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Top 35 Education VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Switzerland in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 35 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Education startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Education VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Switzerland in May 2025

Investor	Education Switzerland investments
Athos Capital	3
SICTIC	2
Swiss Post Ventures	2
Nauta Capital	2
BackBone Ventures	2
Zürcher Kantonal Bank	2
Mediahuis	2
CV VC	2
Verve Ventures	2
Craft Ventures	1
European Commission	1
Bloomhaus Ventures	1
Randstad Innovation Fund	1
Finnvera Venture Capital	1
Orell Füssli Holding AG	1
Acrobator Ventures	1
Sedo	1
Aldea Ventures	1
Debiopharm Group	1
Debiopharm Innovation Fund	1
Alpine Equity	1
NextStage	1
DAA Capital Partners	1
MrPink VC	1
Round2 Capital Partners	1
Gentian Investments	1
LongJump	1
Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT)	1
Serpentine Ventures	1
Privilège Ventures	1
StartAngels Network	1
TechRise Chicago	1
UP Ventures	1
Swisscom Ventures	1
NGM Aktiengesellschaft	1

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Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Harbiz — Harbiz es la app para gestionar tu negocio de entrenamiento personal. Harbiz te ayuda a organizarte, comunicarte con clientes y cobrarles en un solo lugar. Customizable. Eficiente. Simple de usar. Prueba Gratis.
Ciudadela — Ciudadela is a property management company that offers digital platform for administrating and managing properties.
Sycai Technologies — Sycai Technologies, MedTech startup founded in Barcelona, that empowers radiologists in the non-invasive fight against pancreatic cancer through AI-based medical imaging algorithms

Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC) connects smart money investors to Swiss seed and early-stage tech startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pelt8 — Pelt8 enables climate action through the platform with scalable processes and controls to collect sustainability-related data in an easy and traceable way.
Nextesy — Nextesy is a pioneering start-up that uses AI to simplify and automate important business processes, allowing businesses to alleviate the strain of repetitive manual procedures while increasing operational efficiency and scalability.
Insurteam — Insurteam provides the benefits of its technology to all insurance companies that service the travel and leisure sector.

Swiss Post positions its services at the junction between the physical and digital worlds, building on an impressive range of physical products by supplementing them with an increasing number of digital solutions.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
CareerFairy — We build live streaming for employers, to help them communicate their mission through their people to future employees who really care about their success. We help you attract the right people for the right reasons.
ContractHero — ContractHero is a leading digital contract management solution for business customers. The smart and easy-to-use software provides an overview of all current contracts, quickly identifies unnecessary costs and reduces risks from missed contract deadlines. As a result, companies have full control over their contracts and avoid missed deadlines andunnecessary costs.

We support visionary founders across Europe as they build the next generation of B2B software companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
NetBird — Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
Unravel — Unravel delivers immersive digital transformation and engagement with travellers through short-format, shoppable videos.

BackBone Ventures' focus are early-stage investments, primarly in the area of innovative ICT, FoodTech and disruptive technologies in DACH & Israel. Committed to achieve a positive impact for the next generation by empowering access to proficient ventures investments.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Syn2core — We are a startup in stealth mode, working on an AI co-pilot to empower frontline workers in automotive.
Cloudsquid — is an an artificial intelligence based revenue orchestration company intended for companies with usage-based pricing models.
CROWN — Drive savings and supplier competition with CROWN's eAuction service. Smart reverse auctions built for procurement teams. Book your free demo today.

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

DPhi Space — DPhi Space is a startup that specializes in shared satellites for hosted payloads to simplify access to space. The company's flagship product, Clustergate, is a modular platform that aggregates multiple payloads—such as sensors, antennas, or cameras—into a single container, allowing them to share a satellite. This approach reduces costs andcomplexity by optimizing satellite resources. Clustergate offers built-in in-orbit computing, AI processing, and real-time data analytics, enabling businesses to deploy and manage their technology in space without requiring specialized expertise.
Retinai — RetinAI optimises and simplifies clinics, research and pharmaceutical workflows to improve healthcare. To achieve this goal, the company builds tools to collect, analyze and organize health data, empowering healthcare professionals and patients with automatic image and data analysis supported by advanced machine learning. RetinAI has proprietarytechnology that provides unforeseen image quality enhancement, as well as automatic analysis of medical data for hospitals, private practitioners, pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers at similar level of performance as a human would produce.
Lymphatica Medtech — Lymphatica Medtech is a medical device development company developing a minimally invasive solution for chronic lymphedema.Lymphedema is the chronic swelling that generally occurs in the arms or the legs.Lymphedema is most commonly caused by the removal of or the damage to the lymph nodes as a part of cancer treatment. It results from ablockage in the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune system. The blockage prevents the lymphatic system from draining excess fluids, and the fluid buildup leads to swelling, infections, and pain.Unfortunately, there is no cure for lymphedema. It can be managed with early diagnosis and diligent care of the affected limb, through daily compression, bandages, and manual drainage sessions. From the moment of the diagnosis, the life of lymphedema patients changes forever.Cancer and cancer-related interventions (i.e. surgery, radiotherapy) are frequent causes of lymphedema occurring both in the upper and lower limbs. Breast cancer survivors are at high risk for developing lymphedema, as well as patients treated for melanoma, pelvic and head and neck cancer or other cancer treatments that require lymph node dissection. Physical trauma can also result in lymphedema, a major cause of lymphatic disease among wounded veterans.Lymphedema is associated with significantly impaired quality of life, skin changes, increased risk of infection and in rare cases lymphedema itself may undergo malignant transformation.Lymphatica offers a permanent solution that will allow patients to regain their normal lifestyle.

Mediahuisis a venture capital arm of the independent publishing and media company is on a mission to support founders who are changing the way we learn and work. As a lead investor, MHV participates in European EdTech & HRTech companies, from Series A and beyond.

Investment focus

Education, Human Resources, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
WorkerHero — Bei DriverHero findest du Fahrerjobs in Vollzeit, Teilzeit oder Minijob. Jetzt anmelden und Jobangebote von Unternehmen erhalten!
Impactpool — Job vacancies in the European Union, United Nations and International Organizations.

We invest in blockchain

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

fija Finance GmbH — The new way to earn on your crypto
Mycel — Mycel is a decentralized cross-chain asset management platform with an intent-based token transfer layer.
Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership

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, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Metafuels — Our breakthrough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology, aerobrew™, will make affordable net-zero aviation a reality. The technology is innovative, highly scaleable and able to tap into future global renewable energy systems efficiently. Starting from renewable feedstocks including green hydrogen, driven by renewable electricity, andsustainably sourced CO2, for example from direct air capture, aerobrew™ provides an efficient route to large-scale production of e-kerosene, overcoming the scale up challenges and high costs of alternative e-fuels technologies. aerobrew™ is also compatible with the biogenic route whereby the carbon required for the process is derived from renewable and sustainable cellulosic biomass which, does not compete with the food chain (wood, miscanthus, etc.). With a high carbon conversion, high selectivity and a high overall SAF yield, aerobrew™ leads to attractive production economics and cost leadership. With a rapidly growing demand for SAF, aerobrew™ stands to contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of global aviation and to support the achievement of net zero 2050 targets.
Poppins — Mila merges music, technology, and neuroscience to reshape therapy into a musical experience. We create musical games for children based on neurologic music therapy methods. These games are designed to address learning dissabilities like dyslexia, providing a digital treatment at home and helping identify these conditions. Behind these games, weleverage data science and new technologies to interpret learning, language, and motor performance into a cognitive score. Our goal is to improve the process for patients receiving treatment and to reaching the vast undiagnosed majority.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to the craft of building great companies. Craft has brought together a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and investor acumen. Over the past twenty years, David, Bill, Jeff and Sky have built and invested in some of the most iconic companies of this generation.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Unframe — Unframe solves all your AI use cases with secure, scalable solutions on one unified platform. Say goodbye to generic software and complex implementations. Get tailored AI solutions in days, not months.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful new way to animate characters for videos, games, 3D, movies, ads or social media.
Allen Control Systems — Allen Control Systems is a robotics defense company purpose-built to deliver advanced robotic capabilities to fill modernization demands across the defense industry and national security communities.

The official website of the European Commission, providing access to information about its political priorities, policies and services

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ENZIDIA — We crack the fundamental bottlenecks of enzyme engineering with unprecedented screening and data collection capacity
ETHRIS — About Ethris Ethris has paved a new path from genes to therapeutic proteins using its proprietary, non-immunogenic messenger RNA technology platform to discover, design and develop innovative therapies. With more than a
PhotonHub Europe — PhotonHub Europe is an digital innovation hub for photonics.

We are a pioneering Swiss venture capital firm dedicated to empowering game-changing tech startups in Central Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Manukai — At Manukai, our mission is to bridge the gap between design and production.
Limatica — Limatica is a BatteryTech/DeepTech startup founded in Chemnitz. Through the founder's deep understanding of battery diagnosis it was possible to develop a novel measurement method to qualify cells in battery production - faster and more cost-efficient than ever before.
ExoMatter — ExoMatter is a digital materials development startup. They employ artificial intelligence algorithms to find better and more sustainable materials for their application. Their customized platform contains all material data in one location. They use scientific data on materials to develop enhanced and environmentally friendly materials. Theirmaterials research platform generates a customized list of materials for each client's application.

Find a job. Temporary staffing, permanent placement, consultants provided on site (Inhouse Services), seconded specialists (Professionals) and specialized HR solutions.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Software, Human Resources
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Spain, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

HackerRank — HackerRank, the Developer Skills Company, leads the technical hiring and upskilling market with over 2,500 customers and a community of over 26 million developers.
Alicia Insurance — Offer insurance, embedded into your brand. Live within a day. Learn all about our Insurance as a Service.
Brazen — Radancy's virtual and in-person hiring event and career fair software is used to create, manage and host events. Learn more here

Finnvera makes direct investments in early-stage enterprises through Seed Fund Vera Ltd. Finnvera's goal is to cover shortcomings existing on the market between product development funding and private equity investments. Finnvera does not compete with private financiers; instead, it strives to supplement the financial market.Finnvera'sinvestments enable, start and accelerate growth and internationalisation among investment targets. Enterprises are developed to make them attractive targets for further financing by other investors and industrial actors. Investments are made in technology enterprises at an early stage and in technology-intensive or innovative service enterprises that have potential for developing into international growth enterprises.Finnvera is also known as a specialised financing company owned by the State of Finland. It provides its clients with loans, guarantees, venture capital investments and export credit guarantees.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AISTI — AISTI develops wood fiber-based acoustic tiles that are carbon negative, easy to recycle and plastic-free – bringing sustainability to construction tile by tile.
Nexstim — Nexstim is a medical device company that specializes in image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation. The company is committed to improving the quality of life of patients with significant unmet clinical needs. It has developed a SmartFocus TMS technology designed for the treatment of the major depressive disorder.The company was founded in2000 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.
Enifer — Enifer Bio is an expert at squeezing every last drop of value from biorefining operations. The solution is built on decades of Finnish expertise to allow the production of valuable protein-rich feed from streams previously considered worthless. The company has developed a new, sustainable production process for high-quality fish feed raw material.The company's method enables the efficient production of a single cell protein from fish by-products as a raw material for fish feed. The protein can replace soy, which is commonly used in fish feed and whose cultivation poses ecological challenges, such as deforestation in South America.

Orell Füssli operates as a diversified industrial and trading group the core business of banknote and security printing, industrial systems for the individualization of value documents and branded products and the book trade. The book publishing house founded in 1519 forms the traditional origin of the company.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Evrlearn — Skills Portfolio to match people with learning opportunities

Pre/seed VC bridging East and West investing in data-heavy B2B(2C) solutions

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FINVISE — Mortgage reports for financial institutions
Algorized — Algorized develops advanced technologies for human presence detection using UWB Radar.
MiLaboratories — Top-notch solutions for adaptive immunity studies

Sedo is a domain name and website marketplace and domain parking provider based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Cologne, Germany. Sedo headquartered in Cologne and Boston (USA), is domain trading platform with 2 million customers and 19 million domains listed for sale. Sedo offers buyers and sellers a full suite of domain-related services, such asdomain parking, appraisals, transfers as well as marketing and promotional activities. For more information, please get in touch.

Investment focus

Internet, Robotics, Education
Seed, Angel
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bloson — Bloson is a social platform where users, non profits and companies converge to change the world for better.Bloson lives by the principle of not wasting a single minute you spend online. With bloson users go about their normal day online - listening to music, watching TV shows or shopping - but while they do so, they are supporting and helping asocial cause.Users earn points whenever they share music or videos with their Facebook friends, buy products at bloson partner retailers among others. These points are later assigned to one of fifteen social causes that users choose to support, from Fighting Global Warning to Animal Welfare. At the end of each quarter, Bloson totals up all the points earned for each cause and makes a proportional donation to each cause.
Goodwall — Goodwall is the next generation community for students and young professionals to connect and discover opportunities. 1M+ Members, 5M+ Jobs & Internships, $1M+ in Scholarships

Aldea is a venture capital platform based in Barcelona, investing in next generation technology leaders across Europe

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Lodgify — Lodgify is an all-in-one SaaS solution that helps vacation rental owners and property managers to manage and market their accommodation business. It is a rental marketing software that simplifies vacation rental marketing.The software allows both vacation rental owners and property managers to create their own mobile-friendly website with a “BookNow” function, manage reservations and availabilities efficiently, and instantly synchronize property information with listings on multiple external vacation rental portals.Lodgify’s mission is to help vacation rental owners and managers to grow their accommodation business by empowering them with great technology that is accessible and affordable for everyone. Founded in June 2012, Lodgify is a Barcelona-based technology company that develops innovative software for the vacation rental industry.
Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.

Debiopharm is an independent biopharmaceutical company based in Switzerland with an ongoing commitment to improve patient outcomes and quality of life in oncology and bacterial infections. Our main activities include drug development, drug manufacturing and digital health investment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Genetics, Medical Device
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Raidium — Radiology augmented GPT to tackle the complexity of precision medicine
Tune Insight — Tune Insight has created a federated health data space to facilitate access to knowledge with a unique feature: your data is not centralized or shared.
WhiteLab Genomics — Discover WhiteLab Genomics, where AI meets biology to revolutionize genomic medicine. Our innovative platform optimizes drug design for greater safety and efficacy.

Debiopharm invests in Smart Data & Digital Health companies developing technologies that are applicable in the areas of oncology or infectious diseases

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Risklick — Risklick is develops a first-of-the-kind data-driven tool to allow end-users to identify similar Clinical trials(CTs) and assess risks in early steps of the protocol design. CTs are used to determine the efficacy and safety of an experimental treatment; however, up to 90% of them fail in the early stage of protocol design and the nature andcomplexity of CTs make risk assessment difficult and time-consuming.
StratifAI — Advancing precision oncology with AI-driven biomarkers that analyze histology images & clinical data.
MedaSystems — Streamline patient and provider inquiries for Expanded Access or Compassionate Use with secure, 21st Century Cures Act compliant, cloud software.

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Investment focus

Analytics, Education, Project Management
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Alphacruncher — Nuvolos empowers academics, students, and researchers in computational sciences with reproducible, version-controlled, cloud-based computing environments.

NextStage is a private equity fund manager (venture capital funds (â€œFCPRâ€), local investment funds (â€œFIPâ€) and innovation investment funds (â€œFCPIâ€)) certified by the AutoritÃ:copyright: des MarchÃ:copyright:s Financiers. As committed investors, they provide private equity capital to support the growth of Champion SMEs in France andelsewhere in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series B, Post-IPO Equity
France, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

adopt' — Adopt' manufactures and distributes makeup, fragrances, and accessories for women.
Placeshaker — Placeshaker publishes and designs specialized project management software for renovation and rehabilitation sites.
Glass Partners Solutions — Glass Partners Solutions is distributes glass products to manufacturers and processors of glass products. It products, include monolithic glass, glass laminates, lacquered glass, mirrors, reflectors, anti-fire glass, glasses, radiation protection glass, printed glass, solar self-cleaning glass, tinted glass, anti-reflective, and Uglas. The companyalso offers low emissive glass, yelloe glass, and white shine glass.

DAA Capital Partners is a Swiss-based private equity generating significant returns on technology-driven companies and real estate opportunities

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Tinamu — Tinamu Labs has developed a technology that converts commercially available drones into camera equipment reaching professional standards.
Touch Sensity — Touch Sensity is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of IoT and sensors.
Cognitive Design Systems — Cognitive Design Systems (CDS) is a software company enabling designers and engineers to automate and accelerate their design process using AI. Our software converts concept designs into manufacturable, sustainable and economically viable products using machine learning algorithms.

Future of Work, Education, and Food, powered by technology

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Peru, Colombia, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Quix — Quix helps companies create AI-powered training programs by turning internal content into interactive learning.
Xoul — Just as blood tests reveal physical health, digital behaviors reveal emotional well-being. We help you understand what your child might not be able to express.
NeverGiveUp — NeverGiveUp is a podcast platform that provides AI-generated motivational podcasts and new audio for athletes' motivation.

Round2 Capital gives software entrepreneursthe choice to grow their company without dilution.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Consulting
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, Sweden, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Smartlockr — SmartLockr makes secure email possible. Send large files securely and comply with the GDPR and regulations. Communicate securely and prevent data breaches.
DealCircle — DealCircle is a digital M&A solution and partner of hundreds of M&A advisors. We support in identifying buyers and addressing the market. This provides investors access to a comprehensive deal flow of relevant projects.
ELG E-Learning-Group — ELG E-Learning-Group in an online learning platform.

Gentian is an early-stage investment company founded by the Entrepreneurs Elian Kool and Gerhard Gerner. We focus on investments in SaaS platforms, Mobile, Robotics/Drones and adjacent areas we have a passion for.Based in Switzerland, most of our investments are in the DACH region, but with a clear focus on a global market.We investexclusively in enthusiastic teams, which we support with our experience as entrepreneurs as board member or advisor.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aleno — aleno is the most professional online reservations system for restaurants. Full access to all data. Your own branding and design.
Creaitor — Creaitor is the ultimate solution for content producers, offering a comprehensive suite of AI tools and integrated SEO features. Streamline your content creation process and optimize your online presence with our powerful platform.
Yeastup — Yeastup upcycles by-products from the beer-brewing process into quality ingredients, thus promoting the circular economy. Yeastup is headquartered in Brugg, Aargau and was founded in 2020.

LongJump is a first-check venture fund, focused on Chicago, designed to back the next generation of founders with capital, community, and connections as they make the leap towards building fast-growing, scalable businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Supply Chain Management
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Unvale — UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online.
Blip Energy — Blip Energy is building a new category of energy storage that is smart, affordable, and flexible to add millions of homes to the smart grid network. A hybrid hardware/software solution for energy management that works in any home without barriers around permitting and installation. Power outages across the U.S. cost $150B annually. On Avg.500K Americans lose power daily without backup solutions and 84% of Americans are concerned. Existing grid vulnerability is exacerbated by energy transition volatility. The U.S. power grid had the most outages in history in the past two years. Households need power security, and utilities need levers on the smart grid to balance loads and prevent blackouts. Blip envisions a future where every household has access to smart IoT energy storage to provide critical backup power. Blip solves the growing need for reliable energy with the lowest cost energy storage on the global battery market. Simultaneously, this adds millions of otherwise inaccessible customers to the smart grid. Blip's business model reflects current resilience needs, cost savings, and a data-driven future, by wrapping our hardware endpoint with data and grid services.
Tercero Technologies — Tercero Technologies is a Chicago-based artificial intelligence company focused on edge AI software and hardware research, development, and integration for intelligent sensors and autonomous vehicles.

The Foundation for Technology Innovation gives financial assistance to creative and technological projects at various phases of development. FIT funds projects in energy and the environment, information and digital technology, life sciences and health, precision industries, and nutrition and agriculture.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

INERGIO — This EPFL spin-off is developing faster, portable energy units that offer ten times the power at half the weight of current technology. Founder Mahmoud Hadad’s fuel cell innovation, which uses standard butane or propane that’s safe and available worldwide, offers high autonomy. INERGIO’s fuel cell geometry allows unlimited scaling, making thetechnology suitable for applications ranging from charging consumer electronics to auxiliary power for drones to automobile fuel cells. The team has a working prototype and is looking to have its minimal viable product by summer 2020 to start the pilot project with potential partners and customers.
Brightank — Catalyzing your Decarbonization. Brightank accelerates decarbonization with ammonia cracking catalysts, turning ammonia into fuel for heavy transport, hydrogen supply, and power. EPFL spin-off
DigeHealth — DigeHealth's approach to monitoring gut health using bowel noises and body measurements could provide some really valuable insights into digestive well-being.

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
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

biped.ai — biped is an AI copilot for blind and visually impared people, worn as a harness, that captures the surroundings with 3d cameras, maps & filters the environment in real-time using AI to help understand the environment using intuitive sounds
akirolabs — akirolabs category management software enables procurement to create, execute, and monitor category and supplier strategies, that align with business goals, delivering value beyond savings
MindMetrix — MindMetrix is a startup project team of ETH Zurich which envisions products that quantify the performance of your mind and mental wellbeing.

Where Entrepreneurs Thrive Rooted in reality, reaching for the extraordinary over five decades of combined investment experience Where Entrepreneurs Thrive Rooted in reality, reaching for the extraordinary Authentic, dedicated, disciplined, and goal-oriented, our team drives meaningful and lasting success About Team

Investment focus

Health Care, Hardware, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Wyth — Wyth creates private digital spaces for virtual and hybrid audiences. With our fully customizable platform organizations can build a seamless experience and an online home for their communities to connect, learn, work, share and play without ever leaving Wyth. We give our customers full control over their brand experience, data ownership andbusiness relationships.
Smeetz — Smeetz is the future of a unified, data-driven and dynamic pricing-oriented commerce for attractions and cultural venues.
Avelo — Our mission is to save lives by bringing fast and actionable infectious disease diagnosis closer to the patient. Avelo's solution is a breath collection device. It works with existing molecular tests to detect multiple respiratory tract infections causing pneumonia

StartAngels Network is a Zurich-based angel investment firm that provides investment consulting services.

Investment focus

Medical Device, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Medyria — Medyria is a Swiss medtech startup that engineers technologies for cardiovascular catheter navigation and sensing. They develop a unique guiding and sensing medical device based on proprietary Blood Flow Velocity Sensor technology. The TrackCath System is designed to be cost-effective and safe during EVAR procedures.Medyria's goal is todevelop devices that enable safer and more effective endovascular procedures. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland.
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.
Hylomorph — Hylomorph is a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovative materials designed to transform the biocompatibility of implantable medical devices.

TechRise operates as a multi-stakeholder initiative supporting Chicago’s Black and Latinx tech founders. The company is powered by P33 in partnership with Verizon, 1871, investors, incubators, community leaders, and startup founders. TechRise offers a community, capital, and connections for every stage of business.

Investment focus

Funerals, Wellness, Social Media
Grant
United States

Portfolio highlights

Curiva — Curiva is a femtech company that provides a non-invasive platform to the patient for the diagnosis of gynecologic malignancies.
Kadeya — Kadeya is a closed-loop water vending business that utilizes digitally connected reusable water bottles and tiny bottling equipment. Kadeya was founded by Manuela Zoninsein.
Cuentología — Cuentología helps children overcome today's everyday challenges. It was founded in 2020.

UP Ventures helps corporates and governments innovate with talented startups. Our innovation programmes help solve real-world problems and create value.

Investment focus

Training, Aerospace, Virtualization
Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Loft Dynamics — Loft Dynamics is a training solutions provider that creates a virtual reality (VR) flight simulator. It was the first VR full motion simulator to receive Flight Simulation Training Device (FSTD) EASA FTD Level 3 authorization from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Loft Dynamics, with a talented team of passionate engineers, highlyspecialized developers, and dedicated aviation experts, assists leading global aircraft manufacturers, airlines, aviation operators, flight schools, and training organizations around the world in providing safer and more effective pilot training.It was formerly known as VRMotion AG, which was founded in Zurich in 2018 and has quickly established itself as the market leader in the development and manufacture of virtual reality training devices for helicopter pilots.

Swisscom Ventures is an venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, that specializes in early stage tech investments founded in 2007.Swisscom Ventures invests in growth companies with emerging business models and technologies of strategic relevance to Swisscom's core business. As a value-add investor, Swisscom brings its investees the technicalexpertise and strategic insights of an incumbent telecom operator. We act as a bridge to Swisscom's operational business units, which portfolio companies can also leverage as a test environment for their products and services.Swisscom Ventures seeks minority stakes in companies related to the information/communications/entertainment space.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ANYbotics — ANYbotics provides autonomous legged robots for industrial applications to provide high availability and reliability in automated routine inspections.
Kyan Health — Kyan Health is the first Swiss digital health company to provide end-to-end, fully personalized, evidence-based mental wellbeing and health solutions for employees and their families. The company's mission is to create a frictionless experience when accessing and engaging with mental health and wellbeing support services at work – fromemployee engagement and awareness creation over self-improvement and self-care to coaching and counseling.
Lumotive — Lumotive is a Seattle-based startup company developing high performance, solid-state lidar for autonomous systems in the automotive, UAV, robotics and related industries. The company's revolutionary beam-steering technology leverages Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (or LCMs) implemented in mature semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliversmall, inexpensive 3D perception systems with unprecedented performance and reliability. For more information, visit us at www.lumotive.com.

Institutional Investor

Investment focus

Analytics, Education, Project Management
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Alphacruncher — Nuvolos empowers academics, students, and researchers in computational sciences with reproducible, version-controlled, cloud-based computing environments.

Investors by industry

Artificial intelligence