Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Switzerland in May 2025

Investor	FinTech Switzerland investments
Danny Hayes	5
Soheila Yalpani	5
Myke Naef	3
Ryan Selkis	2
Hayden Adams	2
Ingo Drexler	2
Olivier Crespin	2
Alex Ott	2
Peter Kurer	2
Éric Thuillier	2
Ariel Luedi	2
Rahul Sethuram	2
Penny Schiffer	2
Paul Sevinç	2
Marc P. Bernegger	2
Daniel Gutenberg	2
Tim Draper	2
Tim Beiko	2
Adrian Locher	2
Sam Lim	2
Chris Waclawek	2
Aly Madhavji	2
Carole Ackermann	2
Philipp Schnyder	1
Melanie Gabriel	1
Makoto Inoue	1
Viktor Bunin	1
Roland Zeller	1
Jose Marin	1
Fabrice Grinda	1
Philippe Bubb	1
Scott Moore	1
Phil Rubin	1
Darian Shirazi	1
Matias Woloski	1
Eric Conner	1
Marco Milone	1
Hans C. Werner	1
Daniel Heller	1
Vadim Koleoshkin	1
Ertan Wittwer	1
Jose Marin	1
Mainardo De Nardis	1
Beat Fellmann	1
Adriant Harrison	1
Joseph Eagan	1
Urs Wietisbach	1
Benedict von Hoffmann	1
Martin Strobel	1
Amir Suissa	1

As the CEO of Climate Transition Swiss AG, I lead a Swiss company that develops and finances green, resilient infrastructure projects across North America, Europe, and Japan. With over 20 years of international business experience, I have a strong track record of delivering sustainable energy solutions that create positive environmental and socialimpact.In addition to my role as CEO, I am also a Lobbyist for Climate Policy at the U.S. House of Representatives, where I focus on influencing environmental initiatives in Japan and Europe. I am passionate about advocating for climate action and fostering global collaboration on this urgent issue. I am also a member of the Forbes Business Council and a regular contributor to their climate section, where I share my insights and expertise on green business and policy.

Investment focus

Clean Energy, Cyber Security, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Climate Transition Swiss AG — 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.

oheila is an entrepreneur with C-team leadership experience on project management and pre-master planning of large-scale smart, resilient green infrastructure projects.

Investment focus

Consulting, Sustainability, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Mountain Gate — 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 Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.

Myke Naef

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Sports
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, Germany, United States

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.
Birdsy — Birdsy is the first AI based video platform for birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts. Connecting the mainstream with birds & wildlife.
G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.
StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.

Hayden Adams is founder of Uniswap, one of the most widely used decentralized applications built on Ethereum. Prior to Uniswap, Hayden was an engineer at Siemens. He graduated from Stony Brook University with a bachelor in engineering in 2016.

Investment focus

Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
Reown — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now

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.

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 — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.

Olivier Crespin - Co-Founder @ Asia Finance

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Zand — Zand Bank bridges TradFi and DeFi, empowering UAE and global corporate, institution and wealth clients to unlock infinite opportunities in the evolving digital economy
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

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.

Investment focus

Software, CAD, CRM
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 — Boosts productivity, cuts costs, and enhances decision-making with secure, private, and accurate AI-driven enterprise intelligence at scale
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 - Advisor @ Apiax

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.

Mr. Eric Thuillier is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Deep Wealth, a Geneva-based investment advisory firm providing private capital solutions and investment consulting services to institutional investors including foundations and single family offices. Eric is also a business angel and active in the Swiss VC and growth ecosystem. Priorto Deep Wealth, Eric has co-founded Investivity, an award winning Geneva-based wealth manager and private office. He led before the multi-asset quantitative trading department in Geneva of Koch Industries, one of the largest private US companies and has held quant positions as VP, at a hedge fund trading equity futures, in the rates exotics dealing room of HSBC and in the FX models validation group at ABN Amro. Eric is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), a level 2 CFA (level 3 pending), graduated as a French computer science engineer and further holds a MSc in corporate finance from Dauphine University (France) and another MSc in quantitative finance from ENSAE / Dauphine.

Investment focus

iOS, Books, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

ZenOwn — All your products in one place. Collect invoices, track warranties and sell what you no longer need. Declutter your home with ZenOwn.
Jeux d'enfants — Founder and inventor.

Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.

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 — Boosts productivity, cuts costs, and enhances decision-making with secure, private, and accurate AI-driven enterprise intelligence at scale
Fluent Commerce — Fluent Commerce, a leading order management system, improves the customer experience, optimizes fulfillment & solves inventory visibility issues. Learn more!

Rahul Sethuram - Partner @ Lone Wolf Partners

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Ethereum
Funding Round, Seed
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
Reown — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai

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.

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

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.

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

Investment focus

Events, Young Adults, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Series A
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Altoida — Altoida is creating a new gold standard in brain health with Precision Neurology. We're radically transforming the method for measuring brain function and diagnosing neurological disease, using just your smartphone or tablet.Our products are backed by more than 20 years of innovative research in digital biomarkers, augmented reality (AR),and artificial intelligence (AI).Altoida received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in July 2021. Our first device is a Computerized Cognitive Assessment Aid that is classified as Class II, 510(k) exempt.
Sandbox — We are an eclectic community of nomads, entrepreneurs, journalists, academics, politicians, artists, and indomitable misfits from over 100 countries. Together we seek to develop our authentic selves, form meaningful relationships, discover resources to live fulfilling lives, and to lead significant impact on the world around us.
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.

Daniel joined VI Partners in July 2003 as a Venture Partner focusing on IT. He started his career as Chairman and CEO of Gutenberg Communication Systems AG, a company he founded in 1991. Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in 2000, he became Country Manager of Telindus for Switzerland, Austria andHungary during the next two years, and he was also a member of the Executive Board. Since 2002 he has been taking consulting and advisory board assignments for various companies.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Flowit — Reach frontline employees, develop potential and reduce churn by 50%. With FLOWIT, you get a modern, holistic HR solution for people development in your company. Simple, digital and inclusive.
Influur — Access the global creator community instantly and collaborate at scale with our end-to-end solutions.
Unique — Unlock the power of generative AI in Finance with Unique FinanceGPT. Get custom use cases and accurate insights in a secure, enterprise-ready platform.

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

QurieGen — QurieGen is a biotechnology company that accelerates drug discovery and development.
Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
Aetherflux — Abundant and renewable energy, delivered virtually anywhere

Tim Beiko is the Ethereum at Ethereum. He attended Concordia University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Blockchain, Web3
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Agora — Make great governance your competitive advantage. Trusted by Optimism, ENS, Uniswap and more.
NEBRA Labs — NEBRA Labs is a blockchain services company.
Witness — Web3 Ownership at Web2 Scale

Adrian Locher is the Founder, CEO and General Partner of Merantix. He Kausa as a Board Member.Adrian Locher attended the University of St.Gallen.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Altoida — Altoida is creating a new gold standard in brain health with Precision Neurology. We're radically transforming the method for measuring brain function and diagnosing neurological disease, using just your smartphone or tablet.Our products are backed by more than 20 years of innovative research in digital biomarkers, augmented reality (AR),and artificial intelligence (AI).Altoida received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in July 2021. Our first device is a Computerized Cognitive Assessment Aid that is classified as Class II, 510(k) exempt.
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.

Sam Lim

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.

Chris Waclawek is an Executive at Worldcoin. He attended the University of Warsaw.

Investment focus

FinTech, Lending, Trading Platform
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

PWN — PWN is the most universal p2p lending protocol - taking you to the Edge of DeFi composability and beyond. It's fully trustless, non-custodial and secured by audited smart contracts.

Aly Madhavji is the Blockchain Founders Fund's Managing Partner and a Consultant of United Nations. He is a Senior Blockchain Fellow of INSEAD and LP and Venture Partner at Loyal VC.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Keeper — Find the right person. Build something meaningful together.
Dopamine — Dopamine provides decentralized finance for everybody, everywhere and is the first end-to-end user-centered crypto mobile app.
web3intelligence — Build wealth and trust in the world of crypto with intelligent financial tools, data and infrastructure.

Carole Ackermann

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Yova — Yova is the leading digital platform for investing with a sustainability impact. Yova customers invest directly into companies that help to solve global problems, eg by fighting climate change or by promoting human rights. All investments are professionally diversified portfolios that are designed for an attractive financial return.With Yova youget both: Sustainability impact and financial return. To make this possible, we’ve digitized the best methods in portfolio management and sustainability analysis.So now everyone can become an impact investor: regardless of whether you invest 2 Million Francs or 2 Thousand - or whether you know nothing about investing or a lot.
KidsCircle.io —

Philipp Schnyder

Investment focus

FinTech, Lending, Marketplace
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

I2 invest — We provide technology for asset management professionals who want to manage their own portfolio in alternative lending.

Melanie Gabriel is the CMO & Co-founder at Yokoy. Attended University of St.Gallen.

Investment focus

Software, Employee Benefits
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.

Makoto Inoue

Investment focus

Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Reown — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now

viktor bunin

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Internet
Series A
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Thesis — Thesis is a cryptocurrency venture production studio. We build and invest in products that empower individuals.
WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.

Roland Zeller is the Founder, President, and General Manager at Innuvik Ventures.

Investment focus

SaaS, Travel, Leasing
Seed
Switzerland, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Runnr.ai — Runnr.ai is an AI driven communication solution to simplify and automate all communication between accommodations and their guests
3BaysOver — 3BaysOver is a B2B networking platform and online marketplace for the world's travel companies. They enable their customers to run their business more efficiently by letting them:- easily create an engaging online presence- more easily manage their global industry relationships- create, manage and promote a beautiful portfolio ofproducts3BaysOver is like like AngelList for travel: we seamlessly connect the different members of the travel industry value chain - strengthening existing relationships, facilitating new ones, and helping information flow more efficiently. It is a platform is about relationships, not transactions.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
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.

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

Philippe Bubb is the Founder at session.vc. Philippe Bubb attended at University of St.Gallen - University of Economics, Law and Social Sciences.

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.

Scott Moore is the Co-Founder at Gitcoin. He attended the University of Toronto from 2015 to 2016.

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yup — Yup is a crypto-backed social media platform.
WeaveDB LTD — WeaveDB is Firestore on Smart Contract bringing web2 UX to web3 dapps both for users and developers.
WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.

Phil Rubin is a Founder & Principal at Grey Space Matters.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

qiibee — Access world-class brands your customers love. Enhance customer loyalty by offering world-class brands and rewards from our marketplace that your customers love.

Darian Shirazi is the Managing Partner of Gradient.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Valdera — Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry.
Twenty (YC S23) — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.
Twenty — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.

Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Argentina, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
Num Finance — Num Network offers businesses a fast way to scale operations in emerging markets with yield, loans and stablecoins.

Angel Investor

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.
Matter Labs — Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.Thecompany was founded in 2018 with its head office in Berlin, Germany.
WalletConnect — WalletConnect gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now.

After a long experience in the cultural industry, aimed at developing independent comics and cinema sector, he decided to leverage the skills gained through his studies in Economics and Commerce, followed by General Management to study and operate in the startup industry. Marco is driven by a wide variety of interests and is a successfulinstitutional investor in various Italian and international startups.

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain, Video Games
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

The Nemesis — The Nemesis is the metaverse for the mass market: virtual worlds, adventures, gaming Play & Earn and amazing experiences. Play AR & VR games or attend events (live events, concerts, conferences, streamings). Available on mobile and browser.

Hans C. Werner is the Leiter Group Human Resources at Swisscom. Born in 1960, he is the member of the Swisscom Group Executive Board, since September 2011.

Investment focus

Software, Employee Benefits
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.

Daniel Heller currently works as the General Partner and Chief Investment Officer for Affinity Asset Advisors.

Investment focus

Therapeutics, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Seed
United States, 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.
Ceptur Therapeutics — Ceptur is developing unique and differentiated genetic medicines for patients with unaddressed diseases. The Company’s wholly owned and proprietary U1 Adaptor technology promotes non-genotoxic and long-lasting silencing of disease-causing genes in difficult to target tissues (i.e., outside of the liver and CNS).
Kurome Therapeutics — Kurome Therapeutics is a preclinical stage company focused on subverting cancer's ability to evade therapy. The company is developing therapies that target cancer cells that have co-opted immune signaling pathways to avoid destruction by traditional therapeutic agents and subvert adaptive resistance mechanisms.

Co-Founder at Zerion.

Investment focus

Ethereum, Internet, Messaging
Series A
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

3Box — 3Box Labs is a Web3 studio that creates software to advance a more open, safe, and composable Web3. We're hiring!
WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.

Ertan Wittwer is the Founder and Board Member bestsmile. He attended BBZ Uzwil.

Investment focus

Health Care, Water, Beauty
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Akina — Akina is developing the future of gamified digital healthcare to benefit individuals with chronic diseases around the world.
Noriware — Noriware wants to revolutionize the packaging industry by offering a truly sustainable, home-compostable alternative to traditional plastic, through unlocking the potential of seaweed. In doing so, we want to be the leader in transparency to motivate the industry to become more sustainable.
Alpine White — Alpine White is a healthcare startup that manufactures personal care products and treatments for its consumers. They exist to keep teeth healthy and white through great products and services that empower people to feel confident and feel good.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

qiibee — Access world-class brands your customers love. Enhance customer loyalty by offering world-class brands and rewards from our marketplace that your customers love.

Beat Fellmann

Investment focus

Software, Employee Benefits
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.

Adriant Harrison - Sr. Executive Vice President, Office of CEO @ TerraScale

Investment focus

Aerospace, Consulting, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

TerraScale — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.

Joe holds a BA in political science from Georgetown University, Washington DC.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Apps, Finance
Seed, Series A
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nested — The best decentralized portfolio management & copy trading experiences
Spruce — Your Keys, Your Data - Spruce lets users control their data across the web. We believe that the world is evolving toward one based on cryptography, networks, and digital economies that are user-controlled. Today, the dominant use case for user keys is the signing of blockchain transactions, but we think this barely scratches the surface of what is possible.

Urs Wietlisbach is based out of Zug, Zug and is the Co Founder of Blue Earth Capital. Urs previously worked at Goldman Sachs as a Executive Director. Urs Wietisbach attended the University of St.Gallen.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Angel, Series A, Series B
Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Advanon — CG24 Group bringt Kreditnehmer mit privaten und institutionellen Anlegern zusammen. Effizient, transparent und sicher. 100% online.
Evolute — Simpler, faster and smarter - our revolutionary wealth data platform empowers you as a wealth manager, a family office, an asset manager or a bank to make better decisions, stay compliant and provide better services to your clients.
Nectar Financial — Innovation in finance and technology. Helping professional wealth- and asset managers make superior investments since 2010.

I am an investor, founder, and executive passionate about leading high-performance teams, agile process design & disruptive strategies. I believe in output-oriented leadership and the empowerment of talent. I stand for fairness, ownership, reliableness, and politeness.

Investment focus

FinTech, InsurTech, Wealth Management
Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Clanq AG — Clanq is a Zurich-based FinTech startup aiming to reduce parents' burden to put money aside for their children's future. We offer a mobile-based finance solution, enabling families to create and grow savings for their children seamlessly by leveraging the not-utilized saving potential.

Martin Strobel - Non Executive Director @ msg life

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 — Imburse solves the integration problem between companies and the global payments ecosystem, ensuring any payment technology (collect or payout), any payment system (consumer, inter-bank, voucher) can be brought online in minutes, at zero cost. This helps accelerate deployment of payment technology and reduce the costs associated with deployment.Through Imburse, companies are reducing costs, increasing efficiencies, modernising systems and better engaging consumers.We help CFOS, COOs and CMOs to better engage customers and to drive business efficiency topics.The Imburse platform is an enterprise SaaS solution that supports multi-tenancy deployments.

Amir Suissa - President of the Board @ wefox

Investment focus

Credit, Dating, Banking
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

LEND — LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.
Lua — Lua is a swipe-free dating app focused on depth and intimacy. With our smart & unique matching model, users receive hand-picked matches that consider their interests, personal sharings, and engagement holistically.Once matched, users are guided through a series of intimacy-building questions during a mystery meeting, before being given theoption to reveal their personal profile, and continue the journey with that special someone in the light.
Black Label — Jasper, formerly CreditStacks, is a financial service company that offers a credit card designed for professionals. Jasper uses technology to assess applicants holistically, so applicants may qualify for a premium Jasper Mastercard, issued by WebBank, even if they are just starting their credit journey.The company was founded in 2015 and isheadquartered in New York City, New York.