# Banque Alternative Suisse

> Banque Alternative Suisse is a VC fund in Lausanne backing Solar, Jewelry and Clean Energy. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/banque-alternative-suisse-sa
- Website: https://www.bas.ch/

Banque Alternative Suisse is a Swiss bank specializing in intermediation and advice on sustainable investments.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Solar | 1 | 50% |
| Jewelry | 1 | 50% |
| Clean Energy | 1 | 50% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ID Genève | ID Genève is a local premium watchmaker. They create items that represent the beliefs and principles of those concerned about climate and social environmental change. | $2.2M | Seed | Oct 17, 2023 |  |
| SmartHelio | SmartHelio wants to be the doctor for solar plants: we remotely diagnose existing problems, predict faults and prescribe solutions in real time. Our team is made up of highly skilled engineers and scientists with deep domain knowledge of solar technology and data science. The company has developed a cost effective Edge Computing IoT device(HelioHealth, FitBit for Solar), world’s first in its category, that collects and processes data at the panel level using its proprietary physics-based algorithms. SmartHelio provide a dashboard or fully integrate into the existing customers’ IT platform. SmartHelio is deploying AI on Edge devices to reduce the cost of data collection, storage, and processing without compromising the quality of analytics services. This empower energy developers and managers to maintain their assets consistently at a high-performance level with minimum human intervention. SmartHelio is able to generate 5% extra energy and optimize 30% of O&M effort. | $80K | Seed | Sep 09, 2020 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [exelixis capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/exelixis-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Banque Alternative Suisse invest in?

Banque Alternative Suisse invests primarily in Solar, Jewelry and Clean Energy startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Banque Alternative Suisse last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Banque Alternative Suisse closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 2 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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