Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Switzerland in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Switzerland in November 2024
Investor | Payments Switzerland investments |
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Blockchain Founders Fund | 7 |
Coinbase Ventures | 5 |
Danny Hayes | 5 |
1kx | 5 |
Soheila Yalpani | 5 |
Polytech Ventures | 5 |
redalpine | 4 |
FunFair Ventures | 4 |
SICTIC | 4 |
PostFinance | 4 |
SICPA | 3 |
SOSV | 3 |
Chainfir Capital | 3 |
Shima Capital | 3 |
VentureSouq | 3 |
Verve Ventures | 3 |
KR1 | 3 |
The Pontinova Circle | 3 |
Cetacean Capital | 3 |
Fulgur Ventures | 3 |
Hashkey Exchange | 3 |
Gnosis | 3 |
Node Kapital | 2 |
Union Square Ventures | 2 |
Fenbushi Capital | 2 |
ConsenSys | 2 |
FiveT Fintech (formerly Avaloq Ventures) | 2 |
SBI Digital Asset Holdings | 2 |
SingularityDAO | 2 |
Atlantic Labs | 2 |
Buckley Ventures | 2 |
Jun Capital | 2 |
Blockwall | 2 |
Adrian Locher | 2 |
Genblock Capital | 2 |
Cabrit Capital | 2 |
GSR | 2 |
Swisscom | 2 |
Distributed Global | 2 |
Avaloq | 2 |
Aly Madhavji | 2 |
Shopify | 2 |
Swiss Founders Fund | 2 |
SIX FinTech Ventures | 2 |
Semantic Ventures | 2 |
Zand Bank | 2 |
SALT Fund | 2 |
Hayden Adams | 2 |
O-DE Capital Partners | 2 |
Chainlink Labs | 2 |
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
- KRNL Labs — KRNL Labs is a decentralized infrastructure protocol that makes smart contracts and develops an open, multichain software registry for the Web3 ecosystem. That allows developers to build dApps that can leverage multiple blockchains simultaneously.
- Persist Ventures — We bring visions to life with a full suite of agencies to help our companies start and scale.
Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Variational — Go long or short with leverage on memecoins, DEX pairs, pre-launch tokens, points markets, and more.
- OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a pioneering platform that enables secure execution of open-source models, employs agentic reasoning, and facilitates application deployment without permission.
- Trendies — Trendies is a provider of the Base Ecosystem Token Launch Platform, which is primarily designed for token holders.
As the CEO of Climate Transition Swiss AG, I lead a Swiss company that develops and finances green, resilient infrastructure projects across North America, Europe, and Japan. With over 20 years of international business experience, I have a strong track record of delivering sustainable energy solutions that create positive environmental and socialimpact.In addition to my role as CEO, I am also a Lobbyist for Climate Policy at the U.S. House of Representatives, where I focus on influencing environmental initiatives in Japan and Europe. I am passionate about advocating for climate action and fostering global collaboration on this urgent issue. I am also a member of the Forbes Business Council and a regular contributor to their climate section, where I share my insights and expertise on green business and policy.
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- Clean Energy, Cyber Security, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
- Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
- Climate Transition Development — Climate Transition Development Corporation (CTD) is leading the Green Snow Project – an innovative hybrid renewable energy venture in Northern Japan. The company's mission is to revolutionize Japan’s renewable energy sector by harnessing the abundant low to medium-heat geothermal resources available in the region.Together with ourdevelopment partners, TerraScale Inc. and Global Family, the company is committed to tackling the challenges of the geothermal energy sector and transforming the way Japan generates power. The company's work forms an integral part of the Japan-US collaboration on geothermal energy development and aims to significantly reduce fossil fuel reliance and cut carbon emissions.
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
- Predicate — Predicate network simplifies transaction prerequisites.
- Layer — Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM.
oheila is an entrepreneur with C-team leadership experience on project management and pre-master planning of large-scale smart, resilient green infrastructure projects.
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- Consulting, Sustainability, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Mountain Gate — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
- TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
- Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
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 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
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
- Albatross AI — Albatross: leading the revolution in user engagement. Our AI technology delivers unparalleled user experiences, maximizes conversions, and unlocks revenue growth. Say goodbye to manual A/B testing and poor recommendations.
- Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
- Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.
FunFair Ventures is a venture capital business .Funfair Ventures funds early stage blockchain projects with a focus on both equity and tokens.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Peru, India
Portfolio highlights
- SCRYPT Digital — Your trusted partner for crypto assets
- STYLE Protocol — Infrastructure for virtual worlds and connecting games.
- Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.
Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC) connects smart money investors to Swiss seed and early-stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
It is the fifth largest retail financial institution in Switzerland.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Rivero — Rivero Ltd. is a privately held company based in Switzerland, with a strong focus on simplifying card payments operations. Rivero provides SaaS solutions for all players in the card payment ecosystem such as issuers, acquirers and FinTechs.Kajo - Scheme Compliance Made Easy The only solution designed for and tailored to the scheme licensecompliance management. By fully digitalising and automating the administrative part of the process, Kajo drastically reduces the overhead and time spent in organising all required work to stay compliant with changing rules and requirements of payment networks. For Service Providers, Kajo makes it easy to directly access relevant publications and announcements from Mastercard and Visa that impact their business.Amiko - Fraud Recovery & Dispute Management Reinvented The first and only Fraud Recovery and Dispute Management SaaS solution. Amiko creates a whole new way to tackle fraud reporting, fraud recovery and cardholder disputes. By covering the whole lifecycle of a dispute, from pre-dispute (via Ethoca & Verifi) to arbitration rulings by Mastercard and Visa, Amiko can replace any dispute management system. With a truly end-to-end digital approach, Amiko offers a set of unique features, such as automation and cardholder self-servicing in the issuing bank app or portals.
- Doconomy — Doconomy is a Sweden-based fintech company that offers digital banking services. Their vision is of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. Doconomy wants to inspire change in behaviour and reduce unsustainable consumption and carbon emissions. Doconomy activates a circular ecosystem, connecting the consumer, the producer, the retailer andinfluencer to futureproof planet earth, and achieve a sustainable lifestyle for all.
- Credit Exchange — Credit Exchange is a financial firm that provides mortgage exchange, credit management, lending, banking, and financial consulting services.
SICPA, the leading provider of security inks and integrated security solutions, protects.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, Security
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Metaco — Metaco provides mission-critical infrastructure enabling institutions to strive in the digital asset economy.
- Biowatch — Biowatch is a user-friendly wrist veins biometric reader that functions as a security solution for mobile payment protection and smart device interaction. Users can access the app for enrolling their vein pattern and selecting applications and devices that needs to be connected to their Biowatch, wear their BioWatch and activate it by matchingtheir vein pattern with their enrolled reference, get PKI encrypted user code transmitted from their Biowatch, and start opening doors without the use of keys and passwords.Biowatch was launched by Joe Rice and Matthias Vanoni and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Arviem — Secure the integrity and quality of your cargo with portable, sensor-enabled real-time cargo security monitoring. A fully managed cargo security solution.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Chainfir Capital is a blockchain-focused venture capital institution.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Dopamine — Dopamine provides decentralized finance for everybody, everywhere and is the first end-to-end user-centered crypto mobile app.
- web3intelligence — Build wealth and trust in the world of crypto with intelligent financial tools, data and infrastructure.
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
- Ava Protocol — Ava Protocol is an event-driven EigenLayer AVS that seamlessly automates cross-chain transactions for DeFi, NFTs, games, and more.
- Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Mala Inc. — Mala provides a buy now, pay later (BNPL) solution specifically designed for B2B transactions in the MENA region. The platform enables businesses to manage their cash flow more effectively while making purchases.
- LayerPixel — LayerPixel uses a modular design to overcome TON's asynchronous limitations and leverage its sharding benefits.
- PostEx — PostEx is a hybrid of receivables factoring solutions and courier services that pay invoice values upfront to e-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.
Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.
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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.
- Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030
- 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.
KR1 is a publicly listed investment company focussed on the blockchain ecosystem. We invest in early stage projects and blockchain-based digital assets.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Avail — Avail is the essential modular blockchain base layer for next-generation, trust-minimized applications.
- Mode Network — Mode Network is a DeFi blockchain platform that builds new on-chain economic systems to enable developers to scale their applications.
- Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Bitcoin, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Wisdomise — Explore Wisdomise, your all-in-one, AI-powered platform delivering carefully curated insights and automated investment opportunities.
We place investments & form partnerships with disruptive visionaries to accelerate their ideas to market.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Portugal, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Damex — Damex is a platform for payments that provides sending and storing of cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and blockchain services.
- Wisdomise — Explore Wisdomise, your all-in-one, AI-powered platform delivering carefully curated insights and automated investment opportunities.
- Pulsar Finance — All-in-one platform for your web3 assets - all your tokens, DeFi and NFTs. Start tracking your portfolio across 100+ chains and main CEXes from a single place.
We believe in Bitcoin as a next generation politically neutral monetary system, the foundation for decentralized finance of the future. While Bitcoin is an efficient settlement layer, it needs a Layer-2 solution for everyday transactions. That is why we support development of the Lightning Network - an essential step towards decentralized finance.As technology entrepreneurs we combine decades of experience creating business from zero and scaling it in emerging and fast-growing industries.We support outstanding teams in several ways: writing checks of $50-$200k for pre-seed startups; granting rewards for acknowledged contributions to the ecosystem; providing startup advisory and mentoring; investing in later stages.Along the way we help startups to navigate cryptocurrency legal and regulatory environment according to the evolving industry standards and best practices.
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- AMBOSS — Lightning Network Explorer and Analytics Tools. Search for nodes and channels on the Lightning Network and get detailed information on them.
- Ark Labs — Ark Labs is scaling Bitcoin with Ark, a new layer two protocol for fast, low-cost, seamless payments.
Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
- Supra — Supra is the world's highest-performing, fully vertically integrated L1 blockchain, and it's about to change everything.
- Panoptic — Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle-free, instant-settlement options trading protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. Panoptic enables the permissionless trading of options on top of any asset pool in the Uniswap v3 ecosystem and seeks to develop a trustless, permissionless, and composable options product, i.e., do for decentralized options markets whatx*y=k automated market maker protocols did for spot trading.Read the whitepaper behind our product here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14232
Gnosis builds new market mechanisms for decentralized finance. Our three interoperable product lines allow you to create, trade, and hold digital assets.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Credbull — Credbull manages on-chain private credit funds that provide vital financing solutions to creditworthy small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
- Naptha AI — Naptha is a modular AI platform for autonomous agents, enabling developers to build AI applications, conduct AI research, and scale cooperative AI systems.
- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
Node Kapital provides the financial backing (SEED & Pre-sale) & operational
guidance to DeFi & NFT Protocols. We help your team with Funding, Marketing, Partnerships, Reputation Management, Exchange Listings & Scaling Up.We have +7 Years Experience With Digital Currencies from Technical, Legal & Marketing Perspective.YourSuccess is Our Success.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round
- Seychelles, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zizle — Zizle wants to use the Solana blockchain to transform social networking: better data privacy, decentralized governance, and more efficient revenue streams for consumers and producers. the platform's goal is to make social networking a more entertaining, healthy, and profitable environment.
- Aleph Zero — Discover Aleph Zero, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption and development of decentralized technologies. Learn about our mission to create a secure blockchain ecosystem and develop secure smart contracts that power the decentralized world.
- MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- SuppCo — SuppCo helps people find health supplements, manage supplement routines, and track their health.
- Ghost — The backbone for retail brands to optimize their inventory lifecycle.
- Glow Labs — Solar farms on the Glow network are paid with GLW tokens for electricity output and stablecoins for carbon credits. According to the business, their incentive model prioritizes incentives for solar farms with the greatest environmental benefit, focusing on places where clean energy can best balance high carbon emissions.
Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia. Founded in Shanghai in 2015 by veterans across both blockchain and traditional financial industries, it has to date supported over 80 leading projects across 4 continents leveraging blockchain technology to reshape myriad industries such as finance,healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods. Fenbushi’s mission is to drive healthy and sustainable growth in the global blockchain ecosystem, and actively works as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio projects.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
- Igloo — Our mission is to create the largest onchain community, driving the consumer crypto revolution.
- GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.
Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- MemeFi — MemeFi is a blending of social technology with Web3 features on-chain Social Tech app might be focusing on integrating blockchain technology with social interactions, which could offer benefits like decentralization and enhanced privacy.
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
- aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
VC focused on fintech
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Rulematch — RULEMATCH is a spot crypto trading venue based in Switzerland, built with Nasdaq technology - for financial institutions only.
- Supra — Supra is the world's highest-performing, fully vertically integrated L1 blockchain, and it's about to change everything.
- Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.
SBI Digital Asset Holdings makes early-stage investments in digital asset startups.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Switzerland, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Sygnum — Sygnum is a digital asset bank, founded on Swiss and Singapore heritage, operating globally.Rooted in two of the world’s leading financial hubs, Switzerland and Singapore, they empower institutional and private qualified investors, corporates, banks, and other financial institutions to invest in the digital asset economy with complete trust.Sygnum was founded by an experienced and interdisciplinary team of banking, investment, DLT, and regulatory experts, and is backed by a distinguished group of individuals and institutions. Together, they share a clear vision of how to transform the financial industry in the coming years through DLT banking innovation.
- Tangem — Tangem Wallet is a reliable blockchain wallet that allows you to store crypto cryptocurrencies simply and safely. Download wallet app to buy, exchange & stake favorite crypto.
- Authlete — Authlete provides a set of Web APIs with which developers implement servers supporting OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Financial-grade API, etc.
SingularityDAO is a decentralised Portfolio Management Protocol designed to enable anybody to safely and easily manage crypto assets; smart money, on-chain.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Finance, Web3
- Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sekuya — Sekuya is an anime gaming metaverse platform that transform the gaming landscape through a community-driven approach in an entirely new anime epic fantasy universe.
- Credbull — Credbull manages on-chain private credit funds that provide vital financing solutions to creditworthy small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
- Wisdomise — Explore Wisdomise, your all-in-one, AI-powered platform delivering carefully curated insights and automated investment opportunities.
Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures. <br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- LEVY Health — Endometriosis is a condition where tissue like your uterine lining grows outside the womb: on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, pelvic tissues, or more rarely, in other parts of the body.
- Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
- Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
Buckley Ventures is an investment firm with over $1 billion in assets under management and a focus on concentrated investments in transformative technology companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Archetype AI — Archetype AI is a group of designers and technologists they are pioneering revolutionary artificial intelligence and interaction technologies for the real world.
- Symbolica AI — Evolving ML for the Evolving World
- Framework — We know consumer electronics can be better for you and for the environment. Unlike most products, ours are open for you to repair and upgrade
Jun Capital is committed to professional investment management service. With virtue of rich investment management expertise and solid expertise of the core team, They ensure the most professional investment management process.With the investment management team of JUN Capital as the core, they select the most professional partners in differentcircles to provide investors with professional investment advice and management service.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- China, Switzerland, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Biohem — Biohem is a low-carbon geopolymer cementitious material research and development company that specializes in the manufacture of low-carbon geopolymer cementitious materials as well as the provision of novel urban and industrial solid waste solutions.
- Aleph Zero — Discover Aleph Zero, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption and development of decentralized technologies. Learn about our mission to create a secure blockchain ecosystem and develop secure smart contracts that power the decentralized world.
- Goons of Balatroon — A 2D/3D hybrid metaverse featuring Free 2 Play 2 Earn card strategy gaming and land ownership. Ridiculous. Chaotic. Fun. Play for free and earn!
Thesis-driven, industry-focused and independent blockchain investment firm funding the development of Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies from the heart of Europe, Frankfurt - Germany
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Spherity — Spherity builds applications, giving any entity a unique identifier linked to a digital twin with access to a scalable and self-sovereign transaction layer.
- Validation Cloud — Validation Cloud is a Web3 data streaming and infrastructure company that connects organizations into Web3 through a fast, scalable, and intelligent platform. Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Validation Cloud offers highly performant and customizable products in staking, node, and data-as-a-service. Its team brings extensive experience acrossWeb2 and Web3 from the likes of Coinbase, Kraken, Workday, Accenture, Crypto.com, Voyager, and more. Learn more at Validationcloud.io
Adrian Locher is the Founder and CEO at Merantix. Additionally, Adrian Locher has had 4 past jobs including Founder & Investor at Altoida. He attended the University of St.Gallen.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Altoida — At Altoida, we strive to radically change the method for assessing brain health through our comprehensive cognitive function tests and brain health app.
- Crypto Finance (Asset Management) AG — Unser Asset Management Team bietet qualifizierten und institutionellen Anlegern einen sicheren und transparenten Zugang zum Crypto Asset Markt. Kontaktieren Sie uns!
- Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.
Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- OX.FUN — Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and trending altcoin derivatives on the most FUN exchange around. Join OX.FUN today and earn up to 200% yield. Moo.
- AINN Layer2 — A Bitcoin Layer2 Solution Built On AI-Driven Modular Architecture
- Sanctum — Sanctum offers the ability to launch millions of new LSTs utilizing solana.
Investing in early-stage blockchain startups
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- Bitcoin, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- 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.
- SCRYPT Digital — Your trusted partner for crypto assets
- Snowstorm — Snowstorm is a decentralized microproxy network. Already proven in crisis zones, it must now evolve into a next-generation system and internet freedom tool.
GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Rivalz Network — Rivalz is creating The first AI Intel Layer, powered by a DePIN-based RollApp on Dymension using Celestia/EigenDA.
- IDA — IDA is the leading provider of digital asset solutions, allowing trust, transparency, and speed in payments and commerce. By leveraging blockchain technology, IDA opens up a more connected and inclusive global economy.
- Iskra — Iskra offers web3 gaming opportunities using blockchain and rewards its stakeholders based on their participation.
Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecoms company and one of its leading IT companies, is headquartered in Ittigen, close to the capital city Berne. Swisscom’s international activities are concentrated mainly in Italy, where its subsidiary Fastweb is one of the biggest broadband providers. Around 21,500 employees achieve a revenues of CHF 2.89billion to the end of the 1st Quarter 2016. Swisscom is one of the most sustainable companies in Switzerland and Europe.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United States, Canada
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- Ecoo2 — Come and meet ECCO2 Team at the reference event for professionals in the real estate industry.
- Almer Technologies — Engineered for Professionals. Offered as a monthly subscription -
- Swiss Vault — Swiss Vault Systems designs and builds economical data storage systems. Swiss Vault Systems' vision is to disrupt the economics of data management and enable organizations to save and access every piece of data forever - with high privacy.
Distributed Global is an investment firm focused on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland, Germany
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- Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
- Parallel — Parallel is a Sci-Fi Card Game based on the Ethereum blockchain. Parallel is an application that provides users with the opportunity to purchase, collect, and showcase digital blockchain collectibles.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
Partner with a leading wealth management technology provider. Increase efficiency and improve client experience with our cloud banking software and services.
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- Banking, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland
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- Metaco — Metaco provides mission-critical infrastructure enabling institutions to strive in the digital asset economy.
Aly Madhavji is the Blockchain Founders Fund's Managing Partner and a Consultant of United Nations. He is a Senior Blockchain Fellow of INSEAD and LP and Venture Partner at Loyal VC.
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- Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Yumi — Start selling to China in minutes. Join thousands of brands just like you and reach Chinese millennial consumers via WeChat social commerce.
- Dopamine — Dopamine provides decentralized finance for everybody, everywhere and is the first end-to-end user-centered crypto mobile app.
- web3intelligence — Build wealth and trust in the world of crypto with intelligent financial tools, data and infrastructure.
Try Shopify free and start a business or grow an existing one. Get more than ecommerce software with tools to manage every part of your business.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Marketing
- Corporate Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Gorgias — Helpdesk designed for e-commerce stores. Provide multichannel customer service from a single app. Gain productivity with automated responses to common requests.
- Flexport — Cut costs, automate workflows, reliably move goods, go carbon-neutral, and improve your supply chain from end to end. It all starts here.
- Faire — Faire helps local stores discover and try thousands of unique items risk-free.
Swiss Founders Fund is a seed and early stage investment fund based in St.Gallen, Switzerland. SFF invests in and builds companies globally.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Singapore, Germany
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- Canza Finance — We are an Open Finance Portal enabling access to unlimited financial services for emerging markets, backed by Polychain, Avalanche, CoinMarketCap...
- RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
- Nerif Network — Nerif Network is designed to automate smart contract execution and build decentralized applications across multiple chains.
SIX invests in global early stage start-ups, focusing on companies that provide value to the Swiss financial center.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain
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- Relio — Your digital account with a Swiss IBAN, specially developed for business customers.
- Fundcraft — This is the future of digital fund administration.
- TAINA Technology — Fully automated validation & compliance of FATCA and CRS Tax Forms in all formats including scanned hard copies, online and mobile
Semantic Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in open markets and networks.
It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, France, United States
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- X10 — 10X experience for every trader
- Chainbound — Chainbound is a research and development organization building optimized infrastructure and networking tools for blockchains. We are hiring!
- Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
Zand Bank - Co-Founder @ Asia Finance
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United Arab Emirates
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- Zand — Zand Bank bridges TradFi and DeFi, empowering UAE and global corporate, institution and wealth clients to unlock infinite opportunities in the evolving digital economy
- Pier Wallet — Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Web3 offer great opportunities. To truly access it, you need a wallet. But selecting and investing into digital assets in your own wallet is complex, expensive and often feels unsafe. nobank makes DeFi and Web3 accessible for everyone. We offer the simplest and cheapest way to transact with digital assets by -drastically improving usability - offering financial products that generate yield or diversify your portfolio - building on multiple L2 blockchains - sharing our knowledge
SALT Fund is an investment fund.
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- Biotechnology, Blockchain, Biopharma
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Switzerland, China
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- Gameto — Gameto is a new breed of biotechnology company in female reproductive longevity
- M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
- Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
Hayden Adams is founder of Uniswap, one of the most widely used decentralized applications built on Ethereum. Prior to Uniswap, Hayden was an engineer at Siemens. He graduated from Stony Brook University with a bachelor in engineering in 2016.
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- Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Funding Round
- Switzerland
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- WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
O-DE Capital Partner is an integrated business development ecosystem, comprising a venture capital arm, venture studio, consulting, and marketing services. We enhance business growth by offering resources and global network access.
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- Web3, Bitcoin, Finance
- Funding Round
- Switzerland
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- Wisdomise — Explore Wisdomise, your all-in-one, AI-powered platform delivering carefully curated insights and automated investment opportunities.
Chainlink Labs is the leading provider of secure and reliable open-source oracle solutions, enabling smart contracts to access anything outside their native blockchain, such as off-chain data feeds, web APIs, and traditional bank payments.
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- Blockchain, Web3, Music
- Seed, Funding Round
- Canada, Switzerland, United States
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- Superlogic — OneOf is the mass-consumer Web3 company connecting the next 100M non-crypto-native fans to iconic brands, artists, and athletes. OneOf technology enables global brands and enterprises to reimagine commerce, loyalty and engagement, allowing consumers to seamlessly collect or trade digital assets with no prior crypto expertise. Deeply committed to a sustainable and inclusive blockchain future, minting digital assets on OneOf's platform uses up to 2 million times less energy than previous generation proof-of-work networks, and costs up to 99% less in gas fees. A leader in diversity, over 80% of the collections curated by OneOf come from minority or female creators.
- Swan Chain — FilSwan provides a layer 2 cross-chain infrastructure for Web3 projects by integrating data, computing, and payment into one suite. FilSwan offers a complete solution that enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains with ease.
- Wisdomise — Explore Wisdomise, your all-in-one, AI-powered platform delivering carefully curated insights and automated investment opportunities.
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