# Top 50 Life Science Startup Investors in Switzerland in June 2026

## Zürcher Kantonal Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology

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.

## Eclosion SA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care

Eclosion assists entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to bridge the gap between their laboratories and the stage where the start-up

## Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology

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.

## Verve Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

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.

## EQT Life Sciences
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Providing capital plus strategic, clinical, operational, financial, and commercial support to deliver the added value inventors seek.

## M Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Merck Ventures is the strategic, corporate venture capital arm of Merck. Its mandate is to invest in innovative technologies and products with the potential to significantly impact Merck‘s core business areas. From its headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in the US and Israel we invest globally in transformational ideas driven by greatentrepreneurs. Merck Ventures takes an active role in its portfolio companies and teams up with entrepreneurs and co-investors to translate innovation towards commercial success. Merck Ventures has a significant focus on early-stage investing and company creation including the creation of spin-offs to leverage Merck‘s science and technology base.

## FAST — by GETTYLAB
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Backing engineers building awe, wonder, speed.

## ACE Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, CRM, Energy

ACE Ventures is a Swiss-based, early-stage VC firm partnering with the next generation of Swiss tech founders who are building transformative businesses, both in Switzerland and abroad.

## Sunstone Life Science Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Sunstone Life Science Ventures is an independent European venture capital investment firm. We enable and empower life science therapeutics innovations.

## Lichtsteiner Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berne, Bern, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Boosting health pioneers. We invest in early stage start-ups in different sectors: medtech, life science, biotech, mental health, public health, well-being.

## Pfizer Venture Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Pfizer Venture Investments is a corporate venture capital firm that invests in areas of current or future strategic interest to Pfizer. It aims to remain at the forefront of life science advances. It identifies and invests in emerging companies that are developing transformative medicines and technologies that have the potential to enhance Pfizer’spipeline and shape the future of its industry.

## Novartis Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Learn about the approach the Novartis Venture Fund takes to investing in innovative life science companies developing biotechnology and biopharmaceutical therapeutics that address unmet patient needs.

## BlueOcean Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Plan-les-ouates, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Personal Health

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.

## BioMedPartners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

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.

## VINCI CAPITAL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

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.

## Kinled Holding
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

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.

## HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

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.

## Fongit Seed Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Plan-les-ouates, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology

Fongit Seed Invest (FSI) is the leading Seed Money Fund of Switzerland for young technology companies. It provides smart seed capital.

## Rheingau Founders
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Omega Funds
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

We aim to invest in exceptional founders and entrepreneurs and impactful products and platforms across multiple therapeutic areas.

## Versant Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Versant partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build and fund breakthrough biotechnology companies around the globe.

## SOSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

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.

## EFI Lake Geneva Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Medical

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.

## Founderful
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Founderful operates as a venture capital firm and a Switzerland’s leading pre-seed fund.

## Mergus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence

Investing in unconventional founders solving challenges with cutting-edge, future-forward technologies.

## OrbiMed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Leading Global Healthcare Platform with Deep Proprietary Resources and Global Industry Coverage.

## Pivotal bioVenture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care

Pivotal Life Sciences specializes in providing capital to innovative companies developing therapeutic products to address major unmet medical needs.

## RTW Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Post-IPO Equity, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

We invest in biotech and medtech innovation across the full lifecycle from company creation to venture capital, alternative financing, and public companies.

## The Helm
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Communities, E-Commerce

The Helm is the place to discover, shop, and fund female-identifying entrepreneurs.

## Recipharm Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care

Recipharm Venture Fund is part of Recipharm AB.

## Kickfund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing

Kickfund is a Venture Capital fund that systematically backs companies that successfully complete Venture Kick.

## JFG Life Sciences Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biopharma, Health Care, Biotechnology

JFG Life Sciences Foundation is a non-profit foundation.

## Amboy Street Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Women's

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.

## Simon Fiduciaria
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Therapeutics, Simulation, Biotechnology

Simon Fiduciaria nasce nel 1986 per prestare servizi fiduciari a importanti gruppi familiari, imprenditori e professionisti, a livello nazionale ed estero.

## Ysios Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Sebastian, Pais Vasco, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Leading #lifesciences #venturecapital firm financing highly #innovative #biotechnology companies #worlwide.

## Primal Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

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

## Bruker
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care

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.

## Medicxi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical

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.

## SICTIC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

SICTIC is the leading angel investor network in Switzerland with the largest Swiss seed-stage startup dealflow.

## Horizon 2020
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

The EU framework programme for research and innovation

## NEXT VENTŪRES
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Medical

NEXT VENTŪRES is a venture capital firm that invests in the sports, fitness, health, and wellness markets. With established expertise and deep connections in these markets as well as proven financial track records, the NEXT VENTŪRES team is well positioned to create significant value for their investors and their portfolio companies.The firm wasestablished in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, CA

## Novo Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Novo Holdings is a holding company specializing in life science investors with a focus on creating long-term value.

## Qiming Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners is a leading China venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong in China, and Singapore.Currently, Qiming Venture Partners manages eleven US Dollar funds and seven RMB funds with $9.5 billion in capital raised. Since our establishment, we have invested in outstanding companiesin the Technology and Consumer (T&C) and Healthcare industries at the early and growth stages.Since our debut, we have backed over 530 fast-growing and innovative companies. Over 200 of our portfolio companies have achieved exits through IPOs at the NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEX, Shanghai Stock Exchange, or Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or through M&A or other means. There are also over 70 portfolio companies that have achieved unicorn or super unicorn status.

## Nicolas Mermod
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Life Science

Nicolas Mermod

## NEST pension fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

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.

## Lukas Speiser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Nutrition, Health Care

Lukas Speiser is the founder and CEO of Amorana.ch

## Tobias Reichmuth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Internet

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

## Renaissance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Seed
- Focus: Medical, Software, Health Care

Renaissance is an investment foundation for pension funds investing in Swiss SMEs. It acts as a partner of the SMEs, participating in companies within the framework of succession planning or company outsourcing and thus promotes the Swiss SME landscape by maintaining and creating jobs.The firm was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Lausanne,Vaud.

## HBM Healthcare Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series D
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

As a venture capital company, HBM BioVentures is invested globally in some 40 mature emerging companies in the biotechnology/human medicine, diagnostics and medical technology sectors. The primary products of HBM BioVentures' portfolio companies are either at an advanced stage of development or already available on the market. The companyfocuses on unquoted emerging companies, with two-thirds are invested in private companies that offer high value creation potential. This has enabled HBM BioVentures to carve out a unique and distinctive market position. HBM BioVentures has a broad shareholder base and is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ticker: HBMN).

## Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ingelheim Am Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Discover Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund. We invest in groundbreaking science to transform care. Explore our mission and join us in advancing medicine

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