# Benjamin Solenthaler

> Benjamin Solenthaler is a seed investor at Lightbird (Zürich) backing Cyber Security. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lightbird](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightbird-ventures)
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Benjamin Solenthaler is a seed investor at Lightbird in Zürich focused on Cyber Security. Benjamin Solenthaler

## Investment focus

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Saporo | Saporo’s mission is to help organizations increase their cyber resistance no matter their size or industry. Thanks to a unique approach and cutting-edge technologies, we aim at making defenders win the race against attackers and put order in chaos.Privileged account access represents the keys to the kingdom for threat actors, enabling them tomove around a network almost unabated. With it, attackers can explore and extract as much sensitive data as they like. These same privileged accounts then allow the threat actor to encrypt that same stolen data and hold the organization at ransom. Identifying all potential attack paths in large and dynamic environments is impossible using manual methods. Finding, quantifying and prioritizing where to start and what to do requires automation.Defenders can never hope to get ahead of attackers if attackers have a better understanding of the battlefield - the organizations own network. By leveraging the same techniques used by threat actors to visualize the most critical paths to critical resources, defenders can start to see their environment as attackers do. Once visibility is achieved, it becomes much easier to anticipate attack paths and implement the appropriate countermeasures and controls. | $8.1M | Series A | Nov 27, 2025 |  |
| Saporo | Saporo’s mission is to help organizations increase their cyber resistance no matter their size or industry. Thanks to a unique approach and cutting-edge technologies, we aim at making defenders win the race against attackers and put order in chaos.Privileged account access represents the keys to the kingdom for threat actors, enabling them tomove around a network almost unabated. With it, attackers can explore and extract as much sensitive data as they like. These same privileged accounts then allow the threat actor to encrypt that same stolen data and hold the organization at ransom. Identifying all potential attack paths in large and dynamic environments is impossible using manual methods. Finding, quantifying and prioritizing where to start and what to do requires automation.Defenders can never hope to get ahead of attackers if attackers have a better understanding of the battlefield - the organizations own network. By leveraging the same techniques used by threat actors to visualize the most critical paths to critical resources, defenders can start to see their environment as attackers do. Once visibility is achieved, it becomes much easier to anticipate attack paths and implement the appropriate countermeasures and controls. | $4.7M | Pre-Seed | Dec 06, 2022 |  |
| Saporo | Saporo’s mission is to help organizations increase their cyber resistance no matter their size or industry. Thanks to a unique approach and cutting-edge technologies, we aim at making defenders win the race against attackers and put order in chaos.Privileged account access represents the keys to the kingdom for threat actors, enabling them tomove around a network almost unabated. With it, attackers can explore and extract as much sensitive data as they like. These same privileged accounts then allow the threat actor to encrypt that same stolen data and hold the organization at ransom. Identifying all potential attack paths in large and dynamic environments is impossible using manual methods. Finding, quantifying and prioritizing where to start and what to do requires automation.Defenders can never hope to get ahead of attackers if attackers have a better understanding of the battlefield - the organizations own network. By leveraging the same techniques used by threat actors to visualize the most critical paths to critical resources, defenders can start to see their environment as attackers do. Once visibility is achieved, it becomes much easier to anticipate attack paths and implement the appropriate countermeasures and controls. | $4.2M | Seed | Dec 06, 2022 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Session.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-invest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [XAnge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xange-private-equity) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CDP Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdp-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Giesecke+Devrient Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/Giesecke-Devrient-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SICTIC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sictic) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TIN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tin-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Lightbird

VC Fund · Bern, Switzerland

Lightbird is a trusted, nimble and reliable partner that accompanies European founders on the roller-coaster ride of what it is to be an entrepreneur. Lightbird invests in the most intense period of a company’s life – the early stage.

4 contacts available at Lightbird.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Benjamin Solenthaler | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-solenthaler |
| Jasmin Heimann | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jasmin-heimann |
| Thomas Meier | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-meier-4 |
| Thuy-Linh Uong | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thuy-linh-uong |

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## FAQ

### What does Benjamin Solenthaler invest in?

Benjamin Solenthaler invests primarily in Cyber Security startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Benjamin Solenthaler last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Benjamin Solenthaler closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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