Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup

Invest in your industry and stage
Emails & contact info included
Excel and CSV export
Automatically

Trusted by 3,000+ startups

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

Last updated: Jan 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 January 2025

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

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

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

Dario Fazlic has 2 current jobs as Founder and Member of the Board at Immozins and Founder & CRO at wefox.

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.

Filippo is the Chief Digital Operations Officer of Nestlé, where he is leading Innovation, Development, and Operations for the Global Digital Platforms (Digital Marketing, CRM, Social, eCommerce). He is based at the company's Global HQ in Vevey, Switzerland. Prior to joining Nestlé, Filippo had been with Procter & Gamble for 16 years,based in Rome, Geneva and Cincinnati, leading various innovation and digital initiatives.

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

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

Stephan Schmidheiny is the Founder of Fundación Avina. He attended the University of Zurich.

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.

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

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

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.