Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Switzerland in April 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Fintech startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Switzerland in April 2025
Investor | FinTech Switzerland investments |
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Danny Hayes | 5 |
Soheila Yalpani | 5 |
Myke Naef | 3 |
Carole Ackermann | 2 |
Tim Beiko | 2 |
Ryan Selkis | 2 |
Hayden Adams | 2 |
Ingo Drexler | 2 |
Marc P. Bernegger | 2 |
Olivier Crespin | 2 |
Aly Madhavji | 2 |
Alex Ott | 2 |
Peter Kurer | 2 |
Daniel Gutenberg | 2 |
Tim Draper | 2 |
Chris Waclawek | 2 |
Adrian Locher | 2 |
Sam Lim | 2 |
Ariel Luedi | 2 |
Rahul Sethuram | 2 |
Penny Schiffer | 2 |
Paul Sevinç | 2 |
Balaji Srinivasan | 1 |
Professor, “Emeritus” Robert Dibble | 1 |
Francesco Illy | 1 |
Jakob Kaya | 1 |
Alexandre Gonthier | 1 |
Ajit Tripathi | 1 |
Axel Theis | 1 |
Philipp Schnyder | 1 |
Mike Demarais | 1 |
Melanie Gabriel | 1 |
Dennis Liu | 1 |
Aleksander Berentsen | 1 |
Teodoro D'Ambrosio | 1 |
Robert Kraal | 1 |
Makoto Inoue | 1 |
Viktor Bunin | 1 |
Roland Zeller | 1 |
Jose Marin | 1 |
Fabrice Grinda | 1 |
Philippe Bubb | 1 |
Alan Howard | 1 |
Scott Moore | 1 |
Alex Svanevik | 1 |
Phil Rubin | 1 |
Darian Shirazi | 1 |
Matias Woloski | 1 |
Eric Conner | 1 |
Marco Milone | 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
Carole Ackermann
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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 —
Tim Beiko is the Ethereum at Ethereum. He attended Concordia University.
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Olivier Crespin - Co-Founder @ Asia Finance
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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
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.
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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.
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.
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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
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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.
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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.
Chris Waclawek is an Executive at Worldcoin. He attended the University of Warsaw.
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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.
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.
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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
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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.
Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ord.io — Ord.io develops a platform that allows users to explore Bitcoin. It enables users to browse different ordinals and upvote their favorite ones.
- Agora — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.
- Sending Network — A super-app that combines chat, socializing, and trade, giving you complete control over your social data, while you build communities and share ideas, seamlessly.
Professor R. W. Dibble is the principal investigator of the Combustion Analysis group. His main area of research is the internal combustion engine. He is also the leading scientist behind the development of the Argon Power Cycle technology.Research Description:Laser diagnostics in turbulent reactive flows, generation of “green” fuels frombiomass, including ethanol and bioDiesel mitigation of greenhouse gases, highest efficiency and lowest pollution combustion of fuels derived from biomass, combustion issues related to global warming, conversion of waste heat to power via Organic Rankine Cycle ( ORC ), spectroscopy, chemical kinetics, turbulent combustion, optics and electronics. Combustion in turbine engines, combustion of oxygenates and biodeisel fuel in diesel engines. Combustion in new engine concept of Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI).
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Consulting, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, United States
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.
Francesco Illy
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Arcton — Arcton is a public marketplace where everyone can buy and sell startup shares 24/7. The first crowd-investing platform where securities can be issued cross-border and investors can buy and resell digital shares 24/7 on one of world’s largest exchange for digital assets without lockup periods.
Jakob Kaya is Co-CEO of mindnow AG. He attended Hochschule der Künste Bern.
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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.
Alexandre Gonthier is the Founder & Executive Chairman, Trustly North America + Sr Advisor Trustly Group at Trustly. He attended EPFL.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Series A
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Monito — Monito is a comparison website for international money transfer services. They compare and review more than 450 money transfer operators, to help you find the best option for each of your international transaction.They have affiliation partnerships with money transfer operators, which allow us to sustain their operations, they insure that all theinformation they provide is always accurate and transparent.
Ajit Tripathi is a Head of Institutional Business at Aave.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Finance, Ethereum
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Singapore, India, France
Portfolio highlights
- Flint — Earn 13% p.a. stable returns by leveraging the power of crypto. Withdraw-able anytime without fees.
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
- Router Protocol — Router Protocol is a Cross Chain Bridge. Currently live on Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Building an interoperable cross chain future of the blockchain ecosystem.
Axel Theis is a former members of Allianz
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Investment focus
- Insurance, Environmental Consulting
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- CarbonPool — Innovative carbon credit insurance which pays claims in carbon credits, not cash. See how we can help you.
Philipp Schnyder
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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.
Mike Demarais
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Investment focus
- Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Series A
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
Melanie Gabriel is the CMO & Co-founder at Yokoy. Attended University of St.Gallen.
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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.
Dennis Liu
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Blockchain, Communities
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- SwissBorg — Join thousands of smart users and start investing with the SwissBorg app at the best available price anywhere at any time.
Aleksander Berentsen
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Arcton — Arcton is a public marketplace where everyone can buy and sell startup shares 24/7. The first crowd-investing platform where securities can be issued cross-border and investors can buy and resell digital shares 24/7 on one of world’s largest exchange for digital assets without lockup periods.
Teodoro D'Ambrosio is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Biocentis. He previously worked at Hotelscan as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Teodoro D'Ambrosio attended the University of Trieste.
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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).
Robert Kraal - Co-Founder and CBDO @ Silverflow
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rivero — Rivero Ltd. is a privately held company based in Switzerland, with a strong focus on simplifying card payments operations. Rivero provides SaaS solutions for all players in the card payment ecosystem such as issuers, acquirers and FinTechs.Kajo - Scheme Compliance Made Easy The only solution designed for and tailored to the scheme licensecompliance management. By fully digitalising and automating the administrative part of the process, Kajo drastically reduces the overhead and time spent in organising all required work to stay compliant with changing rules and requirements of payment networks. For Service Providers, Kajo makes it easy to directly access relevant publications and announcements from Mastercard and Visa that impact their business.Amiko - Fraud Recovery & Dispute Management Reinvented The first and only Fraud Recovery and Dispute Management SaaS solution. Amiko creates a whole new way to tackle fraud reporting, fraud recovery and cardholder disputes. By covering the whole lifecycle of a dispute, from pre-dispute (via Ethoca & Verifi) to arbitration rulings by Mastercard and Visa, Amiko can replace any dispute management system. With a truly end-to-end digital approach, Amiko offers a set of unique features, such as automation and cardholder self-servicing in the issuing bank app or portals.
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
- Flow — Flow is FinTech 3.0: It let's you automate payments between your bank accounts and wallets. Based on triggers and actions you can transfer your money automatically to the accounts you choose. Use Flow to automate a budgetting system, your investing, buying crypto or to distribute your money the way you like it. Where the previous generationpayment companies needed to build and maintain expensive payment rails, Flow focusses on leveraging Open Banking. People trust Flow to help with their cashflow automation.
Makoto Inoue
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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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
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- Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
- OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
- 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.
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- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
- Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.
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- Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
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- NVG8 — The Community Platform Powering the Next Generation Data Ecosystem
- Atmos Labs — When is a game more than a game? Welcome to Atmos: a universe of next-generation gaming experiences blending action, customization, storytelling, community, and digital ownership.
- ScienceMagic.Studios — A digital assets venture studio
Scott Moore is the Co-Founder at Gitcoin. He attended the University of Toronto from 2015 to 2016.
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- Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Switzerland, United States
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- 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.
Alex Svanevik is a Co-Founder & CEO of Nansen.
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- Blockchain, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Singapore, Vietnam
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- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
- Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
- Uranium Digital — Uranium Digital is astartup that uses tokenization to target the uranium market. The business represents uranium ore with blockchain tokens, facilitating smooth transactions in this highly regulated and initially underfunded industry.
Phil Rubin is a Founder & Principal at Grey Space Matters.
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- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- 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 Managaing Partner of Gradient.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
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- 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.
- Legora — By streamlining and simplifying legal workflows, we empower elite law firms and legal professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. Enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks and deliver exceptional results for their clients.
- rift — The sales platform built to help your focus.
Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.
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- Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Argentina, Spain, Brazil
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- 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.
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- Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
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- 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.
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- Internet, Blockchain, Video Games
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
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- 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.
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