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Top 25 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Switzerland in May 2025

A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Switzerland in May 2025

Investor Food and Beverage Switzerland investments
Ralph Gygax 5
Werner Hoffmann 4
Filippo Catalano 2
Lukas Böni 2
Adrian Bührer 2
Andrea Jansen 1
Myke Naf 1
Nikolaus Wein 1
Nico Hribernik 1
Cristian Mazzoleni 1
Éric Thuillier 1
Ulf Claesson 1
Serge Schoen 1
Anja Graf 1
Bhavik Bajaj 1
Dario Fazlic 1
Stephan Schmidheiny 1
Fredrik Jung Abbou 1
Eugenio Cassiano 1
Fabio Borzatta 1
Arturo Elizondo 1
Ruedi Noser 1
Lisa Schmidheiny 1
Luigi Matrone 1
Ulf Claesson 1
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Ralph Gygax Angel · Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
Ralph Gygax is a Chief Administrative Officer at SWISS Gate AG. He attended KV, SVIT from 1999 to 2007.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • SWISS Gate AG — SWISS Gate AG is a family-run Swiss company founded in November 2019 by brothers Dominic, Marco & Michael Hoffmann with the support of their father Werner Hoffmann and uncle Ralph Gygax.SWISS Gate AG focuses with its positioning on the areas of Lifestyle & Wellbeing. The offered product assortment ranges from CBD Anti-Aging and Day Creamsto Skin Creams as well as Shampoo, Shower Gel or Conditioner to Hemp Foods like Hemp Tea or Hemp Seed Oils to CBD Hemp Flowers to CBD Hemp Oil for humans and animals.SWISS Gate AG exclusively distributes its products of the company-owned brands Herbalea and Old Donald's through selected resellers as well as through the company-owned e-commerce channel cbuy.ch - Alles Gute aus Cannabis.SWISS Gate AG manufactures all products together with exclusive partners from the cosmetics, food & consumer goods industry and has the exclusive production & distribution rights over the products.SWISS Gate AG has launched its Series A financing round in mid-September 2021 with the goal to raise CHF 5'000'000. Currently, CHF 200,000 of this amount has been raised. The financing round is currently open - interested parties can contact CEO Marco Hoffmann directly via the contact details.
Werner Hoffmann Angel · Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
Professional experience: Expert for Risk Management and Public Relations Strategic & operational responsibility Compliance & Safety Management Decades of leadership experience as colonel & professional military pilot in the Swiss Air Force
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • SWISS Gate AG — SWISS Gate AG is a family-run Swiss company founded in November 2019 by brothers Dominic, Marco & Michael Hoffmann with the support of their father Werner Hoffmann and uncle Ralph Gygax.SWISS Gate AG focuses with its positioning on the areas of Lifestyle & Wellbeing. The offered product assortment ranges from CBD Anti-Aging and Day Creamsto Skin Creams as well as Shampoo, Shower Gel or Conditioner to Hemp Foods like Hemp Tea or Hemp Seed Oils to CBD Hemp Flowers to CBD Hemp Oil for humans and animals.SWISS Gate AG exclusively distributes its products of the company-owned brands Herbalea and Old Donald's through selected resellers as well as through the company-owned e-commerce channel cbuy.ch - Alles Gute aus Cannabis.SWISS Gate AG manufactures all products together with exclusive partners from the cosmetics, food & consumer goods industry and has the exclusive production & distribution rights over the products.SWISS Gate AG has launched its Series A financing round in mid-September 2021 with the goal to raise CHF 5'000'000. Currently, CHF 200,000 of this amount has been raised. The financing round is currently open - interested parties can contact CEO Marco Hoffmann directly via the contact details.
Filippo Catalano Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
Filippo Catalano is the Chief Information and Digital Officer of Mondelez International. He previously worked at Nestlé as a Group CIO. Filippo Catalano attended The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Mobile, Software
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • PowerAPI — Foodetective enables F&B businesses to integrate & manage their entire tech stack from a single OS & platform. Increasing online revenues and visibility as well as removing all operational & administrative tasks. Our vision is to become the intelligent OS & interface of the F&B industry.
Lukas Böni Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Lukas Boni is the Co-Founder at Planted.
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Investment focus
  • Food Processing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
Adrian Bührer Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Adrian Bührer
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Subscription Service, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
  • UNOWN — Unown is a service and SaaS provider for the fashion industry. Our goal is to revolutionize the way we buy & sell clothing and thereby save 100,000 tons of CO2e every year. We believe that through our leasing, subscription and pre-loved services, we can use resources smarter and create higher value per asset.We enable brands to secure theirshare in the growing secondary markets. They lease out their assets through our revenue share model and get access to deep usage data. We enable customers to experience fashion with a completely new mindset. Our service allows them to rotate their wardrobe while maintaining an efficient and conscious lifestyle.
  • Farmy.ch — Farmy.ch is an online marketplace for local and organic food, directly from farmers and food makers. It places a lot of importance on the selection of producers and its uncompromising focus on quality and transparency. The company smart logistics and own fleet and e-mobiles deliver these goods incomparably fresh, emission-reduced, and time-savingdirectly to users’ front doors with its own fleet of e-mobiles.Farmy.ch provides online retailing of fresh and local food products with more than 10'000 hand-picked products from more than 1'000 authentic producers. It also offers products include fruits and vegetables, cheeses from Swiss dairies, meat, delicacies, and sweet temptations from real bakers and confectioners, as well as pantry and drugstore items. Farmy.ch was founded in June 2014 by Roman Hartmann and Tobias Schubert and is based in
Andrea Jansen Angel
Andrea Jansen
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Children, Nutrition
  • Angel
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
  • Aepsy — Aepsy is a mental health care located in Zürich,Switzerland and part of the Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services Industry.
Myke Naf Angel
Myke Naf is the Managing Partner of Übermorgen Ventures.He attended University of St.Gallen.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Yokoy — Yokoy automates spend management for medium and large enterprises with artificial intelligence, combining expense management, supplier invoice management, and smart corporate cards into one single intuitive platform. In March 2019, Yokoy Group AG was created as Expense Robot GmbH.
  • Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
  • Frontify — Frontify is a brand-building platform where a user-friendly digital asset management system meets customized brand portals.
Nikolaus Wein Angel
Nikolaus Wein
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Investment focus
  • Software, Restaurants, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Lunchgate — Lunchgate is a restaurant rediscovery website where customers can look at menus, reserve tables, and check 360-degree views of restaurant interiors. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland.
Nico Hribernik Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
Nico Hribernik is the Founder at Wellster Healthtech Group.
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Investment focus
  • Grocery, Organic, Food and Beverage
  • Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Ólixir — Ólixir is an organic extra-virgin olive oil with a superior level of freshness, heart-protective polyphenols, fruitiness, and taste.
Cristian Mazzoleni Angel
Cristian Mazzoleni is a Chief Financial Officer at KIKO MILANO
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Investment focus
  • Grocery, Organic, Food and Beverage
  • Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Ólixir — Ólixir is an organic extra-virgin olive oil with a superior level of freshness, heart-protective polyphenols, fruitiness, and taste.
Éric Thuillier Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Mr. Eric Thuillier is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Deep Wealth, a Geneva-based investment advisory firm providing private capital solutions and investment consulting services to institutional investors including foundations and single family offices. Eric is also a business angel and active in the Swiss VC and growth ecosystem. Priorto Deep Wealth, Eric has co-founded Investivity, an award winning Geneva-based wealth manager and private office. He led before the multi-asset quantitative trading department in Geneva of Koch Industries, one of the largest private US companies and has held quant positions as VP, at a hedge fund trading equity futures, in the rates exotics dealing room of HSBC and in the FX models validation group at ABN Amro. Eric is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), a level 2 CFA (level 3 pending), graduated as a French computer science engineer and further holds a MSc in corporate finance from Dauphine University (France) and another MSc in quantitative finance from ENSAE / Dauphine.
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Investment focus
  • iOS, Books, Retail
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • ZenOwn — All your products in one place. Collect invoices, track warranties and sell what you no longer need. Declutter your home with ZenOwn.
  • Jeux d'enfants — Founder and inventor.
Ulf Claesson Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Ulf Claesson is a Partner (since 2009) at BLR & Partners AG, a private equity firm located in Zurich, Switzerland. From 2006 to 2009, Ulf built up and ran one of HP’s product divisions as a General Manager and Vice President after having one of his companies acquired by Hewlett-Packard Corporation. From 2002 to 2006, Ulf was Co-founderand Chairman of the Board of Directors at Silverwire Group (now a Hewlett-Packard Company). Ulf has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at AVAST Software since October 2012. Prior to co-founding Silverwire Group, in 1997 Ulf founded Whitecap GmbH and Whitecap LLP, where he also serves as Managing Director to this day. From 1977 to 1997, Ulf served in various European and global management and executive positions at IBM Corporation, where he, among other new business segments, built up IBM’s global Distribution business and its OEM business in Continental Europe. Ulf also serves as a Member of the Board of the Swiss Federal Commission for Innovation and Technology and is a Lecturer, teaching Entrepreneurship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Ulf holds a M.Sc. degree from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • MIRAI FOODS — Love meat? Mirai aims to produce the meat of the future by cultivating animal cells in a controlled environment
Serge Schoen Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
Founding Partner and Chairman of Ambrosia Investments, a Founding Partner and Chairman of EightStone Private Limited and EightStone Family Office, Member of the Board of Cofco International Limited, Director of Itsu Limited, and Member of the Executive Board of the MIT Business School (Sloan). Served as the Chief Executive Officer of Louis DreyfusCompany from 2005 to mid 2013 and as Executive Chairman of Louis Dreyfus Company Holdings B.V.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Mobile, Software
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • PowerAPI — Foodetective enables F&B businesses to integrate & manage their entire tech stack from a single OS & platform. Increasing online revenues and visibility as well as removing all operational & administrative tasks. Our vision is to become the intelligent OS & interface of the F&B industry.
Anja Graf Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Anja Graf is an individual investor and real estate entrepreneur .
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Marketing
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • fabas — Explore Fabas Solutions' innovative, sustainable, plant-based yogurt mixes. Perfect for creating high-protein, vegan dairy alternatives from natural ingredients, driving food industry innovation.
  • Refluence — LinkTrust offers powerful business-building tools for agencies and networks. Discover how to manage campaigns, partners and channels at scale. Book a demo.
  • Refluenced — Refluenced is an online platform that specializes in connecting brand enthusiasts with brands, aiming to revolutionize word-of-mouth marketing. Originating from the success of the SunIce Festival's micro-influencer campaign, which reaches millions annually, Refluenced offers a unique opportunity for creators to engage with brands andcampaigns. With a focus on marketing services, the company operates with a team of 15 employees and is based in Switzerland. Refluenced is dedicated to transforming the interaction between brands and their advocates, providing new avenues for marketing engagement.
Bhavik Bajaj Angel
Bhavik Bajaj
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
Dario Fazlic Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Dario Fazlic has 2 current jobs as Founder and Member of the Board at Immozins and Founder & CRO at wefox.
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Investment focus
  • Baby, EdTech, Children
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
  • Evulpo — Evulpo is a free learning website that provides an instructional videos, summaries, and practice units for curriculum-related topics. Evulpo provides assistance with all relevant curriculum in the primary, secondary, high school, and BMS levels.
  • CNC24 — The leading manufacturing-as-a-service platform for high quality precision parts in Europe.
Stephan Schmidheiny Angel · Balgach, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
Stephan Schmidheiny is the Founder of Fundación Avina. He attended the University of Zurich.
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Investment focus
  • Food Processing, Personal Health, Food and Beverage
  • Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Planted Foods — Planted is an ETH Spinoff that uses cutting-edge technology to turn four natural ingredients into plant-based meat that mimics the taste, texture, and mouthfeel of traditional animal meat. It takes only the best raw materials from plants and creates that tasty, nutritious, high-protein, and juicy planted that the customers love.It was founded in2019 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.
Fredrik Jung Abbou Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Fredrik Jung Abbou is a CCO & Co-founder of KRY.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Apps, Grocery
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Kenya, Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
  • HackCapital — Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system
  • Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
Eugenio Cassiano Angel
Eugenio Cassiano
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Mobile, Software
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • PowerAPI — Foodetective enables F&B businesses to integrate & manage their entire tech stack from a single OS & platform. Increasing online revenues and visibility as well as removing all operational & administrative tasks. Our vision is to become the intelligent OS & interface of the F&B industry.
Fabio Borzatta Angel
Fabio Borzatta
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Agriculture, Organic Food
  • Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Farmy.ch — Farmy.ch is an online marketplace for local and organic food, directly from farmers and food makers. It places a lot of importance on the selection of producers and its uncompromising focus on quality and transparency. The company smart logistics and own fleet and e-mobiles deliver these goods incomparably fresh, emission-reduced, and time-savingdirectly to users’ front doors with its own fleet of e-mobiles.Farmy.ch provides online retailing of fresh and local food products with more than 10'000 hand-picked products from more than 1'000 authentic producers. It also offers products include fruits and vegetables, cheeses from Swiss dairies, meat, delicacies, and sweet temptations from real bakers and confectioners, as well as pantry and drugstore items. Farmy.ch was founded in June 2014 by Roman Hartmann and Tobias Schubert and is based in
Arturo Elizondo Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Arturo Elizondo is CEO of Clara Foods, a sustainable ingredients company making the world’s most comprehensive egg white substitute. Clara leverages advances in fermentation technology to bring an egg white to the table that is completely animal-free, far more sustainable, and free of salmonella without compromising the qualities we know and love.Prior to joining Clara Foods, Arturo worked at the investment bank Credit Suisse, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and under Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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Investment focus
  • Wellness, Life Science, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Spain, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
Ruedi Noser Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Ruedi Noser
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Investment focus
  • GovTech, Big Data, Politics
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Farmy.ch — Farmy.ch is an online marketplace for local and organic food, directly from farmers and food makers. It places a lot of importance on the selection of producers and its uncompromising focus on quality and transparency. The company smart logistics and own fleet and e-mobiles deliver these goods incomparably fresh, emission-reduced, and time-savingdirectly to users’ front doors with its own fleet of e-mobiles.Farmy.ch provides online retailing of fresh and local food products with more than 10'000 hand-picked products from more than 1'000 authentic producers. It also offers products include fruits and vegetables, cheeses from Swiss dairies, meat, delicacies, and sweet temptations from real bakers and confectioners, as well as pantry and drugstore items. Farmy.ch was founded in June 2014 by Roman Hartmann and Tobias Schubert and is based in
  • politik.ch – PolitAnalytics — PolitAnalytics is a data and knowledge management platform for experts in politics, fully neutral and non-partisan. We serve policy makers, public affairs / government relations experts, thought leaders and pundits, compliance managers and risk assessors, politicians and their staff, as well as scientific researchers and journalists.We usethe power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide predictive policy making analytics. Our customers can track the political development of their topics quickly and in real time, while the platform provides estimates of the speed of legal implementation, or the likelihood of success, along with knowledge management and collaboration features.
Lisa Schmidheiny Angel
Lisa Schmidheiny is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Organic Food, Food and Beverage
  • Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Luya Foods — Sustainable food, Plant-based, Circular food, Meat alternative, Alternative to meat, Okara, Food waste, and Fermentation
Luigi Matrone Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
Luigi Matrone
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Mobile, Software
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • PowerAPI — Foodetective enables F&B businesses to integrate & manage their entire tech stack from a single OS & platform. Increasing online revenues and visibility as well as removing all operational & administrative tasks. Our vision is to become the intelligent OS & interface of the F&B industry.
Ulf Claesson Angel
Ulf Claesson
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • MIRAI FOODS — Love meat? Mirai aims to produce the meat of the future by cultivating animal cells in a controlled environment
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