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Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Switzerland

Last updated: Apr 2024 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

Investor	FinTech Switzerland investments
Soheila Yalpani	5
Danny Hayes	5
Myke Naef	3
Peter Kurer	2
Ariel Luedi	2
Daniel Gutenberg	2
Paul Sevinç	2
Aly Madhavji	2
Alex Ott	2
Adrian Locher	2
Penny Schiffer	2
Tim Beiko	2
Zand Bank	2
Chris Waclawek	2
Marc P. Bernegger	2
Ingo Drexler	2
Carole Ackermann	2
Sam Lim	2
Aleksander Berentsen	1
Patrick Delarive	1
Ryan Selkis	1
Vadim Koleoshkin	1
Viktor Bunin	1
Alexander Salnikov	1
Melanie Gabriel	1
Phil Rubin	1
Eric Conner	1
Matt Iannelli	1
Jose Marin	1
Philippe Bubb	1
David Studer	1
Scott Moore	1
Mainardo De Nardis	1
Rahul Sethuram	1
Max Lyadvinsky	1
Professor, “Emeritus” Robert Dibble	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Deniz Devrim Cengiz	1
Anna Rose	1
Urs Wietisbach	1
Ertan Wittwer	1
Hans C. Werner	1
Adriant Harrison	1
Mara Schmitman	1
Francesco Illy	1
Beat Fellmann	1
Christian Edler	1
Roland Zeller	1
Ben Davey	1
Alex Svanevik	1

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Soheila Yalpani is Co-Founder and COO at TerraScale. She attended The University of British Columbia.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Danny is the CEO and Co-Founder of TerraScale, a green technology company reinventing the future of global sustainable development models. Danny is committed to developing sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing energy and digital infrastructure challenges. He is currently leading various projects at the bleeding edge of technologicalinnovation and sustainable development, including Project Energos, TerraFinance, Global Vision 33, cybersecurity IP, MedTech, and more. In fact, his work as the developer of TerraScale’s flagship initiative, Project Energos, won the 2020 Platinum Outstanding Property Award London, the 2021 ICONIC Innovative Architecture Award, and the 2021 Golden Novum Design Award.Danny’s previous experience includes advising institutions, governments, corporations, and individual HNW clientele on developing smart, resilient infrastructure, master planning of industry development, large unit global sales, business negotiations with Fortune 500 companies, and lobbying political entities. He was also formerly a Metals Trader at Noble House Metal Trading. Danny’s decades of work in and around sustainable infrastructure, finance, and technology led to his 2021 appointment to the role of Global Program Manager of the United Nations ImPPPact Program within the C.R.E.A.M. European PPP Alliance. He also is a member of the World Association of PPP Units & Professionals, a Managing Partner of Hudson Capital Advisors, and is advised by Goldman Sachs.In 2020, Danny was appointed Director Emeritus of the non-governmental organization Green Cross. Green Cross is a consultative member of the United Nations on Climate Change and the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. The Green Cross was founded in 1993 by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev and boasts honorary board members such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Jane Goodall. Danny serves as an Advisory Board Member of the University of California, Riverside. He serves as a Financial Advisor to Ambri (backed by Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures, KLP Enterprises, and GVB), FlowCell (Founded by Dr. Max Narovlyansky) and Chaired by Dr. Umer Sayeed-Shah (COB of Terrascale)Danny is also a member and the (best) Gold (50,000 USD) Sponsor of Top Tier Impact, a global ecosystem of investors, entrepreneurs, and professionals who are focused on solving the critical issues of our time. Danny is also an (Incoming) Knight of Columbus (Knighted by Dominic Lanaway - Council: 611), a Catholic Fraternal Order founded in 1882, whose ranks have included prominent Americans such as President John F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, MLB Hall of Famer Babe Ruth, Governor Jeb Bush, Justice Samuel Alito, NFL Hall of Famer Vince Lombardi, and more. Committed to providing global charity and service, the Knights of Columbus have contributed $1.55 billion and 691 million volunteer hours to charitable projects over the past decade.

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Aerospace, GreenTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Climate Transition Corporation — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Climate Transition Development — Climate Transition Development Corporation (CTD) is leading the Green Snow Project – an innovative hybrid renewable energy venture in Northern Japan. The company's mission is to revolutionize Japan’s renewable energy sector by harnessing the abundant low to medium-heat geothermal resources available in the region.Together with ourdevelopment partners, TerraScale Inc. and Global Family, the company is committed to tackling the challenges of the geothermal energy sector and transforming the way Japan generates power. The company's work forms an integral part of the Japan-US collaboration on geothermal energy development and aims to significantly reduce fossil fuel reliance and cut carbon emissions.

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.

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.

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 — Empower your enterprise decision-making with SquirroGPT's generative AI, enabling smarter decisions, evidence-based answers, and enterprise-grade security.
Fluent Commerce — Fluent Commerce, a leading order management system, improves the customer experience, optimizes fulfillment & solves inventory visibility issues. Learn more!

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

Noat — NOAT is a new dawn for nicotine users. The future has no place for chemicals that hurt your mouth and gums. Experience a nicotine product unlike any other.
BOND — Get closer to the people and products behind your screen than ever before. Step inside creator wardrobes. Shop their edits. Swipe their curations. Be inspired. We're bringing you a new way to discover.
Unique — Try Unique Finance GPT to increase productivity by automating manual workload through AI and ChatGPT solutions.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Yumi — Start selling to China in minutes. Join thousands of brands just like you and reach Chinese millennial consumers via WeChat social commerce.
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.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, CAD
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
Squirro — Empower your enterprise decision-making with SquirroGPT's generative AI, enabling smarter decisions, evidence-based answers, and enterprise-grade security.
NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Adrian Locher is the Founder and CEO at Merantix. Additionally, Adrian Locher has had 4 past jobs including Founder & Investor at Altoida. He attended the University of St.Gallen.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Altoida — At Altoida, we strive to radically change the method for assessing brain health through our comprehensive cognitive function tests and brain health app.
Crypto Finance (Asset Management) AG — Unser Asset Management Team bietet qualifizierten und institutionellen Anlegern einen sicheren und transparenten Zugang zum Crypto Asset Markt. Kontaktieren Sie uns!
Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.

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.

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

Investment focus

Web3, Ethereum, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Taiko Labs — Taiko is a fully permissionless, Ethereum-equivalent based rollup. Inspired, secured, and sequenced by Ethereum.
Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.
Witness — Web3 Ownership at Web2 Scale

Zand Bank - Co-Founder @ Asia Finance

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zand — Zand, the digital bank for a digital economy. Corporate Banking with Zand means ease, control, safety & transparency in your digital business banking.
Pier Wallet — Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Web3 offer great opportunities. To truly access it, you need a wallet. But selecting and investing into digital assets in your own wallet is complex, expensive and often feels unsafe. nobank makes DeFi and Web3 accessible for everyone. We offer the simplest and cheapest way to transact with digital assets by -drastically improving usability - offering financial products that generate yield or diversify your portfolio - building on multiple L2 blockchains - sharing our knowledge

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 a hub for peer-to-peer loans backed by digital assets.

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 — At Altoida, we strive to radically change the method for assessing brain health through our comprehensive cognitive function tests and brain health app.
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.

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 — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.

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 —

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.

Aleksander Berentsen

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.

Patrick is a businessman active in real estate, wealth management, show business, hospitality, education and private equity, benefiting from a strong network. At Biowatch since November 2015.

Investment focus

Security, Wireless, Wearables
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Biowatch — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!

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, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Nxyz — The most powerful blockchain data APIs for web3 developers. Fast and reliable, web3 indexing for querying networks like Ethereum, BSC, Polygon to get transactions, NFTs and more.
Juno — The easiest way to earn 5% on cash and access digital assets instantly. Terms and Conditions apply
WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.

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.

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.

Co-founder and Head of Product at Rarible - The first community-owned NFT Marketplace

Investment focus

Ethereum, Internet, Blockchain
Series A
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Upshot — The source for NFT pricing. Upshot uses machine learning to provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlocks a wave of exotic new DeFi possibilities.
WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

qiibee — qiibee is a software company that offers a solution for businesses and consumers in its blockchain-based platform. Through qiibee’s plug-and-play solutions, enterprises worldwide are running and operating their loyalty programs on the blockchain in just a few hours. The company is creating a decentralized, Ethereum infrastructure-based loyaltyecosystem by providing a loyalty platform and developer interface on which every loyalty application can be tokenized. qiibee enables companies all around the world to run their loyalty applications on the blockchain. The cutting-edge, easy-to-use solutions set the new global standard for loyalty.

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 — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.

Former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Member for Netorian; primary driver for Netorian’s foray into the Cyber Security product market – leading the R&D efforts for four distinct, yet complimentary, software products. 26+ years of leadership, engineering and project management experience from his former roles as TechnicalManager/Systems Engineer for TCPNS, Sr. Systems Engineer for Lockheed Martin. Matt attended both Carnegie Mellon University (EE 1988-92) and University of Pittsburgh (Behavioral Neuroscience, 1992-95).

Investment focus

Finance, Sustainability, Project Management
Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

David Studer

Investment focus

SaaS, Social, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Moodtalk — Moodtalk is an employee engagement platform to help companies improve teamwork, communication and employee wellbeing. Our software helps companies understand employees and identify ways to improve employee engagement. Sign up now.
contactify — Are you ready to enrich your interactions and networking with digital content? biz.card by contactify is your platform for efficient data exchange & contact management.
CareerLunch — CareerLunch is a recruitment platform that pairs potential hires with employees through informal exchanges over lunch. It was founded in 2019 by Simon Hofer and Konstantin Nesterov.

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.

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 — qiibee is a software company that offers a solution for businesses and consumers in its blockchain-based platform. Through qiibee’s plug-and-play solutions, enterprises worldwide are running and operating their loyalty programs on the blockchain in just a few hours. The company is creating a decentralized, Ethereum infrastructure-based loyaltyecosystem by providing a loyalty platform and developer interface on which every loyalty application can be tokenized. qiibee enables companies all around the world to run their loyalty applications on the blockchain. The cutting-edge, easy-to-use solutions set the new global standard for loyalty.

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
WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.
LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

Max Lyadvinsky is the CEO and co-founder of Bloomio, a Swiss based equity crowdfunding platform powered by blockchain technology. He is an ambassador of the deployment of blockchain in the venture capital industry as this technology plays a major role in removing barrier to entry for individual investors and it allows the implementation of asecondary market solving the illiquidity issue. Max is a successful entrepreneur and angel investor with expertise in fundraising and scaling startup teams, envisioning future technology trends, developing product strategies and innovating disruptive technologies. Max was CTO and Co-Founder of Acronis, CTO in Parallels and he currently serves as a Board Member in several startups. He’s guest author in several publications as Entrepreneur, Bankingtech and Cryptoslate.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

OneVisage — OneVisage is leading Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) solutions for integrators

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).

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MyShell — MyShell is a decentralized and comprehensive platform for discovering, creating, and staking AI-native apps.
Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.
Clique — Clique is building identity oracles that connect web2 user behavior data with web3 applications.

Deniz Devrim Cengiz

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Series A
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.

Anna Rose is the Co-Founder at zkValidator. She also the Strategic Advisor at Videopath.

Investment focus

FinTech, Ethereum, Internet
Series A, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Switzerland, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Portfolio highlights

DeversiFi — DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet.Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need tomove fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.
WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.

Urs Wietlisbach is the Co Founder at Partners Group. He 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.

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.

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.

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.

Mara Schmitman - Manager @ Schmitman SAS

Investment focus

Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Francesco Illy

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.

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.

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Blobr — Get your branded developer portal to launch and grow adoption of your API products.
Comet Rocks — Comet helps brands launch remote stores with one click checkout in any 3rd party online application. No redirects, more engagement, full control.
Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.

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

Investment focus

Travel, Leasing, Leisure
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

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.

Ben Davey

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Travel
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, India, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

qiibee — qiibee is a software company that offers a solution for businesses and consumers in its blockchain-based platform. Through qiibee’s plug-and-play solutions, enterprises worldwide are running and operating their loyalty programs on the blockchain in just a few hours. The company is creating a decentralized, Ethereum infrastructure-based loyaltyecosystem by providing a loyalty platform and developer interface on which every loyalty application can be tokenized. qiibee enables companies all around the world to run their loyalty applications on the blockchain. The cutting-edge, easy-to-use solutions set the new global standard for loyalty.
LawAdvisor — because status quo no longer works
Flexmoney — Flexmoney is to re-invent consumer credit as an instant digital service at the point of sale for lenders and merchants.

Alex Svanevik is a Co-Founder & CEO of Nansen.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Finance
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Vietnam, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Loop Crypto — Learn how to accept crypto payments. Loop Crypto makes it easy to turn on crypto autopay so that any subscription or SaaS business can accept crypto.
Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
Lighthouse Labs — Lighthouse is the open metaverse navigation engine. Discover places, friends, experiences and events across the spatial web.

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