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Top 25 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Switzerland in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 January 2026

Investor	Food and Beverage Switzerland investments
Ralph Gygax	5
Werner Hoffmann	4
Adrian Bührer	2
Lukas Böni	2
Filippo Catalano	2
Arturo Elizondo	1
Ulf Claesson	1
JP Duque	1
Éric Thuillier	1
Myke Naf	1
Ulf Claesson	1
Serge Schoen	1
Ruedi Noser	1
Lisa Schmidheiny	1
Andrea Jansen	1
Jaime Martin Chocano	1
Stephan Schmidheiny	1
Eugenio Cassiano	1
Nikolaus Wein	1
Cristian Mazzoleni	1
Dario Fazlic	1
Yann Sommer	1
Nico Hribernik	1
Luigi Matrone	1
Anja Graf	1

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Ralph Gygax is a Chief Administrative Officer at SWISS Gate AG. He attended KV, SVIT from 1999 to 2007.

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.

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

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.

Adrian Bührer

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

Lukas Boni is the Co-Founder at Planted.

Investment focus

Food Processing
Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Cultivated Biosciences — Cultivated - Creamy, dairy-free indulgence

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Wellness, Life Science, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI
Cultivated Biosciences — Cultivated - Creamy, dairy-free indulgence

Ulf Claesson

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

Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Colombia, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
Pura Mente — Meditation app in Spanish
Plurall — At Plurall, we are applying technology, data science, and a hyper-focus on customer to deliver mission critical financial services to those entrepreneurs and SMEs who have been left out of the digital revolution. Despite decades of product design, market presence, and market dominance by incumbents, we believe the ideal financial servicesplatform – one that is accessible, instantaneous, friendly, and transparent – hasn’t been built yet.With the support of Visa and leveraging in proven technology from well established fintech suppliers in Latam, we will launch our MVP in the 1st Q of 2022. Our waitlist is available at www.plurall.com

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

Investment focus

iOS, Books, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

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

Myke Naf is the Managing Partner of Übermorgen Ventures.He attended University of St.Gallen.

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.

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.

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

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.