250+ investors that invest in your industry and stage
Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup
  • Invest in your industry and stage
  • Emails & contact info included
  • Excel and CSV export
  • Automatically
Trusted by 3,000+ startups

Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Switzerland

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Enterprise startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Enterprise companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Switzerland

Investor Enterprise Switzerland investments
Myke Naf 9
Paul Sevinç 6
Ariel Luedi 6
Danny Hayes 5
Soheila Yalpani 5
David Studer 4
Siraj Khaliq 4
David Sikorsky 3
Tobias Reichmuth 3
Christian Wenger 3
Penny Schiffer 3
Adrian Locher 3
Bettina Buechel 3
Alex Ott 3
Andreas Pfluger 3
Mehdi Ghissassi 3
Yves Latour 2
Marton Szoke 2
Ingo Drexler 2
Zand Bank 2
Martin Strobel 2
Bruno Glaus 2
Roland Brack 2
Maxime Paradis 2
Gian Reto à Porta 2
Philippe Bubb 2
Beat Schillig 2
Fritz Mumenthaler 2
Raul Vejar 2
Joachim Schoss 2
Mihai Faur 2
Paul Wahl 2
Sandeep Nailwal 2
Arvin Zuberbuehler 2
Andy Honess 2
Peter Kurer 2
Sam Lim 2
Walter Güntensperger 2
Armin Meier 2
Nicole Herzog 2
Niklas Ostberg 2
Andreas Kemi 2
Remy Lazarovici 2
Stef van Grieken 2
James Isilay 2
Teodoro D'Ambrosio 1
Emily Leproust 1
Mainardo De Nardis 1
Jose Marin 1
Emilio Frazzoli 1
Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.
Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.
Investor list
Myke Naf Angel
Myke Naf is the Managing Partner of Übermorgen Ventures.He attended University of St.Gallen.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Yokoy — Yokoy automates spend management for medium and large enterprises with artificial intelligence, combining expense management, supplier invoice management, and smart corporate cards into one single intuitive platform. In March 2019, Yokoy Group AG was created as Expense Robot GmbH.
  • Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
  • Frontify — Best-in-class software for simplifying brand management through a platform that connects everything (and everyone) important to the growth of your brand.
Paul Sevinç Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Paul E Sevinç is Co-Founder & CTO at Doodle.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Travel, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
  • Gossik — Gossik is the productivity assistant that helps you to stay on top of your tasks and responsibilities so that you can reach your full potential and crush your goals.
  • TestingTime — TestingTime’s customers are in the UX and market research industry and both markets are in need of participants for usability tests, interviews, focus groups, diary studies and surveys. TestingTime provides a pool of more than 350,000 test users from which customers order their desired target users for qualitative and quantitative user researchonline. Test users are acquired through online campaigns and referral mechanisms and a smart rating system and predictive machine learning algorithms ensure high quality test users with a low no-show rate. The company is currently used by large corporations like UBS, Zalando, Microsoft, Accenture and many more.
Ariel Luedi Angel · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, Augmented Reality
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Switzerland, Austria, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • CREAL — CREAL makes Hi-Fi light-field projector for smart eyewear which ultimately everyone will use everyday for everything from cooking to neurosurgery.
  • Squirro — Empower your enterprise decision-making with SquirroGPT's generative AI, enabling smarter decisions, evidence-based answers, and enterprise-grade security.
  • Fluent Commerce — Fluent Commerce, a leading order management system, improves the customer experience, optimizes fulfillment & solves inventory visibility issues. Learn more!
Danny Hayes Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Danny is the CEO and Co-Founder of TerraScale, a green technology company reinventing the future of global sustainable development models. Danny is committed to developing sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing energy and digital infrastructure challenges. He is currently leading various projects at the bleeding edge of technologicalinnovation and sustainable development, including Project Energos, TerraFinance, Global Vision 33, cybersecurity IP, MedTech, and more. In fact, his work as the developer of TerraScale’s flagship initiative, Project Energos, won the 2020 Platinum Outstanding Property Award London, the 2021 ICONIC Innovative Architecture Award, and the 2021 Golden Novum Design Award.Danny’s previous experience includes advising institutions, governments, corporations, and individual HNW clientele on developing smart, resilient infrastructure, master planning of industry development, large unit global sales, business negotiations with Fortune 500 companies, and lobbying political entities. He was also formerly a Metals Trader at Noble House Metal Trading. Danny’s decades of work in and around sustainable infrastructure, finance, and technology led to his 2021 appointment to the role of Global Program Manager of the United Nations ImPPPact Program within the C.R.E.A.M. European PPP Alliance. He also is a member of the World Association of PPP Units & Professionals, a Managing Partner of Hudson Capital Advisors, and is advised by Goldman Sachs.In 2020, Danny was appointed Director Emeritus of the non-governmental organization Green Cross. Green Cross is a consultative member of the United Nations on Climate Change and the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. The Green Cross was founded in 1993 by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev and boasts honorary board members such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Jane Goodall. Danny serves as an Advisory Board Member of the University of California, Riverside. He serves as a Financial Advisor to Ambri (backed by Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures, KLP Enterprises, and GVB), FlowCell (Founded by Dr. Max Narovlyansky) and Chaired by Dr. Umer Sayeed-Shah (COB of Terrascale)Danny is also a member and the (best) Gold (50,000 USD) Sponsor of Top Tier Impact, a global ecosystem of investors, entrepreneurs, and professionals who are focused on solving the critical issues of our time. Danny is also an (Incoming) Knight of Columbus (Knighted by Dominic Lanaway - Council: 611), a Catholic Fraternal Order founded in 1882, whose ranks have included prominent Americans such as President John F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, MLB Hall of Famer Babe Ruth, Governor Jeb Bush, Justice Samuel Alito, NFL Hall of Famer Vince Lombardi, and more. Committed to providing global charity and service, the Knights of Columbus have contributed $1.55 billion and 691 million volunteer hours to charitable projects over the past decade.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Cyber Security, Aerospace, GreenTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Corporation — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Development — Climate Transition Development Corporation (CTD) is leading the Green Snow Project – an innovative hybrid renewable energy venture in Northern Japan. The company's mission is to revolutionize Japan’s renewable energy sector by harnessing the abundant low to medium-heat geothermal resources available in the region.Together with ourdevelopment partners, TerraScale Inc. and Global Family, the company is committed to tackling the challenges of the geothermal energy sector and transforming the way Japan generates power. The company's work forms an integral part of the Japan-US collaboration on geothermal energy development and aims to significantly reduce fossil fuel reliance and cut carbon emissions.
Soheila Yalpani Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
Soheila Yalpani is Co-Founder and COO at TerraScale. She attended The University of British Columbia.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Consulting, Sustainability, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • TerraScale — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Corporation — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
David Studer Angel · Biel, Bern, Switzerland
David Studer
Show more
Investment focus
  • Information Technology, SaaS, Social
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Moodtalk — Moodtalk is an employee engagement platform to help companies improve teamwork, communication and employee wellbeing. Our software helps companies understand employees and identify ways to improve employee engagement. Sign up now.
  • contactify — Are you ready to enrich your interactions and networking with digital content? biz.card by contactify is your platform for efficient data exchange & contact management.
  • CareerLunch — CareerLunch is a recruitment platform that pairs potential hires with employees through informal exchanges over lunch. It was founded in 2019 by Simon Hofer and Konstantin Nesterov.
Siraj Khaliq Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Logistics
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, Switzerland, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Jua — A new paradigm in weather forecasting. AI learning physics. Delivering accuracy beyond expectation. Covering use cases beyond belief. Accessible to everyone, wherever in the world they are. The world's first end to end deep learning model for weather forecasting, delivered on an intuitive platform for anyone to customise it. Startups,governments and large companies alike can now develop global, high frequency and high accuracy weather models within days.
  • Altruistiq — Altruistiq is a decision-making environment for business sustainability teams.
  • RosieReality — Rosie is an educational app for iPhone and iPad. The app is perfect for curious kids of ages 9 and up. Kids program Rosie the Robot using magical 3D shapes to explore AR puzzles.
David Sikorsky Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
David Sikorsky - Venture Partner @ JAL Ventures
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Web Development, Mapping Services
  • Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Planet Intus — French-Swiss since it inception, Planet Intus combines French expertise in telecommunication and software development along with Swiss entrepreneurial agility and quality requirements.The Planet Intus team is composed of a dozen engineers and technicians with skills in :- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - Indoor Positioning technologies -Management of IT projects - Mobile apps development - Business Intelligence & Big Data Analytics
Tobias Reichmuth Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Tobias Reichmuth - Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder @ Maximon
Show more
Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Firstcar — Firstcar provides car driving learning assistant services. They offer services that include hand-picked driving schools, student cars with double pedals for rent before and for the driving test, entry-level vehicles that are inexpensive to buy and maintain, support and advice on vehicle purchase, and selected insurances with special rates.
  • MyFeld.ch — MyFeld.ch is the holder of a fresh farm food platform that aims to create a digital link between consumers and our local agriculture. The company's platform provides products directly from the farm, allowing people to improve their comprehension of seasonality and regionality while also raising awareness of the sustainable use of food byallowing them to purchase fresh produce from the farm.
  • Testmate Health — Testmate Health is a medtech startup and award-winning spin-off of University of Geneva (Switzerland). We have developed a smartphone compatible platform test kit that diagnoses any disease with an identifiable DNA or RNA sequence - without the need for a lab, providing results directly at home in minutes. Based on this platform, our firstsolution is the first rapid urine self-test for the four most common sexually transmitted diseases (STD). One million new STDs are diagnosed a day, and yet the best improvements to date still need a lab, with results taking up to 7 days to be ready. Our easy to use all-in-one-kit provides results in minutes, anywhere, at any time, and the result is scannable by a smartphone to enable people to immediately gain access to treatment – if needed. Further test-kits with other diseases are in the pipeline to empower users to skip the waiting room, and take charge of their health from home.
Christian Wenger Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Christian Wenger - Chairman @ Startup INVEST
Show more
Investment focus
  • SaaS, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland, Germany, Australia
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.
  • Kollabo — Kollabo - the deep job platform for skilled blue collar workers. Thanks to our large network of temporary offices & our qualified team, we excel at finding the perfect match for job seekers and staffing agencies. Never before has the recruiting process been so easy and hassle-free for everyone involved. The goal is to digitally enable allstakeholder, generating a win-win-win situation. It can be that simple with Kollabo – We make work easy.
  • ExpressSteuer — ExpressSteuer is building AI-powered software that simplifies and automates the process of filing a german tax return which is considered to be the most complex and complicated in the world.
Penny Schiffer Angel
Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai
Show more
Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Finance
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Versameb — Versameb AG is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company located in Basel, Switzerland managed by an experienced scientific and business pharmaceutical industry team. The company’s focus is the development of novel RNA-based therapeutics. Versameb’s proprietary VERSagile technology platform enables efficient development of functional mRNAmolecules for customized protein expression and modification in multiple disease areas with high unmet medical need.
  • Enterprise Bot — Cost-effective Conversational AI solutions transforming customer interaction for global enterprises. Discover cutting-edge chat, email, and voice tech.
  • Scientific Visual — Scientific Visual supplies quality control workstations to visualize defects in non-polished sapphire such as watch covers, ingots and wafers.
Adrian Locher Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Adrian Locher is the Founder and CEO at Merantix. Additionally, Adrian Locher has had 4 past jobs including Founder & Investor at Altoida. He attended the University of St.Gallen.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Altoida — At Altoida, we strive to radically change the method for assessing brain health through our comprehensive cognitive function tests and brain health app.
  • Crypto Finance (Asset Management) AG — Unser Asset Management Team bietet qualifizierten und institutionellen Anlegern einen sicheren und transparenten Zugang zum Crypto Asset Markt. Kontaktieren Sie uns!
  • Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.
Bettina Buechel Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
Bettina Büchel has been Professor of Strategy and Organization at IMD since 2000. Her current research topics include strategy implementation, new business development, strategic alliances and change management.She is Director of the public program Orchestrating Winning Performance as well as several partnership programs. She has workedextensively with companies such as Nestlé, Allianz, Evonik, Commerzbank, Nilfisk-Advance and others in developing strategic priorities, implementating strategic initiatives and managing change.Professor Büchel is of German origin. She received her bachelor of economics and public administration at the University of Constance, Germany, her Masters of Human Resources and Industrial Relations at Rutgers University, USA and her PhD at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. After obtaining her PhD, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok where she was teaching MBA and PhD students from across Asia.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Drones, Robotics, Security
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Flyability — Flyability is an EPFL spin-off dedicated to creating safe, collision-tolerant robotics to access inaccessible places, replacing dangerous human operations with unmanned devices.
Alex Ott Angel · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Alex Ott founded CrossContinentalVentures in 2002. He is a veteran in the enterprise software industry with operational and board level experience on four continents.He has been partnering with many entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and Israel in building thought leading technology enterprises that seek to make a difference such as QlikTech whomhe was an investor and is a current board member.Before founding CrossContinentalVentures, Alex was a member of the Executive Committee of Siebel Systems, where he was responsible for building a major presence in EMEA as VP and General Manager, growing revenues, customer and employee base tenfold in just two years. He then ran the Americas geography, Siebel’s largest market with revenue responsibilities of over $1B.Prior to Siebel Systems, Alex played key executive roles within SAP AG (member of the extended global board) and SAP America (Executive Committee member) for almost a decade. Latterly, he held the position of CEO SAP International and Senior VP of Latin America, dramatically growing revenue and profitability through a sustained increase in SAP's Latin American infrastructure and the establishment of new subsidiaries.Alex holds a degree in Economics and Business Management from University BA of Mannheim, Germany.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, CAD
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
  • Squirro — Empower your enterprise decision-making with SquirroGPT's generative AI, enabling smarter decisions, evidence-based answers, and enterprise-grade security.
  • NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.
Andreas Pfluger Angel · Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Andreas Pfluger is a Director at JUMI Enterprises.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Retail Technology, Information Technology
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Invenda — Invenda has the smart technologies to propel your automated retail business into the digital age.
  • Invenda Group — Invenda has the smart technologies to propel your automated retail business into the digital age.
Mehdi Ghissassi Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Mehdi Ghissassi serves as the Head of Product Management at DeepMind.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, Switzerland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Phospho — Phospho is Amplitude for LLM applications. Allowing Product Managers to quantify usage, quality, user engament of LLM apps.
  • LegalFly — The most powerful contract review & drafting experience ever made. LegalFly brings the power of Legal AI into the hands of your legal teams.
  • Spore Biotechnologies — Lighting up microbiology
Yves Latour Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Yves Latour is the Co-Founder of 3wVentures. Yves Latour attended the University of St.Gallen.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Search Engine, Internet
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Verve Ventures — 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.
  • PresseTrends.com — What is happening today, this week or this month? Which people matter, what major events are taking place or which organizations are acting? These questions are topic in news and weekly magazines and can be found answered on www.pressetrends.com where the German speaking press can be searched.
  • Uberchord — Uberchord is an interactive guitar teacher. Listens and adapts to personal progress, teaching you chords, rhythm, strumming and songs. Learn guitar!
Marton Szoke Angel · Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
An entrepreneur and investor with a business background and solid technical experience. Founded several startups, the latest being Indextools, a software company specializing in enterprise on-demand web analytics software. In April 2008 Indextools got acquired by Yahoo! Inc. At the time of the acquisition, Indextools was recognized as one of thetop five web analytics vendors world-wide by Forrester / Jupiter Research. Mr. Szőke served at Yahoo for three years to lead integration efforts and to realign Indextools’ business model.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, EdTech
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Hungary, Switzerland, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
  • Omixon — Omixon is a biotechnology company that specializes in high-resolution HLA genotyping.
  • Ydistri — Digital tool for slow moving inventory problem
  • Logiscool — International franchise network teaching kids programming
Ingo Drexler Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
  • Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
  • Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.
Zand Bank Angel
Zand Bank - Co-Founder @ Asia Finance
Show more
Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Zand — Zand, the digital bank for a digital economy. Corporate Banking with Zand means ease, control, safety & transparency in your digital business banking.
  • Pier Wallet — Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Web3 offer great opportunities. To truly access it, you need a wallet. But selecting and investing into digital assets in your own wallet is complex, expensive and often feels unsafe. nobank makes DeFi and Web3 accessible for everyone. We offer the simplest and cheapest way to transact with digital assets by -drastically improving usability - offering financial products that generate yield or diversify your portfolio - building on multiple L2 blockchains - sharing our knowledge
Martin Strobel Angel · Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Martin Strobel - Non Executive Director @ msg life
Show more
Investment focus
  • PaaS, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Allthings — Allthings enables digital communication and interaction between property users, owners and property managers. Allthings bundles various digital services around life and work in buildings in one app. By doing so, Allthings achieves operational cost reductions while simultaneously increasing the value of the property. The company was founded in 2013by an experienced team and has offices in Basel, Berlin and Freiburg i. Breisgau.
  • Imburse — Duck Creek Payments. We are a leading provider of comprehensive P&C insurance software and services for insurers of all sizes worldwide.
Bruno Glaus Angel
Bruno Glaus
Show more
Investment focus
  • Drones, Computer, Robotics
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Flyability — Flyability is an EPFL spin-off dedicated to creating safe, collision-tolerant robotics to access inaccessible places, replacing dangerous human operations with unmanned devices.
  • Komed Health — Komed Health provides a secure messaging platform for instant medical team communication. The application eases, bundles and organizes real time communication between medical teams making other forms of in-hospital communication such as fixed phones, pagers, faxes and emails obsolete over time. The application is integrated seamlessly with existingclinical systems enabling integrated care pathways. Additionally, it allows physicians and nurses to access and share medical information for decision-making and facilitates communication at the point-of-care. The team is working closely with healthcare providers to build and advance rich feature sets tailored to modern healthcare professionals and care workflows.
Roland Brack Angel
Roland Brack - Mr. @ Ziano
Show more
Investment focus
  • Travel, SaaS, Rental
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Neon — Neon is an independent Swiss mobile account.
  • Appentura — Appentura is guide your friend on the phone by his personal surprise - the content you choose.
  • Kollabo — Kollabo - the deep job platform for skilled blue collar workers. Thanks to our large network of temporary offices & our qualified team, we excel at finding the perfect match for job seekers and staffing agencies. Never before has the recruiting process been so easy and hassle-free for everyone involved. The goal is to digitally enable allstakeholder, generating a win-win-win situation. It can be that simple with Kollabo – We make work easy.
Maxime Paradis Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
Show more
Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Creable — Creable provides creators and managers with a digital workspace solution to manage their entire business.
  • 77 Foods — La Vie is developing a 100% vegetable edible fat with the ambition of offering different types of vegetable meats.
  • Mobile.club — Mobile.club is a smartphone rental without obligation.
Gian Reto à Porta Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Gian Porta currently works as the Board Member for Relio. He previously worked at Contovista as the Co-Founder and CEO. Gian Porta attended University of Zurich in 2005.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Yokoy — Yokoy automates spend management for medium and large enterprises with artificial intelligence, combining expense management, supplier invoice management, and smart corporate cards into one single intuitive platform. In March 2019, Yokoy Group AG was created as Expense Robot GmbH.
  • Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
  • Snipd — Get the Snipd podcast app now. Highlight & take notes in 1 click, including automatic summaries. Browse episodes via AI-generated chapters. Share podcast clips on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn. Export to second brain & notes apps. Discover, highlight & share podcast clips for knowledge seekers.
Philippe Bubb Angel
Philippe Bubb is the Founder at session.vc. Philippe Bubb attended at University of St.Gallen - University of Economics, Law and Social Sciences.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Financial Services
  • Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
  • Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • bexio — Bexio is a Swiss-based company that helps small businesses with cloud-based business and accounting software to grow their businesses. It develops and sells accounting software for small and medium companies. Bexio was founded in 2013 and is based in Rapperswil, Zurich.
  • Dagsmejan — Dagsmejan changed this by introducing the technology from the sportswear to sleepwear sector. The company has launched two product lines – BALANCE, adjusting to the natural temperature of the sleeper, - and STAY WARM.
  • Verity — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.
Beat Schillig Angel
Beat Schillig - Founder @ Venture Kick
Show more
Investment focus
  • Information Technology, SaaS, Music
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • TYXIT — TYXIT is linking musicians wirelessly without configuration, allowing a personal audio monitoring.
  • PXL Vision — PXL Vision enables state-of-the-art digital identity verification. PXL Vision's highly flexible technology solution helps global customers build trust digitally...
  • 1Drop Diagnostics — 1Drop Diagnostics is a cutting edge medical diagnostics and life science company. They combine the best techniques from microfluidics, biochemistry, photonics and information technology to build high performance point-of-care diagnostics devices.Their vision is to provide high quality medical information for everyone. They aim to increase accessto quality healthcare by providing laboratory quality, easy to use, medical diagnostics in any setting. The 1Drop Diagnostics system is being developed for a broad menu of clinical applications including multiplexed assays of proteins, nucleic acids and peptides. Their first clinical applications are in the screening, diagnostics and monitoring of cardiovascular disease and infectious disease.Their mission is to improve patient lives by enabling precision medicine through non-invasive diagnostic tests providing actionable health information that is accessible to everyone at any time. They facilitate the early detection, prevention and management of disease. They empower people to live better lives.
Fritz Mumenthaler Angel
Fritz Mumenthaler - Chairman @ Komed Health AG (PLC)
Show more
Investment focus
  • Drones, Computer, Robotics
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Flyability — Flyability is an EPFL spin-off dedicated to creating safe, collision-tolerant robotics to access inaccessible places, replacing dangerous human operations with unmanned devices.
  • Komed Health — Komed Health provides a secure messaging platform for instant medical team communication. The application eases, bundles and organizes real time communication between medical teams making other forms of in-hospital communication such as fixed phones, pagers, faxes and emails obsolete over time. The application is integrated seamlessly with existingclinical systems enabling integrated care pathways. Additionally, it allows physicians and nurses to access and share medical information for decision-making and facilitates communication at the point-of-care. The team is working closely with healthcare providers to build and advance rich feature sets tailored to modern healthcare professionals and care workflows.
Raul Vejar Angel
Raul Vejar - Advisor @ Pramata
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, B2B
  • Seed
  • Switzerland, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Optix — Optix is the leading coworking software to enable coworking owners and operators to manage, measure, and grow their business.
  • BigOmics — Get robust and reproducible results in a few clicks with Omics Playground: your user-friendly Omics Data Analysis Software.
  • MightyHive — MightyHive is the premier Programmatic Solutions Partner for forward-thinking marketers and agencies, wherever they are on the path to programmatic self-sufficiency. MightyHive empowers clients to build data-driven organizations that drive results through programmatic insourcing, full-service management, and strategic advisory services. One of thelargest and fastest-growing programmatic buyers in the world, MightyHive has helped hundreds of clients adopt programmatic, and has a global presence with offices in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, London, and Singapore.
Joachim Schoss Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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:
Show more
Investment focus
  • Internet, Social Media, Music
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • HAUSGOLD — HAUSGOLD is a fast-growing property technology company that provides assistance in all matters relating to the real estate sale. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
  • iMusician — iMusician offers music distribution, promotion, mastering, and monetization for independent musicians & labels. Get on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, TikTok & many more.
  • CareerLunch — CareerLunch is a recruitment platform that pairs potential hires with employees through informal exchanges over lunch. It was founded in 2019 by Simon Hofer and Konstantin Nesterov.
Mihai Faur Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Mihai Faur
Show more
Investment focus
  • PaaS, SaaS, Software
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • viso.ai — All-in-one Computer Vision platform to deliver applications without code. Intuitive visual programming interface and pre-built modules.
  • viso.ai — All-in-one Computer Vision platform to deliver applications without code. Intuitive visual programming interface and pre-built modules.
Paul Wahl Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
Paul Wahl
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, CRM
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
  • NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.
  • Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
Sandeep Nailwal Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Succinct — The easiest way to discover, develop, and deploy ZK.
  • Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.
  • Ooga Booga — Ooga Booga is a liquidity aggregator designed to support the goal of becoming the most capital efficient blockchain.
Arvin Zuberbuehler Angel · Herisau, Ausser-Rhoden, Switzerland
Arvin Zuberbuehler is the Co-Founding Partner of 3wVentures.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Internet, Search Engine, News
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Youblisher — On youblisher.com people, companies, schools etc can publish their documents and create an easy handable page flipping document. The service is entirely free of charge and everything is hosted. Three easy steps and everything is done.
  • PresseTrends.com — What is happening today, this week or this month? Which people matter, what major events are taking place or which organizations are acting? These questions are topic in news and weekly magazines and can be found answered on www.pressetrends.com where the German speaking press can be searched.
Andy Honess Angel · Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Andy Honess - Founder and Owner @ JumpXL
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed
  • Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
  • CreditEnable — Get the most affordable business loans with CreditEnable! Explore low interest rates, check eligibility in one minute, and apply for your dream business loan today. Dream Big. Borrow Smart!.
  • NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.
Peter Kurer Angel
Peter Kurer - Advisor @ Apiax
Show more
Investment focus
  • Legal, FinTech, Compliance
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Apiax — Apiax offers regulatory technology solutions that empower financial institutions to realise business opportunities, bring down costs and minimise risks.
Sam Lim Angel
Sam Lim
Show more
Investment focus
  • Apps, Blockchain, Recruiting
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • IMPRESSO — The place where recruiters search for authentic career profiles. Job seekers mint and save their career NFT. Save your NFT CV on the blockchain. Meet and connect with verified professionals on the Metaverse. Real identities, jobs and networking on IMPRESSO.
Walter Güntensperger Angel
Walter Güntensperger - CEO @ Active Travel
Show more
Investment focus
  • SaaS, Travel, Tourism
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • TrekkSoft — The leading online booking solution for day tour companies. Use a centralised booking system that connects your online and offline sales channels to simplify back-end booking management.
Armin Meier Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Armin Meier - Managing Partner @ Boyden
Show more
Investment focus
  • SaaS, Travel, Tourism
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • TrekkSoft — The leading online booking solution for day tour companies. Use a centralised booking system that connects your online and offline sales channels to simplify back-end booking management.
Nicole Herzog Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Nicole Herzog
Show more
Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Internet, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • CASUS
  • Gossik — Gossik is the productivity assistant that helps you to stay on top of your tasks and responsibilities so that you can reach your full potential and crush your goals.
  • KidsCircle.io
Niklas Ostberg Angel
Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Östberg is the Co-Founder and CEO of Delivery Hero. He holds a Master of Industrial Engineering & Management from Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm & ETH Zurich.Following five years as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman, Niklas co-founded Pizza.nu (later OnlinePizza.se) where he served as afull-time chairman. After winning the Swedish market he was responsible for building up market leading companies in online food ordering in Poland, Finland and Austria. In late 2010, Niklas convinced Team Europe to develop the concept to the German market under the name of Lieferheld (Lieferheld.de) and got the license to use the technology and know-how from the original Swedish company.After a successful market entry into the competitive German market, Niklas Östberg and his team decided to launch the business model internationally under the name of Delivery Hero in May 2011. The company has since then expanded the concept organically and through acquisitions into 34 international markets, and is today the largest global platform for online food ordering with 200,000+ local restaurants in its network, processing more than 10m orders monthly.What initially was a small vision narrowed to the Swedish market has today expanded into a global vision to provide a platform of choice, convenience, reliability and quality. Or, in essence, an entire food court in your pocket.Niklas’ vision is to transform the industry. Therefore services of Delivery Hero will reflect changing eating habits just as new opportunities in technology and logistics.
Show more
Investment focus
  • SaaS, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Boxhub — Buy new & used shipping containers with Boxhub. We make buying a shipping & storage containers easy - get it delivered right to your door. Shop today!
  • WorkMotion — WorkMotion offers Global HR Solutions to help companies navigate the New Ways of Working. Solutions fully compliant.
  • Confetti — Discover and book from hundreds of exclusive team building, DE&I, and professional development experiences. For virtual, hybrid, and in-person teams!
Andreas Kemi Angel · Niederhelfenschwil, Ausser-Rhoden, Switzerland
Andreas Kemi - Director of the Board @ Fortnox
Show more
Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, iOS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Finland, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Tresorit — Tresorit is a cloud-based, secure file synchronising software, specifically designed to share confidential data of business users. The software is suitable for making shared directories in a way that the files in the directories are encrypted before uploaded and the encrypted file will get into the cloud. When downloading the file from the cloud itis decryptable only when permitted by the owner. Other users are unable to decode its contents. The special feature of Tresorit is that the encrypted contents are shareable without re-encryption and that sharing is reversible by permission revocation.
  • Showell - Sales Enablement Platform — Showell enables your salespeople to present, share and deliver an inspiring and personal experience in every meeting, online and offline.
Remy Lazarovici Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Remy Lazarovici
Show more
Investment focus
  • PaaS, SaaS, Software
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • viso.ai — All-in-one Computer Vision platform to deliver applications without code. Intuitive visual programming interface and pre-built modules.
  • viso.ai — All-in-one Computer Vision platform to deliver applications without code. Intuitive visual programming interface and pre-built modules.
Stef van Grieken Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Stef van Grieken serves as a co-founder and CEO at Cradle.
Show more
Investment focus
  • PaaS, SaaS, Software
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • viso.ai — All-in-one Computer Vision platform to deliver applications without code. Intuitive visual programming interface and pre-built modules.
  • viso.ai — All-in-one Computer Vision platform to deliver applications without code. Intuitive visual programming interface and pre-built modules.
James Isilay Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
James Isilay - CEO @ Cognism
Show more
Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • viso.ai — All-in-one Computer Vision platform to deliver applications without code. Intuitive visual programming interface and pre-built modules.
  • viso.ai — All-in-one Computer Vision platform to deliver applications without code. Intuitive visual programming interface and pre-built modules.
  • MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.
Teodoro D'Ambrosio Angel
Teodoro is serial entrepreneur with 20 years of experience and investor.Teodoro is director of Jetcost Group and Prima.it, former director of Bravofly-Rumbo Group until IPO. Co-founder of Emaze, Hotelscan (acquired by JetCost), Prima, Bravoavia (acquired by Bravofly), Yeldo, Abiby, Impossible Brands.Founder and partner of Luxembourg investmentvehicle Neurone Ventures with an investment portfolio of over 80 investments with 14 successful exits.Current investment portfolio include companies like: Coinbase, Adoreme, Deliveroo, Wallapop, Justeat.Teodoro started his career, as a techie, in year 2000 by joining the founding team of Emaze; he brought the company to become market leader in Italy for software and network security.Teodoro has engineering degree and an executive degree from Berkeley.
Show more
Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Automotive, Marketplace
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • HAPPYCAR — As a metasearch engine HAPPYCAR offers customers an extended transparency of offers showing insurance packages, kilometer fees and one-way fees, among many others. By providing an easy, user-friendly booking process and a free customer service hotline in case any questions arise, they ensure that their customers can enjoy a hassle free rental cartrip. To conclude, customers benefit from HAPPYCAR by saving time and money.HAPPYCAR (www.happycar.de) is one of the fastest growing online car rental companies in Europe. HAPPYCAR is operating within the tourism sector as a meta-search engine for rental cars. Their goal is to provide the best prices for rental cars worldwide, while comparing all offers of their partners. To achieve this, HAPPYCAR has access to more than 1.000 car rental companies for eight countries through Europe and worldwide destinations – further expansion is going on.
  • SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
  • CarPrice.ru — CarPrice is the largest online auctioneer for second-hand cars in Russia, providing buyers with free online valuations in mere seconds. More than 4,000 dealers from across the country can then determine the best price during an average 30-minute online bidding process to complete auctions.Within a year from being set up, CarPrice became a topthree Russian used car seller operating from more than 20 locations including Moscow, St. Petersburg and the regions. CarPrice achieved this position while an adverse economic environment translated into a 40% drop in new car sales in Russia. The Company intends to increase total monthly auctions from 4,000 currently to 10,000 until the end of 2015.The company's Round B was adjudged as "Deal of the Year" by Venture Awards Russia 2015 (investors included Baring Vostok Capital Partners & Almaz Capital).
Emily Leproust Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Product Research
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Cradle — Using robust prediction algorithms and AI design recommendations, Cradle assists biologists in rapidly designing better proteins. Cradle gives you complete ownership of the intellectual property while maintaining the privacy and security of your sequences and data.
Mainardo De Nardis Angel · New York, New York, United States
Mainardo de Nardis has been CEO of OMD Worldwide since 2009.OMD Worldwide is a leading global media communications agency, recognized for its global footprint, strategic integration and creative innovation. It has been acknowledged as Most Creative Media Agency by The Gunn Report for nine consecutive years; Adweek Global Media Agency of theYear for 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014; and the 2002, 2005, 2009 and 2011 Media Agency of the Year by Advertising Age.Prior to joining OMD he was CEO of both Aegis Media and Mediaedge:cia Worldwide. He was a co-founder of one of Italy’s “third wave” ad agencies before moving from advertising to media communications to start Medianetwork, Italy’s first media independent.Mainardo presided over the Cannes Festival’s Media Lions Jury in 2012 and sits on the Boards of Omnicom Media Group and the Ad Council. He resides in NY and London with his family.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • qiibee — qiibee is a software company that offers a solution for businesses and consumers in its blockchain-based platform. Through qiibee’s plug-and-play solutions, enterprises worldwide are running and operating their loyalty programs on the blockchain in just a few hours. The company is creating a decentralized, Ethereum infrastructure-based loyaltyecosystem by providing a loyalty platform and developer interface on which every loyalty application can be tokenized. qiibee enables companies all around the world to run their loyalty applications on the blockchain. The cutting-edge, easy-to-use solutions set the new global standard for loyalty.
Jose Marin Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.
Show more
Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Farfetch — Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.
  • Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
  • Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.
Emilio Frazzoli Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Emilio Frazzoli is the Chief Scientist at Motional Inc and currently the Professor of ETH Zurich. He was the director of transportation at He is also a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and the Operations Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Prior to Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT, Frazzoli held faculty positions at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. He obtained a Laurea degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Rome, and a PhD from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Show more
Investment focus
  • Software, Industrial Automation, Information Technology
  • Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Embotech — Embotech, short for embedded optimization technologies, was founded in September 2013. They strive to lead the market for numerical optimization solutions that will be integral part of tomorrow's decision making systems. The company is a spin-off of the Automatic Control Laboratory from ETH Zurich.
Investors by industry
Investors by country
Angel Investors in Switzerland by industry