# Top 40 Community Angel Investors in Switzerland in June 2026

## Ralph Gygax
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics

Ralph Gygax is a Chief Administrative Officer at SWISS Gate AG. He attended KV, SVIT from 1999 to 2007.

## Werner Hoffmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics

Professional experience:
Expert for Risk Management and Public Relations
Strategic & operational responsibility Compliance & Safety Management
Decades of leadership experience as colonel & professional military pilot in the Swiss Air Force

## Joachim Schoss
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Social Media, Music

Mr. Schoss has a history of founding successfulcompanies, including TellSell Consulting and Telcare, which merged with Sykes Enterprises. In 2004 his latest company, Scout24, was acquired by T-Online for $221 million. He was named 2002’s “Business Angel of the Year” in Switzerland.In addition to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Mr. Schoss also has extensive investment experience, going back to the 1990s. From 2000-2003, he was the Chief Excecutive for Beisheim Holding Schweiz, and is currently the cornerstone investor of 6S Capital, a quantitative hedge fund firm.Mr.Schoss is President of the charitable foundation MyHandicap.com, and the Chapter Chair of the Young Presidents Organisation in Zurich.Source: 

## Bettina Hein
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Tourism

Bettina Hein is the founder and CEO. She is a repeat entrepreneur based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to founding Pixability, Bettina co-founded Swiss-based SVOX AG and led the venture-backed speech software company to profitability. Bettina was the initiator of the START, an organization that advances entrepreneurship among college students.In 2000, START received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Bettina holds a Master of Science degree from MIT, where she was a Sloan Fellow; a law degree from the University of Constance; and a degree in business administration from the University of St. Gallen.

## Fabio Cannavale
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

Fabio Cannavale - Founder & President @ B Heroes

## Zürcher Kantonalbankand
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Medical Device, Energy, Medical

Zürcher Kantonalbankand

## Marc P. Bernegger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Events, FinTech, Finance

Marc P. Bernegger is a Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder. Marc previously worked at Crypto Finance Group as a Founding Board Member (acquired by Deutsche Boerse). He attended the University of Zurich.

## Andrea Jansen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Baby, Children, Nutrition

Andrea Jansen

## Idris Ayodeji Bello
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program.  Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

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- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Rental, Social

.. .. - Co-founder and CEO @ Bond Mobility

## Edouard Lambelet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Communities, Blogging Platforms

Edouard is Chairman Finity SA and Paper.li. Prior to this new initiative, he founded MNC, a leading international mobile application and service provider that has been acquired by Alcatel- Lucent in 2004 (now Nokia). Edouard focused then on developing Alcatel-Lucent activities in the Mobile Media Market enabling business.Edouard holds a Masterin Business Administration from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland, for which he also collaborated as lecturer in Financial Strategy and Enterprise Service Strategy.

## Siraj Khaliq
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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.

## Ronald Strässler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Hardware, Industrial

Ronald Strässler is a Co-Founder at Avaloq.

## Bruno Glaus
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Drones, Computer, Robotics

Bruno Glaus

## Myke Naf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

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

## Griff Green
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Finance, Communities

Griff Green - Co-Founder @ The Commons Stack

## Mattias Ljungman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Apps

Mattias launched Atomico in 2006 alongside Niklas Zennström, sourcing investments and building Atomico's team of experts who help portfolio companies to scale globally. In that time, Mattias has been involved with exits or substantial transactions in companies including Supercell (sold a majority stake to SoftBank over two transactions in2013 and 2015), 6Wunderkinder (acquired by Microsoft in 2015), The Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto for $1.1B in 2013), Xobni (acquired by Yahoo! in 2013) and Power Reviews (acquired by Bazaarvoice in 2012). Mattias works closely with a number of portfolio companies on their expansion, including Truecaller, Klarna, Hailo, and ChemistDirect. He also leads the work of Atomico's experienced global team on the ground in China, Japan, Brazil and Turkey, helping portfolio companies to scale into these major international markets. Before launching Atomico, Mattias was the head of investments at CLS Holdings where he was responsible for the sale of Sit Up TV for $360 million in 2005 and held previous roles working in M&A consultancy at LEK and in fund management at Valu-Trac. Mattias holds a Masters from the Stockholm School of Economics and a B.A. in Geography and Economics with Honors from McGill University.

## Ivo Petrov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Events, Software, Broadcasting

chairman

## Gido M. Karges
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Women's, Wellness

Gido M. Karges
Strategist | High-tech industries | MedTech Expert | Advisor | Non-Executive Director | Board Member | C-level Executive | Angel Investor | Präsident FDP.Die Liberalen Appenzell Innerrhoden

## Stefan Brunner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Audio, Music

Entrepreneur | Co-founder bexio AG

## Dario Fazlic
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Baby, EdTech, Children

Dario Fazlic has 2 current jobs as Founder and Member of the Board at Immozins and Founder & CRO at wefox.

## Roland Brack
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Travel, SaaS, Rental

Roland Brack - Mr. @ Ziano

## Fritz Mumenthaler
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Drones, Computer, Robotics

Fritz Mumenthaler - Chairman @ Komed Health AG (PLC)

## Dehua Zhu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Women's, Wellness

Dehua Zhu is the Risk Manager Private Equity, Full Stack Data Scientist, Investor.

## Priska Rösli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Women's, Wellness

Priska is a proven economic and tax expert and experienced businesswoman. Through her work as an executive in renowned consulting firms and large multinational companies, she has excellent international networks and maintains contacts to important economic and tax experts from around the world.

## Paul Sevinç
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Travel, Software, Information Technology

Paul E Sevinç is Co-Founder & CTO at Doodle.

## Adrian Bührer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Organic Food, Food and Beverage

Adrian Bührer

## Anja Graf
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Retail, Marketing, E-Commerce

Anja Graf is an individual investor and real estate entrepreneur .

## David Studer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Biel, Bern, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Social

David Studer

## Christian Wanner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Diving, Sports, Travel

Christian Wanner

## 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

## Andreas Buhl
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Rental, Retail, Social

Andreas Buhl

## Dennis Liu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Communities

Dennis Liu

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.

## Dominique Locher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2C, Pet, SaaS

Dominique Locher

## Daniel Gutenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

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.

## Pascal Meyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Rental, Social

Pascal Meyer Loutre in chief @ QoQa

## Samih Sawiris
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Association, Communities, Real Estate

Samih Sawiris

## Loic Amado
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Tourism

Loïc Amado is the founder of Loic Amado. Loic Amado attended Harvard Business School Executive Education in 2018.

## Jordan Ellis
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Communities, Marketplace

Jordan Ellis

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