Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Switzerland (June 2026)
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Verve Ventures
VC Fund
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11 | Switzerland, Germany, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Software, Biotechnology | |
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SICTIC
VC Fund
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8 | Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $233k–$2.7M |
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DAA Capital Partners
VC Fund
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8 | Switzerland, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $816k–$7.5M |
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3wVentures
VC Fund
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6 | Switzerland, Spain, Austria | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Health Care, Medical | $50k–$8M |
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Zürcher Kantonal Bank
VC Fund
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6 | Switzerland, Germany, Japan | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology | $1.2M–$14M |
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Creathor Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | |
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Alpana Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Switzerland, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | |
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ACE & Company
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1M–$24M |
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Polytech Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Switzerland, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | |
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$91M |
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CV VC
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Switzerland, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, Information Technology | |
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Technology Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Switzerland | Debt Financing, Grant, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology | |
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Cipio Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, France | Series B, Series C | Software, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software | |
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Gentian Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | |
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GoBeyond
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Medical, Software | |
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Shasta Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, New Zealand | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $1.2M–$33M |
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Arvin Zuberbuehler
Angel
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2 | Switzerland | Seed | Internet, Search Engine, News | |
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Ronald Strässler
Angel
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2 | Switzerland | Seed, Series B | Software, Hardware, Industrial | |
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Founderful Campus
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, Bulgaria, United States | Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed | Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $21k–$2.9M |
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AET Fund
VC Fund
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2 | India, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Internet, E-Commerce, Gaming | $1.1M–$10M |
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BackBone Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, Germany, Israel | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $583k–$105M |
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Advent Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $6.6M–$50M |
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Anorak Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Ghana, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Virtual Reality, Information Technology | $500k–$50M |
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FortyOne Group
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, Germany | Seed, Series A | Information Services, Information Technology, Software | $699k–$9.6M |
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $549k–$16M |
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Anja Graf
Angel
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2 | Switzerland, United States | Seed, Angel | Retail, Marketing, E-Commerce | $100k–$1.3M |
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Yves Latour
Angel
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2 | Switzerland, Germany | Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, Search Engine | $150k–$1.5M |
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Aare Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Industrial Automation | |
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Swiss Post Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, Germany, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2M–$45M |
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Fidelity Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, China | Series B, Series A | Software, Enterprise Software, Internet | $5.8M–$31M |
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Collective63
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland | Seed | Big Data, Analytics, Information Technology | |
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Swiss Prime Site
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Hospitality, Real Estate, Construction | |
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Spicehaus Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Machine Learning | $874k–$10M |
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Serpentine Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Automotive | $650k–$7M |
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Metavallon VC
VC Fund
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2 | Greece, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $200k–$3M |
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Deutsche Beteiligungs
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Italy, Switzerland | Private Equity, Series A | Fashion, Data Center, Renewable Energy | $6.9M–$15M |
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Founderful
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.1M–$17M |
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Sam Lim
Angel
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2 | Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Blockchain, Recruiting | |
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Acequia Capital (AceCap)
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Andy Honess
Angel
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1 | Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $1.2M–$5M |
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Paul Wahl
Angel
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1 | Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Enterprise Software, CRM | $1.2M–$1.5M |
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Marc P. Bernegger
Angel
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1 | Switzerland, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Events, FinTech, Finance | |
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Edipresse
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland | Seed | CRM, Big Data, Payments | |
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Mattias Ljungman
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Apps | |
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Mediahuis
VC Fund
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1 | The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Education, Human Resources, E-Learning | |
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Sébastien Lorber
Angel
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1 | Switzerland | Pre-Seed | Video Editing, Developer Tools, Productivity Tools | |
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Alex Ott
Angel
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1 | United States, Switzerland | Seed | Software, CAD, CRM | $1.1M–$1.5M |
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Idinvest Partners
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, Spain | Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $3.3M–$66M |
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General Catalyst
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $1.5M–$140M |
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Yuri Gurski
Angel
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1 | United States, Belarus, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Women's, Software | $840k–$12M |
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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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 224
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cubbit — Cubbit is secure encrypted cloud storage with a difference. A distributed cloud that is 100% private and green. Join the Swarm.
- Axelera AI — To accelerate computer vision in edge devices, we offer a powerful, energy-efficient, cost-effective, user-friendly AI hardware and software platform.
- Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030
SICTIC is the leading angel investor network in Switzerland with the largest Swiss seed-stage startup dealflow.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- Round size: Seed $583k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $233k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qala — Qala delivers real-time data classification, discovery, and policy enforcement. Auto-classify sensitive data, map full lifecycles, and label at source.
- Scanvio — Scanvio Medical provides gynecologists, endometriosis centers and ultrasound manufacturers with an AI-guided ultrasound software for faster endometriosis diagnosis.
- machineMD — machineMD is a Swiss medtech startup with close ties to the University Hospital in Bern, Switzerland. We develop the NeurOphthalmoscope, a diagnostic device for an automated, objective and quantifiable analysis of brain functions related to the visual system. Over the next ten years we want to become the leading provider for detecting loss of brain function. The NeurOphthalmoscope is a medical device for early diagnosis of brain diseases such as tumors, multiple sclerosis, and stroke. The device measures eye and pupil movements induced by visual stimuli. Eight neuro-ophthalmic examinations, including pupillary function and visual field measurements are combined in one multi-functional device. It is a multi-functional device for the screening and diagnosis of ophthalmological and neurological conditions.
DAA Capital Partners is a Swiss-based private equity generating significant returns on technology-driven companies and real estate opportunities
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $816k–$2.3M; Series A $4.1M–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Largo.ai — We make the data-driven movie-making accessible to the market through our high level film understanding technologies. Largo has developed data-driven intelligence, which can be introduced much earlier in the life of a film project, right from script choice and development, through filming, post-production and theatrical release. Largo empowersproduction companies with data-enhanced ROI uplift and reduction of risk.
- Touch Sensity — Touch Sensity is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of IoT and sensors.
- Cognitive Design Systems — Cognitive Design Systems (CDS) is a software company enabling designers and engineers to automate and accelerate their design process using AI. Our software converts concept designs into manufacturable, sustainable and economically viable products using machine learning algorithms.
3wVentures provides seed money and venture capital to international internet startups. As they focus on early stage projects and prototypes, our investments and co-investments target a volume of up to USD 250,000.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Spain, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $50k–$3.8M; Angel $583k–$2.1M; Series A $1.2M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 1999
Portfolio highlights
- Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
- GUURU Solutions — Discover how community-powered advice can turn your PDPs into trusted, high-converting content and get cited in AI search.
- Pregnolia — Pregnolia ensures that every woman can have a happy, healthy and informed pregnancy until term. Their team knows that the existing research about preterm birth assessment is very promising, but this alone does not guarantee success. Sabrina, Francisco and Annette are highly committed to develop the commercial version of the device, complete theclinical trial, follow the regulatory roadmap and execute on their business vision to successfully support gynaecologists in improving the preterm birth risk assessment and birth management.
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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- 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.
We have been investing at the frontier of technology and science for over 30 years. We know what it takes to succeed.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
- HeyJobs — Intelligent recruiting | more hires with performance marketing | only qualified candidates | fast recruiting success | over 1,500 companies use HeyJobs to find employees
- Humanoo — HUMANOO | MAKING PEOPLE HEALTHIER! HUMANOO is the digital health platform for employees and insurance clients. We enable our users to improve their physical and mental health. Simple, effective, proven - all in one app. With customized programs and innovative eHealth solutions, we guide our users in the areas of fitness, physio, yoga, mindfulnessand nutrition to their self-imposed goals. For the first time, companies and insurance companies can use comprehensive decentralized analysis to understand the health of their employees or insurance clients and make it a measurable success. Our team currently consists of 65 employees from 15 nations with different talents. In our office in Berlin-Kreuzberg, software developers, designers, marketing and sales specialists work together with sports and nutrition scientists as well as yoga teachers and physiotherapists. What we share is the goal to motivate people to stay healthy.
Alpana Ventures is a Swiss VC focusing on digital transformation.Since 2016 we backed 45 founder teams with 3 Funds, supporting them in their journey towards a positive impact.Committed to value creation, we discover deep tech solutions in Switzerland, Europe and the US.We invest to embed them into innovative business models and back them tobecome global market leaders.Applying ESG criteria, our portfolio companies help create a more sustainable future.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
- Nezasa — Discover how to grow your business with Nezasa TripBuilder, the world's leading travel commerce solution for travel businesses.
- Tinamu — Tinamu Labs has developed a technology that converts commercially available drones into camera equipment reaching professional standards.
ACE offers three core investment strategies across the stages of private investment: Secondaries, Buyout, and Venture. Our portfolio construction guidelines ensure that our investors access the necessary customization to achieve their risk and return requirements.ACE aims to drive returns by managing risks and strategically adjusting investmentexposure to the stage of a company’s development. We strongly believe that diversification and sizing of investments according to the risk profile are the most effective approaches to investing private capital.ACE’s specialized investment teams provide the support to create long-term and sustainable investment results.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 184
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.4M; Series A $3.4M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- Vennre — Build wealth through vetted private market opportunities from $5k. GCC-first, globally accessible. Regulated, Sharia-compliant, digital-first.
- PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, United States, Spain
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- Total investments: 48
- Lead/follow: no public data
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 — Relai is the easiest way to invest in Bitcoin for the long-term investor. A simple and intuitive app that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute, without registration, KYC verification or deposits. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Earny — Payroll management built for Startups & SMEs. Swiss payroll service with no hidden fees & no hassle
Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 318
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Series A $3.5M–$34M; Series B $5M–$91M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Getsafe — Manage your insurance effortlessly in one app and get rewarded with Safepoints when you stay safe.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
- Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany
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- Total investments: 54
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Lawyerd! — Lawyerd! is fully automatically found infringements, finding responsible for hosting bodies, formulating complaints, adding evidence of the violation, and sending completed complaints in 3 seconds. Also, our clients can store their products on our platform and put the information into the blockchain when products are created
- Villcaso — Truly is the easiest way to safely invest in US residential real estate. Our permissionless token means you can invest in American homes as easily as buying a stablecoin. When you invest with Truly, you get access to a diverse and professionally managed basket of high-performing US real estate. Returns with Truly are reliably high, and you can exit your position at any point. We're on a mission to make it easy for global investors to safely invest in US residential real estate.
- Mycel — Mycel is a decentralized cross-chain asset management platform with an intent-based token transfer layer.
Climate protection through innovative technologies. The Technology Fund offers loan guarantees to Swiss companies whose novel products contribute to a sustainable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Geography: Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- FGen — FGen is a Swiss start-up company founded 2011 in Basel as a spin-off from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of the ETH Zurich. As a contract reasearch organization we collaborate with partners from Biotech, Life Sciences, and Pharma in order to establish efficient bioprocesses and to develop new biopharmaceuticals.
- Calopad — Calopad, awarded by the Swiss Confederation, offers a unique and the most holistic solution in pain therapy and muscle regeneration. The therapeutic deep heat of 42 degrees solves any muscle pain, muscle tension, or muscle spasms of chronic patients in the long term and in a highly efficient way through new forms of therapy. With the associatedapp, Calopad brings the physiotherapist digitally into any user's home and enables personalized all-around care in real time - utterly independent of time and place. In the future, the modular design will make it possible to combine different therapies such as heat, cold, or light with just one device, opening up the possibility of new therapeutic successes.
- Selfrag — SELFRAG AG is specialized in the development of high voltage pulse power products, plants and systems for selective fragmentation of solid materials.
Cipio Partners is a leading European secondary direct and growth capital investment management and advisory firm. The firm makes direct investments in private growth stage technology businesses predominantly in Europe.Founded in 2003, Cipio Partners manages an international portfolio of private growth stage technology businesses in Europe fromoffices in Luxembourg and Munich.
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- Industry: Software, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Wire — Always-on end-to-end encrypted instant messaging, voice- and videoconferencing with up to 100 participants - future proof with MLS integration
- Microoled — Our best technology is vision. Designing the future of microdisplay applications. Our proprietary AMOLED technology elevates near-eye displays to the next level with optimal picture resolution, image brightness, and power con-sumption efficiency.
- Welcome to the Jungle — Welcome to the Jungle is the guide that walks you through your job-search: find out what it's like to work for today's top companies and find the best content to thrive in your career
Gentian is an early-stage investment company founded by the Entrepreneurs Elian Kool and Gerhard Gerner. We focus on investments in SaaS platforms, Mobile, Robotics/Drones and adjacent areas we have a passion for.Based in Switzerland, most of our investments are in the DACH region, but with a clear focus on a global market.We investexclusively in enthusiastic teams, which we support with our experience as entrepreneurs as board member or advisor.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Aleno — aleno is the most professional online reservations system for restaurants. Full access to all data. Your own branding and design.
- aspaara AG — Algorithmic solutions for intelligent planning. Improve profitability and enhance strategic decision-making by gaining actionable business insights in real-time.
- Creaitor — Creaitor is the ultimate solution for content producers, offering a comprehensive suite of AI tools and integrated SEO features. Streamline your content creation process and optimize your online presence with our powerful platform.
GoBeyond is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small and large, novice to experienced investors. It offers a unique deal platform, portfolio tools, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services, training and certified deal leaders.Its clients are individuals, familyoffices, professional groups and corporations. It is active in the EU, Switzerland and the US. GoBeyond also offers educational training modules for angel investors in 11 categories.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Medical, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 161
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- LEND — LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.
- AVAtronics — AVA Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Solution is a breakthrough in Audio Industry. AVA is the first and only TRUE WIDE-BAND ANC in the market capable of selectively cancelling all annoying noises we want to get rid of without compromising the quality of Music or speech.
- Blumer — Blumer is a social networking platform that provides social networks that can monetize time by consuming advertisements, selling nfts, and making crypto transactions. It offers social networks, crypto, digital marketing, and blockchain.
Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise technology like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence & camera vision.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 355
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M; Series A $4M–$21M; Series B $8M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $325M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- LawVu — Our all-in-one connected platform enables your legal team to manage all legal matters, contracts, spend and legal operations. Book your free demo now.
- Cequence Security — Cequence enables organizations to realize the promise of AI while defending their applications and APIs from attacks, abuse, and fraud.
- Starship Technologies — The future of delivery - today!
Arvin Zuberbuehler is the Co-Founding Partner of 3wVentures.
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- Industry: Internet, Search Engine, News
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Ronald Strässler is a Co-Founder at Avaloq.
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- Industry: Software, Hardware, Industrial
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Founderful Campus aims to educate students and support entrepreneurs to disrupt the startup culture on campuses, producing the next generation of tech leaders, and creating more value for society.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed
- Geography: Switzerland, Bulgaria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $23k–$2.3M; Convertible Note $21k–$31k
- Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Avientus — Avientus is a revolutionary drone network with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities to autonomously transport a variety of payloads—including parcels, food, medical supplies, and spare parts—across both urban and rural areas.
- Recreate — Recreate is a technology platform that focuses on AI-driven content generation and creative automation.
- Aurora Analytics — Track and optimize your brand visibility across AI search engines. The leading GEO tracking and AI search optimization platform.
AET Fund envisions a Heart Driven World by making the world a colorful place through entertainment.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: India, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Questt — School homework app by Questt helps teachers to assign homework to students. Download today on your smartphone.
- 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
- Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!
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Browse database — It's Free!BackBone Ventures' focus are early-stage investments, primarly in the area of innovative ICT, FoodTech and disruptive technologies in DACH & Israel. Committed to achieve a positive impact for the next generation by empowering access to proficient ventures investments.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $966k–$5M; Pre-Seed $583k–$2.1M; Series A $5M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neon — With neon, you can pay, save and manage your money. Digitally, securely and with no hidden fees. Open your account online in less than 10 minutes!
- Evoralis — Evoralis is an enzyme development company that specializes in the discovery and development of plastic-depolymerizing enzymes. It is a spin-out from the University of Cambridge.
- Proofcheck — Proofcheck is a multilingual AI proofreading platform and a collaborative in-browser workspace for PDFs and epubs. Their next-generation AI workflow and collaboration tool helps content creators quickly catch costly mistakes before they reach audiences. Proofcheck is headquartered in Vienna, Wien and was founded in 2022.
Advent Venture Partners is one of Europe's most successful growth and venture capital investors in market-leading tech and life sciences businesses. They have designed their strategy, teams and funds so they can focus on backing a select few companies. They pride their selves on establishing true partnerships with entrepreneurs in order tobuild valuable businesses together.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Series A $6.6M–$26M; Series B $7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2019
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- Wiz — Organizations of all sizes and industries use Wiz to rapidly identify and remove the most critical risks in AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes so they can build faster and more securely.
- OpenCloud — Our cloud native software solutions dramatically improve operator business models and help quickly create new revenue-generating services.
- Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
Anorak Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco investing in seed-stage technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, Virtual Reality, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Ghana, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $4M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
- Prisms VR — The new paradigm for math education. Learn math through movement, experience, and meaningful discovery.
- Heaviside Industries — Heaviside Industries is a defense technology company that develops autonomous precision munitions for land, air, and sea systems.
At Fortyone AG they hold participations in non-listed companies. They are guided by the question: "Can they make a difference?". As active investors, they make investments in which, in addition to the financial resources, they can add value to their knowledge, their experience and their relationships. In order to live up to this smartmoney approach and to be able to actively influence the corporate design, they usually require the involvement of the Board of Directors. The scope of the participation depends on the requirements.
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- Industry: Information Services, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $699k–$9.6M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Meteomatics — Meteomatics is a company that specializes in the specific IT needs of the weather, energy and trading industries. With more than 10 years of experience in the development of market leading forecasting systems and the rapid processing of weather data, they are happy to assist you with tailor-made solutions.
- Catchfree — Catchfree uses a proprietary process to produce seafood substitutes that are appealing to consumers due to their excellent flavor, texture, appearance, and nutritious content.
- memox. — Memox Innovations provides workshops, scheduling, and meeting spaces. Memox Innovations was founded in 2016 and is based in Zürich, Zürich.
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 523
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $560k–$4.4M; Series A $1.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dialog — Dialog is the AI shopping assistant that transforms conversations into conversions, giving each shopper a tailored, in-store experience online.
- Explora Project — Explora Project is specializing in adventure travel and expeditions to the 4 corners of the planet and all environments.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
Anja Graf is an individual investor and real estate entrepreneur .
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- Industry: Retail, Marketing, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.3M; Angel $100k–$350k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fabas — Explore Fabas Solutions' innovative, sustainable, plant-based yogurt mixes. Perfect for creating high-protein, vegan dairy alternatives from natural ingredients, driving food industry innovation.
- 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.
Yves Latour is the Co-Founder of 3wVentures. Yves Latour attended the University of St.Gallen.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Search Engine
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $150k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
Aare Ventures - der Berner, Freiburger und Solothurner Business Angel Club. Bei unseren Veranstaltungen pitchen jeweils bis zu 10 top Startups aus der Region und der Schweiz.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Industrial Automation
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Switzerland
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- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
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- qCella — qCella Impregnate natural fibers with copper and utilize them to create heating mats that outperform commercially available heating wires. When linked to a power source (e.g., a battery), the mats have the right electrical resistance over the entire structure, allowing them to heat uniformly.
- Yoordi - scan order pay — We implement your desired concept according to your design. For efficient service and more satisfied guests. Order with tip calculator in just a few clicks. Without app download.
- Fairpicture — Fairpicture offers ethical photo and video production and consulting services, working with local photographers and videographers and experts worldwide.
Swiss Post positions its services at the junction between the physical and digital worlds, building on an impressive range of physical products by supplementing them with an increasing number of digital solutions.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $2M–$4.6M; Series A $5M–$40M; Series B $4.2M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Metaco — Metaco provides mission-critical infrastructure enabling institutions to strive in the digital asset economy.
- GUURU Solutions — Discover how community-powered advice can turn your PDPs into trusted, high-converting content and get cited in AI search.
- Matternet — Matternet is a technology platform for urban aerial delivery. In March 2017, Matternet became the first company in the world to be authorized for urban drone delivery operations in Switzerland. In May 2018, the company was selected to participate in the FAA's Drone Integration Pilot Program for operations in North Carolina and San Diego. InMarch 2019, Matternet and UPS announced a partnership to implement drone delivery services at US hospitals and launched the first ongoing revenue drone delivery operation in US history at Wakemed in North Carolina.Founded in 2011, Matternet is headquartered in Mountain View, California
Fidelity Ventures brings resources to portfolio companies that go far beyond the capital. Their experience, track record, and unique business relationships propel new products and services into the marketplace.They leverage their relationship with Fidelity Investments, one of the pre-eminent early adopters of technology, to engage its activenetwork of over 6,000 IT executives and business leaders with an annual IT budget of over $2.5 billion.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Series A $5.8M–$27M; Series B $7.5M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2004
Portfolio highlights
- Akeana — Akeana is a venture funded RISC-V startup founded in early 2021 by leaders in our industry. Our semiconductor IP offerings include low end microcontroller cores, mid-range embedded cores, high end laptop/server cores along with coherent and non-coherent interconnects and accelerators.
- Safe Security — Incubated from IIT Bombay in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, Lucideus has over 200 customers worldwide with an average NPS of 73.Backed by John Chambers and senior executives from SoftBank, Sequoia, PayPal, Adobe and McKinsey & Co., it was also one of the Top 5 Contributors to the NVD of the U.S. Government in 2019.Its platform, SAFE,allows an organization to get an Enterprise-Wide, Objective, Consistent & Real-Time Visibility of it’s overall Cyber Risk Posture. Built on supervised machine learning engine, SAFE gives an output both in the form of a breach likelihood score (between 0-5) and the $ value Risk the organization is sitting on, along with providing prioritized actionable insights based on technical cybersecurity signals, external threat intelligence, and business context of what and where are the "weakest links" across people, process and technology.The company, since 2018, has also been working with MIT for a joint research and development on the SAFE Scoring Algorithm and has received several awards including the Morgan Stanley CTO Innovation Award 2019.
- Tenstorrent — Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI. Headquartered in the U.S. with offices in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley, and global offices in Toronto, Belgrade, Seoul, Tokyo, and Bangalore, Tenstorrent brings together experts in the field of computer architecture, ASIC design, RISC-V technology, advanced systems, and neural network compilers.
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Browse database — It's Free!Collective63 is a swiss based consultancy specialized in consumer / customer centric transformation and growth.
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- Industry: Big Data, Analytics, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Largo.ai — We make the data-driven movie-making accessible to the market through our high level film understanding technologies. Largo has developed data-driven intelligence, which can be introduced much earlier in the life of a film project, right from script choice and development, through filming, post-production and theatrical release. Largo empowersproduction companies with data-enhanced ROI uplift and reduction of risk.
Swiss Prime Site AG is a real estate investment company. The Company owns business and mixed-use business/residential buildings in commercial centers in Switzerland.
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- Industry: Hospitality, Real Estate, Construction
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- FenX — FenX is a recyclable insulating product that turns mineral waste into usable resources to support a circular economy. Real estate developers, construction companies, and architects can now access non-flammable insulation materials for construction processes. the company's portfolio of recyclable insulation materials, which includes foamproducts and foam formulations made from readily available waste or natural materials with CO2 emissions.
- memox. — Memox Innovations provides workshops, scheduling, and meeting spaces. Memox Innovations was founded in 2016 and is based in Zürich, Zürich.
Venture Capital made in Switzerland Who we are Strong Investment Portfolio more than 40 companies funded Our portfolio Driving digital transformation By backing successful founders Our approach 01 We drive digital transformation in Switzerland Spicehaus Partners AG is an independent Swiss venture capital investor, fully owned by its partners. We focus on early-stage companies in
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $874k–$2.8M; Series A $3.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $54M in 2019
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- xorlab — xorlab offers machine-intelligent email security that stops advanced phishing, business email compromise, and other emerging threats at first sight.
- Xcert AI —
- AICA SA — AICA believes programming robots should be at everyone's reach. We combine Artificial Intelligence & an intuitive interface, to help you relocate your production.
Serpentine Ventures (SERV) is the investment arm of the Swiss startup group. Serpentine refers to the meandering roads found across the Swiss Mountains. Unreachable mountain peaks become accessible by following the serpentine path.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United States
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- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Pre-Seed $650k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
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- Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
- Evulpo — Creating Futures - For students from Year 3 to Year 13. Exactly according to the national curriculum. Learn always and everywhere with evulpo.
- Isochronic — Isochronic manufactures industrial robotic products for pick and place applications by transporting multiple parts simultaneously.
Metavallon VC focuses on early stage (Pre-Seed and Seed) investments across sectors in Greece and Europe. With an affinity for B2B models, deep technology, and strong ties with Greece, we back pioneering teams and work alongside ambitious entrepreneurs operating at the forefront of business and technology innovation.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Greece, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $531k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$850k
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
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- Yaspa — Yaspa uses open banking to enable instant bank payments. Our A2A platform provides a seamless experience for verified payments, deposits & withdrawals
- Biopix-T — Biopix-T is a certified designer and manufacturer of molecular diagnostic devices for the point of care. Our new device is the Pebble
- BIOEMTECH — Medical Devices, Medical Imaging
Deutsche Beteiligungs is an investment company. The firm prefers to make investments across a broad range of sectors, including automotive supplies, machine and plant construction, printing, media, and packaging, industrial services, logistics, and measuring and automation technology.
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- Industry: Fashion, Data Center, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Italy, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Series A $15M–$15M; Private Equity $6.9M–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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- Itelyum — Itelyum is a provider of sustainable solutions for industrial waste recycling.
- Great Lengths — Great Lengths Hair Extensions: luxury quality, ethical sourcing. Great Lengths extensions are 100% virgin Remy hair. GL Pre-Bonded: premium hair extensions #SimplyCreative GL Tapes: adhesive extensions. #SimplySmart We aim at making extensions a synonym for self-care and well-being, a safe and beauty tool.
- Bug Bounty Switzerland — Bug Bounty Switzerland operates a cybersecurity platform connecting organizations with ethical hackers to identify software vulnerabilities. The company provides tools and managed programs for continuous security testing, allowing businesses to run coordinated vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty initiatives. Its system supports data-drivenanalysis and AI-assisted workflows to help monitor, validate, and manage security findings across digital environments.The platform also offers advisory and implementation services that help organizations design and operate bug bounty programs aligned with their systems and security needs. It focuses on enabling structured collaboration between security researchers and companies to improve vulnerability detection and response processes.
Founderful operates as a venture capital firm and a Switzerland’s leading pre-seed fund.
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- 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
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- 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.
Sam Lim
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- Industry: Apps, Blockchain, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Switzerland
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- 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.
We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 205
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.
- Insempra — Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as theprogramming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.
- ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
Andy Honess - Founder and Owner @ JumpXL
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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 — CreditEnable is a global SME credit marketplace, works with large Private Sector Banks, NBFCs and Fintech Leaders with more than Rs 70,000 crore to lend to SMEs for loan requirements of ₹ 10 L to ₹ 30Cr with lender rates starting from 9%.CreditEnable’s lender solutions enable profitable growth by substantially reducing the time involved withunderwriting SME loans, provide efficient access to quality borrowers and improve the quality of SME loan books. CreditEnable’s borrower solutions help SMEs better understand lenders’ credit requirements, get prepared for debt and secure the capital they need at an affordable rate.
- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, CRM
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
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.
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- Industry: Events, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, United States
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- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
- Sandbox — Sandbox is a global community for young entrepreneurial people. It helps young, entrepreneurial, and passionate individuals who like to develop and build new things.Sandbox’s mission is to identify ambitious young people and to help them become global leaders by connecting them with peers and mentors. Its team includes entrepreneurs, designers,opera singers, investment bankers, academics, and more.Sandbox enables its users to find their professional peers in any field of expertise, in any region, and at any time; build up their social presence in the network and connect online as well as offline; communicate with members across borders and industries in a secure private environment; and receive updates about the network, follow other members, and share ideas of their own.Sandbox was founded by
- 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.
Edipresse is an international media group. Headquartered in Lausanne Switzerland, Edipresse Group's main activities are magazine publishing and digital media.
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- Industry: CRM, Big Data, Payments
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Switzerland
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- SmartWall (SwissPay) — SmartWall is a monetization platform for media and advertisers that drives engagement, loyalty, interactions and more revenue.SmartWall personalizes reader experience through differentiated customer journeys. It optimizes settings in real-time based on user engagement, traffic sources, type of content and many other data points. It providespublishers and media with a powerful marketing tool to understand and segment their audience to find each user's tipping point towards conversion.SmartWall allows publishers to sell digital content without any friction, on their website or their mobile applications. The SmartWall technology relies on Machine Learning algorithms, behavioral analysis and reading context to instantly select the best suited advertising, the proper price for news articles or the best subscription offer.SmartWall allows advertisers to boost engagement and interactions from users through an utmost advertising space.
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.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Mindstone — Save content from anywhere, boost motivation, and learn in no time! Building better learning habits starts right here, with Mindstone.
- 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.
Mediahuisis a venture capital arm of the independent publishing and media company is on a mission to support founders who are changing the way we learn and work. As a lead investor, MHV participates in European EdTech & HRTech companies, from Series A and beyond.
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- Industry: Education, Human Resources, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
- WorkerHero — Bei DriverHero findest du Fahrerjobs in Vollzeit, Teilzeit oder Minijob. Jetzt anmelden und Jobangebote von Unternehmen erhalten!
- Impactpool — Job vacancies in the European Union, United Nations and International Organizations.
Sébastien Lorber - Open-Source developer - Docusaurus @ Meta
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- Industry: Video Editing, Developer Tools, Productivity Tools
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Remotion — Remotion is a react tool that helps developers programmatically create videos and video apps.
Alex Ott founded CrossContinentalVentures in 2002. He is a veteran in the enterprise software industry with operational and board level experience on four continents.He has been partnering with many entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and Israel in building thought leading technology enterprises that seek to make a difference such as QlikTech whomhe was an investor and is a current board member.Before founding CrossContinentalVentures, Alex was a member of the Executive Committee of Siebel Systems, where he was responsible for building a major presence in EMEA as VP and General Manager, growing revenues, customer and employee base tenfold in just two years. He then ran the Americas geography, Siebel’s largest market with revenue responsibilities of over $1B.Prior to Siebel Systems, Alex played key executive roles within SAP AG (member of the extended global board) and SAP America (Executive Committee member) for almost a decade. Latterly, he held the position of CEO SAP International and Senior VP of Latin America, dramatically growing revenue and profitability through a sustained increase in SAP's Latin American infrastructure and the establishment of new subsidiaries.Alex holds a degree in Economics and Business Management from University BA of Mannheim, Germany.
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- Industry: Software, CAD, CRM
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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 — Boosts productivity, cuts costs, and enhances decision-making with secure, private, and accurate AI-driven enterprise intelligence at scale
- 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.
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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- 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.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1421
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5.5M–$60M; Series B $12M–$140M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Endo Health — Reverse Your Diabetes With a Game
- Contrast Security — Contrast Security application security software unifies security and development with one DevSecOps platform and increases accuracy and productivity.
- Fulcrum Technologies — Fulcrum Technologies is a software company that offers software for asset management. Fulcrum develops software for Asset Lifecycle Management, Warehouse Management, GIS Tracking, Document Management, Regulatory Compliance, and many other areas.
Yuri Gurski has been building international IT and media businesses for more than 15 years as an executive, entrepreneur, investor, and startup mentor. Yuri is acclaimed for his extraordinary number of business exits: the firms that Yuri funded and advised have been acquired by Google, Facebook, Farfetch, Playtech.Yuri is a Co-founder & CEOat Palta, a health & well-being technology company led by entrepreneurs on a mission to create a global positive impact. Across its consumer-centric health products, Palta already has more than 300 million users in apps like Flo, Simple, Zing, and others. It has also set an ambitious goal to empower more than 1 billion health-aware people with innovative health and wellness products. Headquartered in London with offices also in Vilnius, Limassol, and Warsaw, Palta has over 800 employees across its product companies. In 2021, Palta raised $100 million in a Series B funding round led by Per Brillioth at VNV Global, with the participation of Target Global and other existing and new investors. Yuri Gurski is a distinguished MBA alumnus of Kozminski University (in Warsaw/Poland). Yuri has received numerous awards, including Belarus Entrepreneur of the Year (2010 and 2011); Startup Mentor of the Year (2014), and Best Belarusian Entrepreneur Under 40 (2016).
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Women's, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Belarus, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $840k–$1M; Series A $7.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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