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Top 50 Life Science Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Life science startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Life science companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Life Science Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026

Investor Life Science Switzerland investments
Zürcher Kantonal Bank 6
Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT) 4
Eclosion SA 4
SOSV 2
Verve Ventures 2
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds) 2
BlueOcean Ventures 2
EFI Lake Geneva Ventures 2
Omega Funds 2
EQT Life Sciences 2
Rheingau Founders 2
Sunstone Life Science Ventures 2
VINCI CAPITAL 2
BioMedPartners 2
Lichtsteiner Foundation 2
Kinled Holding 2
FAST — by GETTYLAB 2
Fongit Seed Invest 2
Versant Ventures 2
University of Zurich 1
Skyviews Life Science 1
Rhia Ventures 1
UZH Life Sciences Fund 1
LongeVC 1
Esperante Ventures 1
Technology Fund 1
TiVentures 1
AXA Alternative Investments 1
Mergus Ventures 1
OrbiMed 1
Pivotal bioVenture Partners 1
RTW Investments 1
The Helm 1
Recipharm Venture Fund 1
Kickfund 1
Kurma Partners 1
Heritage Capital 1
JFG Life Sciences Foundation 1
Amboy Street Ventures 1
Simon Fiduciaria 1
Ysios Capital 1
VI Partners 1
Primal Capital 1
Beat Schillig 1
NEST pension fund 1
Bruker 1
Medicxi 1
MedHoldings 1
Primal Capital 1
SICTIC 1
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Zürcher Kantonal Bank VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Zürcher Kantonalbank is an independent, incorporated public-law institution is its public service mandate. Enshrined in law, it governs the bank's economic, social, and environmental commitment.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, Japan, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
  • TestResults — TestResults uses the TrueTest technology and AI-based virtual user that makes it possible for the first time to test autonomously across software, system, and technology boundaries from a user perspective with the same approach. The company has simplified automated testing massively and reduced time radically. With it, the automation andmaintenance effort is reduced to a minimum that allows zero flakiness and the enlightening feeling of being in control of automation and test scenarios.
  • QualySense — QualySense is a Swiss start-up company focused on innovative high-throughput grain, beans and seeds sorting technology. QualySense develops a high-speed multi-tons per hour sorting device, which will change how grains, beans and seeds are processed and valued worldwide by assessing the biochemical quality of grains one by one. The QualySensesorters will enable customers to separate grain batches into different biochemical quality classes and sell the corresponding premium products at higher average prices. Food processors will be able to considerably increase the production value, and produce higher quality products in a non-interrupted process.
Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT) VC Fund · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · 10 investments in the past 12 months
The Foundation for Technology Innovation gives financial assistance to creative and technological projects at various phases of development. FIT funds projects in energy and the environment, information and digital technology, life sciences and health, precision industries, and nutrition and agriculture.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
  • Switzerland, France
Portfolio highlights
  • INERGIO — This EPFL spin-off is developing faster, portable energy units that offer ten times the power at half the weight of current technology. Founder Mahmoud Hadad’s fuel cell innovation, which uses standard butane or propane that’s safe and available worldwide, offers high autonomy. INERGIO’s fuel cell geometry allows unlimited scaling, making thetechnology suitable for applications ranging from charging consumer electronics to auxiliary power for drones to automobile fuel cells. The team has a working prototype and is looking to have its minimal viable product by summer 2020 to start the pilot project with potential partners and customers.
  • Brightank — Catalyzing your Decarbonization. Brightank accelerates decarbonization with ammonia cracking catalysts, turning ammonia into fuel for heavy transport, hydrogen supply, and power. EPFL spin-off
  • DigeHealth — DigeHealth's approach to monitoring gut health using bowel noises and body measurements could provide some really valuable insights into digestive well-being.
Eclosion SA VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
Eclosion assists entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to bridge the gap between their laboratories and the stage where the start-up
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
  • Seed, Series C, Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • KYLYS — KYLYS is an innovative Swiss company based in Geneva founded in March 2017. KYLYS provides people and patients with highly effective and safe products based on biomolecules.
  • Genkyotex — Genkyotex is dedicated to the development of innovative drugs which block enzymes that produce oxygen radicals. Such novel drugs will allow the treatment of oxygen-radical mediated acute and chronic diseases, with improved specificity, safety, and efficacy over existing antioxidants therapy, giving them a significant competitive advantage.Genkyotex targets its technology initially to the therapeutic areas of cardiovascular, metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases.
  • MPC Therapeutics — MPC Therapeutics develops a novel class of compounds with application in Immunotherapy and Metabolic diseases
SOSV VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 75 investments in the past 12 months
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Verve Ventures VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Switzerland, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
  • Lexroom.ai — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.
  • EarlySight — EarlySight start-up company is founded in order to accelerate the development and to bring the technology to clinics.
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds) VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
  • Zeeg — Create a customized landing page in just a few clicks and let your customers easily book appointments with you.
  • viboo — viboo offers self-learning predictive control on the basis of physics-informed Machine Learning as a cloud service to smart-thermostat and building automation companies.
BlueOcean Ventures VC Fund · Plan-les-ouates, Geneve, Switzerland
BlueOcean Ventures SA provides capital, operational and company development advisory support (mentoring, company management, divestment experience, network, negotiation support) to entrepreneurs in Switzerland. BlueOcean Ventures is based in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Switzerland, India, France
Portfolio highlights
  • nPloy — Simply set your filters and get matched with your dream job! Let top employers apply for you & connect with them via chat or a video call.
  • CyanoGuard AG — Our award-winning cyanide testing and optimizing solution is ideal for the mining, food, and medical field. It's easy to use, digital and offers real-time data.
  • 99RetailStreet — 99RetailStreet is an eCommerce Cloudplatform for the unorganized Retail business in the developing countries. Our ecosystem targets Retailers, Distributors, and Manufacturers. 99RetailStreet provides POS solutions to Retailers, Real-Time Analytics to Manufacturers and Distributors
EFI Lake Geneva Ventures VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
EFI Lake Geneva Ventures is a seed and early-stage investment strategy based in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 2020, our mission is to foster innovation by investing at an early stage in fast-growing innovative Swiss companies in Technology, Life Sciences and Medtech.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Life Science
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • EBAMed — EBAMed SA is a Swiss startup based in Geneva whose mission is to enable safe and effective non-invasive treatments of heart arrhythmias with protontherapy. The company is currently developing a medical device to enable non-invasive heart motion imaging and real-time synchronization of the therapeutic beam. This device consists in both hardware andsoftware components and expands treatment possibilities for existing protontherapy centres, enabling them for the first time to treat heart patients.
  • Hylomorph — Hylomorph is a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovative materials designed to transform the biocompatibility of implantable medical devices.
  • Annaida Technologies — Annaida Technologies has developed a groundbreaking device, EmbryoSpin, that performs microscopic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (“µNMR”) at a scale 10-fold better than existing technologies.
Omega Funds VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
We aim to invest in exceptional founders and entrepreneurs and impactful products and platforms across multiple therapeutic areas.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • IFM Therapeutics — IFM Therapeutics is a provider of small molecule that module novel targets in the innate immune system. The company and its academic collaborators combine unparalleled expertise in innate immunity with seasoned drug discovery and development professionals. Its subsidiary IFM Due is focused on the discovery and developing antagonists of thecGAS/STING pathway for the treatment of inflammation, neuroinflammation, autoimmunity and cancer. IFM Discovery, a newly financed incubator entity within the IFM enterprise, is prosecuting a basket of genetically-validated targets as next-generation therapies for inflammation, neuroinflammation, autoimmunity and fibrosis
  • Callio Therapeutics — Callio Therapeutics focuses on developing next-generation, multi-payload antibody-drug conjugates to maximize therapeutic benefits.
  • Scorpion Therapeutics — We are developing drugs specifically designed to interact with validated cancer targets with greater selectivity and optimized pharmaceutical properties to improve their safety and efficacy.
EQT Life Sciences VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Providing capital plus strategic, clinical, operational, financial, and commercial support to deliver the added value inventors seek.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, The Netherlands, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Cyted — Cyted focuses on providing digital diagnostic infrastructure to drive the earlier detection of disease. Our technologies use AI and novel biomarkers to improve patient outcomes.
  • Perfuze — Perfuze was founded in 2018 by Wayne Allen and Liam Mullins. Perfuze is located within Galway City in the West of Ireland. The founders have over 30 years combined medtech experience within start-up and large corporations.Perfuze is developing innovative medical technology to treat acute ischemic stroke.Perfuze is developing innovative cathetertechnology to treat acute ischemic stroke. Their technology is intended to provide superior clinical outcomes in shorter procedural times; resulting in safe, cost-effective therapy. Perfuze was founded in 2018 by Wayne Allen and Liam Mullins. The founders have over 30 years combined medtech experience within start-up and large corporations. Perfuze is currently located in the Business Innovation Centre on the campus of the National University of Ireland, Galway, and is in the process of relocating to the IDA Business Park in Dangan, Galway.
  • Avidicure — Avidicure is developing dual agonistic avidity-engineered multifunctional antibodies, AVC-Boosters, as monotherapy for treatment of cancer
Rheingau Founders VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Rheingau Founders is a Berlin&Munich based Venture Capital firm active since 2011. Focusing on pre-seed to Series A investments in Europe, predominantly B2B in the fields of Marketplaces, Software as a Service, InsurTech, and eHealth. Rheingau targets start-ups that have the potential to sustainably disrupt existing processes and value chains.Besides the financial investment, we offer strategic support through the mentorship of our partners.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • MoleQlar — MoleQlar is a data and research-driven longevity company. It provides valuable information and offers consumers lab-tested nutritional supplements. The company focuses on functional medicine with optimized nutrition. Their product range includes Uthever NMN, Resveratrol, Betaine, Carnosine, and more. These products are aimed at lowering biologicalage and promoting health and longevity. MoleQlar also offers health tracking services. The company is certified in Germany and delivers its products EU-wide, including Switzerland.
  • Qualifyze — Qualifyze (former ChemSquare) was founded out of the Technical University of Darmstadt in September 2017. Today, we are based in Frankfurt am Main, the heart of Germany’s pharmaceutical cluster, where the leading life science companies are based. Our team consists of 16 people with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise in business,engineering, and technology as well as several strategic partners from the pharma, food and cosmetics industry.
  • Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Sunstone Life Science Ventures VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Sunstone Life Science Ventures is an independent European venture capital investment firm. We enable and empower life science therapeutics innovations.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Kynexis — Kynexis is leading the way in precision medicine, focusing on the treatment of cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia (CIAS). Explore our innovative approach and our dedication to improving the lives of millions globally.
  • Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Rewind Therapeutics — Rewind Therapeutics is a developer of novel therapeutics intended to facilitate the treatment for neurological diseases.The company's first-in-class remyelinating therapeutics block inhibitory signals that prevent the expansion and migration of oligodendrocyte stem cells in order to promote effective remyelination, enabling medicalpractitioners to treat patients suffering from multiple sclerosis and other myelin-related diseases with efficacy.
VINCI CAPITAL VC Fund · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Vinci Capital is a leading Swiss private equity firm with over MCHF 200 under management. Since 1998 they have provided equity to over 30 Swiss technology and industrial companies to finance innovation, growth and succession-buyouts.Their investment team capitalizes on 40 years of cumulated experience in private equity and a solid operationalbackground in growth, turn-around, consolidation, IPOs and M&A situations.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Anergis — Anergis, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, discovers and develops allergy vaccines based on the technology of Contiguous Overlapping Peptides for ultra-fast desensitization. It offers vaccines against birch pollen, ragweed pollen, and house dust mite allergies. Francois Spertini founded Anergis in 2001. Its headquarters in Lausanne inSwitzerland.
  • SENSIMED — Sensimed designs, develops, and commercializes integrated micro-systems for medical devices. The company’s product portfolio includes SENSIMED Triggerfish, a product that offers an automated recoding of continuous ocular dimensional change over 24 hours. Sensimed is now focused on expanding the knowledge of how this individual data can best beused in the clinical setting to deliver customized treatment. The 24 hour profiles are being centralized on a registry together with patient and treatment information. The data is being analyzed and modeled on an ongoing basis in an attempt to identifying pathological patterns that can be used to differentiate indication, personalize treatment and assess efficacy following treatment.Sensimed was founded by Matteo Leonardi and Sacha Cerboni in August 2003 and is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Beqom — beqom is a Total Compensation Management Software Solution focused exclusively on managing compensation & performance for HR & Sales.
BioMedPartners VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
BioMedPartners is one of the leading European venture capital firms providing private equity and mezzanine financing to early- and mid-stage healthcare and human life science companies. They target the entire industry with special focus on pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostics and medical technology.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Switzerland, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • TOLREMO therapeutics — TOLREMO therapeutics is striving to prevent the development of cancer therapy resistance through its proprietary drug discovery and development platform. Learn more about us.
  • Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and
Lichtsteiner Foundation VC Fund · Berne, Bern, Switzerland
Boosting health pioneers. We invest in early stage start-ups in different sectors: medtech, life science, biotech, mental health, public health, well-being.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Testmate Health — 2 in 1 urine test with immediate results for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Results within minutes & 100% anonymous.
  • Limula — Limula provides a unique platform technology enabling scale out of cell therapy production. By bringing manufacturing closer to the patients, our solution will broaden access to these highly personalised treatments. Our patented solution is composed of an automation unit and single use kits, allowing healthcare providers to safely manufacture CGTin a decentralized manner. We support companies at all stages of the cell therapy life cycle, from R&D to routine production.
  • SEITO Biologics — SEITO Biologics AG develops innovative IL-2 immunotherapies that preferentially activate T regulatory (Treg) cells, while sparing cytotoxic effector immune cells.
Kinled Holding VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Kinled was founded in 1980 to retain the investment assets of the Aisher family.In 1990, the investment focus shifted to a portfolio of early stage investments applying Kinled’s company development experience alongside the endurance and passion of family owned investments together with the strategic focus of venture capitalists.Since then,Kinled has taken 8 companies to public markets and many more to successful trade sales at significant multiples.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Xapien — Xapien delivers automated insight reports on companies and individuals in minutes, so you can make informed business decisions quickly and with confidence.
  • OneTrust — OneTrust is a provider of privacy management and marketing compliance technology that helps organizations comply with global regulations. It automates privacy impact assessments and data inventory mapping, enforces risk remediation actions, and triggers recurring audits for continuous compliance monitoring across customer, employee, and vendor datatransfers. Its web-based software can be accessed on any device and provides a single place for a private office to collaborate with business groups, vendors, and trusted advisors managing privacy risks. The result is the ability to demonstrate privacy by design and ongoing compliance with policies, data privacy laws (GDPR, BCR, Privacy Shield), and other privacy frameworks (HITECH, ISO, GAPP, APEC).The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Connect Earth — Connect Earth is an environmental data company that builds the infrastructure for climate-conscious products by aggregating and standardising environmental data and making it available through developer-first toolkits. The core product is an API solution that calculates the carbon impact of spend-based financial transactions of consumers and companies.
FAST — by GETTYLAB VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Backing engineers building awe, wonder, speed.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Modelwise — Automated functional safety analysis via drag & drop. Seamless Integration. Faster Analyses. Zero Defects. More Savings.
  • Fluent Metal — Fluent Metal is a company that makes metal 3D printing economical, efficient, and safe.
  • Integrated Reasoning — Integrated Reasoning builds computer hardware to efficiently solve optimization problems. We're making faster and cheaper to solve problems like scheduling airline pilots or packing boxes into trucks.
Fongit Seed Invest VC Fund · Plan-les-ouates, Geneve, Switzerland
Fongit Seed Invest (FSI) is the leading Seed Money Fund of Switzerland for young technology companies. It provides smart seed capital.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • EBAMed — EBAMed SA is a Swiss startup based in Geneva whose mission is to enable safe and effective non-invasive treatments of heart arrhythmias with protontherapy. The company is currently developing a medical device to enable non-invasive heart motion imaging and real-time synchronization of the therapeutic beam. This device consists in both hardware andsoftware components and expands treatment possibilities for existing protontherapy centres, enabling them for the first time to treat heart patients.
  • Gmelius — Gmelius is the world's first 360 email collaboration platform designed for Gmail and your company's daily apps. Join the async movement!
  • Annaida Technologies — Annaida Technologies has developed a groundbreaking device, EmbryoSpin, that performs microscopic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (“µNMR”) at a scale 10-fold better than existing technologies.
Versant Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States
Versant partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build and fund breakthrough biotechnology companies around the globe.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Switzerland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Standard BioTools — Standard BioTools delivers leading genomic and proteomic solutions. Discover CyTOF, Hyperion, and Biomark technologies for deep biological insights.
  • Rennovia — Rennovia, Inc. produces renewable chemicals. It offers adipic acids and adiponitrile for consumer-end products, including carpets, heat-resistant automotive parts, furniture, apparel, footwear, luggage, adhesives, and coatings. Rennovia was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Menlo Park, California.
  • Alexza Pharmaceuticals — Alexza Pharmaceuticals is an emerging specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel, proprietary products for the treatment of acute and intermittent conditions. It was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.
University of Zurich VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
The University of Zurich is one of the leading research universities in Europe and offers the widest range of degree programs in Switzerland.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Life Science, Biotechnology
  • Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • MUVON Therapeutics — Muvon Therapeutics platform helps women with urinary incontinence and treats diseases based on skeletal muscle degradation, supporting them in their commitment to living a healthy life. The company's mode of contact is by mail, phone, and physical address.
Skyviews Life Science VC Fund · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Skyviews Life Science is a privately held advisory company specialised in personalised health.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Medical
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • one.bio — BCD Bioscience is an emerging biotechnology spinout from UC Davis that creates ingredients for food and biopharmaceutical applications. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Davis, California, United States.
  • Volumina Medical — Volumina is active in the field of tissue engineering and develops injectable 3D scaffolds for the reconstruction of volumes of soft tissues (fat, muscles, glandular tissues, supporting and connective tissues) that have been lost after tumor ablation, disease, trauma, or for purely esthetically purposes.
  • Vedanta Biosciences — Vedanta Biosciences is a developer of immunotherapies designed to treat immune-mediated and infectious diseases. The company's immunotherapies include a suite of proprietary assays to select pharmacologically potent strains, vast proprietary datasets from human interventional studies, and facilities for cGMP-compliant manufacturing ofrationally-defined bacterial consortia in powder form, enabling physicians to access live bacteria drug to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases easily.It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Rhia Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Rhia Ventures invests in reproductive healthcare solutions that empower women.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Women's
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Eli — Hormone testing redesigned so you can monitor anytime, anywhere.
  • Contraline — Contraline is a medical device company that has developed a proprietary injectable hydrogel platform for use in reproductive and contraceptive applications. Contraline's first product, Adam, is implanted into the vas deferens through a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure and once implanted, the gel effectively blocks sperm. Adam isnon-hormonal, designed to last years, and easily reversible.
  • Twentyeight Health — Your birth control. Delivered to your door. Get a new or re-up existing prescriptions, free & fast deliveries and follow up messaging with doctors. $0 with insurance and starting at $16/pack without.
UZH Life Sciences Fund VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
The UZH Life Sciences Fund involves two equal partners: the UZH Foundation and the Novartis Venture Fund. It seeks donations from private individuals, foundations and companies for the strategic priorities of the University of Zurich.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Occlufit — Occlufit is an occluder device that conforms to complex geometries and provides immediate sealing of cardiovascular defects.
  • Navignostics — Navignostics combines highly multiplex tumor imaging with advanced data analytics for personalized cancer treatments.
  • 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.
LongeVC VC Fund · Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
With more than 30 portfolio companies across AI, pet health, ageing medicine and more, LongeVC provides venture capital for the biotech and longevity sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Estonia, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Melio — Melio has created a rapid, precise, and comprehensive blood test that identifies 99% of the most common pathogens in hours, rather than days.
  • Proton Intelligence — Continuous, real-time, and accurate biomarker monitoring to better manage chronic disease and save lives.
  • Catena Biosciences — Catena Biosciences uses a novel protein conjugation method to bring breakthroughs in biological therapeutics, autoimmune disorders and vaccine development
Esperante Ventures VC Fund · Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
A corporate venture investment company focussed on investing in mid to late stage clinical stage therapeutics development companies in North America and Europe
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Amlo Biosciences — From ground-breaking research to revolutionary prognostics and diagnostics AMLo Biosciences is translating ground-breaking research in cancer biomarkers int ...
  • Acousia Therapeutics — Acousia Therapeutics GmbH is a privately held biotech company based in Tübingen, Germany. Acousia has experience and expertise in identifying and developing small molecule drug candidates for the treatment of hearing loss.Sensory hair cells are the key cells for hearing in the inner ear. Acousia`s approach will help to replace lost hair cells bycellular regeneration originating from supporting cells.ASpherecousia is developing drugs for local application, which will restore hearing in patients who have lost their hearing ability induced by various reasons, e.g. noise trauma, treatment with ototoxic drugs or sudden deafness. In addition, these therapies will have the potential to treat the age-related decrease in hearing capacity.
  • Spiral Therapeutics — Spiral Therapeutics is a clinical stage pharmaceutical company delivering novel therapies for hearing loss. Through the use proprietary therapeutics and drug delivery technologies, Spiral is building a pipeline of advanced therapies in a field with large unmet needs and no approved therapies. Spiral’s lead candidate, LPT99, reached the clinic inDecember 2018. Spiral was launched in early 2016 and is headquartered in Brisbane, CA.
Technology Fund VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Climate protection through innovative technologies. The Technology Fund offers loan guarantees to Swiss companies whose novel products contribute to a sustainable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
  • Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • FGen — FGen is a Swiss start-up company founded 2011 in Basel as a spin-off from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of the ETH Zurich. As a contract reasearch organization we collaborate with partners from Biotech, Life Sciences, and Pharma in order to establish efficient bioprocesses and to develop new biopharmaceuticals.
  • Calopad — Calopad, awarded by the Swiss Confederation, offers a unique and the most holistic solution in pain therapy and muscle regeneration. The therapeutic deep heat of 42 degrees solves any muscle pain, muscle tension, or muscle spasms of chronic patients in the long term and in a highly efficient way through new forms of therapy. With the associatedapp, Calopad brings the physiotherapist digitally into any user's home and enables personalized all-around care in real time - utterly independent of time and place. In the future, the modular design will make it possible to combine different therapies such as heat, cold, or light with just one device, opening up the possibility of new therapeutic successes.
  • Selfrag — SELFRAG AG is specialized in the development of high voltage pulse power products, plants and systems for selective fragmentation of solid materials.
TiVentures VC Fund · Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
TiVenture is a seed investment fund owned by the Fondazione Centenario Banca Stato that invests in early stage companies with innovative technologies and high growth potential, principally in southern Switzerland. TiVenture is actively looking and ready to support exceptional founders and entrepreneurs developing scalable products for the globalmarket. TiVenture has a diversified portfolio of companies and is mainly active in the life science, medical, high-tech and IT sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Hoxell — Hoxell is an intuitive and easy-to-use integrated platform that digitizes and streamlines all hospitality operations.
  • Hive Power — Hive Power provides a SaaS platform to optimise your existing electrical distribution grid, both from the technical and economic points of view.
  • Gaia Turbine — Gaia Turbine SA - High-Performance Hydroelectric Turbine for micro and mini power plants
AXA Alternative Investments VC Fund · 3 investments in the past 12 months
AXA IM Alts' strategies are based on strong convictions, with the goal of providing long-term value to customers, communities, and the world. AXA IM Alts is part of AXA Investment Managers.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Biomass Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Funding Round
  • Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Mombak — Mombak is a carbon removal company that focuses on the reforestation of the Amazon. The company's team combines experts in science, technology, forestry, and carbon markets
  • ReproNovo — New Scientific Approaches in Reproductive Medicine. At ReproNovo, we are passionate about bringing the dream of parenthood to life.
  • Chloris Geospatial — Chloris Geospatial is able to provide answers today to critical natural capital issues. Chloris Geospatial provides innovative measurements of natural capital that use cutting-edge remote sensing, machine learning, and ecological science.
Mergus Ventures VC Fund · Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Investing in unconventional founders solving challenges with cutting-edge, future-forward technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Brazil, United States, Chile
Portfolio highlights
  • Spaceium — Spaceium develops a spacecraft docking system to support interplanetary missions. Its docking mechanism aims to offer solutions in the fields of In-space refueling with sustainable fueling stations can be an essential part of space exploration. The company's service hubs efficiently store and transfer cryogenic (extremely cold) andnon-cryogenic fuels with zero loss during storage and transfer.
  • Starcloud — Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space.
  • Starcloud — Lumen Orbit provides in-orbit cloud computing and data relay for satellites.
OrbiMed VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Leading Global Healthcare Platform with Deep Proprietary Resources and Global Industry Coverage.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • TandemAI — Streamline discovery with our integrated drug discovery platform, blending AI, physics-based tools, and wet lab for unparalleled innovation. Click now.
  • Epigenic Therapeutics — Epigenic Therapeutics is a biotech firm that offers gene editing therapy.
  • Pionyr Immunotherapeutics — Pionyr Immunotherapeutics is developing cancer immunotherapies that target the tumor microenvironment to enhance the body’s antitumor immunity. The company is exploiting novel target discovery and antibody generation platform technologies to create the next generation of immuno-oncology therapeutics. The company’s approach, Myeloid Tuning™, isdesigned to enhance the immune system’s anti-tumor response by altering the cellular infiltrate of the tumor microenvironment with high specificity.
Pivotal bioVenture Partners VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Pivotal Life Sciences specializes in providing capital to innovative companies developing therapeutic products to address major unmet medical needs.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Evommune — Evommune is taking a tissue-based approach to advance insights and accelerate the development of transformative medicines in inflammatory diseases.
  • Windward Bio — Windward Bio is a clinical-stage, drug development company committed to improving outcomes for people living with advanced immunological diseases.
  • Zenas BioPharma — Enabling patients with autoimmune diseases to reimagine life
RTW Investments VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
We invest in biotech and medtech innovation across the full lifecycle from company creation to venture capital, alternative financing, and public companies.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Post-IPO Equity, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Switzerland, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Belite Bio — Belite Bio focused on first-in-class therapeutics targeting untreatable inherited orphan diseases and age-related metabolic diseases, including atrophic age-related macular degeneration, stargardt disease, and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. They develop anti-RBP4 therapies to treat age-related metabolic diseases, including macular degeneration,liver disease, and diabetes. Their technology platform effectively reduces circulating levels of RBP4, a vitamin A transporter protein linked to the development of aging metabolic diseases, including dry age-related macular degeneration, liver disease, and diabetes.
  • Umoja Biopharma — Pioneering immunotherapy by reprogramming T cells in vivo to target cancer cells.
  • Allurion Technologies — Allurion Technologies is developing a medical device for weight loss that can be delivered and removed without surgery or endoscopy.
The Helm VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
The Helm is the place to discover, shop, and fund female-identifying entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Communities, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Sway — Sway offers regenerative design solutions for plastic pollution using seaweed to create compostable replacements for single-use plastics. The company was co-founded by Julia Marsh, Matt Mayes, and Leland Maschmeyer and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
  • Testmate Health — 2 in 1 urine test with immediate results for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Results within minutes & 100% anonymous.
  • itselectric — Itselectric partners with city property owners to unlock access to untapped electricity supply while they earn passive income.
Recipharm Venture Fund VC Fund
Recipharm Venture Fund is part of Recipharm AB.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Sweden, 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.
  • Cinclus Pharma — A Swedish pharma company bringing relief to the world with the clinical stage drug candidate linaprazan glurate for gastric acid related diseases.
Kickfund VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Kickfund is a Venture Capital fund that systematically backs companies that successfully complete Venture Kick.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
  • Tethys Robotics — Tethys Robotics develops AI-powered application oriented robotics system that enables professionals in carrying underwater search & recovery to inspection & surveillance.
  • ASTRA Therapeutics — Astra - Therapeutics
Kurma Partners VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Kurma Partners is a management company based in Paris, specializing in the financing of innovation in healthcare and biotechnology, from pre-creation to development capital. Kurma Partners, which manages the Kurma Biofund I, II funds and the Kurma Diagnostics fund, is one of the main players in the financing of therapeutic and medical innovationsin Europe, particularly through links with many institutes. research and prestigious hospitals.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • France, Switzerland, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Poppins — Mila merges music, technology, and neuroscience to reshape therapy into a musical experience. We create musical games for children based on neurologic music therapy methods. These games are designed to address learning dissabilities like dyslexia, providing a digital treatment at home and helping identify these conditions. Behind these games, weleverage data science and new technologies to interpret learning, language, and motor performance into a cognitive score. Our goal is to improve the process for patients receiving treatment and to reaching the vast undiagnosed majority.
  • Memo Therapeutics — Memo Therapeutics AG (MEMO) is an innovator in the field of antibody discovery and immune repertoire analysis.Its MemoMAB™ platform creates a recombinant in vitro copy of an individual’s B cell / antibody repertoire, which is then banked as a library. The resulting unique, large and relevant antibody libraries represent the individual’simmune repertoire and are expected to contain an unprecedented number of relevant and rare antibodies. This leads to entirely new possibilities in immune repertoire analysis and antibody discovery.MemoMAB™ is deployed in proprietary antibody lead discovery programs and is made available in collaborations.
  • Vico Therapeutics — Vico Therapeutics is a developer of ribonucleic acid (RNA) modulating therapies for rare neurological disorders. The company discovers, develops, and delivers therapies for CNS disorders. Its initial focus is on SCA which is a subgroup of hereditary ataxia, HD which is a neurodegenerative disorder, and RTT-a neurodevelopmental disorder primarilyaffecting girls that enable clients with providing therapy for it.Vico Therapeutics was founded in 2019 by Luc Dochez, Josh Mandel-Brehm, Judith van Deutekom, and Gail Mandel and it is headquartered in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Heritage Capital VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
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Investment focus
  • Biopharma, Life Science
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Lagosta — WHAT WE DO. At LAGOSTA, we take great care in sustainably farming the European spiny lobster, converting byproducts in unique highly valuable products and setting up a series of ecological programs. Accelerated depletion of wild stocks due to overfishing and
JFG Life Sciences Foundation VC Fund
JFG Life Sciences Foundation is a non-profit foundation.
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Investment focus
  • Biopharma, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Invasight — Invasight is a clinical biotech company that focused on revolutionizing cell invasion research. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
  • NXI Therapeutics — NXI Therapeutics - Creating Tomorrow's Immunotherapies | The beginning of a new era of specificity and safety in the immunosuppressive therapy market
Amboy Street Ventures VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States
Amboy Street Ventures focuses on sexual health and women’s health technology startups. Amboy Street Ventures was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Los Angeles, USA.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Wellness, Women's
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Juniper Genomics — Juniper Genomics is shaping a better future for aspiring parents by enabling a faster, more successful IVF journey.
  • Nest Health — Nest Health is a primary care company that offers whole person, whole family care for families from birth through age five in urban areas. Nest offers primary and pediatric care for families, made affordable and convenient.
  • Allswell — Allswell is a queer-founded mental health platform dedicated to making affirming, accessible care available to the LGBTQ+ community, covered by Medicaid & major insurance.
Simon Fiduciaria VC Fund · Turin, Piemonte, Italy · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Simon Fiduciaria nasce nel 1986 per prestare servizi fiduciari a importanti gruppi familiari, imprenditori e professionisti, a livello nazionale ed estero.
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Investment focus
  • Therapeutics, Simulation, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series B
  • Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MgShell — MgShell offers intraocular devices for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration and other ocular diseases. Their technology is the only technical solution capable of replicating current clinical practice with a single injection and releasing the same therapeutic drug doses at predetermined periods, autonomously and without surgicalprocedures.
  • Soource — Soource is a B2B Saas product that uses AI applications to help purchasing managers to discover the best market solutions through extensive global research and automated email negotiations with thousands of suppliers worldwide.
  • Annaida Technologies — Annaida Technologies has developed a groundbreaking device, EmbryoSpin, that performs microscopic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (“µNMR”) at a scale 10-fold better than existing technologies.
Ysios Capital VC Fund · San Sebastian, Pais Vasco, Spain
Leading #lifesciences #venturecapital firm financing highly #innovative #biotechnology companies #worlwide.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Spain, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • ReproNovo — New Scientific Approaches in Reproductive Medicine. At ReproNovo, we are passionate about bringing the dream of parenthood to life.
  • Splice Bio — Splice Bio is a gene therapy company based on technology developed in the Muir Lab at Princeton University. The company is developing novel gene therapies based on its proprietary intein platform technology to treat patients that suffer from incurable genetic diseases. The company’s platform has the potential to address two existing limitations ofadeno-associated viruses (AAVs), both by increasing the size of the cargo gene that can be delivered and by expanding the range of tissues that can be targeted.
  • Synendos Therapeutics — Synendos Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that aims to develop breakthrough safe and effective therapies for unmet needs in neuropsychiatric disorders through modulation of a new drug target in the endocannabinoid system that enables restoration of natural functioning of the brain.
VI Partners VC Fund · Altendorf, Schwyz, Switzerland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
VI Partners are Venture Capitalists successfully financing outstanding teams and innovations in the Healthcare and Technology space since 20 years.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Switzerland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Xeltis — Xeltis is pioneering a restorative approach in cardiovascular therapy.
  • LeaseTeq — LeaseTeq bietet Privat- sowie Unternehmenskunden das erste komplett digitale Leasingangebot.
  • Unique — Try Unique Finance GPT to increase productivity by automating manual workload through AI and ChatGPT solutions.
Primal Capital VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Primal Capital, an independent venture capital " incubator bait fund at ", served as the Associate than July 2012 Hiroshi was Sasaki is the venture capital fund that serves as the representative partner. Representative of Sasaki, the seed acceleration program "Incubate Camp" operated by Incubate bait fund is carried out a totalof four times of planning and management than in 2012, They have also engaged in support operations of portfolio companies. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primal-capital#sthash.m2z1DCbt.dpuf
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, Spain, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Hivello — Hivello is a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network aggregator. Contribute resources, connect with Web3 protocols, and effortlessly generate passive income.
  • RemitAid — RemitAid is a fintech company that operates an overseas payment platform for cross-border transactions between companies.
  • xCARE — xCARE specializes in the development and commercialization phases of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
Beat Schillig Angel
Beat Schillig - Founder @ Venture Kick
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, SaaS, Music
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • TYXIT — TYXIT is linking musicians wirelessly without configuration, allowing a personal audio monitoring.
  • PXL Vision — PXL Vision enables state-of-the-art digital identity verification. PXL Vision's highly flexible technology solution helps global customers build trust digitally...
  • 1Drop Diagnostics — 1Drop Diagnostics is a cutting edge medical diagnostics and life science company. They combine the best techniques from microfluidics, biochemistry, photonics and information technology to build high performance point-of-care diagnostics devices.Their vision is to provide high quality medical information for everyone. They aim to increase accessto quality healthcare by providing laboratory quality, easy to use, medical diagnostics in any setting. The 1Drop Diagnostics system is being developed for a broad menu of clinical applications including multiplexed assays of proteins, nucleic acids and peptides. Their first clinical applications are in the screening, diagnostics and monitoring of cardiovascular disease and infectious disease.Their mission is to improve patient lives by enabling precision medicine through non-invasive diagnostic tests providing actionable health information that is accessible to everyone at any time. They facilitate the early detection, prevention and management of disease. They empower people to live better lives.
NEST pension fund VC Fund
For more than 35 years, Nest, as the first ecological and ethical pension fund in Switzerland, has remained true to its guiding principle: the optimal provision for the companies affiliated with us and their employees.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Piomic — There are about 50 million reported cases of patients suffering from hard-to-heal wounds, which has created a severe cost burden on global healthcare systems.The COMS® One Therapy System is a portable, hand-held device which incorporates the technologies for optical and magnetic stimulation, intended to promote wound healing in chronic leg andfoot ulcers.The pivotal clinical study showed that the treatment is safe, leads to accelerated wound closure, overall reduced pain and increased quality of life. The easy-to-use, single button operated device integrates smoothly into the patient’s healing journey with usage in stationary and ambulant facilities but also in patient’s home.By developing a therapy which is safe and effective we hope to set a better future for patients in need.
  • Comphya — CaverSTIM is a novel implantable device able to restore natural penile erection by neuromodulation.
  • Nagi Bioscience — Enabling small organisms testing to any lab. Unleash unique datapoints efficiently at a high-throughput rate.
Bruker VC Fund · Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Bruker Corporation is a provider of high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial and applied analysis.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • KIYATEC — Kiyatec is a functional precision oncology company that measures the response of individual patient live cancer cells with its innovative 3D cell culture technology platform. Kiyatec works with leading biopharmaceutical companies to unlock response dynamics for investigational drug candidates for use in solid tumors.
  • Terrain Bio — Terrain Bio helps RNA therapeutics companies design and build better RNA, faster. Leveraging the latest innovations in protein and RNA design and the deep expertise of its scientific cofounders, Terrain brings unparalleled speed and quality to RNA manufacturing.
  • Mercy BioAnalytics — We are making early stage cancer 100,000x easier to find using extracellular vesicles found in blood, specific to their parent cells.
Medicxi VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Medicxi is an investment firm that focuses on the life sciences sector. It was established in 2016 by the former Index Ventures life sciences team, who have been active for over 20 years and have significant experience in drug discovery and the development of therapeutics for unmet medical needs.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Curevo — focused on a new generation of adjuvanted subunit vaccines Learn More Our Focus We're dedicated to developing non-mRNA vaccines for unmet medical needs Curevo Vaccine is a clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to developing next-generation non-mRNA vaccines. We focus on one need at a time, allowing us to bring effective and better-tolerated vaccines to market quickly
  • D3 Bio — D3 Bio is a globally focused biotechnology company focusing on developing and registration of innovative medicines in oncology and immunology. At D3 Bio, our new medicine development approach is fundamentally differentiated. We do not just only start with science in the lab. First, we pinpoint the greatest unmet patient and market needs – whereexisting standard-of-care approaches yield unsatisfactory clinical outcomes. Then we take those insights into the lab to guide the identification of fit for purpose science and technology and define our drug development path.
  • Palladio Biosciences — Palladio Bio is a clinical-stage company developing transformative medicines for orphan diseases of the kidney. The company specializes in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceutical. and therapeutics. Its products are designed for renal disease, kidney disease, and polycystic kidney disease.The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered inHorsham, Pennsylvania.
MedHoldings VC Fund · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
MedHoldings operates as a venture capital and private equity firm. MedHoldings focuses primarily on development and late-stage medtech ventures in Switzerland, Europe, and emerging markets. The company conducts its business in Switzerland.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Health Care, Life Science
  • Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
Primal Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Primal is a global venture capital fund manager that specialises in early-stage and growth investments into Web3 and emerging technology companies.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Transak — Transak offers a simple integration to allow your users to buy more than 100+ cryptocurrencies with credit/debit cards, or bank transfers in more than 120+ countries.
  • Agents World — Agents World operates as an web3 AI firm.
  • Ooga Booga — Multichain Liquidity Aggregator
SICTIC VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC) connects smart money investors to Swiss seed and early-stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Pelt8 — Pelt8 enables climate action through the platform with scalable processes and controls to collect sustainability-related data in an easy and traceable way.
  • Creaitor — Creaitor is the ultimate solution for content producers, offering a comprehensive suite of AI tools and integrated SEO features. Streamline your content creation process and optimize your online presence with our powerful platform.
  • 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.
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