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Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Switzerland in October 2024

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

Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Switzerland in October 2024

Investor	Media (entertainment) Switzerland investments
Yves Latour	2
Arvin Zuberbuehler	2
Sam Lim	2
Anja Graf	2
Ronald Strässler	2
Edouard Lambelet	1
Ali Ilci	1
Ahmet Bilgen	1
Nick Dima	1
Thomas Rothenberger	1
Ivo Petrov	1
Yuri Gurski	1
Alex Ott	1
Thomas Brändle	1
Andrei Pitiș	1
Joachim Schoss	1
Marc Stilke	1
Andreas Widmer	1
Marc P. Bernegger	1
Robbie Zhang-Smitheran	1
Friedrich Georg Hoepfner	1
Siraj Khaliq	1
Daniel Gutenberg	1
Andy Honess	1
William Candillon	1
Tobias Reichmuth	1
Stephen Sullivan	1
ozer Hincal	1
Sébastien Lorber	1
Peter Kessel	1
Michiel Westerbeek	1
Julien Pache	1
Bernhard Lauber	1
Roland Brack	1
Raul Vejar	1
Stefan Brunner	1
Alois Flatz	1
Ilya Lyamkin	1
Simon Schmid	1
Mattias Ljungman	1
Beat Schwab	1
Jeremy Toeman	1
Balz Roth	1
Bhavik Bajaj	1
Lucas Pelloni	1
Bolko Hohaus	1
Paul Wahl	1
Marco Milone	1
Martin Strobel	1
Ronald Conway	1

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Yves Latour is the Co-Founder of 3wVentures. Yves Latour attended the University of St.Gallen.

Investment focus

Software, Search Engine, Internet
Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Verve Ventures — 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.
PresseTrends.com — What is happening today, this week or this month? Which people matter, what major events are taking place or which organizations are acting? These questions are topic in news and weekly magazines and can be found answered on www.pressetrends.com where the German speaking press can be searched.
Uberchord — Uberchord offers a mobile, interactive learning experience that is new, effective and motivating.Unlike competing products, like Yousician, JoyTunes or Flowkey, Uberchord's unique audio analysis technology is able to understand precisely what the user plays - even down to single finger mistakes within complex chords. This was unheard ofpreviously to Uberchord's new technology.As a result exercises can adapt automatically to the users needs and show them exactly how to improve. Further, Uberchord teaches musical understanding instead of mere note reproduction.Guitar is the first instrument Uberchord addresses, but technology and concept are applicable to any other instrument.

Arvin Zuberbuehler is the Co-Founding Partner of 3wVentures.

Investment focus

Internet, Search Engine, News
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Youblisher — On youblisher.com people, companies, schools etc can publish their documents and create an easy handable page flipping document. The service is entirely free of charge and everything is hosted. Three easy steps and everything is done.
PresseTrends.com — What is happening today, this week or this month? Which people matter, what major events are taking place or which organizations are acting? These questions are topic in news and weekly magazines and can be found answered on www.pressetrends.com where the German speaking press can be searched.

Sam Lim

Investment focus

Apps, Blockchain, Recruiting
Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

IMPRESSO — The place where recruiters search for authentic career profiles. Job seekers mint and save their career NFT. Save your NFT CV on the blockchain. Meet and connect with verified professionals on the Metaverse. Real identities, jobs and networking on IMPRESSO.

Anja Graf is an individual investor and real estate entrepreneur .

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Marketing
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

fabas — Fabas is an e-commerce company that sells culinary products manufactured from locally cultivated Swiss legumes, such as hummus, bean burgers, and falafel. They produce food from local and plant based raw materials.
Refluence — LinkTrust offers powerful business-building tools for agencies and networks. Discover how to manage campaigns, partners and channels at scale. Book a demo.
Refluenced — Refluenced is an online platform that specializes in connecting brand enthusiasts with brands, aiming to revolutionize word-of-mouth marketing. Originating from the success of the SunIce Festival's micro-influencer campaign, which reaches millions annually, Refluenced offers a unique opportunity for creators to engage with brands andcampaigns. With a focus on marketing services, the company operates with a team of 15 employees and is based in Switzerland. Refluenced is dedicated to transforming the interaction between brands and their advocates, providing new avenues for marketing engagement.

Ronald Strässler is a Co-Founder at Avaloq.

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, Industrial
Seed, Series B
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Veertly — Veertly provides a modular all-in-one platform that satisfies all your needs for digital collaboration.
yeekatee — yeekatee is an independent investing-based networking connecting people and investing for the whole investment journey.
bNovate Technologies — bNovate Technologies SA was founded in 2011 with the goal to be the best in the field of automated cells analysis. The company is based at the Innovation Park of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL). They started their activities with a few people. Today, bNovate Technologies SA has grown into a strong team of scientificexperts and managers who can address the challenge of developing the most demanding, fully automated analysis instruments.They develop instruments for clients, but they also created their own cell detection instruments for drinking water that they distribute through partnering companies.

Edouard is Chairman Finity SA and Paper.li. Prior to this new initiative, he founded MNC, a leading international mobile application and service provider that has been acquired by Alcatel- Lucent in 2004 (now Nokia). Edouard focused then on developing Alcatel-Lucent activities in the Mobile Media Market enabling business.Edouard holds a Masterin Business Administration from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland, for which he also collaborated as lecturer in Financial Strategy and Enterprise Service Strategy.

Investment focus

Apps, Communities, Blogging Platforms
Angel, Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

SmallRivers — SmallRivers develops web services that are facilitating the interconnection of people around shared interests. SmallRivers is a privately held startup incorporated in Switzerland (Lausanne) and located on the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL campus, Scientific Park.
Scenes Developpement —

Exeter I Oxford I Former Investment Banker I Tech Executive I Online Lecturer I Author I Angel Investor

Investment focus

Hotel, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Turkey, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yenir — Yenir is a platform Yenir that sells fresh products without producing waste.
Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Copyright Capital — Copyright Capital specializes in financial services tailored specifically for creators across various platforms. The company focuses on enhancing creators' revenue profiles and addressing their unique financial needs through customized solutions. With a keen understanding of platform dynamics and macro trends, Copyright Capital offers accessto capital and strategic business advice to help creators mitigate risks associated with algorithm changes and platform uncertainties. The firm engages in detailed analysis and forecasting of revenue flows, ensuring a data-driven approach to financial support. Whether dealing with agencies or individual creators, Copyright Capital aims to provide financial solutions that align with each creator's specific situation and goals, thereby fostering a more secure and prosperous environment for creative content production.

Ahmet Bilgen Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur and angele investor. He lives in Famagusta-North Cyprus. He finished primary school and high School in Famagusta. He has been a very active person all throughout his life, he received a Black Belt II. Dan in TaeKwon-do, played in the local soccer team while studying at Canbulat high school. Ahmet was alsohelping his family with their farming business by selling the produce to shops, making some money in the meanwhile which he used to buy his first bicycle, first ball or his first pair of sneakers. Ahmet graduated with Bsc in Applied Marth and Computer Science from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he got his Masters degree in Computer Science. Right after he started his PhD degree in Computer Science but decided to quit academia after his first semester. During his masters and PhD degrees, he took part in developing intelligent user interfaces and inmemory data concepts for mobile devices. After leaving academic life, Ahmet worked in various IT companies for about 2 years and then joined SAP where he had his first professional work experience. Ahmet joined SAP Turkey as the Technology Consultant, and therefore took part in the implementation of more than 100 SAP projects with companies like Yaşar, Koç, Sabancı, Havelsan, Arena etc. as these were the first implementers of SAP ERP in Turkey. During his tenure at SAP, he worked in various roles such as technical consultant, business analyst, project and team manager and architect. Ahmet, after working at SAP for 2 years and getting enough project experience and honing on his technical skils, he decided to set up FIT “Future Information Technology” Solutions together with 3 of his friends in 1999. By the end of 1999 FIT had already made its first million USD revenue. FIT has integrated Turkey’s most important e-commerce platform named “Arena Computer Supplier Portal” with SAP. This was featuted as an international success story by SAP Inside magazine in 2001. FIT Solutions(lately became Foriba) has a lot of experience from completing many software integration projects. Working with the top 250 companies also gives the company the advantage to have a more extensible, scalable, sustainable and supportable product. These experiences and know-how attained over the years put the company in an advantageous position to achieve end-to-end e-invoicing solutions. in 2019 Ahmet Bilgen exited from Foriba. Foriba did: - Series A With Revo Capital - Series B With Revo, IFC, Endeavor Catalyst - Exit

Investment focus

Education, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Topi — Topi is an B2B e-commerce platform for wholesale market.
admarket.co — Outdoor,Billboard,Taxi,Bus,Print,sms Advertising,book ad spaces in The USA-admarket
Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.

Nick Dima is the Senior Engineering Manager at Musixmatch.

Investment focus

Video Editing, Developer Tools, Productivity Tools
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Remotion — Remotion is a react tool that helps developers programmatically create videos and video apps.

Thomas Rothenberger

Investment focus

Insurance, Consulting, Digital Media
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Emilian — Emilian offers a comprehensive white label solution to digitize insurance distribution.

chairman

Investment focus

Events, Software, Broadcasting
Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Imverse — Imverse is an EPFL spin-off and a 3D graphics software company providing volumetric software components for tech companies creating products and services for the markets of installations, live broadcasting, and telepresence. Using their proprietary patent pending voxel engine, Imverse envisions to enable the 3D future of content & communicationthrough groundbreaking graphics technology.
Voltiris — Voltiris filters natural sunlight to transmit it to plants and recycle the "wasted" sunlight into green electricity.

Yuri Gurski is a founder and CEO of Palta, visionaire and engine in all portfolio companies. Yuri Gurski has been building global tech and media businesses for many years as an executive, entrepreneur, investor and startup mentor.Yury is the co-founder and president of Flo Inc., the most popular female health app worldwide, with over 137 millionusers and Peter Thiel (Founders Fund) among investors. Tech companies that Yuri founded, invested in and advised have been acquired by Google (AIMATTER, neural network-based AI platform and SDK to detect and process images in real time, 2017), Facebook (MSQRD live selfie video filtering, 2016), Russian internet giant Mail.Ru (maps.me navigation services, 2014) and the world’s largest online gaming firm Playtech (mobile fitness pioneer sport.com, 2013). Yuri holds an eMBA degree from Kozminski University. He’s been repeatedly recognized as Entrepreneur-of-the-Year and Startup Mentor-of-the-Year in Belarus.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Belarus, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

MAPS.ME — MAPS.ME (MapsWithMe) are offline maps of the whole world. Map of the USA: New York, San Francisco, Washington. France Paris. Italy: Rome, Venice, Florence, Rimini. Spain: Barcelona, Madrid. Japan, Great Britain, Turkey, Russia, India. For Android and iOS devices.
Masquerade — Masquerade allows users to record video selfie animations, change the way you look and send it to friends via your favorite messengers and social networks.
Cherry Labs — Founded by serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits to Facebook, Google and Apple, Cherry Labs works on making our homes the safer. Cherry employs over 20 engineers, AI scientists and product designers in Cupertino, Berlin, Moscow and Shenzhen.

Alex Ott founded CrossContinentalVentures in 2002. He is a veteran in the enterprise software industry with operational and board level experience on four continents.He has been partnering with many entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and Israel in building thought leading technology enterprises that seek to make a difference such as QlikTech whomhe was an investor and is a current board member.Before founding CrossContinentalVentures, Alex was a member of the Executive Committee of Siebel Systems, where he was responsible for building a major presence in EMEA as VP and General Manager, growing revenues, customer and employee base tenfold in just two years. He then ran the Americas geography, Siebel’s largest market with revenue responsibilities of over $1B.Prior to Siebel Systems, Alex played key executive roles within SAP AG (member of the extended global board) and SAP America (Executive Committee member) for almost a decade. Latterly, he held the position of CEO SAP International and Senior VP of Latin America, dramatically growing revenue and profitability through a sustained increase in SAP's Latin American infrastructure and the establishment of new subsidiaries.Alex holds a degree in Economics and Business Management from University BA of Mannheim, Germany.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, CAD
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
Squirro — Elevate your enterprise operations, accelerate innovation, and enhance human performance with reliable and accurate generative AI that employees trust.
NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Thomas Brändle is the Managing Director of Infoniqa Switzerland Software and Services AG. He previously worked at Run my Accounts AG as a Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member. Thomas Brändle attended the University of St.Gallen.

Investment focus

Marketing, Brand Marketing, Content Creators
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Refluenced — Refluenced is an online platform that specializes in connecting brand enthusiasts with brands, aiming to revolutionize word-of-mouth marketing. Originating from the success of the SunIce Festival's micro-influencer campaign, which reaches millions annually, Refluenced offers a unique opportunity for creators to engage with brands andcampaigns. With a focus on marketing services, the company operates with a team of 15 employees and is based in Switzerland. Refluenced is dedicated to transforming the interaction between brands and their advocates, providing new avenues for marketing engagement.

Andrei Pitis is a Chief Executive Officer at Simple Capital since 2020.

Investment focus

SaaS, Video, Software
Seed
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

iRewind — iRewind transforms memorable live moments into personalized and shareable videos for various industries. We accompany our clients as they upgrade their brand activation strategies or capture unique customer journeys, providing software and hardware solutions that deliver unforgettable experiences.
Fermyon Technologies — Go from blinking cursor to deployed serverless app in 66 seconds. Experience the next wave of cloud computing with Fermyon.

Mr. Schoss has a history of founding successfulcompanies, including TellSell Consulting and Telcare, which merged with Sykes Enterprises. In 2004 his latest company, Scout24, was acquired by T-Online for $221 million. He was named 2002â€™s â€œBusiness Angel of the Yearâ€ in Switzerland.In addition to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Mr. Schoss also has extensive investment experience, going back to the 1990s. From 2000-2003, he was the Chief Excecutive for Beisheim Holding Schweiz, and is currently the cornerstone investor of 6S Capital, a quantitative hedge fund firm.Mr.Schoss is President of the charitable foundation MyHandicap.com, and the Chapter Chair of the Young Presidents Organisation in Zurich.Source:

Investment focus

Internet, Social Media, Music
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

HAUSGOLD — HAUSGOLD is a fast-growing property technology company that provides assistance in all matters relating to the real estate sale. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
iMusician — iMusician offers music distribution, promotion, mastering, and monetization for independent musicians & labels. Get on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, TikTok & many more.
CareerLunch — CareerLunch is a recruitment platform that pairs potential hires with employees through informal exchanges over lunch. It was founded in 2019 by Simon Hofer and Konstantin Nesterov.

Marc Stilke

Investment focus

Real Estate, Rental Property, Energy Management
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Thailand, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

onyo — The future of work is hybrid. onyo provides a one-stop solution to create and ensure a healthy working environment for your team at home. We help you consolidate the individual needs of your employees, match them with products and provide an attractive leasing solution. Via a digital platform, you can track and manage the home-office equipment withone click, 100% transparency, 100% cost control.
VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.

Andreas Widmer - Director, The Arthur and Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship @ Catholic University of America

Investment focus

Music, Personalization
Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Rayneer — Rayneer is a free personalized music television. Rayneer analyzes music preferences and socio-demographic information of users and their friends via social networks, and provides an personalized music TV channel for every user. Rayneer is available free of charge on Smartphones, Tablets and the Browser.

Marc P. Bernegger is a Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder. Marc previously worked at Crypto Finance Group as a Founding Board Member (acquired by Deutsche Boerse). He attended the University of Zurich.

Investment focus

Events, Young Adults, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Series A
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Altoida — At Altoida, we strive to radically change the method for assessing brain health through our comprehensive cognitive function tests and brain health app.
Sandbox — We are an eclectic community of nomads, entrepreneurs, journalists, academics, politicians, artists, and indomitable misfits from over 100 countries. Together we seek to develop our authentic selves, form meaningful relationships, discover resources to live fulfilling lives, and to lead significant impact on the world around us.
Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.

Robbie Zhang-Smitheran is the Principal Software Engineer Manager.

Investment focus

Video Editing, Developer Tools, Productivity Tools
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Remotion — Remotion is a react tool that helps developers programmatically create videos and video apps.

Friedrich Georg Hoepfner - Managing Director @ Hoepfner Brau

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video
Seed
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Kamedi — Kamedi is going to provide users a device for the hyperthermic treatment of irritated skin after insect bites, the heat_it.
GotPhoto / fotograf.de — fotograf.de/GotPhoto provides photographers a SaaS system for selling photos online.
HQS Quantum Simulations — HQS Quantum Simulations is developing quantum algorithms to predict molecular properties for performance materials, specialty chemicals and pharmaceutical companies.The development of specialty chemicals, performance materials, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is an iterative, time-consuming and often very expensive process: Designing productsbased on functional molecules, formulations or solid-state compounds requires many – often hundreds – subsequent synthesis, formulation and testing steps to yield the desired specifications. Simulations are a powerful tool to decrease the time-to-market and decrease cost for R&D and product development cycles, but can’t be used in an efficient way in many cases or is simply not advanced enough to tackle certain problems. Shifting from conventional to quantum computers promises to overcome these hurdles, but is not yet available for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

Siraj is a Partner on the investment team at Atomico. As a former computer scientist and co-founder/CTO of the successful Atomico investment The Climate Corporation, Siraj now continues his love for entrepreneurship “on the other side of the table” as a venture capitalist. He focuses on companies enabled by machine learning, AI and computervision, (particularly in intelligent assistants), IoT, Agtech, and works with a number of portfolio companies.Siraj founded The Climate Corporation in 2006, a company that pioneered the use of machine learning in helping farmers to optimize crop yield. Climate (acquired by Monsanto in 2013 and now a subsidiary) still sits at the vanguard of precision agriculture, an industry that is expected to play a key role in delivering the yield boosts needed to feed humanity in the decades ahead.Prior to this, Siraj was an early engineering hire at Google in 2001, and one of the founding engineers for the Google Book search project. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BA Hons in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, UK. Siraj speaks fluent English, advanced Urdu, and just enough German to be dangerous.An enterprising child, Siraj taught himself to code in C at age 13, and wrote and sold his first piece of software, a database for medical research, at 15. He is a fan of functional programming languages, and still enough of a geek to spend the occasional weekend trying out new languages and frameworks.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Jua — A new paradigm in weather forecasting. AI learning physics. Delivering accuracy beyond expectation. Covering use cases beyond belief. Accessible to everyone, wherever in the world they are. The world's first end to end deep learning model for weather forecasting, delivered on an intuitive platform for anyone to customise it. Startups,governments and large companies alike can now develop global, high frequency and high accuracy weather models within days.
Altruistiq — Altruistiq is a decision-making environment for business sustainability teams.
RosieReality — Rosie is an educational app for iPhone and iPad. The app is perfect for curious kids of ages 9 and up. Kids program Rosie the Robot using magical 3D shapes to explore AR puzzles.

Daniel joined VI Partners in July 2003 as a Venture Partner focusing on IT. He started his career as Chairman and CEO of Gutenberg Communication Systems AG, a company he founded in 1991. Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in 2000, he became Country Manager of Telindus for Switzerland, Austria andHungary during the next two years, and he was also a member of the Executive Board. Since 2002 he has been taking consulting and advisory board assignments for various companies.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Noat — NOAT is a new dawn for nicotine users. The future has no place for chemicals that hurt your mouth and gums. Experience a nicotine product unlike any other.
BOND — Get closer to the people and products behind your screen than ever before. Step inside creator wardrobes. Shop their edits. Swipe their curations. Be inspired. We're bringing you a new way to discover.
Unique — Unlock the power of generative AI in Finance with Unique FinanceGPT. Get custom use cases and accurate insights in a secure, enterprise-ready platform.

Andy Honess - Founder and Owner @ JumpXL

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed
Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
CreditEnable — Get the most affordable business loans with CreditEnable! Explore low interest rates, check eligibility in one minute, and apply for your dream business loan today. Dream Big. Borrow Smart!.
NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.

William Candillon is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Video Editing, Developer Tools, Productivity Tools
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Remotion — Remotion is a react tool that helps developers programmatically create videos and video apps.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Stephen Sullivan is the founder of Middy.com.

Investment focus

Video Editing, Developer Tools, Productivity Tools
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Remotion — Remotion is a react tool that helps developers programmatically create videos and video apps.

ozer Hincal

Investment focus

Insurance, Consulting, Digital Media
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Emilian — Emilian offers a comprehensive white label solution to digitize insurance distribution.

Sébastien Lorber - Open-Source developer - Docusaurus @ Meta

Investment focus

Video Editing, Developer Tools, Productivity Tools
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Remotion — Remotion is a react tool that helps developers programmatically create videos and video apps.

Peter Kessel

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, InsurTech
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Sustema — Sustema behavioural analytics enables commercial insurers to analyse publicly available data of over 17,000 listed companies, providing a consistent and objective client behavioural analysis that integrates with existing processes to deliver improved underwriting performance.
Veertly — Veertly provides a modular all-in-one platform that satisfies all your needs for digital collaboration.

Michiel Westerbeek is a Co-Founder at Tella.

Investment focus

Video Editing, Developer Tools, Productivity Tools
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Remotion — Remotion is a react tool that helps developers programmatically create videos and video apps.

As COO, Julien is in charge of operations at investiere. This covers deal structuring and finding and assessing new business opportunities. He is also responsible for legal and compliance matters.Julien holds a Master’s degree in business law from the University of Fribourg where he specialized in contract, tax and commercial law. He previouslyworked as a tax consultant for KPMG and serves as a board member for Anthamatten Meubles SA.Julien enjoys the challenges of competitive sports such as running and ski mountaineering. He successfully participated in the 2012 Patrouille des Glaciers race. He has a strong interest in philosophy and the interconnections of global economies.

Investment focus

Social Media, Developer Tools
Angel
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

HyperWeek — HyperWeek is a subsidiary of Knowledge Plaza, based in Belgium. HyperWeek provides a social platform for citizens & institutions to socialize their content assets.

https://about.me/twobla

Investment focus

Software, Consulting, Social Media
Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

practize — See posts, photos and more on Facebook.

Roland Brack is an online trade pioneer and investor in the TV24 programme "Höhle der Löwen Schweiz" (Lion's Den Switzerland). The entrepreneur from Aargau founded his own company BRACK.CH in 1994 while studying electrical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Brugg-Windisch. In doing so, he focused on the Internet ande-commerce at an early stage. Today BRACK.CH is the largest independent online retailer in Switzerland and part of the Competec group of companies. This group of companies employs over 780 staff with more than 40 apprentices

Investment focus

Marketing, Advertising, Social Media
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

feey — feey is a houseplant shop. They offer plants that include entry-level plants, baby plants, animal-friendly plants, large plants, home office plants, hanging plants, aglaonema, alocasia, calathea, hoya, monstera, and philodendron.
Sleepiz — Sleepiz is a Zürich based startup with the aim to enable the medical community to take healthcare into the home environment. Sleepiz provides an easy and comfortable to use solution with a device that is simply placed on the bedside table. The device operates in a non-contact fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions andbreathing patterns as well as body motions with medical grade accuracy.By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence Sleepiz will in the future not only able to diagnose sleep disorders, but also to perform long-term monitoring. Thereby, the progression of chronic diseases can be monitored to allow faster intervention and better treatment.
Amplify — Amplify is a platform that allows users to create a powerful, optimized, and targeted advertising campaign to sell their products and services. Their platform enables users to track and analyze the results of their advertising campaigns.

Raul Vejar - Advisor @ Pramata

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed
Switzerland, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Optix — Optix is the only coworking space automation software that enables you to automate, optimize, grow and engage your community.
BigOmics — Get robust and reproducible results in a few clicks with Omics Playground: your user-friendly Omics Data Analysis Software.
MightyHive — MightyHive is the premier Programmatic Solutions Partner for forward-thinking marketers and agencies, wherever they are on the path to programmatic self-sufficiency. MightyHive empowers clients to build data-driven organizations that drive results through programmatic insourcing, full-service management, and strategic advisory services. One of thelargest and fastest-growing programmatic buyers in the world, MightyHive has helped hundreds of clients adopt programmatic, and has a global presence with offices in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, London, and Singapore.

Entrepreneur | Co-founder bexio AG

Investment focus

SaaS, Audio, Music
Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AIRICA — AIRICA combines real-time air quality measurements with advanced artificial intelligence and gives you continuous feedback on the quality of the indoor air.
OPTUNE — Optune is the first digital workspace that connects all stakeholders in the live music industry to facilitate their daily tasks focusing on event management and booking processing. Optune revolutionizes the existing workflow regarding efficiency, transparency and data driven optimization. onescreener, Optune’s promotion tool, helps artists tocreate a web presence in few simple clicks.

Alois Flatz is a Venture Partner with 20 years' experience in private equity, investment management and sustainability. He is a member of the boards of va-Q-tec and The Mobility House.Before joining Zouk, Alois was a Partner and Head of Research at Sustainable Asset Management in Zurich, where he co-founded the Dow Jones SustainabilityIndex. Alois was also Managing Partner of BTS Investment Advisors, a private equity advisor in India with over $3 billion AUM, and an advisor to the Austrian Ministry of the Environment.A published author on sustainable investment, Alois has a PhD in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen, an MBA from Vienna University of Economics and studied International Management at HEC.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Social Media
Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Tset — The perfect combination of industry knowledge and modern technology to realize cost and CO2 savings. Learn more.
Kooky — - What is kooky? kooky is a digital cup smart system and offers you the possibility to dispose your reusable cup on your way in an easy and sustainable way through kooky boxes.- How does kooky work? You order your drink as usual and get it in a kooky cup. You simply pay for the drink plus 1 CHF deposit. When you return the cup in a kooky drop offbox, you will immediately get your 1 CHF deposit credited in the wallet of your app.- What do I have to do when I got the cup with the drink? Simply scan the QR code of the cup with the kooky app (registration required), and the cup will be paired to your app account.- Where can I return the cup? In all the kooky boxes around town and in all the venues of the kooky network. You can find both in the app.- How do I get my credit? In order to withdraw the credit in your app wallet, you need to enter your bank details in the app. Then you submit a payout request of the desired amount. Kooky only takes a 10% fee as cost of service, you will receive a receipt for each withdrawal.- What does kooky do with the cups? Our employees empty the kooky boxes and bring the cups to our rinsing logistics. There, they are cleaned according to hygiene regulations and standards, picked, packed and distributed to our partners again.- Are e-vehicles used for logistics? Yes, the logistics for collecting and distributing the cups takes place exclusively with electric vehicles.
Allthings — Allthings enables digital communication and interaction between property users, owners and property managers. Allthings bundles various digital services around life and work in buildings in one app. By doing so, Allthings achieves operational cost reductions while simultaneously increasing the value of the property. The company was founded in 2013by an experienced team and has offices in Basel, Berlin and Freiburg i. Breisgau.

Ilya Lyamkin is the Senior Software Engineer at Spotify.

Investment focus

Finance, Video Editing, Developer Tools
Pre-Seed, Seed
India, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
Daytona — Daytona is a self-hosted and secure open source development environment manager.
Remotion — Remotion is a react tool that helps developers programmatically create videos and video apps.

Simon Schmid is the author at iubenda.

Investment focus

Video Editing, Developer Tools, Productivity Tools
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Remotion — Remotion is a react tool that helps developers programmatically create videos and video apps.

Mattias launched Atomico in 2006 alongside Niklas Zennström, sourcing investments and building Atomico's team of experts who help portfolio companies to scale globally. In that time, Mattias has been involved with exits or substantial transactions in companies including Supercell (sold a majority stake to SoftBank over two transactions in2013 and 2015), 6Wunderkinder (acquired by Microsoft in 2015), The Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto for $1.1B in 2013), Xobni (acquired by Yahoo! in 2013) and Power Reviews (acquired by Bazaarvoice in 2012). Mattias works closely with a number of portfolio companies on their expansion, including Truecaller, Klarna, Hailo, and ChemistDirect. He also leads the work of Atomico's experienced global team on the ground in China, Japan, Brazil and Turkey, helping portfolio companies to scale into these major international markets. Before launching Atomico, Mattias was the head of investments at CLS Holdings where he was responsible for the sale of Sit Up TV for $360 million in 2005 and held previous roles working in M&A consultancy at LEK and in fund management at Valu-Trac. Mattias holds a Masters from the Stockholm School of Economics and a B.A. in Geography and Economics with Honors from McGill University.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Pento — Pento provides a SaaS-based online platform intended to optimize payroll services. Its platform helps to automate payroll system and offer complementary features to employees, such as user-friendly access to pay history and personal pay-related data, enabling small and medium-sized companies to find a digital way to automate salary processing,taxes and is fully connected to HMRC.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Willa — Willa is a fintech startup solving freelancers' biggest pain: getting paid on time, every time.
Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.

Beat Schwab is the Chairman at Zug Estates Holding AG.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Social Media, Smart Building
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Allthings — Allthings enables digital communication and interaction between property users, owners and property managers. Allthings bundles various digital services around life and work in buildings in one app. By doing so, Allthings achieves operational cost reductions while simultaneously increasing the value of the property. The company was founded in 2013by an experienced team and has offices in Basel, Berlin and Freiburg i. Breisgau.

I am the VP of Products for Etsy. I’m a seasoned product executive with over 20 years experience building and marketing consumer-oriented platforms, including electronics, mobile, and digital media companies. I’ve built products with a passion for creating delightful experiences both in hardware and software/Web/mobile applications. Ipossess a unique blend of understanding the experiences, technology, and marketing needed to make great products.Prior to Etsy, I ran product for CNET, a division of CBS Interactive, and the world's largest tech publisher. Before CNET I was at Viggle, where I led product strategy, mapping out a vision amidst a TV industry facing tremendous change and upheaval. I joined in January 2014 through the acquisition of my startup Dijit (where I raised over $2M).Prior to Dijit, I ran Stage Two, a product marketing consultancy that served companies by improving product experiences and executing successful go-to-market strategies. Key clients included Boxee, VUDU, DivX, Clicker, Dropcam, Waze, Sonos, Bug Labs and other great consumer technology companies.I was the first VP of Product Management for Sling Media, makers of the award-winning Slingbox (acquired by DISH in 2007). I was responsible for the Slingbox from concept to launch, taking the founders’ vision and shaping it into a working product. This included building all original SlingPlayer PC/Mobile software, and the hardware.As an entrepreneur, I’ve built and sold several startups, including * Legacy Locker, the first online will company, acquired by PasswordBox in 2013. * Nudgemail , the only all-email-based reminder system that works with every email service without any downloads or plugins. * Mediabolic, a connected home software platform where I designed numerous streaming media devices for HP, Pioneer, Denon, and other CE companies (acquired by Rovi in 2006).I also sat on the steering committees for DLNA and UPnP AV. I have a BS from Carnegie Mellon University, am a father of 3, and am passionate about sustainability, board games, and hockey. Go Habs

Investment focus

Video Editing, Developer Tools, Productivity Tools
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Remotion — Remotion is a react tool that helps developers programmatically create videos and video apps.

Balz Roth, a long time member of the Go Beyond community, has been an entrepreneur for more than 20 years, during which time he has developed several startup companies mainly in the areas of technology/media and lifestyle/entertainment. His focus has been on deal sourcing and investment structuring; advising and coaching several startupsin business model engineering, strategy development and operational excellence as well as in training Business Angels.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Internet
Funding Round, Convertible Note, Series A
Switzerland, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Faveeo — Faveeo is the first AI-Driven trusted content platform. Faveeo is a smart AI-driven tool highlighting only reliable, meaningful content on any topic, by finding and following the most trusted and valuable sources -- as opposed to the most popular ones, like everyone else...
The Faction Collective — The Faction Collective - manufacturers of high performance freeride and freestyle skis since 2006.Skis are more than just pieces of wood, steel & fibreglass. They are tools of escape. A medium for personal expression. A way to challenge fears, push limits & share incredible experiences with friends.The Faction Collective was formedin 2006 by a group of friends with the aim of creating the best designed & built freeride & freestyle skis you can buy, with a world-class manufacturing base in heart of the European Alps and a strong commitment to social and environmental sustainability. Every year new ideas and products expand our range - but the manifesto remains the same.In 2010 we partnered with Swiss helmet manufacturer TSG to produce a new line of lightweight, high performance protection, and in 2012 we are working with acclaimed French skier Candide Thovex to create a range of revolutionary superlight park and freeride skis using recycled PET cores and minimalist graphics that support our ethos of uncompromised performance.From our bases in Verbier, Switzerland and Breckenridge, USA we still ski over 100 days a year, refining our products and keeping the stoke alive. We hope you are too.
ShoeSize.Me — Our technology helps the world's leading shoe brands and retailers to increase their conversion rates, and generate extra shoe orders with guided selling.

Bhavik Bajaj

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING

Lucas Pelloni is the Co-Founder, Member of the Executive Board, and Venture Lead Engineer of Axelra. He attended the University of Zurich.

Investment focus

Video Editing, Developer Tools, Productivity Tools
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Remotion — Remotion is a react tool that helps developers programmatically create videos and video apps.

Bolko Hohaus is the Founder and CEO of HCP Hohaus Advisory.

Investment focus

Publishing, Brand Marketing, Content Marketing
Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Faveeo — Faveeo is the first AI-Driven trusted content platform. Faveeo is a smart AI-driven tool highlighting only reliable, meaningful content on any topic, by finding and following the most trusted and valuable sources -- as opposed to the most popular ones, like everyone else...

Paul Wahl

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, CRM
Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Memonic — Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social.
NextPrinciples — NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California.
Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative

After a long experience in the cultural industry, aimed at developing independent comics and cinema sector, he decided to leverage the skills gained through his studies in Economics and Commerce, followed by General Management to study and operate in the startup industry. Marco is driven by a wide variety of interests and is a successfulinstitutional investor in various Italian and international startups.

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain, Video Games
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

The Nemesis — The Nemesis is the playground for play-to-earn games and adventures in virtual worlds. Accessible on both mobile and desktop.

Martin Strobel - Non Executive Director @ msg life

Investment focus

PaaS, SaaS, FinTech
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Allthings — Allthings enables digital communication and interaction between property users, owners and property managers. Allthings bundles various digital services around life and work in buildings in one app. By doing so, Allthings achieves operational cost reductions while simultaneously increasing the value of the property. The company was founded in 2013by an experienced team and has offices in Basel, Berlin and Freiburg i. Breisgau.
Imburse — Duck Creek Payments. We are a leading provider of comprehensive P&C insurance software and services for insurers of all sizes worldwide.

Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Advertising
Series A, Seed, Angel
United States, Canada, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
World Labs — World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities.
Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.

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