# Alex Stöckl

> Alex Stöckl is a pre-seed investor at Founderful backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Founderful](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wingman-897a)
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 65%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexstoeckl
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/astoeckly
- Website: http://www.wingman.ch

Alex Stöckl is a pre-seed investor at Founderful in Zürich focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Alex Stöckl is based out of Zürich, Zurich and is the Founding Partner of Founding Partner. Alex previously worked at Kollabo AG as a Board Member. Alex Stöckl attended the EU Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 17% |
| Robotics | 3 | 13% |
| Water | 2 | 9% |
| Chemical | 2 | 9% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 52% |
| Seed | 9 | 39% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 13 | 57% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AVIAN | AVIAN is an industrial AI business that creates temperature monitoring and predictive safety systems for industrial applications. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | May 20, 2026 |  |
| mimic | mimic provides a flexible and intuitive answer to labor shortages worldwide, by building and deploying robots that fit seamlessly into human workplaces. Their scalable foundation AI model enables truly dexterous robotic manipulation by learning directly from human data. | $16M | Seed | Nov 03, 2025 |  |
| Sartiq | Shootify has created patented generative AI technology specifically for the fashion industry. | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| DePoly | DePoly is a chemical recycling company that converts post-consumer PET plastic and polyester textiles back into their main raw components at room temperature, without the need to pre-wash, pre-sort, or separate out other plastics. The raw material can then be sold back to the industry so that new virgin-quality plastic items can be made, creating atruly circular plastic economy. | $23M | Seed | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| SAEKI | Saeki Robotics is a manufacturing company that develops robotic digital manufacturing units and hardware and software automation tools. | $6.7M | Seed | Feb 05, 2025 |  |
| Oxyle | OxyleI is a developer of a novel technology to degrade hazardous micropollutants from wastewater, such as pesticides, chemicals, etc. | $16M | Seed | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| Nala Earth | Nala Earth provides data and tools that enable businesses to better understand and connect with the natural world. | $4M | Seed | Jan 29, 2025 |  |
| Flink | Flink Robotics is a robotics engineering company. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| Anthropos | Anthropos.work helps individuals and companies with their career management. Anthropos.work aims to help users grow faster and develop the roles and capabilities they will need in their future. It was founded in 2023 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| mimic | mimic provides a flexible and intuitive answer to labor shortages worldwide, by building and deploying robots that fit seamlessly into human workplaces. Their scalable foundation AI model enables truly dexterous robotic manipulation by learning directly from human data. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | May 07, 2024 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [another.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/another-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Tiny VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-super-computer-investment-company) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Venture Kick](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturekick) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Zürcher Kantonal Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/z%C3%BCrcher-kantonalbank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Founderful

VC Fund · Zürich, Switzerland

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

5 contacts available at Founderful.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Stöckl | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-stoeckl |
| Emily Kruse | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-kruse |
| Lukas Weder | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lukas-weder |
| Pascal Mathis | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pascal-mathis |
| Antonia Albert | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonia-albert |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Stöckl invest in?

Alex Stöckl invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alex Stöckl last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Stöckl closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 23 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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