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Top 50 Health Care Angel Investors in Switzerland in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Health care startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Health care companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Health Care Angel Investors in Switzerland in December 2024

Investor	Health Care Switzerland investments
Ralph Gygax	5
Penny Schiffer	4
Werner Hoffmann	4
Patrick Lütjens	4
Renato Profico	3
Ertan Wittwer	3
Nikolaus Nieder	2
Dominik A. Lysek	2
Christian Wenger	2
Philip Magoulas	2
Andrea Jansen	2
Yann Sommer	2
Jacques R. Seguin	1
Zürcher Kantonalbankand	1
Willi Miesch	1
Vic Lee	1
Jeffrey Wilke	1
Rafael Zemp	1
Arda Kara	1
Rajat Khare	1
Priska Rösli	1
Lukas Speiser	1
Igor Fish	1
Dr. Cornelius Boersch	1
Wieland Sommer	1
JP Duque	1
Justin Mateen	1
Michael Halbherr	1
Karl Landert	1
Alexsis de Raadt-St. James	1
Tobias Reichmuth	1
Walter Fischl	1
Simon Michel	1
Clement Benoit	1
Fritz Mumenthaler	1
Dehua Zhu	1
Reinhard Ambros	1
Jason C. Foster	1
Andri Mengiardi	1
Adrian Bührer	1
Mark Jalabert	1
Bruno Glaus	1
Thorsten Schroeder	1
Adrian Dubler	1
Jan Vichr	1
Nicolas Mermod	1
David Studer	1
Adrian Bult	1
Hans C. Werner	1
Bracken Darrell	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.

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.

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.

Patrick Lütjens is an investor, an Experienced Senior Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry.

Investment focus

iOS, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Uepaa® — Uepaa AG is the Lone Worker Safety and Peer2Peer (P2P) communication pioneer for mobile devices. After 10+ years of research, Uepaa AG has developed a revolutionary wireless P2P communication technology. Its first product - the Uepaa! Safety app - launched in 2013, successfully showcased this technology’s leadership position. This award-winningproduct evolved into today's industry standard for mobile-based lone worker safety protection. The daily companion for thousands of employees and field forces - working at risk or alone. Uepaa AG, founded in January 2012 by Mathias Haussmann and Dr Franck Legendre, is a Swiss ETH spin-off, headquartered in Zürich.

Renato Profico

Investment focus

Software, iOS, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Uepaa® — Uepaa AG is the Lone Worker Safety and Peer2Peer (P2P) communication pioneer for mobile devices. After 10+ years of research, Uepaa AG has developed a revolutionary wireless P2P communication technology. Its first product - the Uepaa! Safety app - launched in 2013, successfully showcased this technology’s leadership position. This award-winningproduct evolved into today's industry standard for mobile-based lone worker safety protection. The daily companion for thousands of employees and field forces - working at risk or alone. Uepaa AG, founded in January 2012 by Mathias Haussmann and Dr Franck Legendre, is a Swiss ETH spin-off, headquartered in Zürich.
Firstbird — Firstbird, the digital employee referral program, connects people with jobs and companies worldwide with suitable candidates. With Firstbird, employees become brand ambassadors, and referrals become a company’s most successful recruiting channel. Firstbird integrates easily with your ATS to make your life easier.

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.

Nicholas Nieder is an Individual investor.

Investment focus

Health Care, Beauty, Dental
Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Akina — Akina is developing the future of gamified digital healthcare to benefit individuals with chronic diseases around the world.
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.

Dominik A. Lysek - Co-CSO @ vVardis

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, Medical Device
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Odne — Curing with light

Christian Wenger - Chairman @ Startup INVEST

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Aktiia — Founded in Switzerland in May 2018 out of a passion to turn insights into action in the fight against hypertension, Aktiia’s groundbreaking medical technology provides people and their physicians comprehensive insights into blood pressure patterns that will inform the diagnosis and management of hypertension. Now available in the United Kingdom,Aktiia has received its CE Mark as a Class IIa medical device - signifying that the device has been assessed to meet high safety, health and environmental protection requirements in Europe. To learn more, visit Aktiia.com.
Kollabo — Kollabo - the deep job platform for skilled blue collar workers. Thanks to our large network of temporary offices & our qualified team, we excel at finding the perfect match for job seekers and staffing agencies. Never before has the recruiting process been so easy and hassle-free for everyone involved. The goal is to digitally enable allstakeholder, generating a win-win-win situation. It can be that simple with Kollabo – We make work easy.
ExpressSteuer — ExpressSteuer is building AI-powered software that simplifies and automates the process of filing a german tax return which is considered to be the most complex and complicated in the world.

Philip Magoulas is the CFO & Co-Founder at Bestsmile. Additionally, Philip Magoulas has had 1 past job as the Co-Founder & Managing Director at Shore.

Investment focus

Software, iOS, Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Productlane — Connect call recordings, notes and feedback to your issue tracker and speed up your discovery with Productlane.
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.

Andrea Jansen

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.

Yann Sommer

Investment focus

Fitness, Internet, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

MOVU — MOVU is a removal and cleaning service provider with online bookings. The company gets more than 1500 relocation requests per month. It partners with Swisscom, the Post, Helvetia, UBS, and Immoscout24. The firm offers its users with customer service representatives named Move Captains that helps its consumers. The person listens, clarifies, andintermediates between the user and the movers and provides correct solutions for every problem. Reviews of former clients as well as the price comparison between providers helps its users agree decisions.MOVU is a Switzerland-based company that was founded in 2014 by Laurent Decrue and Nenad Nikolic.
CARE — CARE provides personalised preventative medicine to people who wish to learn more about their bodies, detect changes early on, and enhance their overall health.
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.

Jacques Seguin is the Chairman Of The Board at Emanate Biomedical.

Investment focus

Medical, Medical Device, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round
Israel, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Pi-Cardia — Pi-Cardia. Next Generation Valve Repair. The next frontier of treatment options for structural heart disease that provides a safe, effective, and affordable non-implant-based catheter solutions.
CorFlow Therapeutics AG — CorFlow Therapeutics is a medtech startup that develops proprietary technologies for diagnosis and treatment of microvascular obstructions in heart attack patients. The CorFlow technologies enable interventional cardiologists to diagnose and treat MVO in severe heart attack patients thereby potentially reducing the short- and long-term complicationrates in these patients.

Zürcher Kantonalbankand

Investment focus

Medical Device, Energy, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

matriq — matriq offers innovative solutions for the part-individual marking of plastic components of all kinds. With the DynamicMold technology, marking takes place directly in the manufacturing machine, whether in injection molding, blow molding or thermoforming. Besides the application for traceability, the DynamicMold technology also offers thepossibility to integrate product protection.
Aspivix — ASPIVIX is developing a new generation of medical devices that make gynecological procedures gentler and safer for women and gynecologists. The first device, CAREVIX, is designed to prevent cervix bleeding using a suction technology to replace traumatic tenaculum (forceps).
Positrigo — NeuroLF is an ultra-compact brain Positron Emission Tomography system. Our technology makes functional imaging accessible for people worldwide.

Willi Miesch is an experienced entrepreneur with focus on the MedTech segment. Since 1998 he is CEO of Medartis managing the complete operative business. He is additionally member of the Board of Medartis as well as member of the Board of the International Bone Research Association (IBRA). Before joining Medartis, he worked in various productiondepartments of Stratec Medical (Ticino), the Institut Straumann AG (Switzerland and USA). Moreover, he was a member of the Board of Management of a bicycle manufacturer being responsible for the entire technical part for several years. Willi Miesch started as a precision engineer and extended his qualifications by finishing his degree as an operations technician TS at the ABB Engineering School Baden. He completed his postgraduate studies in market-oriented Business Management at the University of Central Switzerland.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Personal Health
Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Scewo — Scewo is a medical technology platform that develops stair-climbing wheelchair. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland.

Vic Lee is the founder and managing partner of Virtus Inspire. Vic is one of the founders and former senior executive vice president of Tencent, the largest Internet company in China with a market value of about USD 200 billion. He joined Tencent in 1999 and was responsible for planning, construction and managing the operation platforms, includingtechnical architecture, information security, payment settlements, business intelligence, sales channel connection, fundamental IT, applications maintenance and customer services. From 2010 to 2012, Vic was in charge of the Company’s online search businesses. After leaving Tencent in 2012, he began to invest in technology companies in US, Israel and China. Vic was recognised as the "China Top Chief Information Officer" by 'CEO & CIO China' magazine in 2010.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Medical
Seed
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yo — Yo is a simple and efficient single-tap zero character communication tool.
Aeris Health — aeris is the first provider of full indoor air quality treatment systems. We provide a unique air purifier product line capable of tackling any type of air pollution at home or at work. Unlike current static air treatment products, our system constantly tracks indoor air quality and room occupancy, to ensure our air purification and ventilationdevices ensure best air quality with lowest energy consumption.We continue to push boundaries on nano-spun filter technology, proprietary air quality sensor technology and sleek minimalist air purifier design. Our aeris fleet management software employs latest control system techniques to ensure lowest energy consumption of our products while keeping PM2.5, CO2 and VOC at lowest levels.

Jeffrey Wilke is the CEO of Scale AI. He previously worked at Discovery as a Vice President, Content Distribution Marketing.Jeffrey Wilke attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Information Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AERA Health — Transforming the way humans experience healthcare through integrating preventive, predictive, participatory, and personalised medicine into their everyday life backed by science, data and technology.
Fulfilld — Get Fulfilld by transforming your Warehouse Operations via Intelligent WMS
Collaborative Robotics — Collaborative Robotics is a team of innovators and builders redefining the future of human-robot interaction.

Rafael Zemp serves as Chief Legal Officer and Secretary to the Board of Directors at Yokoy.

Investment focus

Health Care
Angel
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Aepsy — Finde Psychologinnen oder Psychologen, die zu dir und deinem Anliegen passen. Freite Termine und kostenlose Intros jederzeit online.

Arda Kara

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Human API — Health data platform that connects to all data sources, enabling companies to build new technologies & deliver better experiences to customers.
Levels — Levels helps you see how food affects your health with data from biosensors like continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)
Blackrock Neurotech — Blackrock Neurotech innovative brain technologies provide new hope for people with paralysis & other neurological disorders.

An Internet-age investor and a serial entrepreneur, Rajat Khare is the founder of the European (luxembourg based) investment firm -Boundary Holding. A prominent investment fund with presence in France and Luxembourg, Boundary Holding invests globally in spaces related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and allied fields such as Data Analytics andMining, Machine learning and Predictive Analytics.Boundary Holding primarily acts as a Bridge fund for startups and organizations, facilitating funds across Safe cities, Internet of Things, Algorithmic trading, AI and Analytics. The company has a network of startup programs around the world.Rajat khare holds a Computer Science degree from IIT-Delhi, and has interned at RUCA, University of Antwerp in the Department of Mathematics. He has been a keynote speaker in over 20 major conferences and events across the globe. His work as an investor has also been cited as a case study in the course of Entrepreneurship run by Professor Patrick Turner in INSEAD Business School. He has authored various research papers published in international conferences and books, such as Data Mining V by WIT press. Rajat has co-authored Make the Move on entrepreneurship and Science of Achievement on education. Both the books reflect Rajat’s inclination towards promoting entrepreneurship and a holistic incubation of innovative solutions around the world.An active member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), the IIT Delhi alumni association and the Indian angel network, Rajat proactively supports and encourages entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ventures around the world. For his efforts to promote entrepreneurship, he was appreciated by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam at the President’s house in 2006.

Investment focus

Drones, Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
France, Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CYSEC — Secure your sensitive data in the cloud and in the edge with ARCA Trusted OS and open the door to innovation with confidential computing.
Scewo — Scewo is a medical technology platform that develops stair-climbing wheelchair. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland.
EdallSystems — EdallSystems provide Educational Service (Aerospace Engineering Training), UAV development, Engineering Service(Lab Development) and consulting in INDIA. Their moto is to become a major Product Development company in the filed of Aerospace In India and to support and Develope Aerospace products in India.

Priska is a proven economic and tax expert and experienced businesswoman. Through her work as an executive in renowned consulting firms and large multinational companies, she has excellent international networks and maintains contacts to important economic and tax experts from around the world.

Investment focus

Medical, Women's, Wellness
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Health Yourself — Health Yourself is making routine healthcare services available digitally and from home. So far, we are offering lab tests from home, medication subscriptions and personalised supplements for health concerns ranging from sexual health to prevention.

Lukas Speiser is the founder and CEO of Amorana.ch

Investment focus

Wellness, Nutrition, Health Care
Seed
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Dunatura — Dunatura engages in the manufacture and supply of vitamins and micronutrients.
Testmate Health — Testmate Health is a medtech startup and award-winning spin-off of University of Geneva (Switzerland). We have developed a smartphone compatible platform test kit that diagnoses any disease with an identifiable DNA or RNA sequence - without the need for a lab, providing results directly at home in minutes. Based on this platform, our firstsolution is the first rapid urine self-test for the four most common sexually transmitted diseases (STD). One million new STDs are diagnosed a day, and yet the best improvements to date still need a lab, with results taking up to 7 days to be ready. Our easy to use all-in-one-kit provides results in minutes, anywhere, at any time, and the result is scannable by a smartphone to enable people to immediately gain access to treatment – if needed. Further test-kits with other diseases are in the pipeline to empower users to skip the waiting room, and take charge of their health from home.

Igor Fish

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Life Science
Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

NewBiologix — NewBiologix operates as a technology innovation company, develops a proprietary and breakthroughDNA integration platform for the advanced engineering of human and mammaliancell lines.

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Founder and CEO of Smart Reporting; Professor of Radiology; Master in Public Health (Harvard, Boston, USA)

Investment focus

Health Care, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

medudoc — medudoc is a Berlin based digital health start-up that aims to digitalize the analog process of patient education prior to a medical intervention.
Lillian Care — Lillian is building a nationwide network of health facilities in Germany.

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

Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.

Michael heads the Location and Commerce business in Nokia, overseeing Nokia's Location and Navigation activities, including NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of mapping assets.The Location and Commerce business combines Nokia's global footprint and social location services product portfolio with its NAVTEQ subsidiary's leadingmapping assets.Michael is a recognised authority in the industry.Prior to joining Nokia in 2006, he held positions at the Boston Consulting Group and at europatweb, the internet investment vehicle of Groupe Arnault, overseeing all technology investments.In 2001, Michael became CEO of gate5 AG, a leading supplier of mapping, routing and navigation software and services globally. In 2006, gate5 was acquired by Nokia.Since joining Nokia, Michael has held different senior positions within Nokia's Services organisation. Most recently, he was head of the Product sub-unit in Nokia's Services business, based in Berlin, responsible for integration of all services, including product development, marketing, road mapping and deployment efforts across Nokia.He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich, spending four years at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.Swiss born Michael (1964) is married and has two children. Living in Berlin, Germany, he enjoys riding his motorbike, skiing and reading history books in his spare time.

Investment focus

SaaS, Marketplace, Industrial Automation
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nanoleq — Nanoleq provides full solutions to precisely monitor vital signs and health in clothes. Join the future of health monitoring textiles.
DigiSure — DigiSure's platform and consulting will help your mobility or sharing platform reduce costs and create new revenue streams, while making your marketplaces safer.
German Bionic — German Bionic is backed by renowned international technology investors such as Samsung Catalyst Fund, Storm Ventures and MIG, which is also invested in Covid-19 vaccine developer BioNTech. The company and its products are regularly featured in top-tier publications and are the recipients of numerous awards including the German Entrepreneur Award,the Land of Ideas Award, the Automatica Award as well as a nomination for Hannover Messe’s coveted Hermes Award.The German Bionic Cray X is the world’s first connected exoskeleton. Linked to the Smart Factory, it self-learns to reinforce lifting movements and prevent incorrect posture, thus becoming an intelligent link between humans and machines. In doing so, it delivers data that underscores its ability to protect the health of workers, measurably reduce the risk of accidents, and thereby make quantifiable improvements to work processes.

Karl is the CEO and investor in eClinicalHealth, as well as the Chairman of the Board and an advisor to Clinpal and key customers. Karl’s career started at IBM in 1985. He was the founder of the IBM ClinWare Solution Unit, one of the first EDC systems for clinical trials in the mid-nineties. Between 1998 and 2001 he worked at Novartis as ChiefInformation Officer. His career continued at Credit Suisse, where he assumed several senior leadership positions in IT. He became CIO of the Group in 2008 and was a Member of the Executive Board of Credit-Suisse until 2012. In his functions at Credit-Suisse he oversaw hundreds of global change programs. In 2012 and 2013 Karl advised the Chairman of Credit-Suisse in setting up an innovation program for the firm. After retiring from Credit-Suisse in March 2013 Karl focused on a portfolio of investments in start-up companies, continues to advise Senior Leaders and is a Non-Executive director in technology companies. As of November 2015 Karl has taken on the role of CEO and dedicates his energy to eClinicalHealth where he defines and manages the direction of the company.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series B
Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Clinpal — Backed by over 30 years of scientific discovery and validation, Cambridge Cognition offers the end-to-end platform for CNS clinical trials.
Medical Insights — Medical Insight's mission is to create an open medical community platform which serves Health Care Professionals (HCP) of various specialties, international medical foundations and its medical industry partners with targeted personalized knowledge, education and communication services.

Alexsis is the Founder and Managing Partner of Merian Ventures, an early-stage venture firm focused on investing in women founded, co-founded and majority-owned companies in the US and UK. Alexsis has extensive investment, venture and operations experience based on businesses she has founded or funded. As managing partner of Merian Ventures since2015, Alexsis serves as a Board Member and Advisor to Merian Venture portfolio companies Provenance, Pivigo, Populus, Honeycomb, ImpactVision, CareerLark, Cirrus Identity and Compaas, among others. Merian Ventures was named after Maria Sibylla Merian, a botanist, entrepreneur and intrepid traveler born in 1647. In addition to Merian Ventures, Alexsis is a US-UK Fulbright Commissioner; Board member of the Oxford Internet Institute; Board member of The Oxford Foundry; Founder and funder of the WEInnovate STEM accelerator for Women at Imperial College, London; and Board Member and Advisor to companies she's funded. Alexsis is also Chairman and Founder of The Althea Foundation, established in 2003 as a family office. Today, The Althea Foundation is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation and it is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a public charity described in Internal Revenue Code Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aiden — Reduce risk, enhance compliance, and simplify IT with modern, intelligent software packaging and deployment using Artificial Intelligence.
Compaas — Compaas: The Compensation Platform | Total Visibility. Zero Spreadsheets. Painless raise cycles, compensation metrics, people analytics, rewards letters
Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.

Tobias Reichmuth - Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder @ Maximon

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Firstcar — Firstcar provides car driving learning assistant services. They offer services that include hand-picked driving schools, student cars with double pedals for rent before and for the driving test, entry-level vehicles that are inexpensive to buy and maintain, support and advice on vehicle purchase, and selected insurances with special rates.
MyFeld.ch — MyFeld.ch is the holder of a fresh farm food platform that aims to create a digital link between consumers and our local agriculture. The company's platform provides products directly from the farm, allowing people to improve their comprehension of seasonality and regionality while also raising awareness of the sustainable use of food byallowing them to purchase fresh produce from the farm.
Testmate Health — Testmate Health is a medtech startup and award-winning spin-off of University of Geneva (Switzerland). We have developed a smartphone compatible platform test kit that diagnoses any disease with an identifiable DNA or RNA sequence - without the need for a lab, providing results directly at home in minutes. Based on this platform, our firstsolution is the first rapid urine self-test for the four most common sexually transmitted diseases (STD). One million new STDs are diagnosed a day, and yet the best improvements to date still need a lab, with results taking up to 7 days to be ready. Our easy to use all-in-one-kit provides results in minutes, anywhere, at any time, and the result is scannable by a smartphone to enable people to immediately gain access to treatment – if needed. Further test-kits with other diseases are in the pipeline to empower users to skip the waiting room, and take charge of their health from home.

Walter Fischl

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

ProteoMediX — ProteoMediX is a spinoff company of ETH Zurich and specialized in the identification of novel biomarkers for the early detection of cancer and the personalized treatment thereof.The first product currently developed is a blood-based test that enables the diagnosis of prostate cancer with significantly higher accuracy than today's clinicalstandard.This reduces unnecessary biopsies and thus results in significant cost savings for the healthcare system and less discomfort for the patient.

Mr. Simon Michel has been the Chief Executive Officer of Ypsomed Holding AG since July 2014. Mr. Michel serves as a Senior Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Ypsomed Holding AG and is responsible for the business development and marketing of the injection, infusion and blood glucose meters as well as pen needles. He has been working withYpsomed since October 2006 and has been a Member of management since 2008. He served as a Finance Director of International, MIM at New Look Group Limited. He served as Senior Vice President of Marketing at Ypsomed Holding AG since October 2006 and also served as its Senior Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Michel served as Head of the Infusion Business Division at Ypsomed Holding AG. From 2003 to 2006, he worked for Orange Telecommunications in Zurich and Lausanne, was responsible for, among other things, the introduction and marketing of UMTS. Mr. Michel has been a Director of Sphinx Werkzeuge AG since 2006. He has been a member of executive committee of the local trade and industry association since 2008. He studied Masters with a focus on Media and Communications Management and Economics at the University of St. Gallen.

Investment focus

Robotics, Manufacturing, Medical Device
Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

LEM Surgical — We are developing the next generation of spine surgical robotic systems

Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
Cocunat — Cocunat is a natural and 100% toxic free cosmetics brand.
Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Fritz Mumenthaler - Chairman @ Komed Health AG (PLC)

Investment focus

Drones, Computer, Robotics
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Flyability — Flyability is an EPFL spin-off dedicated to creating safe, collision-tolerant robotics to access inaccessible places, replacing dangerous human operations with unmanned devices.
Komed Health — Komed Health integrates seamlessly with existing healthcare systems to push actionable, real-time patient data at your fingertips, on the go.

Dehua Zhu is the Risk Manager Private Equity, Full Stack Data Scientist, Investor.

Investment focus

Medical, Women's, Wellness
Seed
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Health Yourself — Health Yourself is making routine healthcare services available digitally and from home. So far, we are offering lab tests from home, medication subscriptions and personalised supplements for health concerns ranging from sexual health to prevention.

Reinhard Ambros

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

FORMA Therapeutics — Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases.
Aileron Therapeutics — Aileron Therapeutics - ALRN-6924 - myelopreservation
ImmunOs Therapeutics — ImmunOs Therapeutics AG is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing next generation and novel human immunomodulatory proteins with a role in both innate and adaptive immunity.Their mission is to develop the next generation of novel therapeutics that will improve the lives of patients with serious disease.

Jason C. Foster is the Managing Director of Health Equity Consulting Ltd.

Investment focus

Medical, Hospital, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

hystrix medical — peak performance in healthcare eCommerce. dein neues Standard-Tool, mit dem eProcurement und eSales einfach wird und Spass macht
Sensible Biotechnologies — Engineering cells to make better mRNA.

Andri Mengiardi

Investment focus

Health Care
Angel
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Aepsy — Aepsy is a mental health care located in Zürich,Switzerland and part of the Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services Industry.

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

Mark Jalabert

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Analytics
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

BigOmics — Get robust and reproducible results in a few clicks with Omics Playground: your user-friendly Omics Data Analysis Software.

Bruno Glaus

Investment focus

Drones, Computer, Robotics
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Flyability — Flyability is an EPFL spin-off dedicated to creating safe, collision-tolerant robotics to access inaccessible places, replacing dangerous human operations with unmanned devices.
Komed Health — Komed Health provides a secure messaging platform for instant medical team communication. The application eases, bundles and organizes real time communication between medical teams making other forms of in-hospital communication such as fixed phones, pagers, faxes and emails obsolete over time. The application is integrated seamlessly with existingclinical systems enabling integrated care pathways. Additionally, it allows physicians and nurses to access and share medical information for decision-making and facilitates communication at the point-of-care. The team is working closely with healthcare providers to build and advance rich feature sets tailored to modern healthcare professionals and care workflows.

Thorsten Schroeder

Investment focus

Electronics, Children, Life Science
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Storypod — The screen-free, educational audio toy that engages children independently & makes learning fun. Storypod delights toddlers, preschoolers, 1st, & 2nd graders with music, stories, songs, audiobooks, & podcasts. The Storypod audio player features recording from any phone, bedtime nightlight, sound machine, & white noise.
TROCAFONE — Trocafone is the first end-to-end e-commerce marketplace of LATAM that enable people to buy and sell used electronics hassle free, focused on smartphones in Brazil. At Trocafone they improve the selling and buying experience by acquiring the devices from sellers, refurbishing and re-selling them as pre-owned certified. Buyers enjoy the greatdeals of a peer-to-peer marketplace combined with the service, convenience, and safety of a retail store. Sellers enjoy a streamlined experience since It takes seconds to sell an item, and shipping is effortless with Trocafone's pre-addressed, pre-stamped mailers.
4D Lifetec — 4D Lifetec is a biotechnology company promoting and developing screening and test systems for molecular diagnostics. It also offers a unique solution for DNA defect and repair based screening programs and is, therefore, the diagnostic method of the first choice. The company profits from different networks in science and healthcare.4D Lifetecprovides kits, reagents, download center, 4D life tanks, and service packages. They also offer cost savings for healthcare provider by its outstanding precision and a high degree of standardization both leading to a reduction of false positive results.4D Lifetec was founded by Dr. Arne Faisst and Nick Mijnssen in 2014 and is headquartered in Cham, Zug.

Adrian Dubler

Investment focus

Health Care
Angel
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Aepsy — Aepsy is a mental health care located in Zürich,Switzerland and part of the Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services Industry.

Jan Vichr is a Co-Founder at FOLK. Jan previously worked at FORM Life VenturesFORM Life Ventures as a Founding Partner. He attended the University of Zurich.Jan is an early stage investor who empowers entrepreneurs to build disruptive companies in the health and wellness industry. As a child, Jan wanted to be an inventor. He could be foundsitting around all day sketching and inventing things that didn’t yet exist. Now as an entrepreneur and investor, he comes as close as he can to that dream.

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, Personal Health
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

JVMO — We invest in tech-enabled health wellness and longevity companies to keep people healthy.

Nicolas Mermod

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Life Science
Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

NewBiologix — NewBiologix operates as a technology innovation company, develops a proprietary and breakthroughDNA integration platform for the advanced engineering of human and mammaliancell lines.

David Studer

Investment focus

Information Technology, SaaS, Social
Seed, Angel, 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.

Adrian Bult studied business administration and marketing at the University of St. Gallen (lic. oec. HSG). From 1984 to 1997 he held several national and international sales positions with IBM and served as a member of the Executive Board of IBM Switzerland. Until 1998 he was Head of Information Technology at Telecom PTT, after which he joined theGroup Executive Board of Swisscom, first as CIO, then as CEO of Swisscom Fixnet and finally as CEO of Swisscom Mobile.From 2007 to 2012 Adrian R. Bult was a member of the Executive Board and also a shareholder of COO Avaloq Evolution AG. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swissgrid AG and also sits on the boards of directors of several other companies, including Swissquote AG and Regent Beleuchtungskörper AG. Adrian R. Bult is married and has one daughter.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Medical
Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mila — Mila is all about providing access to progress. The world around us is moving fast. Technical and digital innovations appear daily. There’s no way they can all keep up with this development. Perhaps you don’t have time or you’re just not up to a technical challenge. Still, everyone should be able to benefit from technological progress. Mila enablespeople to find an expert partner in their neighborhood on demand. Conveniently and easily, at a fair price.
LaterPay — LaterPay simplifies payments on the Internet. In addition to a classic immediate purchase option, LaterPay also allows you to buy digital content such as articles now and pay later.LaterPay allows you to purchase digital content for even the smallest amounts without having to pay directly. You simply confirm that you want to pay later and thenyou can access the content you want. You don't have to register or provide payment details beforehand. LaterPay remembers all the purchases you make on your device and bundles them into one invoice. No matter which website LaterPay uses, you simply shop - and all purchases appear together on one LaterPay invoice. As soon as your tab reaches $5.00, we ask you to register. Afterwards you choose your preferred payment method. There are no fees for you; you only pay for what you actually buy.
Medical Insights — Medical Insight's mission is to create an open medical community platform which serves Health Care Professionals (HCP) of various specialties, international medical foundations and its medical industry partners with targeted personalized knowledge, education and communication services.

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.

Bracken Darrell joined Logitech as president in 2012 and became chief executive officer a year later. In this role he has led a transformation of Logitech. He is a proponent of the importance of the liberal arts and design in business, especially of their role in innovating product experiences for consumers. He is an English major from HendrixCollege. Bracken brings to Logitech experience in product and brand building through design. He has worked around the world on iconic brands like Old Spice, Gillette and Braun, for which he was president. He has spent time at P&G, GE, Gillette, and Whirlpool. Since he took over five years ago, Logitech has been a top performer on the SIX Swiss stock exchange and on the NASDAQ. The company’s stock price and profits have more than quadrupled in the same period.

Investment focus

Beauty, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oarbt — Find the art and furniture you need to bring your interior design vision to life with the AI Product Finder and preview in a 3D design planner.
AERA Health — Transforming the way humans experience healthcare through integrating preventive, predictive, participatory, and personalised medicine into their everyday life backed by science, data and technology.
Upgrade Boutique — Upgrade Boutique is a managed marketplace that provides beauty products and services. The company connects with consumers that seek custom wigs, extensions, and curated beauty products with a network of stylists and colorists. Upgrade Boutique was founded in 2019 by Britney Winters and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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