Health (https://www.springboardangels.com/). I'm a grateful member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (https://eonetwork.org) - the meaningful connections with diverse and inspiring people helped me to grow as a person. Also, I'm a board member of EO's Berlin Chapter (https://www.eoberlin.com/). Berlin (https://goo.gl/maps/6zP6kaWtrY7VQhvu6) based. Originally from the south of Germany (Pforzheim), had the opportunity to live and work abroad (e.g. USA, UK, China). I like endurance sports, especially long-distance running (Marathon+) and cycling. I'm happy to contribute and connect (https://about.me/nicolas.weber) - feel free to reach out! https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasweber/ ## Beat Schillig - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Music Beat Schillig - Founder @ Venture Kick ## Alexsis de Raadt-St. James - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care Alexsis is the Founder and Managing Partner of Merian Ventures, an early-stage venture firm focused on investing in women founded, co-founded and majority-owned companies in the US and UK. Alexsis has extensive investment, venture and operations experience based on businesses she has founded or funded. As managing partner of Merian Ventures since2015, Alexsis serves as a Board Member and Advisor to Merian Venture portfolio companies Provenance, Pivigo, Populus, Honeycomb, ImpactVision, CareerLark, Cirrus Identity and Compaas, among others. Merian Ventures was named after Maria Sibylla Merian, a botanist, entrepreneur and intrepid traveler born in 1647. In addition to Merian Ventures, Alexsis is a US-UK Fulbright Commissioner; Board member of the Oxford Internet Institute; Board member of The Oxford Foundry; Founder and funder of the WEInnovate STEM accelerator for Women at Imperial College, London; and Board Member and Advisor to companies she's funded. Alexsis is also Chairman and Founder of The Althea Foundation, established in 2003 as a family office. Today, The Althea Foundation is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation and it is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a public charity described in Internal Revenue Code Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1). ## Philip Wels - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Sports, Software, Information Technology Philip Wels is an individual investor. ## Urs Berger - Type: Angel - Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Wellness, Neuroscience, Information Technology Urs Berger is the current President of Swiss Entrepreneurs Foundation. He previously worked at JAROWA AG as a Chairman of the Board. Urs Berger attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management. ## Chris Gibson - Type: Angel - Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science Chris Gibson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Recursion (Recursion Pharmaceuticals). He previously worked at Cure HHT as a Member Board of Directors. Chris Gibson attended the University of Utah. ## Emily Leproust - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Product Research As an early pioneer in long DNA synthesis, Emily is poised to accelerate the biofactory market. She and co-founder Bill Peck share the world record for synthesizing the longest, highest quality oligo library. Emily architected the successful SureSelect product line which lowered the cost of sequencing and elucidated dozens of mendelian diseases,and she developed Agilent’s Oligo Library Synthesis technology. Emily has co-authored over 34 peer-reviewed papers—many on synthetic DNA—and has extensive marketing, management, and business development experience. Prior to Twist Bioscience, Emily was Director of Applications and Chemistry R&D—Genomics at Agilent Technologies. ## Feike Sijbesma - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Product Research Feike has been the CEO and Chairman of the Managing Board of Directors of Royal DSM N.V. (a global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company) since May 2007. In 1995, Feike became director of Gist-Brocades Food Specialties Division and joined Gist-Brocade’s executive committee. Following the acquisition by Royal DSM N.V. in 1998, he became adirector of the business group DSM Food Specialties. In 2000 he joined Royal DSM’s managing board of directors, becoming Chairman and CEO in May 2007.He is currently a member of the supervisory board of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB, the Dutch Central Bank), and a board member of CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council) and member of the Global CEO Council (GCC) of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC).His previous roles have included member of the Supervisory Board of DSM Netherlands, the Utrecht University, the Dutch Genomics Initiative (NGI) and the Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek Hospital/Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI/AVL), chairman of Chemical Governors and a Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, Dutch Food Chain Sustainability Foundation (DUVO) and of EuropaBio (European Biotech Association), a member of the Dutch Innovation Platform 2.0, board member of BIO (US Biotechnology Association), the Swiss Society of Chemical Industries (SCGI) and the Dutch Nutrition/Food Top-Institute (WCFS) and a member of the advisory board of ECP-EPN (e-commerce) and the Rotterdam Business School of the Erasmus University. ## Patrick Delarive - Type: Angel - Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Security, Wireless, Wearables Patrick is a businessman active in real estate, wealth management, show business, hospitality, education and private equity, benefiting from a strong network. At Biowatch since November 2015. ## Zürcher Kantonalbankand - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Medical Device, Energy, Medical Zürcher Kantonalbankand ## Thorsten Schroeder - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Children, Electronics, Life Science Thorsten Schroeder ## Reinhard Ambros - Type: Angel - Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical Reinhard Ambros ## Christoph Behn - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Advanced Materials Christoph Behn is the Chairman & Founder of better ventures. He previously worked at Die Kartenmacherei as an Advisory Board & Founder. Christoph Behn attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. ## Lukas Speiser - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Wellness, Nutrition, Health Care Lukas Speiser is the founder and CEO of Amorana.ch