Top 10 Oil and Gas Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Oil and gas startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Oil and gas companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Oil and Gas Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026

Investor	Oil and Gas Switzerland investments
Singular	3
Agility	2
Founderful	2
Qemetica Ventures (Formerly Ciech Ventures)	1
Zürcher Kantonal Bank	1
Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT)	1
SICTIC	1
FirstMark	1
Amadeus APEX Technology Fund	1
VINCI CAPITAL	1

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Singular is a generalist venture capital firm backing ambitious European entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Germany, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Climatiq — Climatiq provides an open dataset of global emission data and the technical infrastructure you need to inform meaningful reductions to your climate footprint.We collect and maintain open climate impact datasets that are constantly expanding and improving in collaboration with the science, technology and sustainability communities, making theinsight needed for accurate calculations and decision-making readily available.To make this data applicable in real-world settings, we pair it with a simple, lightning-fast API and powerful computational tools that allow for emission calculations in real-time, powering novel climate-positive solutions.
Tsuga — Tsuga is redefining observability for the modern enterprise. Our mission is to deliver next-generation insights, clarity, and control through innovative observability solutions that empower organizations to understand, optimize, and scale their systems with confidence.
FAIRMAT — We are bringing a new, sustainable and innovative way to recycle carbon fiber composite. Thanks to our proprietary technology, we produce a recycled material with a negative footprint! It's a light and strong high-tech material designed to be used in industries such as design, mobility, electronics, construction, transport, and logistics.

Agility Global Integrated Logistics (GIL) provides supply chain solutions to meet traditional and complex customer needs. GIL offers air, ocean and road freight forwarding, warehousing, distribution, and specialized services in project logistics, chemical logistics, and fairs and events. They are distinguished by their global network and leadingposition in emerging markets; a willingness to customize solutions for their customers; an entrepreneurial culture that has led us to invest and grow in areas where others see risk; and a deep commitment to personal service for their customers and communities.

Investment focus

Apps, Solar, Travel
Series A, Series B, Series C
Egypt, Sweden, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
TVP Solar — Our target Industrial Process Heat is the largest energy sink Urgency Industrial decarbonization has yet to be addressed and is critical to achievingESG targets. TVP cuts industrial fossil fuel use
Volta Trucks — Discover the future of electric transportation with Volta Commercial Vehicles

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

Portfolio highlights

Oxyle — Permanently eliminate PFAS from your wastewater. Book a pilot and lead the way to clean, safe waters.
Zuriq — We are building a quantum computer with scalability at its heart. Trapped-ion qubits with freedom to move and connect.
Chipmind — AI agents to speed-up development of chips, design and verification, collaborative, custom and confidential with open-source EDA tools.

An open innovation platform of Ciech Group

Investment focus

Chemical, CleanTech, Recycling
Seed
Switzerland, Poland

Portfolio highlights

DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
Xampla — Xampla's natural plant polymer technology is the innovative technology powering materials to change the world with plastic-free replacements and more.
Maxterial — Maxterial modifies the surface shape or texture of versatile materials, through a method that is very affordable and easy to introduce into the existing manufacturing process. The resulting microtextured materials dramatically reduce the contact area for the objects and droplets that contact the material surface.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
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.

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, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

INERGIO — This EPFL spin-off is developing faster, portable energy units that offer ten times the power at half the weight of current technology. Founder Mahmoud Hadad’s fuel cell innovation, which uses standard butane or propane that’s safe and available worldwide, offers high autonomy. INERGIO’s fuel cell geometry allows unlimited scaling, making thetechnology suitable for applications ranging from charging consumer electronics to auxiliary power for drones to automobile fuel cells. The team has a working prototype and is looking to have its minimal viable product by summer 2020 to start the pilot project with potential partners and customers.
Brightank — Catalyzing your Decarbonization. Brightank accelerates decarbonization with ammonia cracking catalysts, turning ammonia into fuel for heavy transport, hydrogen supply, and power. EPFL spin-off
DigeHealth — DigeHealth's approach to monitoring gut health using bowel noises and body measurements could provide some really valuable insights into digestive well-being.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Qala — Qala delivers real-time data classification, discovery, and policy enforcement. Auto-classify sensitive data, map full lifecycles, and label at source.
Nextesy — Nextesy is a pioneering start-up that uses AI to simplify and automate important business processes, allowing businesses to alleviate the strain of repetitive manual procedures while increasing operational efficiency and scalability.
Scanvio — Scanvio Medical provides gynecologists, endometriosis centers and ultrasound manufacturers with an AI-guided ultrasound software for faster endometriosis diagnosis.

FirstMark is an early-stage venture capital firm in New York City. We back and accelerate founders making their mark on the world.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Clerq — Clerq makes it easy for your business to accept low-cost, guaranteed bank payments with the ease and safety of cards.
Highbeam — Highbeam is a fintech company that offers an online platform for ecommerce originators to comprehend, invest, and expand businesses. Highbeam is headqaurtered in New York, United States.
Tycho AI — Tycho AI delivers autonomous intelligence with AI that acts independently, adapts in real time, and drives mission outcomes at the edge.

Amadeus APEX Technology Fund operates as a ventures capital firm. Amadeus APEX Technology Fund will initially invest between €1-1.5M in seed and series A stage deep tech ventures with unique and defendable technology.

Investment focus

Chemical, CleanTech, Oil and Gas
Seed
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Vertus Energy — We innovate to make fossil natural gas extinct.
Fiber Elements — Fiber Elements offers technology for the fully automated production of basalt fiber reinforcement structures.
ATMOS Space Cargo — ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments, Commercial products to entire rocket stages.

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.