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Top 50 Medical Startup Investors in Switzerland in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Medical startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Medical companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Medical Startup Investors in Switzerland in December 2024

Investor	Medical Switzerland investments
Zürcher Kantonal Bank	17
Verve Ventures	13
Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT)	10
BioMedPartners	6
BlueOcean Ventures	5
Swisscom Ventures	5
StartAngels Network	5
GoBeyond	4
Polytech Ventures	4
Schroder Adveq	4
3wVentures	4
Versant Ventures	4
Sofinnova Partners	4
4FO Ventures	4
Fongit Seed Invest	4
Sunstone Life Science Ventures	4
Eclosion SA	4
New Enterprise Associates	4
Broadview Ventures	3
OrbiMed	3
VINCI CAPITAL	3
M Ventures	3
EIT Health	3
Bernina BioInvest	3
Inserm Transfert Initiative	3
Alpana Ventures	3
Gilde Healthcare	3
SICTIC	3
Founderful	3
Endeavour Vision	3
Index Ventures	3
Zühlke Ventures AG	3
EQT Life Sciences	3
Novartis Venture Fund	2
Grazia Equity	2
Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund	2
VI Partners	2
ORTHO INNOVATIONS	2
Healthspan Capital	2
Boundary Holding	2
EVA Basel	2
Penny Schiffer	2
Innosuisse	2
Bpifrance	2
Viva BioInnovator	2
Lichtsteiner Foundation	2
Ysios Capital	2
Reference Capital SA	2
The William K. Warren Foundation	2
4See Ventures	2

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Zürcher Kantonalbank - as an independent, incorporated public-law institution - is wholly owned by the canton of Zurich.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, Japan, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Somagenetix — Somagenetix is a new firm that wants to be a leader in gene therapy by developing first-in-class treatments for phagocyte-related illnesses. Somagenetix's mission is to use genetically modified phagocytes to treat patients suffering from immunodeficiency, neurodegeneration, and cancer with brain metastases.
Drone Harmony AG — Drone Harmony was founded in 2016 by a team of problem solvers with a passion for drones, software and automation. From their very early days, they have set out to tackle the mathematical and engineering challenges of enabling cost-effective deployment of drone technology in industries, where existing technologies were unable to deliver.DroneHarmony reinvents the way people fly drones commercially. Its 3D flight planning software turns anyone with a drone into an inspection professional. Sophisticated algorithms reduce complex industrial inspection tasks to automated and scalable workflows.
Lymphatica Medtech — Lymphatica Medtech is a medical device development company developing a minimally invasive solution for chronic lymphedema.Lymphedema is the chronic swelling that generally occurs in the arms or the legs.Lymphedema is most commonly caused by the removal of or the damage to the lymph nodes as a part of cancer treatment. It results from ablockage in the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune system. The blockage prevents the lymphatic system from draining excess fluids, and the fluid buildup leads to swelling, infections, and pain.Unfortunately, there is no cure for lymphedema. It can be managed with early diagnosis and diligent care of the affected limb, through daily compression, bandages, and manual drainage sessions. From the moment of the diagnosis, the life of lymphedema patients changes forever.Cancer and cancer-related interventions (i.e. surgery, radiotherapy) are frequent causes of lymphedema occurring both in the upper and lower limbs. Breast cancer survivors are at high risk for developing lymphedema, as well as patients treated for melanoma, pelvic and head and neck cancer or other cancer treatments that require lymph node dissection. Physical trauma can also result in lymphedema, a major cause of lymphatic disease among wounded veterans.Lymphedema is associated with significantly impaired quality of life, skin changes, increased risk of infection and in rare cases lymphedema itself may undergo malignant transformation.Lymphatica offers a permanent solution that will allow patients to regain their normal lifestyle.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

The Foundation for Technology Innovation gives financial assistance to creative and technological projects at various phases of development. FIT funds projects in energy and the environment, information and digital technology, life sciences and health, precision industries, and nutrition and agriculture.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Aspivix — ASPIVIX is developing a new generation of medical devices that make gynecological procedures gentler and safer for women and gynecologists. The first device, CAREVIX, is designed to prevent cervix bleeding using a suction technology to replace traumatic tenaculum (forceps).
Xemperia — Xemperia provides diagnostic solutions that helps to detect breast cancer and early diagnosis of relapses.
Ex Nunc Intelligence — Ex Nunc Intelligence provides professionals with thorough summaries of legal information, credible responses to legal issues, and automated legal document preparation features.

BioMedPartners is one of the leading European venture capital firms providing private equity and mezzanine financing to early- and mid-stage healthcare and human life science companies. They target the entire industry with special focus on pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostics and medical technology.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
Switzerland, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Tricares — TRiCares is a medical device company, devoted to developing a catheter-based valve replacement system for minimal invasive treatment of tricuspid valve regurgitation.
ImmunOs Therapeutics — ImmunOs Therapeutics AG is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing next generation and novel human immunomodulatory proteins with a role in both innate and adaptive immunity.Their mission is to develop the next generation of novel therapeutics that will improve the lives of patients with serious disease.
Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and

BlueOcean Ventures SA provides capital, operational and company development advisory support (mentoring, company management, divestment experience, network, negotiation support) to entrepreneurs in Switzerland. BlueOcean Ventures is based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland, India, France

Portfolio highlights

nPloy — Simply set your filters and get matched with your dream job! Let top employers apply for you & connect with them via chat or a video call.
CyanoGuard AG — Our award-winning cyanide testing and optimizing solution is ideal for the mining, food, and medical field. It's easy to use, digital and offers real-time data.
99RetailStreet — 99RetailStreet is an eCommerce Cloudplatform for the unorganized Retail business in the developing countries. Our ecosystem targets Retailers, Distributors, and Manufacturers. 99RetailStreet provides POS solutions to Retailers, Real-Time Analytics to Manufacturers and Distributors

Swisscom Ventures is an venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, that specializes in early stage tech investments founded in 2007.Swisscom Ventures invests in growth companies with emerging business models and technologies of strategic relevance to Swisscom's core business. As a value-add investor, Swisscom brings its investees the technicalexpertise and strategic insights of an incumbent telecom operator. We act as a bridge to Swisscom's operational business units, which portfolio companies can also leverage as a test environment for their products and services.Swisscom Ventures seeks minority stakes in companies related to the information/communications/entertainment space.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

rready — Boost internal innovation and engage employees with ready-to-use programs, accompanied by experts in intrapreneurship.
xFarm Technologies — The agricultural business is becoming more and more complex due to legal requirements and product certification. On the other hand, technologies evolve and create opportunity. xFarm is a startup that aims at the digitization of agriculture, providing innovative tools that can support farmers and food supply chain's stakeholders in themanagement of their companies. Created by farmers and tailored to the agricultural sector, its main focus is on ease of use, intuitiveness and complete adaptability to agricultural realities. The digital ecosystem includes a free agricultural application, available on both mobile and desktop and integrated with advanced premium modules, a dashboard Analytics dedicated to professionals and a line of IoT sensors selected, optimized and connected by xFarm.
Kyan Health — Prioritise your employees' mental health and well-being with Kyan Health. Our evidence-based solutions address employees' mental well-being, stress at work & boost your workforce productivity.

StartAngels Network is a Zurich-based angel investment firm that provides investment consulting services.

Investment focus

Medical Device, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Medyria — Medyria is a Swiss medtech startup that engineers technologies for cardiovascular catheter navigation and sensing. They develop a unique guiding and sensing medical device based on proprietary Blood Flow Velocity Sensor technology. The TrackCath System is designed to be cost-effective and safe during EVAR procedures.Medyria's goal is todevelop devices that enable safer and more effective endovascular procedures. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland.
Pipra — PIPRA AG (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk assessment) is developing a cutting-edge AI-based pre-operative test to assess a patient's risk of suffering from cognitive disorders after surgery.
Hylomorph — Hylomorph is a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovative materials designed to transform the biocompatibility of implantable medical devices.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Medical, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States, Spain

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

Schroders Capital provides investors with access to a broad range of private asset investment opportunities, portfolio building blocks and customised private asset strategies. With over $65 billion assets under management, we offer a diversified range of investment strategies, including real estate, private equity, secondaries, venture capital, infrastructure, securitised products and asset-based finance, insurance-linked securities and impact investing.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series C, Series A
Switzerland, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Bizongo — Bizongo is a Tech-Enabled B2B Platform for Packaging, Apparels & Other Customised Goods. We digitally transform vendor management & supply chain.
Lenskart — Lenskart, the first of its kind online optical store in India, has made it possible to acquire a good quality pair of specs with prescription lenses for just Rs. 399, all this while you sit in the comfort of your home. With a 48-hour free home delivery guarantee and 365 days return policy, Lenskart.com is doing what e-commerce hasn’t been able todo in India yet.The website has over 500 designs of eye frames, in multiple colors, for all age groups, from Rs. 399 all the way to Rs. 4,000 for a pair. All one needs to do is select a frame, fill in their power, and place an order. You can pay online or at the time of delivery.Lenskart.com has the biggest collection of discounted contact lenses consisting of all top-notch brands (viz. Johnson & Johnson, Bausch & Lomb, Ciba Vision are to name a few) and be it disposable, toric, colored or bifocal contact lenses, you can find all possible types here. Lenskart is dedicated to providing its customers with a simple, hassle-free way to replace their contact lenses. One can receive the exact same contact lens, their doctor prescribed, delivered to their door, at a great price.
Memo Therapeutics — Memo Therapeutics AG (MEMO) is an innovator in the field of antibody discovery and immune repertoire analysis.Its MemoMAB™ platform creates a recombinant in vitro copy of an individual’s B cell / antibody repertoire, which is then banked as a library. The resulting unique, large and relevant antibody libraries represent the individual’simmune repertoire and are expected to contain an unprecedented number of relevant and rare antibodies. This leads to entirely new possibilities in immune repertoire analysis and antibody discovery.MemoMAB™ is deployed in proprietary antibody lead discovery programs and is made available in collaborations.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
Switzerland, Spain, Austria

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 — GUURU's Community Solution enables trustworthy and authentic live conversations between shoppers and your customer community.
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.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Switzerland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

858 Therapeutics — 858 Therapeutics is a stealth company specializing in the area of healthcare services, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Diego, California, USA.
Antag Therapeutics — Antag Therapeutics operator of a biotechnology company intended to develop metabolic and anti-obesity therapeutic drugs.The company specializes in the development of peptide-based GIP receptor antagonist in order to monitor dietary-related metabolic diseases through the infusion, enabling the healthcare industry to decrease blood flow and lipiduptake in adipose tissue in an efficient manner.
Pep2Tango Therapeutics — Pep2Tango Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that offers superior unimolecular multi-receptor drugs for obesity and related disorders.

Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

deepc — The Radiology AI Platform - Your effortless access to AI
Genespire — Genespire is a biotechnology company focused on the development of transformative gene therapies for patients affected by genetic diseases, particularly primary immunodeficiencies and inherited metabolic diseases.
Micropep Technologies — Micropep Technologies developes a non-GMO new generation of bioherbicides and biostimulants. Micropep, founded in 2016 in Toulouse, focuses on bioherbicides and biostimulants. The company uses plants’ natural molecules, called “micro-peptides”, to temporarily control expression of their genes and regulate plant growth but leaving their DNA intact.The company currently works on four development programs: germination, flowering, growth, and weed control.

4FO Ventures

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Positrigo — NeuroLF is an ultra-compact brain Positron Emission Tomography system. Our technology makes functional imaging accessible for people worldwide.
Ecorobotix — ecoRobotix contributes to an agriculture that respects the environment, focusing on soil and hydrological resources conservation and using a minimum amount of energy. ecoRobotix aims to offer precise, safe, reliable and affordable robotic solutions that simplify farmers’ life to produce healthy food. In particular, its revolutionary solar-poweredweeding robot offers a more sustainable use of herbicides while reducing farmers costs.
ARTIRIA Medical — Artiria Medical empowers catheters and guidewires. We develop cutting edge technologies to revolutionize the limits of neurointerventional procedures, enabling a seamless navigation and stroke treatment.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

EBAMed — EBAMed SA is a Swiss startup based in Geneva whose mission is to enable safe and effective non-invasive treatments of heart arrhythmias with protontherapy. The company is currently developing a medical device to enable non-invasive heart motion imaging and real-time synchronization of the therapeutic beam. This device consists in both hardware andsoftware components and expands treatment possibilities for existing protontherapy centres, enabling them for the first time to treat heart patients.
Gmelius — Gmelius is the world's first 360 email collaboration platform designed for Gmail and your company's daily apps. Join the async movement!
Annaida Technologies — Annaida Technologies has developed a groundbreaking device, EmbryoSpin, that performs microscopic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (“µNMR”) at a scale 10-fold better than existing technologies.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Kynexis — Kynexis is leading the way in precision medicine, focusing on the treatment of cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia (CIAS). Explore our innovative approach and our dedication to improving the lives of millions globally.
Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.
Rewind Therapeutics — Rewind Therapeutics is a developer of novel therapeutics intended to facilitate the treatment for neurological diseases.The company's first-in-class remyelinating therapeutics block inhibitory signals that prevent the expansion and migration of oligodendrocyte stem cells in order to promote effective remyelination, enabling medicalpractitioners to treat patients suffering from multiple sclerosis and other myelin-related diseases with efficacy.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
Seed, Series C, Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

KYLYS — KYLYS is an innovative Swiss company based in Geneva founded in March 2017. KYLYS provides people and patients with highly effective and safe products based on biomolecules.
Genkyotex — Genkyotex is dedicated to the development of innovative drugs which block enzymes that produce oxygen radicals. Such novel drugs will allow the treatment of oxygen-radical mediated acute and chronic diseases, with improved specificity, safety, and efficacy over existing antioxidants therapy, giving them a significant competitive advantage.Genkyotex targets its technology initially to the therapeutic areas of cardiovascular, metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases.
MPC Therapeutics — MPC Therapeutics develops a novel class of compounds with application in Immunotherapy and Metabolic diseases

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
Fastino — Fastino provides enterprise AI developers with high-performance, task-optimized language models built to scale.
Avenzo Therapeutics — Developing the next generation of oncology therapies for patients.

Broadview Ventures, Inc. (Broadview) was established in 2008 as a new program conceived by the Leducq family. Through Broadview, the trust will work to accelerate the development of promising technology in cardiovascular and neurovascular disease through targeted investment in and support of early stage technology ventures.The FoundationLeducq, based in Paris, France, is the beneficiary of a charitable trust. In order to further the Foundation Leducq's mission in cardiovascular and neurovascular disease, the trust has made funds available to Broadview to develop a program which will promote early state technology in these fields through investments, licensing agreements and consortium funding arrangements, as well as professional, management and consulting support.With this initiative the trust joins other leaders in the venture philanthropy movement in seeking creative solutions to the problem of what is commonly referred to as the 'translational gap', a significant component of which is a lack of funding at a critical moment in the development of new technology and science.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Aria CV — Learn about Aria CV's novel implantable medical device designed to treat pulmonary hypertension (PH). Our elegant device has no battery, pump, or electronics.
XII Medical — XII Medical is a medical device developer company. It develops a minimally invasive outpatient technology for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.
CorFlow Therapeutics AG — CorFlow Therapeutics is a medtech startup that develops proprietary technologies for diagnosis and treatment of microvascular obstructions in heart attack patients. The CorFlow technologies enable interventional cardiologists to diagnose and treat MVO in severe heart attack patients thereby potentially reducing the short- and long-term complicationrates in these patients.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

ADCendo — ADCendo ApS is a biotech company dedicated to developing new types of anti-cancer drugs. We focus on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) directed at novel targets, that have been found to be overexpressed by several cancer forms, that are all characterized by a significant unmet need for novel treatment.
Avenzo Therapeutics — Developing the next generation of oncology therapies for patients.
Lomond Therapeutics — Targeting escape mutations in hematological cancers with first and best in class medicines.

Vinci Capital is a leading Swiss private equity firm with over MCHF 200 under management. Since 1998 they have provided equity to over 30 Swiss technology and industrial companies to finance innovation, growth and succession-buyouts.Their investment team capitalizes on 40 years of cumulated experience in private equity and a solid operationalbackground in growth, turn-around, consolidation, IPOs and M&A situations.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Anergis — Anergis, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, discovers and develops allergy vaccines based on the technology of Contiguous Overlapping Peptides for ultra-fast desensitization. It offers vaccines against birch pollen, ragweed pollen, and house dust mite allergies. Francois Spertini founded Anergis in 2001. Its headquarters in Lausanne inSwitzerland.
SENSIMED — Sensimed designs, develops, and commercializes integrated micro-systems for medical devices. The company’s product portfolio includes SENSIMED Triggerfish, a product that offers an automated recoding of continuous ocular dimensional change over 24 hours. Sensimed is now focused on expanding the knowledge of how this individual data can best beused in the clinical setting to deliver customized treatment. The 24 hour profiles are being centralized on a registry together with patient and treatment information. The data is being analyzed and modeled on an ongoing basis in an attempt to identifying pathological patterns that can be used to differentiate indication, personalize treatment and assess efficacy following treatment.Sensimed was founded by Matteo Leonardi and Sacha Cerboni in August 2003 and is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Beqom — beqom is a Total Compensation Management Software Solution focused exclusively on managing compensation & performance for HR & Sales.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Enara Bio — Enara Bio is a science-led company targeting the T-cell/cancer cell interface (the “immune synapse”) to develop new targeted cancer immunotherapies designed to treat a broad patient population. Enara Bio focuses on discovering and developing therapeutic cancer vaccines utilizing novel antigens derived from endogenous retroviral (ERV)-relatedDNA sequences.
IonKraft — IonKraft can provide better performance at a lower cost while maintaining recyclability, they also promote material reduction and reuse and are commercializing the technology with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).
Kivu Bioscience — At Kivu Bioscience, we leverage advanced, next-generation proprietary ADC technologies to deliver more precise and effective cancer treatments.

EIT Health is a network of best-in-class health innovators backed by the EU. We deliver solutions to enable European citizens to live longer, healthier lives.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Ochre Bio — Ochre Bio is developing therapies for the biggest liver health challenges.
Trak — Trak is a software tool for healthcare professional to provide AI-based tele-rehabilitation services like physiotherapy and others.
Nanordica Medical — Nanordica Medical develops novel nanoparticle-based antibacterial wound care products.

Bernina BioInvest is an investment Firm.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

HAYA Therapeutics — Pioneering next-generation therapies for fibrotic diseases. Learn more about our approach here.
Memo Therapeutics — Memo Therapeutics AG (MEMO) is an innovator in the field of antibody discovery and immune repertoire analysis.Its MemoMAB™ platform creates a recombinant in vitro copy of an individual’s B cell / antibody repertoire, which is then banked as a library. The resulting unique, large and relevant antibody libraries represent the individual’simmune repertoire and are expected to contain an unprecedented number of relevant and rare antibodies. This leads to entirely new possibilities in immune repertoire analysis and antibody discovery.MemoMAB™ is deployed in proprietary antibody lead discovery programs and is made available in collaborations.
Synendos Therapeutics — Synendos Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that aims to develop breakthrough safe and effective therapies for unmet needs in neuropsychiatric disorders through modulation of a new drug target in the endocannabinoid system that enables restoration of natural functioning of the brain.

Inserm Transfert Initiative is a seed stage life science vehicle currently managing about â‚¬4.2M for the financing of new biotech companies. Inserm Transfert Initiative is the new investment vehicle of INSERM in France.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
France, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Eyevensys — Eyevensys is a address critical unmet needs in ophthalmology by providing a much better way of delivering ophthalmic drugs that overcomes the limitations of current options, such as intravitreal injections, surgery, intravitreal implants and biodegradable formulations. All of these current options have their drawbacks, given they are invasiveprocedures. Eyevensys’ goal is not only to improve short and long term therapeutic outcomes, but also to enhance compliance, improve ocular bioavailability and tolerability.They plan to build a high value product pipeline by enabling sustained production of therapeutic proteins in the eye that will deliver improved clinical outcomes while reducing the burden of frequent intravitreal or systemic injections and other invasive procedures.
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Aelis Farma — Aelis Farma is a pioneer in the development of signaling specific therapeutics that target GPCRs (and more specifically the CB1 receptor which is one of the most expressed GPCRs in the brain). GPCRs are the target of most therapeutic drugs. This family of receptors has the characteristics to activate several and often opposing signaling pathways.Unfortunately, most of the drugs acting on GPCRs either block or stimulate the entire signaling activity of the receptor resulting in unwanted and sometimes unacceptable side effects.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland, Germany

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.

Gilde Healthcare is a specialized European healthcare investor managing two business lines: a lower mid-market buy-out fund and a venture & growth capital fund. It has over €800 million ($900 million) under management and is actively looking to lead new investments in digital health, diagnostics, medical devices, therapeutics and healthcareservices. Gilde successfully builds healthcare businesses across Europe and US, investing up to €35 million in a single portfolio company.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, The Netherlands, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ADCendo — ADCendo ApS is a biotech company dedicated to developing new types of anti-cancer drugs. We focus on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) directed at novel targets, that have been found to be overexpressed by several cancer forms, that are all characterized by a significant unmet need for novel treatment.
SynOx Therapeutics — SynOx Therapeutics is a biotechnology research company that focused on developing the treatment of diffuse tenosynovial giant cell tumors. SynOx Therapeutics raises EUR 37m to develop emactuzumab to improve the lives of patients with tenosynovial giant cell tumors November 16, 2020. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Dublin City, Ireland.
Purespring Therapeutics — Purespring Therapeutics is an AAV gene therapy company focused on the kidney globally.

SICTIC connects smart money investors to Swiss seed and early-stage tech startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

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Pelt8 — Pelt8 enables climate action through the platform with scalable processes and controls to collect sustainability-related data in an easy and traceable way.
Creaitor — Creaitor is the ultimate solution for content producers, offering a comprehensive suite of AI tools and integrated SEO features. Streamline your content creation process and optimize your online presence with our powerful platform.
Health Yourself — Health Yourself is making routine healthcare services available digitally and from home. So far, we are offering lab tests from home, medication subscriptions and personalised supplements for health concerns ranging from sexual health to prevention.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada

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Sallea — Sallea is dedicated to pioneering a sustainable future in meat and fish consumption by developing innovative structures for cellular agriculture. This approach allows cells to grow into textured and flavorful whole cuts, ensuring that the products are not only cruelty-free but also safe for consumers. By focusing on these unique methods, Salleaaims to transform the way we think about protein sources, making them more environmentally friendly and ethically produced.
Apheros — Apheros is a metal foam cooling solutions company. It offers a patent-pending, easily scalable manufacturing approach for metal foams with unique cooling qualities.
Kyan Health — Prioritise your employees' mental health and well-being with Kyan Health. Our evidence-based solutions address employees' mental well-being, stress at work & boost your workforce productivity.

Endeavour Vision is an investment advisory firm focused on transformative healthcare technologies.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Series C, Series B, Series A
United States, Switzerland, France

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Gynesonics — Gynesonics is a women’s healthcare company focused on the development of advanced incision-free solutions for the treatment of uterine conditions. Gynesonics serves customers worldwide. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Nalu Medical — Nalu Medical is an early-stage company that develops a range of medical devices. Their vision to modernize and improve the technology in medical devices, thus improving the lives of people.The Nalu neurostimulation system is a battery-free, micro-implantable pulse generator (iPG) currently cleared by the FDA for both Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) for mitigating chronic pain. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Carlsbad, California.
Kestra Medical Technologies, Inc. — Kestra Medical Technologies is a wearable medical device and digital healthcare company that protects patients with diagnostic and therapeutic technologies that are intuitive, and mobile. They provide intuitive medical technologies to protect and support at-risk patients.

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

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Tessl — Tessl transforms software development for the AI era with its innovative AI-native development approach. Its AI-powered development platform provides secure, high-quality, and self-maintaining code tailored to the user's requirements.
Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.
Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.

Zühlke Ventures AG is a venture capital arm of Zühlke Technology Group AG specializing in financing of start-ups at an early stage and providing growth capital. It seeks to invest in the technology and medical devices companies. It typically invests in German-speaking Europe and Great Britain.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland, Sweden, United States

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Evismo — Evismo provides diagnostics services in Switzerland
Healios AG — Healios CTMS provides the Digital Biomarker based technology and digital validation scales to improve and streamline research and clinical practice.
Flow Neuroscience — Looking for an at-home, non-invasive depression treatment? Flow treats your symptoms with a brain stimulation headset and virtual behaviour therapy. Money-back guarantee.

EQT life science develops innovative medicines, devices, and tools to address the single important thing that matters to the preservation of health. The organization believes that such opportunities add value to all stakeholders.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, The Netherlands, Switzerland

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Asceneuron — Asceneuron develops effective therapeutics for orphan tauopathies and Alzheimer’s disease. By focusing on areas of high unmet medical need, Asceneuron aspires to become a leading biotech company specialized in small molecule drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases.Tauopathies are currently untreatable neurodegenerative diseases thatrapidly progress towards debilitating conditions. The appearance of deposits of the microtubule-associated tau protein as e.g. neurofibrillary tangles in neurons of the brain is a common feature of tauopathies that is shared with Alzheimer’s disease. Neuronal tau deposits are known to be a major contributor to neurodegeneration and mutations in the tau gene are causative of the tauopathy fronto-temporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17).Due to increasing life expectancy, Alzheimer’s disease is viewed as one of the largest healthcare problems of this century, imposing a major economic burden on societies in the Western and developing world. Current treatment options provide limited benefits supporting the urgent need for more efficacious and better tolerated medicines that address symptomatic relief as well as disease progression.
PanTera — PanTera wants to bring a new hope to cancer patients by enabling the widespread use of radiopharmaceuticals for personalised treatment of tumors
ATB Therapeutics — ATB Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that provides novel therapeutic solutions and treatments for cancer patients.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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Hyku — Hyku Biosciences is developing the next generation of covalent medicines by targeting histidine, tyrosine and lysine binding pockets in disease-causing proteins.
Exsilio Therapeutics — Exsilio's method is based on naturally occurring genetic elements that can accurately insert new genes into cells via RNA intermediate templates. Exsilio employs predictive in-silico modeling and wet lab-based experiments to create such elements for accurate insertion of therapeutic genes into safe harbor regions of disease-relevant cells.
Enterprise Therapeutics — Enterprise Therapeutics is a drug discovery company dedicated to the researchand development of novel therapies for the treatment of respiratory diseases.In diseases such as cystic fibrosis, asthma and COPD the lungs become congested with mucus leading to difficulty in breathing. New disease modifying therapies that target the underlyingmechanisms of mucus congestion will reduce the frequency of lung infections and improve patient quality of life.

Grazia Equity is a venture Capital firm investing in innovative, technology driven startups with high potential.Based in Stuttgart (Germany), Grazia has been supporting a large number of mostly young companies, often from their foundation to the Initial Public Offering or eventual sale. In contrast to other venture capital firms, theypredominantly work with their own capital that they invest as entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, Switzerland

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VYTAL — Start the Packaging Revolution! We are offering smart & reusable To-Go Packaging-as-a-Service to gastronomy clients & consumers.In Germany the consumption of take-away, convenience and delivery food & drinks is responsible for about 281 kilotons of single-use packaging waste for immediate consumption and is growing at double digitrates. Most of the time, To-Go food containers, snack boxes or coffee cups have a very short life-span of only 30 minutes after which they are tossed into trash (or litter parks, beaches & the ocean). This is not only a giant waste of economic resources as each single use costs between 15 and up to 0,60€ for a stable bowl/box with a lid. It is a horrendous waste of environmental resources (wood, water, crude oil, metals & energy) that are used to produce this packaging. Therefore, a single use packaging not weighing more than 30 grams can easily come with an ecological backpack of more than 8 kilograms when taking into account all the resources used in production (material intensities taken from Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy). Looking at GHG emissions, the picture is similarly bleak: Using CO2 emission factors and the detailed material mix of the single-use packaging waste analyzed by NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union), the 281 thousand tons waste from To-Go consumption generated around 556 thousand tons of CO2 or the equivalent of 195k passenger cars per year (assuming an average distance travelled of 15,000km). With the expected rise of take-away, convenience and delivery food, the related emissions are expected to increase at double digit rates as waste volume is expected to increase and as we saw a shift to plastics relative to cardboard or other materials. While there is a growing awareness of the problem, especially in Germany, there is no scalable solution yet and the commonly used alternative of nature-based & ‘biodegradable’ materials like bagasse or PLA also require many resources for production & transport, and have to be incinerated or go to landfill after use as there is currently no way to compost them.
ZAGENO — ZAGENO is a multi-vendor, online marketplace of life science products which, by simplifying the procurement process, saves more time for science.
Hypatos — Manual document processing is a major cost driver. Hypatos' deep learning tech automates complex document processing tasks. Make back office more efficient!

The Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund is the strategic venture fund of the Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, Belgium

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Aignostics — Aignostics is an AI-powered precision diagnostics focused on pathology to assist with drug development and clinical research. Its “explainable” AI overcomes the “black-box” limitations of conventional AI. Based on their patented technology for reverse-engineering the black box, they render diagnostic results explainable in the form of preciseheatmaps and image overlays. These heatmaps allow pathologists to quickly verify the results of the AI, which is crucial, as the pathologist is ultimately responsible for the diagnosis.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Glox Therapeutics — Developing novel precision antibiotics based on protein bacteriocins, to target Gram-negative Antimicrobial Resistant (AMR) pathogens.
Asgard Therapeutics — Asgard Therapeutics is a private biotech company exploring the application of direct cell reprogramming technologies for cancer immunotherapies. Formed as a spin-off from Lund University, the Company is pioneering a gene therapy approach based on its proprietary TrojanDC technology, designed to set in motion immune responses based on the biologicalproperties of professional antigen-presenting cells.

VI Partners are Venture Capitalists successfully financing outstanding teams and innovations in the Healthcare and Technology space since 20 years.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Series A, Series B, Series C
Switzerland, Germany, United States

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XO Life — XO Life is to build the largest real-world evidence platform for patient insights for all medications and therapies. Together with one of Europe's leading research institutes for patient-centered research, the PROMIS Institute Germany of the Charité, and various pharmaceutical manufacturers, patient experiences are to be recorded in astandardized and systematic manner across a wide range of diseases. Patients are to be enabled to record their therapy course and outcome independently as well as scientifically validated so that these patient insights from real treatment practice can be used in the life science industry and by medical professions.
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.
Somagenetix — Somagenetix is a new firm that wants to be a leader in gene therapy by developing first-in-class treatments for phagocyte-related illnesses. Somagenetix's mission is to use genetically modified phagocytes to treat patients suffering from immunodeficiency, neurodegeneration, and cancer with brain metastases.

Ortho Innovations is a manufacturer of orthopedic products. The company's products are the elbow brace, knee brace, hyperflexion elbow, wrist, flexion-extension, wrist pronation, supination, and hip abduction orthosis.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed
Switzerland

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KetoSwiss — KetoSwiss is a Swiss-based BioTech startup that strives to bring ketone bodies back into the modern world to combat diseases. It develops and clinically tests a novel nutraceutical/medical food for the dietary preventive therapy of higher-frequency migraines and possibly other related neurological diseases characterized by a metabolicdysfunction (such as Alzheimer's disease). KetoSwiss is headquartered at the Technologie Park Basel, in Basel Switzerland, where it is part of a dynamic scientific and entrepreneurial community composed of world-leading academic research laboratories, flourishing life sciences spin-offs and s world-leading biotech-startup-ecosystem.

Healthspan Capital is an early-stage longevity venture capital firm that invests in biotechnology startups developing therapies to slow or reverse aging.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

KetoSwiss — KetoSwiss is a Swiss-based BioTech startup that strives to bring ketone bodies back into the modern world to combat diseases. It develops and clinically tests a novel nutraceutical/medical food for the dietary preventive therapy of higher-frequency migraines and possibly other related neurological diseases characterized by a metabolicdysfunction (such as Alzheimer's disease). KetoSwiss is headquartered at the Technologie Park Basel, in Basel Switzerland, where it is part of a dynamic scientific and entrepreneurial community composed of world-leading academic research laboratories, flourishing life sciences spin-offs and s world-leading biotech-startup-ecosystem.
ImmuneAGE Bio — ImmuneAGE Bio is the first drug discovery platform company focused on immune system rejuvenation.
Reservoir Neuroscience — Reservoir Neuroscience is a biopharma company that develops novel therapeutics to repair dysfunctional blood vessels in the brain. Reservoir Neuroscience was founded in 2019 and is based in Emeryville, California.

Boundary Holding is a European deep tech investment firm with presence in Luxembourg and France that invests in technologies enabling 4th industrial revolution.

Investment focus

Drones, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland, India, France

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Aero41 — Aero41 is developing a drone entirely dedicated to crop protection, a flexible and intelligent platform that will integrate AI and collect data to make crop protection more and more eco-responsible while being effective to ensure the necessary yields.
Neo Medical — Neo aims at transforming the current approach to spinal surgery by providing a unique answer to the worldwide strive for healthcare cost optimization through efficient, versatile and high quality systems.
Remidio Innovative Solutions — Remidio is engaged in designing & developing Smart, Innovative & Disruptive Imaging Technologies in Vision Care, using a product development approach called “Design Thinking”.As part of the Design Thinking process, Remidio takes into account different facets of a customer’s experience with a product, as part of its overall productdesign approach, with the intent of inventing a new customer experience with the product.Customers can be an amazing resource to glean insight and understanding, but they are generally not able to articulate their latent and anticipated needs. Remidio hence focuses on making quick functional prototypes, that can then be given to the customer to understand these latent needs while observing their use of the prototypes.Founded by professionals with a passion for product innovation, Remidio is currently focussed on creating game changing products and solutions in the ophthalmology space.We look at constraints posed by a developing nation context- infrastructure, skilled resources and affordable pricing as an opportunity to innovate.We bring to market very high quality products that are reliable and extremely simple to use.

EVA is sparring partner for new entrepreneurs in the Life Sciences with planned base in north-western SwitzerlandThey support start-ups by helping to bridge the gap between their business idea and the successful commercialization of their life sciences projects, innovations and technologies.They provide thorough coaching and activelyencourage contact with their wide-ranging network of experts and investors as well as providing seed-phase investments.In science and technology transfer, they act as the link between researchers, universities’ scientific liaison offices, potential investors and the market.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical Device, Medical
Seed, Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AOT - Advanced Osteotomy Tools — AOT AG is a privately owned Swiss Robotic Surgery company, which spun out of the University Hospital and the University Basel (Switzerland) in 2011 and was first funded in 2012. The company is dedicated to the development, manufacturing and sales of medical devices for osteotomy pursuing the vision of contact-free bone surgery using laser,robotics and navigation systems to re-invent bone surgery (osteotomy).
POLYNEURON — Polyneuron is a developer of novel therapeutics intended to facilitate the treatment of antibody-mediated autoimmune diseases. The company's biodegradable glycopolymers-based therapeutics selectively eliminate the pathological autoantibodies, while leaving the rest of the immune system intact, enabling medical practitioners to treat patientswith immune disorders in a safe and effective manner.
Memo Therapeutics — Memo Therapeutics AG (MEMO) is an innovator in the field of antibody discovery and immune repertoire analysis.Its MemoMAB™ platform creates a recombinant in vitro copy of an individual’s B cell / antibody repertoire, which is then banked as a library. The resulting unique, large and relevant antibody libraries represent the individual’simmune repertoire and are expected to contain an unprecedented number of relevant and rare antibodies. This leads to entirely new possibilities in immune repertoire analysis and antibody discovery.MemoMAB™ is deployed in proprietary antibody lead discovery programs and is made available in collaborations.

Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Finance
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Versameb — Versameb AG is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company located in Basel, Switzerland managed by an experienced scientific and business pharmaceutical industry team. The company’s focus is the development of novel RNA-based therapeutics. Versameb’s proprietary VERSagile technology platform enables efficient development of functional mRNAmolecules for customized protein expression and modification in multiple disease areas with high unmet medical need.
Enterprise Bot — Cost-effective Conversational AI solutions transforming customer interaction for global enterprises. Discover cutting-edge chat, email, and voice tech.
Scientific Visual — Scientific Visual supplies quality control workstations to visualize defects in non-polished sapphire such as watch covers, ingots and wafers.

Innosuisse’s role is to promote science-based innovation in the interests of industry and society in Switzerland.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GaitQ — Improving the quality of life for people affected by Parkinson's through better management of gait freezing.
Atinary — Atinary is an end-to-end AI, machine learning, robotics, and cloud computing technology platform for digitizing R&D operations.
Ascento — Secure, maintain, and inspect outdoor assets by reducing the intervention times and augmenting data capturing capability.

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
Biolevate — Accelerating Therapeutic Innovation: AI-Enhanced Workflow Automation
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

Viva BioInnovator (VBI) is the specialized investment and incubation arm of Viva Biotech Holdings. We focus on the initial creation and development of biotech startups across all indications and drug types. During the early stages of drug discovery, we can nurture and accelerate a startup's growth from idea to clinical program. VBI'sunique investment and incubation model started out of necessity in 2014. Our roots are in drug discovery services, where we operate world-leading and proprietary drug discovery platforms. While serving big pharma customers from around the globe, we came to realize the huge demand from many entrepreneurs who have great ideas but cannot receive funding to advance their plan due to lack of data. We saw the value in many of these innovative ideas and provided our CRO drug discovery services, operational support, and monetary backing to help these creative scientists embark on the "0 to 1" transformation. This spark launched our "equity for service (EFS)" investment and incubation model. VBI is based in Shanghai, with an office in Boston and personnel in California. As of early 2019, VBI has invested in over 30 companies out of the hundreds of proposals submitted for review and we plan to invest at a rapid pace in the years to come. The majority of our current portfolio companies are US based, but we are open to proposals globally and are excited to see new ideas that fit our investment strategy. If you would like to learn more about us, please visit: www.vivabioinnovator.com Or send an email to innovation@vivabiotech.com If you would like to learn more about our parent company, Viva Biotech, please visit: www.vivabiotech.com

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

ArrePath — ArrePath is an anti-infective drug discovery company addressing the global health challenge of drug resistant infections.
Deka Biosciences — Deka BioSciences, Inc. is committed to developing and delivering life-changing medicines to patients with cancer and inflammatory diseases.
TechnoDerma Medicines — TechnoDerma Medicines focuses on the research and development of innovative skin drugs for external use.

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

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Healios AG — Healios CTMS provides the Digital Biomarker based technology and digital validation scales to improve and streamline research and clinical practice.
Testmate Health — 2 in 1 urine test with immediate results for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Results within minutes & 100% anonymous.
Limula — Limula provides a unique platform technology enabling scale out of cell therapy production. By bringing manufacturing closer to the patients, our solution will broaden access to these highly personalised treatments. Our patented solution is composed of an automation unit and single use kits, allowing healthcare providers to safely manufacture CGTin a decentralized manner. We support companies at all stages of the cell therapy life cycle, from R&D to routine production.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
Spain, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

ADCendo — ADCendo ApS is a biotech company dedicated to developing new types of anti-cancer drugs. We focus on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) directed at novel targets, that have been found to be overexpressed by several cancer forms, that are all characterized by a significant unmet need for novel treatment.
Memo Therapeutics — Memo Therapeutics AG (MEMO) is an innovator in the field of antibody discovery and immune repertoire analysis.Its MemoMAB™ platform creates a recombinant in vitro copy of an individual’s B cell / antibody repertoire, which is then banked as a library. The resulting unique, large and relevant antibody libraries represent the individual’simmune repertoire and are expected to contain an unprecedented number of relevant and rare antibodies. This leads to entirely new possibilities in immune repertoire analysis and antibody discovery.MemoMAB™ is deployed in proprietary antibody lead discovery programs and is made available in collaborations.
Engrail Therapeutics — Engrail delivers transformational therapies that improve the lives of patients with devastating neurologic, neuropsychiatric, and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Reference Capital is a privately held advisory firm dedicated to researching and investing in disruptive technologies which will transform the world we live in. Our team is composed of seasoned VC investors and family office managers primarily based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
All Day Kitchens — Virtual Kitchen operates as a platform that empowers restaurants to take full advantage of the delivery opportunity. Its delivery-optimized kitchens and technology unlock delivery coverage with minimal upfront investment. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Kingdom Supercultures — Kingdom Supercultures create microbial cultures that help food manufacturers to create new foods with boosted benefits. It re-assembles nature's microbes into new combinations, creating plant-based foods that taste like dairy, low-alcohol beverages with full flavor, and natural preservatives that work as well as artificial ones.They workwith clients across diverse industries including food, beverage, personal care, beauty, and more. Their technology comprises an expansive biobank of GRAS microbial strains, high-resolution strain characterization, and new algorithms for predicting and assembling microbial communities.

The William K. Warren Foundation focuses on people and aims to improve the human condition on earth as a response to and in thanksgiving.The foundation's goal is to make medical care available to all patients utilizing Saint Francis Health System, and to this end, it annually supports various medical programs. In addition to the hospitalsand clinics, the foundation created The William K. Warren Medical Research Centre in 1973, which provides funds to medical investigators who participate in advanced medical research and creates environments that allow for the best possible delivery of care.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

KetoSwiss — KetoSwiss is a Swiss-based BioTech startup that strives to bring ketone bodies back into the modern world to combat diseases. It develops and clinically tests a novel nutraceutical/medical food for the dietary preventive therapy of higher-frequency migraines and possibly other related neurological diseases characterized by a metabolicdysfunction (such as Alzheimer's disease). KetoSwiss is headquartered at the Technologie Park Basel, in Basel Switzerland, where it is part of a dynamic scientific and entrepreneurial community composed of world-leading academic research laboratories, flourishing life sciences spin-offs and s world-leading biotech-startup-ecosystem.
Spring Health — Eliminating barriers to mental healthcare. Clinically-proven technology with world-class providers to deliver precisely what your employees need.
iRecommend Software™ — iRecommend Software™ develops intelligent business solutions utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and dynamic data modeling.In a consumer-driven economy, businesses across all industries, are facing the challenge to remain relevant and provide highly personalized products and services.iRecommend's leading solution,Recommendation360™ is a recommendation engine with applications across multiple industries, including recruiting, real estate, retail/e-commerce, entertainment, travel, government, and healthcare. These industry-specific solutions enable businesses to generate hyper-personalized recommendations of products and services for their customers. Recommendation360's proprietary technology rapidly aggregates and analyzes millions of data points from the public domain to provide the right products or services to the right person at the right time. Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma with offices in Oklahoma City, New York, San Francisco, London, and Dubai.

4see ventures is a Swiss venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs who are defining the future. We focus on real game-changers in their industries who are having a positive impact on society.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Security
Seed, Series C
Switzerland, Israel

Portfolio highlights

CYSEC — Secure your sensitive data in the cloud and in the edge with ARCA Trusted OS and open the door to innovation with confidential computing.
PowerAPI — Foodetective enables F&B businesses to integrate & manage their entire tech stack from a single OS & platform. Increasing online revenues and visibility as well as removing all operational & administrative tasks. Our vision is to become the intelligent OS & interface of the F&B industry.
HAYA Therapeutics — Pioneering next-generation therapies for fibrotic diseases. Learn more about our approach here.

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