Top 10 InsurTech Angel Investors in Switzerland in November 2024
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Insurtech startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Insurtech companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 InsurTech Angel Investors in Switzerland in November 2024
Investor | InsurTech Switzerland investments |
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Alex Ott | 2 |
Jakob Kaya | 1 |
Paul Wahl | 1 |
Mans Hultman | 1 |
Christopher Jentzsch | 1 |
Alexsis de Raadt-St. James | 1 |
Andreas Buhl | 1 |
Raul Vejar | 1 |
Andy Honess | 1 |
Dr. Cornelius Boersch | 1 |
Alex Ott founded CrossContinentalVentures in 2002. He is a veteran in the enterprise software industry with operational and board level experience on four continents.He has been partnering with many entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and Israel in building thought leading technology enterprises that seek to make a difference such as QlikTech whomhe was an investor and is a current board member.Before founding CrossContinentalVentures, Alex was a member of the Executive Committee of Siebel Systems, where he was responsible for building a major presence in EMEA as VP and General Manager, growing revenues, customer and employee base tenfold in just two years. He then ran the Americas geography, Siebel’s largest market with revenue responsibilities of over $1B.Prior to Siebel Systems, Alex played key executive roles within SAP AG (member of the extended global board) and SAP America (Executive Committee member) for almost a decade. Latterly, he held the position of CEO SAP International and Senior VP of Latin America, dramatically growing revenue and profitability through a sustained increase in SAP's Latin American infrastructure and the establishment of new subsidiaries.Alex holds a degree in Economics and Business Management from University BA of Mannheim, Germany.
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Investment focus
- Software, CAD, CRM
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
- Squirro — Elevate your enterprise operations, accelerate innovation, and enhance human performance with reliable and accurate generative AI that employees trust.
- NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.
Jakob Kaya is Co-CEO of mindnow AG. He attended Hochschule der Künste Bern.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, InsurTech, Wealth Management
- Funding Round
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Clanq AG — Clanq is a Zurich-based FinTech startup aiming to reduce parents' burden to put money aside for their children's future. We offer a mobile-based finance solution, enabling families to create and grow savings for their children seamlessly by leveraging the not-utilized saving potential.
Paul Wahl
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Investment focus
- Software, Enterprise Software, CRM
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
- NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
Måns Hultman was CEO of QlikTech International AB (later Qlik Technologies, Inc.) between 2000 and 2007, and was Chairman of the Board between 2004 and 2009. During his time as CEO the company went from being a small Swedish technology company to becoming one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in the world. Qlik introduced theworld to the benefits of In Memory Analytics and went from $2 million to $80 million in revenue in seven years. QlikTech was founded in Sweden but is now headquartered in USA. Since 2009 Måns is focused on helping other technology companies achieve the same success as QlikTech and serves on the board of several Swedish and international companies.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, InsurTech
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Squirro — Elevate your enterprise operations, accelerate innovation, and enhance human performance with reliable and accurate generative AI that employees trust.
Christopher Jentzsch
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, iOS, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- seventhings — By digitizing all business assets and connecting all relevant data and processes from existing systems into one platform, we help companies to easily track their long-lived assets and to establish a climate neutral inventory management.
- ZenOwn — All your products in one place. Collect invoices, track warranties and sell what you no longer need. Declutter your home with ZenOwn.
- Gelato — Build scalable, custom enterprise-grade Rollups with Gelato's Web3 Services natively integrated
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).
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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.
Andreas Buhl
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Investment focus
- Rental, Retail, Social
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Annanow — Annanow is quick commerce enabler to the retail industry. Our technology and services connect online shops, couriers, instore picking, payment and insurance services to end customers. Our services help our retail partners deliver a cost effective market-leading service to their customers.
- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
Raul Vejar - Advisor @ Pramata
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed
- Switzerland, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Optix — Optix is the only coworking space automation software that enables you to automate, optimize, grow and engage your community.
- BigOmics — Get robust and reproducible results in a few clicks with Omics Playground: your user-friendly Omics Data Analysis Software.
- MightyHive — MightyHive is the premier Programmatic Solutions Partner for forward-thinking marketers and agencies, wherever they are on the path to programmatic self-sufficiency. MightyHive empowers clients to build data-driven organizations that drive results through programmatic insourcing, full-service management, and strategic advisory services. One of thelargest and fastest-growing programmatic buyers in the world, MightyHive has helped hundreds of clients adopt programmatic, and has a global presence with offices in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, London, and Singapore.
Andy Honess - Founder and Owner @ JumpXL
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed
- Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
- CreditEnable — Get the most affordable business loans with CreditEnable! Explore low interest rates, check eligibility in one minute, and apply for your dream business loan today. Dream Big. Borrow Smart!.
- NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.
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.
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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.
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