# Alexander Christen

> Alexander Christen is a seed investor at Groundshift backing Financial Services. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Firm: [Groundshift](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fivet-fintech-formerly-avaloq-ventures)
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchristen/?locale=en_US

Alexander Christen is a seed investor at Groundshift focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Alexander Christen joined Deeptech Ventures as Co-Founder and he attended University of St.Gallen in 2009.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 3 | 75% |
| FinTech | 2 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Banking | 1 | 25% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 25% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wyden | AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally. | $16.9M | Series B | Nov 12, 2024 | http://www.algotrader.com |
| Rulematch | Rulematch is a financial technology platform designed to facilitate the trading of digital assets. The company's platform is a trading platform with on-premise and cloud components that provide financial institutions with a trading system that is specifically tailored to their needs. |  | Seed | Oct 25, 2023 | https://rulematch.com |
| yeekatee | theme-based social media platforms | $641K | Seed | Sep 11, 2023 | http://yeekatee.com |
| Numarics | Numarics® is Switzerland’s first 100% digital accounting ecosystem, with a consistent mobile-first approach. Accounting, payroll, tax returns, invoicing, document management are now streamlined via the Numarics Ecosystem in the app or on the web, and make business management for entrepreneurs simple, accessible and transparent.Numarics wasdeveloped in 2020 by experts in the fields of accounting, digitalization, artificial intelligence and auditing with the vision of seamlessly integrating accounting into the lifestyle of today's entrepreneurs. | $11.2M | Seed | Jul 06, 2023 | https://numarics.com/ |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [C3 Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c3-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ConsenSys Mesh](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/consensys-mesh) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Flow Traders](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flow-traders) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [PostFinance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/postfinance) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SBI-Sygnum-Azimut Digital Asset Opportunity (DAO) fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sbi-sygnum-azimut-digital-asset-opportunity-dao-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Seed X Liechtenstein AG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seed-x-liechtenstein) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Alexander Christen invest in?

Alexander Christen invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Alexander Christen?

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### When did Alexander Christen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alexander Christen closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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