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Top 50 Life Science VC Funds & Investors in Switzerland (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Switzerland Life Science startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Switzerland Life Science startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Zürcher Kantonal Bank
VC Fund
6 Switzerland, Germany, Japan Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology $1.2M–$14M
Eclosion SA
VC Fund
4 Switzerland Seed, Series C Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care $1.6M–$28M
Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT)
VC Fund
4 Switzerland, France Debt Financing, Grant, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $23k–$1.2M
M Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $2.4M–$100M
VINCI CAPITAL
VC Fund
2 Switzerland, Germany Series A, Series B Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology $8.6M–$36M
Sunstone Life Science Ventures
VC Fund
2 Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $5.5M–$52M
Kinled Holding
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $648k–$31M
SOSV
VC Fund
2 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Rheingau Founders
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $110k–$14M
FAST — by GETTYLAB
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, France Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $125k–$7.6M
Fongit Seed Invest
VC Fund
2 Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology $1.2M–$3.7M
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $909k–$33M
BlueOcean Ventures
VC Fund
2 Switzerland, India, France Seed, Series A Health Care, Medical, Personal Health $1M–$20M
Omega Funds
VC Fund
2 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $14M–$208M
Verve Ventures
VC Fund
2 Switzerland, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $1.2M–$45M
Novartis Venture Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $4.7M–$105M
EFI Lake Geneva Ventures
VC Fund
2 Switzerland, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Health Care, Medical, Life Science $2.7M–$4M
EQT Life Sciences
VC Fund
2 United States, The Netherlands, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $6.9M–$140M
BioMedPartners
VC Fund
2 Switzerland, Germany, France Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $4.9M–$83M
Lichtsteiner Foundation
VC Fund
2 Switzerland Seed, Series A Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology $3.4M–$7.2M
Versant Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Switzerland, Canada Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $4.7M–$108M
Idinvest Partners
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Spain Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $3.3M–$66M
Esperante Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $2.8M–$20M
Renaissance
VC Fund
1 Switzerland Series B, Series C, Seed Medical, Software, Health Care $5.8M–$36M
Polytech Ventures
VC Fund
1 Switzerland, United States, Spain Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1M–$9.7M
Horizon 2020
VC Fund
1 Spain, Switzerland, Israel Grant, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $60k–$5.1M
Founderful
VC Fund
1 Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$17M
Privilège Ventures
VC Fund
1 Switzerland, France Seed, Series A Health Care, Hardware, Software $1.2M–$7M
NEST pension fund
VC Fund
1 Switzerland Seed, Series A Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $2.1M–$3.5M
VI Partners
VC Fund
1 Switzerland, Germany, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $1.3M–$41M
Pfizer
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, France Series A, Post-IPO Equity, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical $800k–$412M
Novo Holdings
VC Fund
1 United States, Denmark, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Pivotal bioVenture Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, China, Canada Series B, Series C, Series A Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
NEXT VENTŪRES
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Wellness, Medical
Quan Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, China, Hong Kong Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Qiming Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 China, United States, Hong Kong Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
RTW Investments
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland, China Post-IPO Equity, Series B, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
UZH Life Sciences Fund
VC Fund
1 Switzerland Seed, Convertible Note Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Bruker
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland Series A, Seed Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
The Helm
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A Health Care, Communities, E-Commerce
Recipharm Venture Fund
VC Fund
1 Sweden, Switzerland Series A Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
RH Capital
VC Fund
1 United States Health Care, Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics
JFG Life Sciences Foundation
VC Fund
1 Switzerland Seed Biopharma, Health Care, Biotechnology
S2S Ventures
VC Fund
1 Switzerland, Germany Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Health Care, Medical Device $29k–$2.9M
Medicxi
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Indaco Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 Italy, Switzerland, United States Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
OrbiMed
VC Fund
1 United States, China, Israel Series B, Series A, Series C Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Mergus Ventures
VC Fund
1 Brazil, United States, Chile Seed, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence
AXA Alternative Investments
VC Fund
1 Kenya Agriculture, Biomass Energy, Renewable Energy
Amboy Street Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Sweden Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Wellness, Women's
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Zürcher Kantonal Bank
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 6 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.8M; Series A $2.3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Pearltec AG — Headquartered in Schlieren / Zurich, Pearltec AG develops, produces and delivers solutions for the optimal storage, fixation and positioning of patients. Their products are based on unique, patented technology developed in collaboration with ETH Zurich and renowned university hospitals.They have set theirselves the goal to use the technologycompetence of Pearltec AG for the benefit of humans, animals and industry and to create added value for their customers by excellent quality and convincing application advantages.Pearltec AG is certified according to ISO standard 13485. This certification certifies that their quality management system for the development and manufacture of medical devices meets the highest international standards.
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Eclosion SA
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 4 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2.7M; Series C $20M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

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
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Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT)
VC Fund · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · 4 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Round size: Seed $117k–$1.2M; Grant $23k–$117k; Debt Financing $63k–$583k
  • Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Phonemia — Phonemia is a digital health company that offers artificial intelligence and speech therapy services.
  • MoleSense — Developing continuous molecular monitoring wearables to enable proactive healthcare.
  • DiverSsiTy SA — DiverSsiTy SA develops personalized, patient-centric digital health technologies (DHTs) to improve the lives of patients suffering from neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), among which are those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related comorbidities like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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M Ventures
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 3 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$21M; Series A $5.2M–$45M; Series B $15M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CellFE — We transform the way cell therapies are manufactured to enable affordable advanced treatments for all.
  • UNISERS — Developing solutions for Universal Contamination Analysis. Working with cutting edge technologies to revolutionize contamination control.
  • Polaris Electro-Optics — Polaris Electro-Optics empowers integrated photonics for communications and computation.
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VINCI CAPITAL
VC Fund · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Series A $8.6M–$20M; Series B $21M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2012

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.
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Sunstone Life Science Ventures
VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Series A $5.5M–$43M; Series B $9.6M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • TargED Biopharmaceuticals — TargED Biopharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that develops first-in-class biological drugs to improve treatment of thrombosis.TargED stands for Targeted Enzyme Delivery. Their biological drugs are unique by using small antibodies (“VhH”) to deliver enzymes to sites of thrombosis, enabling ‘targeted’ thrombolysis.
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Kinled Holding
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Seed $648k–$11M; Series A $2M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Esper — Esper is the first cloud-based platform to help governments proactively manage public policy with better data and transparency.
  • Xapien — Xapien delivers automated insight reports on companies and individuals in minutes, so you can make informed business decisions quickly and with confidence.
  • 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.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups, 75 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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Rheingau Founders
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $770k–$2.9M; Series A $2.4M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

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
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FAST — by GETTYLAB
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

Backing engineers building awe, wonder, speed.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Fongit Seed Invest
VC Fund · Plan-les-ouates, Geneve, Switzerland · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.4M; Series A $2.3M–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

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 — Empowering fertility providers and researchers with AI-driven metabolomic platforms. Non-invasive, real-time insights at the microscale for personalized medical treatments.
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 542
  • Round size: Seed $909k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Sdui — Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market.
  • envelio — We are driving forward the energy transition with our smart grid solutions for grid operators. Get information now and plan smart!
  • Atriva Therapeutics — Therapies against viral infections. First-in-class host-targeting therapies to treat respiratory viral infections, including COVID-19 and influenza.
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BlueOcean Ventures
VC Fund · Plan-les-ouates, Geneve, Switzerland · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Personal Health
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Switzerland, India, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Augurix — Just another WordPress site
  • Mikajaki — Mikajaki is an innovative automated multi-patient ocular diagnostics platform. The platform enables the use of digital technology, robots, AI, and data, allowing patients and eye specialists access to the specific treatment they require. Mikajaki is currently collaborating with ophthalmology clinic groups across the world to test and implementEyeLib.
  • official.fm — At Official.fm, they develop powerful music promotion tools for you, whether you're an emerging artist or an accomplished label.They make it easy to manage a few tracks or a large catalog, create pages and players that look like you and share them across your favorite promotion platforms and social networks, all the while collectinginsightful analytics. Improving your workflow is their top priority.Promoting your music with official.fm will always be free. Music promotion is an investment for you and it is one for us too. Now you also have the ability to sell directly music to your fans. Soon they will offer more ways for your to generate revenue from your music.
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Omega Funds
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Series A $16M–$187M; Series B $35M–$162M; Series C $14M–$208M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Andrew Alliance — OneLab is laboratory software to design and execute liquid handling protocols. Pipette+ for manual liquid handling pipetting and Andrew+ the pipetting robot
  • Aerium Therapeutics — Aerium is building a company dedicated to the discovery & development of antibodies and small molecule antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 and other epidemic & pandemic threats.
  • 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.
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Verve Ventures
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Switzerland, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 245
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $2.3M–$15M; Series B $4.2M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Kiutra — We provide cryogen-free cooling systems that simplify low-temperature research. Our solutions offer fast cooldowns, automated control and millikelvin performance ideal for quantum technologies and material science.
  • 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.
  • Axelera AI — Axelera AI is developing a game-changing hardware and software platform for AI.Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AIhas R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies.
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Novartis Venture Fund
VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 209
  • Round size: Series A $4.7M–$81M; Series B $11M–$105M; Series C $9M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $200M in 2009

Portfolio highlights

  • Rhygaze — Rhygaze develops a novel gene therapy that targets cone cells to restore vision in patients suffering from diseases causing blindness.
  • Mediar Therapeutics — Mediar Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company developing antibody-based therapeutics to halt fibrosis in a variety of organ systems, including lung, liver, kidney, and skin.
  • Amphista Therapeutics — We are purposefully designing the next generation of targeted protein degraders to transform the lives of patients with intractable diseases.
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EFI Lake Geneva Ventures
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Life Science
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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 — Empowering fertility providers and researchers with AI-driven metabolomic platforms. Non-invasive, real-time insights at the microscale for personalized medical treatments.
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EQT Life Sciences
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, The Netherlands, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 168
  • Round size: Series A $6.9M–$77M; Series B $8.6M–$103M; Series C $12M–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $266M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Neuravi — Neuravi is an early stage company in the large emerging neurointerventional device market. Led by a team experienced in endovascular device development and global commercialization, the company's initial technology platform addresses acute ischemic stroke. In collaboration with international researchers and clinicians, the company seeks todevelop new understanding that will drive innovative solutions to treat this challenging and devastating disease. Neuravi was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Galway, Ireland, home to many of the world’s leading medical device companies.
  • Asceneuron — Asceneuron develops effective therapeutics for orphan tauopathies and Alzheimer’s disease. By focusing on areas of high unmet medical need, Asceneuron aspires to become a leading biotech company specialized in small molecule drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases.Tauopathies are currently untreatable neurodegenerative diseases thatrapidly progress towards debilitating conditions. The appearance of deposits of the microtubule-associated tau protein as e.g. neurofibrillary tangles in neurons of the brain is a common feature of tauopathies that is shared with Alzheimer’s disease. Neuronal tau deposits are known to be a major contributor to neurodegeneration and mutations in the tau gene are causative of the tauopathy fronto-temporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17).Due to increasing life expectancy, Alzheimer’s disease is viewed as one of the largest healthcare problems of this century, imposing a major economic burden on societies in the Western and developing world. Current treatment options provide limited benefits supporting the urgent need for more efficacious and better tolerated medicines that address symptomatic relief as well as disease progression.
  • Mosanna Therapeutics — Mosanna is a Biotech company based in Basel with a commitment to improving patient outcomes and quality of life in high unmet need diseases, applying a precision medicine approach.
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BioMedPartners
VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Series A $5.3M–$26M; Series B $4.9M–$83M; Series C $5.8M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $113M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Vaximm — Vaximm is focused on developing active immunotherapies (vaccines) for patients suffering from cancer. Their initial product candidate VXM01 is targeting the tumor vasculature, which is essential for tumors to grow beyond microscopic size. Vaximm has shown impressive anti-tumor activity in various animal studies and will enter first human clinicaltrials in 2011.
  • iDEL Therapeutics — iDEL Therapeutics is advancing a new class of cancer medicines by delivering therapeutic payloads directly into the cytosol of tumor cells through a unique, pan-cancer uptake mechanism.
  • Affimed — At Affimed, they are committed to improving outcomes for patients with cancer. Their scientific team has been devoted to unlocking the power of the innate immune system for nearly two decades to provide a unqiue approach to fighting cancer. With their unparalleled expertise in innate immunity and innate cell engager-based medicines, they aim toovercome the limitations and challenges faced by current immuno-oncology (I-O) therapies.
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Lichtsteiner Foundation
VC Fund · Berne, Bern, Switzerland · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $3.4M–$7.2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

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.
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Versant Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 278
  • Round size: Series A $4.7M–$80M; Series B $10M–$105M; Series C $12M–$108M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Achaogen — Achaogen is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of broad-spectrum antibiotics to treat multi-drug resistant bacterial infections. The company's most advanced drug candidate, ACHN-490, has demonstrated a positive safety and dosing profile in Phase 1 clinical testing and displayed broad spectrumefficacy in preclinical studies against systemic infections caused by multi-drug resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacteria (e.g., E. coli, K. pneumoniae, and P. aeruginosa) and MRSA. In addition, the company is pursuing preclinical programs in several other areas of interest to combat the global emergence of bacterial resistance.
  • Passage Bio — Passage Bio, a genetic medicines company, is changing the future of CNS disorders and transforming the lives of patients and their families.
  • Dayra Therapeutics
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Idinvest Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

Idinvest Partners is a pan-European private equity manager focused on the low and middle-market segments. With over 6 billion euros under management, the company has developed several complementary areas of expertise, including equity investments in buyout deals focusing on both mid-size as well as young innovative European companies; primaryinvestments in European private equity funds focusing primarily on the middle market segment; secondary investments; mezzanine investments in Europe; and private equity consulting.Idinvest Partners’ recent success stories include Criteo, Clear2Pay, Meetic, Prosensa, Converteam, Kwik Fit, Lastminute.com, Dailymotion, Deezer, Talend, Synthesio, Menlook, Vestiaire Collective, Pretty Simple, Curse.com, Withings, Kantox, Secret Escapes, Happn, Peakon, Dayuse, Botify, Financefox, Azalead and many more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 252
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$24M; Series B $7.8M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $88M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Ornikar — Ornikar is an online driving school that offers radically cheaper, uncomplicated and faster offer to obtain a driving license.Ornikar relies on a network of state-qualified teachers to offer an apprenticeship in mobile driving at reduced prices. The cmpany is an an online driving school more in tune with the demand of current and futuregenerations.The company's mission is to make the driver's license exam cheaper and its learning more enjoyable.
  • Glovo — Glovo delivers the best products of your city in less than 1 hour
  • Stanley Robotics — Stanley Robotics is a DeepTech business helping the transportation and logistics industries digitalise and robotise outdoor operations.
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Esperante Ventures
VC Fund · Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$20M; Series B $2.8M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

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.
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Renaissance
VC Fund · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series B $17M–$36M; Series C $5.8M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

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.
  • GlassIG — It is an independent software vendor. Our aim is to provide market leading and cost effective Information Governance for everyone. At They are proud of our mission to serve and inspire our customers to establish and operate an effective Information Governance solution.
  • Beqom — beqom is a Total Compensation Management Software Solution focused exclusively on managing compensation & performance for HR & Sales.
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Polytech Ventures
VC Fund · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

Polytech Ventures are an early stage VC firm based in Switzerland with a strong international focus. Their strategic location at EPFL in Lausanne grants us access to one of the most dynamic and recognized innovation centers in the world

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Switzerland, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $2.3M–$9.7M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $40M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
  • Relai — All you need to get started is to download our award winning Relai app, complete a simple verification and start buying with as little as 50 CHF/EUR.
  • Earny — Payroll management built for Startups & SMEs. Swiss payroll service with no hidden fees & no hassle
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Horizon 2020
VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

The EU framework programme for research and innovation

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: Spain, Switzerland, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $71k–$5.1M; Grant $60k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NovaMea — NovaMea is a cleantech startup that designs and commercializes electrochemical systems for energy storage and conversion.Its purpose is to create technology, services, and products for the storage and conversion of energy using electrochemical processes, as well as to produce, store, sell, and distribute these products and their components.
  • Perciv AI — Perciv provides artificial intelligence (AI)-based software solutions to unlock the latent possibilities of radars and allow resilient and economical autonomous systems with Lidar-like performance even in severe weather circumstances.
  • Neuron Soundware — Neuron Soundware uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in combination with the analysis of sound and other physical parameters.
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Founderful
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.3M; Series A $3.4M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
  • EthonAI — Ethon is the #1 Industrial AI platform, built to turn production data into business value. It empowers engineers and operators with agentic workflows to understand, improve, and control their production processes.
  • Flink — Drop-in robots for logistics operations. Handle any object, anywhere, autonomously. Enabled by our physical intelligence layer.
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Privilège Ventures
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

Where Entrepreneurs Thrive Rooted in reality, reaching for the extraordinary over five decades of combined investment experience Where Entrepreneurs Thrive Rooted in reality, reaching for the extraordinary Authentic, dedicated, disciplined, and goal-oriented, our team drives meaningful and lasting success About Team

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Hardware, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Switzerland, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.3M; Series A $4.1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wyth — Wyth creates private digital spaces for virtual and hybrid audiences. With our fully customizable platform organizations can build a seamless experience and an online home for their communities to connect, learn, work, share and play without ever leaving Wyth. We give our customers full control over their brand experience, data ownership andbusiness relationships.
  • Xsensio — Xsensio develops the unique Lab-on-Skin™​ sensing platform to sense in real-time biochemical information at the surface of the skin, providing unprecedented real-time information about our health and wellness, in a simple and non-invasive way.The Xsensio Lab-on-Skin™ sensing chip relies on a unique, highly-miniaturized sensing platform developedat the Nanolab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. By leveraging semiconductor properties, our sensing platform unleashes a whole new set of possibilities in continuous health monitoring.
  • Avelo — Our mission is to save lives by bringing fast and actionable infectious disease diagnosis closer to the patient. Avelo's solution is a breath collection device. It works with existing molecular tests to detect multiple respiratory tract infections causing pneumonia
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NEST pension fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 — Comphya developing an active implantable medical device to restore the erectile function of patient non-responsive to oral drugs.
  • Nagi Bioscience — Enabling small organisms testing to any lab. Unleash unique datapoints efficiently at a high-throughput rate.
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VI Partners
VC Fund · Altendorf, Schwyz, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

Vi Partners is a venture capital firm backing exceptional founders in healthcare and technology across Switzerland and Europe for over 25 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.5M; Series A $3.7M–$24M; Series B $3.3M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Altoida — Altoida is creating a new gold standard in brain health with Precision Neurology. We're radically transforming the method for measuring brain function and diagnosing neurological disease, using just your smartphone or tablet.Our products are backed by more than 20 years of innovative research in digital biomarkers, augmented reality (AR),and artificial intelligence (AI).Altoida received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in July 2021. Our first device is a Computerized Cognitive Assessment Aid that is classified as Class II, 510(k) exempt.
  • SMART VALOR — SMART VALOR is a secure investment platform offering easy buy and sell of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash and more. Trade and store digital assets.
  • JenaValve Technology — Redefining what it means to treat patients with severe aortic regurgitation.
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Pfizer
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

Pfizer provides access to safe and effective and affordable medicines and health care services. They have a portfolio of products and medicines that support wellness and prevention, as well as treatment and cures for diseases across a broad range of therapeutic areas; and they have an industry-leading pipeline of promising new products that havethe potential to challenge some of the most feared diseases of their time, like Alzheimer's disease and cancer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Series A, Post-IPO Equity, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Israel, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$11M; Series A $4.5M–$412M; Post-IPO Equity $25M–$320M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CytoReason — CytoReason is a tech company developing a computational model of the human body. The company collects proprietary data from pharma companies and uses it to simulate human diseases – tissue by tissue, cell by cell. With CytoReason’s massive database and AI-led platform, pharma and biotech companies identify new opportunities, shorten trial phases,reduce development costs and increase the likelihood of approval. To date, six of the world’s top ten pharma companies use CytoReason’s technology.
  • CellCentric — CellCentric’s primary programme targets a deubiquitinase (DUB) enzyme which is strongly associated with prostate cancer, a leading cause of mortality among men. The target modulates the androgen receptor pathway and can potentially combat the multiple resistance mechanisms seen with recently approved prostate cancer drugs such Xtandi and Zytiga.The programme also has potential clinical utility in non-small cell lung, breast and colon cancer.
  • EvolveImmune Therapeutics — EvolveImmune Therapeutics transforms the discovery and development of novel immunotherapies. By leveraging its proprietary in vivo target discovery platform, EvolveImmune is building a pipeline of novel therapeutic candidates against numerous targets that are expressed on multiple immune cell types. The company’s platform will generatefirst-in-class treatments for unmet needs in oncology and autoimmune diseases.
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Novo Holdings
VC Fund · Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 279
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
  • Supira Medical — Next Generation Solution for Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support Developing a low-profile, high-flow percutaneous ventricular assist device (pVAD) for high risk coronary intervention and cardiogenic shock. Clinical Need Percutaneous ventricular assist devices (pVADs) are placed to provide temporary mechanical support, assisting the native pumping action of
  • Augustine Therapeutics — Augustine Therapeutics is developing selective, safe and efficacious HDAC6 inhibitors designed for treatment of neuromuscular, neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic diseases. Discover our pipeline poised for clinical impact.
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Pivotal bioVenture Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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NEXT VENTŪRES
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Eternal — Traditional primary care isn't made to keep you active. Eternal is, with annual physicals including 100+ biomarkers and a DEXA scan, plus unlimited in-person and virtual visits. Available in San Francisco and New York City.
  • Eternal — Traditional primary care isn't made to keep you active. Eternal is, with annual physicals including 100+ biomarkers and a DEXA scan, plus unlimited in-person and virtual visits. Available in San Francisco and New York City.
  • Trial Library — At Trial Library, we partner with the oncology community to enable the discoverability of clinical trials for anyone, anywhere.
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Quan Capital
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

Quan Capital Management is a venture capital firm that invests in healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biotech startups. The Company is based in China, but makes investments globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, China, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Avenzo Therapeutics — Developing the next generation of oncology therapies for patients.
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Qiming Venture Partners
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 668
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Keystone — Kesytone is a hardware wallet for bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, BCH, and cryptocurrencies.
  • Ronghe Medical — Ronghe Medical is a medical device manufacturer specializing in the design, research and development, production, and sales of high-end medical device systems based on advanced energy ablation technology platforms, delivering innovative therapeutic solutions that enhance clinical precision, improve patient outcomes, and support a wide range ofmedical applications.
  • InfStones — Founded in 2018 with offices across three countries and two continents, InfStones is the world's leading blockchain infrastructure provider. Currently, InfStones provides services to large institutional clients around the globe, supporting thousands of nodes on more than 50 public blockchains through its universal platform.
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RTW Investments
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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UZH Life Sciences Fund
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Bruker
VC Fund · Madison, Wisconsin, United States · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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The Helm
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Communities, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Recipharm Venture Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

Recipharm Venture Fund is part of Recipharm AB.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Sweden, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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RH Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

RH Capital a Rhia Ventures fund, is an impact-first venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups with the potential to transform women's health and increase health equity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Health Diagnostics
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Eli — Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions.
  • Novocuff — Novocuff is a medical device firm that aims to improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce preterm deliveries caused by PPROM and cervical shortening.
  • Testmate Health — 2 in 1 urine test with immediate results for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Results within minutes & 100% anonymous.
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JFG Life Sciences Foundation
VC Fund · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

JFG Life Sciences Foundation is a non-profit foundation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biopharma, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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S2S Ventures
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

S2S Ventures is a fully student-led VC fund from Switzerland, backed by some of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $29k–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $13M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Haicker — Haicker is an AI-driven cybersecurity platform designed to automatically detect vulnerabilities in web application codebases with exceptional precision. Leveraging advanced Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents, Haicker outperforms traditional security testing solutions by removing false positives and providing actionable insights that helpdevelopers fix vulnerabilities swiftly and confidently.Traditional static (SAST) and dynamic (DAST) application security testing tools typically suffer from high rates of false positives, demanding significant manual review efforts from developers and security teams. Haicker addresses this core challenge through its unique architecture: all issues are validated against a replica of the application, allowing Haicker to filter real findings from hallucinations.Initially proven in competitive cybersecurity environments like Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competitions, Haicker quickly demonstrated superior performance and reliability on open source projects. Its capabilities extend beyond vulnerability scanning, integrating seamlessly into common development workflows, including continuous integration and delivery pipelines.Haicker's scalable architecture ensures enhanced performance as computational resources and AI models evolve and become more cost-effective. By leveraging a distributed approach where multiple AI agents concurrently analyze the same piece of code, Haicker ensures comprehensive vulnerability detection with unprecedented depth and efficiency.Targeted at security-conscious enterprises, software development teams, and DevSecOps practitioners, Haicker empowers organizations to shift security left, integrating deep vulnerability detection early into the development lifecycle. Its intuitive interface and streamlined integration capabilities with leading code management platforms such as GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket enable effortless adoption.Founded in Switzerland by cybersecurity and web development experts, Haicker is positioned to transform the application security market by offering a smarter, faster, and more reliable alternative to manual penetration tests and legacy automated scanning solutions.
  • Scanvio — Scanvio Medical provides gynecologists, endometriosis centers and ultrasound manufacturers with an AI-guided ultrasound software for faster endometriosis diagnosis.
  • askEarth — We are your experts in satellite imagery (Earth Observation) and large language models (LLMs)
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Medicxi
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Indaco Venture Partners
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups, 6 in the past 12 months

VENTURE We invest across all sectors with specific focus on technology and digital The largest independent more About Us Portfolio [...]

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Easy Rain — Easyrain pioneers active safety systems to prevent aquaplaning. We develop virtual sensors and hardware solutions to save lives on hazardous low-grip roads.
  • CamGraPhIC — Our platform supports the ever-increasing data traffic demand with high-performing and low-power consumption electro-optical engines.
  • Iama Therapeutics — At IAMA Therapeutics, we are constantly pushing the boundaries of neuroscience drug discovery to develop new medicines and make a difference in the lives of children suffering from brain disorders and their families. Our purpose is to provide a therapeutic solution to children suffering from neurological conditions and provide their families withthe support they need.
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OrbiMed
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 538
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Mergus Ventures
VC Fund · Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Brazil, United States, Chile

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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AXA Alternative Investments
VC Fund · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Agriculture, Biomass Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Amboy Street Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Switzerland Life Science startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Women's
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Life Science VC funding in Switzerland at a glance

Stats across 106 deals from 158 investors.

158
investors
in Switzerland Life Science startups
106
deals
in Switzerland Life Science startups
$3.2M
median round
in Switzerland Life Science startups
40%
lead investors
lead at least one round
21%
Grant
most common funding stage

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