Chris Gay-Crosier
Investment Manager @ Verve Ventures
Geneva, Switzerland
Chris Gay-Crosier is a seed investor at Verve Ventures in Geneva focused on Sports and Internet. As an investment manager, Chris is part of the Operations team. He identifies interesting investment opportunities, performs due diligence and manages investment rounds from start to finish.Chris received his Master’s degree in law from the University of St. Gallen. Prior to joining investiere, he did an internship at a law firm.Chris isinterested in history and enjoys travelling as well as outdoor sports.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Chris Gay-Crosier invests in
Stages Chris Gay-Crosier invests in
Countries Chris Gay-Crosier invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Sports 1 (50%)
- Internet 1 (50%)
- Health Care 1 (50%)
- Therapeutics 1 (50%)
- Biotechnology 1 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (50%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (50%)
Country
- France 1 (50%)
- Switzerland 1 (50%)
Investments
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| PathoQuest SAS, a spin off of Institut Pasteur, is a biotechnology company offering a game changing metagenomics approach to improving the breadth of pathogen detection. The company’s proprietary next generation sequencing (NGS) based testing approach delivers actionable reports to clinicians, biologists and biopharmaceutical quality assurancemanagers/production managers.PathoQuest’s proprietary sample preparation, and its comprehensive database of pathogens genomic information, enables clinicians and biopharma companies to overcome the current limitation of infectious agent detection.PathoQuest’s Viral Safety testing service, directed towards biopharmaceutical companies, is the company’s first commercial application of its testing approach and has quickly established a revenue stream for the company from several major biopharma companies. | $8.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 06, 2019 | ||
| GotCourts is an online booking platform for racquet sport courts. With GotCourts, you can also find playing partners and opponents and stay in touch with your tennis buddies.GotCourts aims to become the biggest tennis hub in the world, connecting all parties, providing beneficial services, simply processes, and activate the untapped potential.GotCourts was started in 2014 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. | $1M / Seed / May 29, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About Verve Ventures
Verve Ventures is a European startup investment platform for qualified and institutional investors. Their fully digital platform enables private investors to build a diversified portfolio with investments starting at CHF/EUR 10'000. Since its launch in 2010, Verve Ventures has invested more than EUR 130 million in over 100 startups. Theircommunity consists of 5’000 registered qualified private investors, family offices, and pension funds. Several institutional investors such as a large Swiss pension fund and numerous corporates also rely on their expertise to invest in promising startups. Verve Ventures is backed by Switzerland's third-largest bank, Zürcher Kantonalbank. They have a dedicated investment team based in Zurich, Lausanne, Berlin, Paris, and Cambridge, that screens thousands of startups each year and selects the top 1% after a rigorous due diligence process. They are reshaping the European venture capital landscape and granting investors superior access to this traditionally intransparent asset class. They source the best deals, and structure rounds, and enable their investors to participate in competitive startup deals.
Verve Ventures Contacts
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Alexander Seel
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Lukas Weber
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Michael Blank
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What does Chris Gay-Crosier invest in?
Chris Gay-Crosier invests primarily in Sports, Internet and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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