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Top 25 Organic Food Startup Investors in Switzerland

A list of 25 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Organic food startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Organic food companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Organic Food Startup Investors in Switzerland

Investor Organic Food Switzerland investments
Ralph Gygax 5
Werner Hoffmann 4
Adrian Bührer 2
Redalpine 1
BackBone Ventures 1
Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) 1
b2venture (formerly btov Partners) 1
Fundament 1
SICTIC 1
Five Seasons Ventures 1
Fabio Borzatta 1
Raiffeisen Schweiz 1
Haltra Group 1
Müller Ventures 1
Andrea Jansen 1
Landscape Resilience Fund 1
Polytech Ventures 1
IDH 1
JD Investments 1
Privilege Ventures 1
Ringier Digital Ventures 1
Ruedi Noser 1
Myke Naf 1
Triodos Investment Management 1
BayWa 1
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Ralph Gygax Angel · Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
Ralph Gygax is a Chief Administrative Officer at SWISS Gate AG. He attended KV, SVIT from 1999 to 2007.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • SWISS Gate AG — SWISS Gate AG is a family-run Swiss company founded in November 2019 by brothers Dominic, Marco & Michael Hoffmann with the support of their father Werner Hoffmann and uncle Ralph Gygax.SWISS Gate AG focuses with its positioning on the areas of Lifestyle & Wellbeing. The offered product assortment ranges from CBD Anti-Aging and Day Creamsto Skin Creams as well as Shampoo, Shower Gel or Conditioner to Hemp Foods like Hemp Tea or Hemp Seed Oils to CBD Hemp Flowers to CBD Hemp Oil for humans and animals.SWISS Gate AG exclusively distributes its products of the company-owned brands Herbalea and Old Donald's through selected resellers as well as through the company-owned e-commerce channel cbuy.ch - Alles Gute aus Cannabis.SWISS Gate AG manufactures all products together with exclusive partners from the cosmetics, food & consumer goods industry and has the exclusive production & distribution rights over the products.SWISS Gate AG has launched its Series A financing round in mid-September 2021 with the goal to raise CHF 5'000'000. Currently, CHF 200,000 of this amount has been raised. The financing round is currently open - interested parties can contact CEO Marco Hoffmann directly via the contact details.
Werner Hoffmann Angel · Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
Professional experience: Expert for Risk Management and Public Relations Strategic & operational responsibility Compliance & Safety Management Decades of leadership experience as colonel & professional military pilot in the Swiss Air Force
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • SWISS Gate AG — SWISS Gate AG is a family-run Swiss company founded in November 2019 by brothers Dominic, Marco & Michael Hoffmann with the support of their father Werner Hoffmann and uncle Ralph Gygax.SWISS Gate AG focuses with its positioning on the areas of Lifestyle & Wellbeing. The offered product assortment ranges from CBD Anti-Aging and Day Creamsto Skin Creams as well as Shampoo, Shower Gel or Conditioner to Hemp Foods like Hemp Tea or Hemp Seed Oils to CBD Hemp Flowers to CBD Hemp Oil for humans and animals.SWISS Gate AG exclusively distributes its products of the company-owned brands Herbalea and Old Donald's through selected resellers as well as through the company-owned e-commerce channel cbuy.ch - Alles Gute aus Cannabis.SWISS Gate AG manufactures all products together with exclusive partners from the cosmetics, food & consumer goods industry and has the exclusive production & distribution rights over the products.SWISS Gate AG has launched its Series A financing round in mid-September 2021 with the goal to raise CHF 5'000'000. Currently, CHF 200,000 of this amount has been raised. The financing round is currently open - interested parties can contact CEO Marco Hoffmann directly via the contact details.
Adrian Bührer Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Adrian Bührer
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Subscription Service, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
  • UNOWN — Unown is a service and SaaS provider for the fashion industry. Our goal is to revolutionize the way we buy & sell clothing and thereby save 100,000 tons of CO2e every year. We believe that through our leasing, subscription and pre-loved services, we can use resources smarter and create higher value per asset.We enable brands to secure theirshare in the growing secondary markets. They lease out their assets through our revenue share model and get access to deep usage data. We enable customers to experience fashion with a completely new mindset. Our service allows them to rotate their wardrobe while maintaining an efficient and conscious lifestyle.
  • Farmy.ch — Farmy.ch is an online marketplace for local and organic food, directly from farmers and food makers. It places a lot of importance on the selection of producers and its uncompromising focus on quality and transparency. The company smart logistics and own fleet and e-mobiles deliver these goods incomparably fresh, emission-reduced, and time-savingdirectly to users’ front doors with its own fleet of e-mobiles.Farmy.ch provides online retailing of fresh and local food products with more than 10'000 hand-picked products from more than 1'000 authentic producers. It also offers products include fruits and vegetables, cheeses from Swiss dairies, meat, delicacies, and sweet temptations from real bakers and confectioners, as well as pantry and drugstore items. Farmy.ch was founded in June 2014 by Roman Hartmann and Tobias Schubert and is based in
Redalpine VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 11 investments in the past 12 months
redalpine is a thesis-driven vc with deep expertise in software and science. since 2006. we believe in the power of big ideas and in empowering game changers. we don't just invest, we co-create a better tomorrow. together with you.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Aktiia — Founded in Switzerland in May 2018 out of a passion to turn insights into action in the fight against hypertension, Aktiia’s groundbreaking medical technology provides people and their physicians comprehensive insights into blood pressure patterns that will inform the diagnosis and management of hypertension. Now available in the United Kingdom,Aktiia has received its CE Mark as a Class IIa medical device - signifying that the device has been assessed to meet high safety, health and environmental protection requirements in Europe. To learn more, visit Aktiia.com.
  • Infinite Roots — Mushlabs is a biotech company using fermentation to create the next generation of sustainable foods from the roots of mushrooms.
  • Morressier — A platform geared towards the scientific community. From managing abstracts to presenting research content in a virtual conference or in-person meeting.
BackBone Ventures VC Fund · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Financial Services, Robotics
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
  • Switzerland, Germany, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Aepsy — Aepsy is a mental health care located in Zürich,Switzerland and part of the Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services Industry.
  • SQUAKE — We help your business to create sustainable products. Made for travel and logistics companies.
  • Fermify — We are here to domesticate microorganisms and build simple and fully automated production platform to address the issue of large-scale milk protein production
Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) VC Fund · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) has been helping startups since 1994, encourages entrepreneurship & supports innovation.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
  • Switzerland, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Voltiris — Voltiris filters natural sunlight to transmit it to plants and recycle the "wasted" sunlight into green electricity.
  • PeriVision — At Perivision, we combine artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and the cloud to build the next generation systems to understand visual function. Our systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.
  • SwissInspect — SwissInspect is a platform for traceable structural digital twins of infrastructure. Detect and quantify damage using state of the art ai models.
b2venture (formerly btov Partners) VC Fund · Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland · 11 investments in the past 12 months
B2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Yendou — We make it unbelievably easy, for clinical operations teams, to manage site selection activities for oncology clinical trials.
  • DUDE CHEM — DUDE CHEM is a leading company in green chemical manufacturing based in Berlin.
  • Aeovian Pharmaceuticals — Aeovian is a San Francisco based biopharmaceutical company developing novel and highly selective therapeutics modulating mTORC1 pathway.
Fundament VC Fund
Fundament
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Children, Nutrition
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
  • Sematic — Sematic is an open-source Continuous Machine Learning platform that enables ML teams to build better and safer ML models faster.
SICTIC VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 4 investments in the past 12 months
How to Invest in Swiss Startups That Last The SICTIC Investor community helped to fund to more than 254 Swiss tech startups to date. While doing so, they learned a lot about what to watch out for and how to foster success. Read more Get your FREE angel handbook Services For Startups We invite all
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Gaia Tech — Gaia Technologies turns agricultural sidestreams into high-value ingredients for cosmetics, food, and feed manufacturers.
  • PeriVision — At Perivision, we combine artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and the cloud to build the next generation systems to understand visual function. Our systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.
  • 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.
Five Seasons Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Five Seasons Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm entirely focused on innovative companies along the food and agriculture supply chain. Consumers are becoming more conscious about their nutritional choices and they are changing their dietary preferences to healthier food, extreme convenience, cleaner labels, and higher sustainability. Thefirm provides reliable capital, technology, and food experience, and a network of industry contacts to European food tech entrepreneurs who create new food categories, develop cleaner processes and ingredients and use technology to enable new and disruptive business models.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Food Processing
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Germany, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Mammaly — Mammaly, a pet health startup that develops a range of snacks specifically targeting and helping reduce the severity of common aging dog issues.
  • La Fourche — At La Fourche we believe healthy consumption should be affordable to everyone and our mission is to offer everyday organic products to "the 99%". Based on a a subscription model, our platform offers thousands of organic products with up to 50% discount and allows families to reduce up their spending up to 1000€. Join us!
  • Spacegoods — Spacegoods | The Next Generation Wellness Brand We create all-in-one mushroom & adaptogen blends that help you unlock your very best self - tastes great, super potent, made in England - try for yourself today...
Fabio Borzatta Angel
Fabio Borzatta
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Agriculture, Organic Food
  • Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Farmy.ch — Farmy.ch is an online marketplace for local and organic food, directly from farmers and food makers. It places a lot of importance on the selection of producers and its uncompromising focus on quality and transparency. The company smart logistics and own fleet and e-mobiles deliver these goods incomparably fresh, emission-reduced, and time-savingdirectly to users’ front doors with its own fleet of e-mobiles.Farmy.ch provides online retailing of fresh and local food products with more than 10'000 hand-picked products from more than 1'000 authentic producers. It also offers products include fruits and vegetables, cheeses from Swiss dairies, meat, delicacies, and sweet temptations from real bakers and confectioners, as well as pantry and drugstore items. Farmy.ch was founded in June 2014 by Roman Hartmann and Tobias Schubert and is based in
Raiffeisen Schweiz VC Fund · Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
Raiffeisen Switzerland has a cooperatively structured group is one of Switzerland's leading retail banks.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics
  • Debt Financing
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • SWISS Gate AG — SWISS Gate AG is a family-run Swiss company founded in November 2019 by brothers Dominic, Marco & Michael Hoffmann with the support of their father Werner Hoffmann and uncle Ralph Gygax.SWISS Gate AG focuses with its positioning on the areas of Lifestyle & Wellbeing. The offered product assortment ranges from CBD Anti-Aging and Day Creamsto Skin Creams as well as Shampoo, Shower Gel or Conditioner to Hemp Foods like Hemp Tea or Hemp Seed Oils to CBD Hemp Flowers to CBD Hemp Oil for humans and animals.SWISS Gate AG exclusively distributes its products of the company-owned brands Herbalea and Old Donald's through selected resellers as well as through the company-owned e-commerce channel cbuy.ch - Alles Gute aus Cannabis.SWISS Gate AG manufactures all products together with exclusive partners from the cosmetics, food & consumer goods industry and has the exclusive production & distribution rights over the products.SWISS Gate AG has launched its Series A financing round in mid-September 2021 with the goal to raise CHF 5'000'000. Currently, CHF 200,000 of this amount has been raised. The financing round is currently open - interested parties can contact CEO Marco Hoffmann directly via the contact details.
Haltra Group VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Belgium
HALTRA,THE BEST IS YET TO COME. The world belongs to our children and future generations. We are committed to building a sustainable future with them and for them, listening to their expectations.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Farming, Organic Food
  • Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Koa Switzerland — Exploring the cocoa fruit's full potential with Koa. Craft delicious creations, packed with flavour and positive impact. Learn more about the 100% natural cocoa fruit products.
Müller Ventures VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Müller Ventures operates as a family-owned company. Müller Ventures invests in food and beverage early-stage start-ups.
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Children, Nutrition
  • Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
Andrea Jansen Angel
Andrea Jansen
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Children, Nutrition
  • Angel
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
  • Aepsy — Aepsy is a mental health care located in Zürich,Switzerland and part of the Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services Industry.
Landscape Resilience Fund VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
The LRF aims to mobilize finance for climate adaptation projects for sustainable agricultural & forestry supply chains & that improve the resilience of smallholder farmers in developing countries.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Farming, Organic Food
  • Debt Financing
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Koa Switzerland — Exploring the cocoa fruit's full potential with Koa. Craft delicious creations, packed with flavour and positive impact. Learn more about the 100% natural cocoa fruit products.
Polytech Ventures VC Fund · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Polytech Ventures are an early stage VC firm based in Switzerland with a strong international focus. Their strategic location at EPFL in Lausanne grants us access to one of the most dynamic and recognized innovation centers in the world
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Investment focus
  • 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 a Bitcoin investment app that allows anyone to buy bitcoin within one minutes or set up an automated savings plan.
  • Earny — Payroll management built for Startups & SMEs. Swiss payroll service with no hidden fees & no hassle
IDH VC Fund · Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative is a social enterprise that works with businesses, financiers, governments and civil society to realize sustainable trade in global value chains.
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Investment focus
  • Water, AgTech, Farming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Mozambique, Switzerland, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • LendXS — LendXS is a digital credit services platform which provides loan performance management tools for rural financial institutions
  • Koa Switzerland — Exploring the cocoa fruit's full potential with Koa. Craft delicious creations, packed with flavour and positive impact. Learn more about the 100% natural cocoa fruit products.
  • Chicoa Fish Farm — Rethinking the Potential of African Aquaculture
JD Investments VC Fund
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, AgTech, Medical
  • Series A, Series C
  • China, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • LifeDojo — LifeDojo is turning the traditional corporate wellbeing model upside down, by giving employees a platform to design their own health behavior change programs. The result? Large, self-insured employers achieve unprecedented engagement, leading to 45% of employees creating new health habits that stick for 6+ months. With a demonstrable 4.4x ROI ina $31B industry where long-term behavior change is rare, LifeDojo is being trusted by the world’s largest companies to reduce healthcare costs, improve productivity, and inspire a genuine culture of health.
  • SiBionics — SiBionics is a medtech specialized in R&D & commercialization of implantable medical devices and medical imaging artificial intelligence.
  • AgroSustain — AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. It aims to reduce food waste and support organic food production by developing farm to fork solutions, like biological fungicides and coatings.
Privilege Ventures VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Privilege Ventures is the venture capital arm of Privilège Management and invest in seed and early stage companies. Geographical focus is Switzerland and the rest of Europe. Focus sectors are industrial-tech, med-tech, wearables and in general ICT.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Hardware, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Wyth — Wyth makes technologies that help humans create meaningful relationships by bringing emotions, stories and connections beyond the interface.
  • Smeetz — Smeetz is the future of a unified, data-driven and dynamic pricing-oriented commerce for attractions and cultural venues.
  • Avelo — Our mission is to save lives by bringing fast and actionable infectious disease diagnosis closer to the patient. Avelo's solution is a breath collection device. It works with existing molecular tests to detect multiple respiratory tract infections causing pneumonia
Ringier Digital Ventures VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Are you a digital startup with a clear unique selling proposition looking for investment? Find out how to partner with us.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Switzerland, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
  • Regimen — Regimen is the first effective digital therapeutic for men's most intimate health issues – starting with erections.
  • Archilyse AG — Digital archive, smart plans Archilyse.one makes the quality of architecture and properties digitally and objectively measurable, comparable and understandable. This is all done using globally unique analyses, backed by AI. Start here and now: TEST NOW ARCHILYSE.ONE ADVISE ME
Ruedi Noser Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Ruedi Noser
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Investment focus
  • GovTech, Big Data, Politics
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Farmy.ch — Farmy.ch is an online marketplace for local and organic food, directly from farmers and food makers. It places a lot of importance on the selection of producers and its uncompromising focus on quality and transparency. The company smart logistics and own fleet and e-mobiles deliver these goods incomparably fresh, emission-reduced, and time-savingdirectly to users’ front doors with its own fleet of e-mobiles.Farmy.ch provides online retailing of fresh and local food products with more than 10'000 hand-picked products from more than 1'000 authentic producers. It also offers products include fruits and vegetables, cheeses from Swiss dairies, meat, delicacies, and sweet temptations from real bakers and confectioners, as well as pantry and drugstore items. Farmy.ch was founded in June 2014 by Roman Hartmann and Tobias Schubert and is based in
  • politik.ch – PolitAnalytics — PolitAnalytics is a data and knowledge management platform for experts in politics, fully neutral and non-partisan. We serve policy makers, public affairs / government relations experts, thought leaders and pundits, compliance managers and risk assessors, politicians and their staff, as well as scientific researchers and journalists.We usethe power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide predictive policy making analytics. Our customers can track the political development of their topics quickly and in real time, while the platform provides estimates of the speed of legal implementation, or the likelihood of success, along with knowledge management and collaboration features.
Myke Naf Angel
Myke Naf is the Managing Partner of Übermorgen Ventures.He attended University of St.Gallen.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Yokoy — Yokoy automates spend management for medium and large enterprises with artificial intelligence, combining expense management, supplier invoice management, and smart corporate cards into one single intuitive platform. In March 2019, Yokoy Group AG was created as Expense Robot GmbH.
  • Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
  • Frontify — Best-in-class software for simplifying brand management through a platform that connects everything (and everyone) important to the growth of your brand.
Triodos Investment Management VC Fund · Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Triodos is a global pioneer of sustainable banking. Their mission is to make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • India, Germany, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
  • La Bolsa Social — La Bolsa Social is an equity crowdfunding platform that aims at funding the growth of companies with a positive social and environmental impact. The platform is focused on the investors who seek a comprehensive profitability in the economic, social, and environmental sectors. It connects impact investors with companies that improve society and theenvironment. Its objective is to improve the financing of companies with growth potential that has a positive impact on society and the environment and promoting ethical finance. Founded in 2015, La Bolsa Social is authorized in Spain by the CNMV.
  • Bridge Taxi Finance — Bridge Taxi Finance offers bridge parts, accessories, vehicle management, bridge services, and panel services.
BayWa VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany
BayWa is a global corporation with the core segments of agriculture, energy and construction as well as the innovation and digitalization development segment. As a global player, it develops leading solutions and value-added projects for the basic needs of nutrition, energy and construction. Seat of 1923 founded parent company is Munich. It has itsorigins in the cooperative agricultural trade with the task to provide the rural area with everything that agriculture needs. The cooperative idea and the regional connection are still shaping the company. Traditionally, the core markets lie in southern Germany and Austria, but within the scope of a growth strategy BayWa has expanded strongly internationally in recent years. In the meantime, the company is the largest agricultural trader in Germany and one of the leading international suppliers of agricultural raw materials. The Renewable Energies business segment has developed into a significant pillar. BayWa re, which bundles all activities in the field of renewable energies, is driving its project business around the world with great success.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, AgTech, Agriculture
  • Series A, Seed, Series D
  • Israel, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Neggst — Neggst develops plant-based whole egg alternative that consists of a white, yolk, and a biodegradable shell. The company has begun pilot projects with several food service providers and is planning on launching at supermarkets.
  • Equinom — Equinom is a fully integrated food-tech company, combining agricultural know-how, culinary expertise and deep technology to develop delicious, nutritious, affordable and sustainable non-GMO plant-based ingredients – from the ground up.Sustainable, plant-based proteins are key to feeding Earth’s 10B people by 2050 The plant-based food market grew27% in 2020 and is projected to reach $162B by 2030.The industry is unable to supply the full demand for food vs. feed For decades, crops have been farmed primarily for animal feed – not for human consumption. To be palatable in human food, these crops require extensive and expensive processing. . With limited processing facilities equipped for this use, the industry is on track to supply only 50% of projected demand for plant-based foods.What is Equinom doing about it? Equinom is using science and technology to develop superior ingredients naturally, at the source – in a fraction of the time typically required to breed new crops. Equinom crops are bred naturally, without genetic editing or modification, and are optimized to make meat and dairy analogues more delicious, nutritious, cost-effective and sustainable. Ingredients designed by deep tech to bring out nature’s best The company’s proprietary Manna™ technology platform uses AI to speed the development of superior, high-yield, non-GMO ingredients as nature intended – featuring the quality traits that satisfy consumer expectations. The technology also ensures biodiversity and climate resilience that are critical to ensure food security in light of climate change. What makes Equinom a compelling foodtech investment and collaborator? Working with great partners including Meatless Farm, Roquette with GoodMills Group., Equinom is recognized as a trusted developer and supplier of unrivaled ingredients. Prestigious strategic investors such as BASF and Roquette have helped position Equinom as one of the breakout Round C companies to fuel the worldwide surge in plant-based eating.
  • AgroSustain — AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. It aims to reduce food waste and support organic food production by developing farm to fork solutions, like biological fungicides and coatings.
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