# Credit Suisse

> Credit Suisse is a VC fund in Zürich backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 156 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 156
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 41%
- Fund size: $261M
- Last fund: Jul 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/credit-suisse
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/creditsuisse
- Website: http://www.credit-suisse.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/creditsuisse

Credit Suisse is a financial services company that provides advice to clients across all aspects of finance. It employs a client-focused integrated bank strategy, addressing complex client needs and value-adding businesses. The company leverages its global expertise through three divisions: Private Banking, Investment Banking, and Asset Management.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4M–$66M |
| Debt Financing | $50M–$564M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 47 | 30% |
| FinTech | 38 | 24% |
| Finance | 31 | 20% |
| Software | 21 | 13% |
| Energy | 15 | 10% |

185 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 45 | 29% |
| Funding Round | 20 | 13% |
| Series A | 17 | 11% |
| Series B | 15 | 10% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 12 | 8% |

18 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 70 | 45% |
| Switzerland | 15 | 10% |
| China | 8 | 5% |
| Canada | 6 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 4% |

21 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andreas Koopmann | Member of Board of Directors | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-koopmann |
| Lydie Hudson | CEO: Sustainability, Research and Investment Solutions | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lydie-hudson |
| Alan Freudenstein | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-freudenstein |
| André Helfenstein | CEO Credit Suisse Switzerland SA | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andre-helfenstein |
| Ateş Buldur | General Manager at Credit Suisse Turkey | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ate%C5%9F-buldur |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vicarious | Vicarious improves the supply chain system to consistently enhance the quality of coffee beans in every way. | $6.8M | Series A | Jan 13, 2025 |  |
| LEDCity | LEDCity develops energy efficient, simple, and autonomous lighting systems for industry. They help lower these operating costs. Leave light control to a computer built into the lamp, which adjusts the illuminance to your exact specifications. This saves up to 90% on energy costs while increasing comfort, and LEDCity achieves its mission ofdrastically reducing global energy consumption with the most user-friendly and efficient LED lighting system. The company's products are ideal for renovations and refurbishments of existing buildings because the simple conversion to cutting-edge technology is affordable for everyone: simply replacing the light bulb is frequently enough. | $2.3M | Debt Financing | Apr 08, 2024 |  |
| LEDCity | LEDCity develops energy efficient, simple, and autonomous lighting systems for industry. They help lower these operating costs. Leave light control to a computer built into the lamp, which adjusts the illuminance to your exact specifications. This saves up to 90% on energy costs while increasing comfort, and LEDCity achieves its mission ofdrastically reducing global energy consumption with the most user-friendly and efficient LED lighting system. The company's products are ideal for renovations and refurbishments of existing buildings because the simple conversion to cutting-edge technology is affordable for everyone: simply replacing the light bulb is frequently enough. | $2.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 08, 2024 |  |
| Andermatt Swiss Alps | Andermatt Swiss Alps provides tourism resort and property development services. | $140.9M | Debt Financing | Nov 15, 2023 |  |
| Xingdian Catering | Xingdian Catering offers catering services that are healthy, delicious, and convenient. | $13.7M | Series A | Oct 09, 2023 |  |
| Nezasa | Nezasa’s travel booking solution empowers travel brands globally to combine all planning and booking related actions into one seamless end-to-end experience.Our tools, enable to plan and book any type of multi-product or multi-stop itinerary.TripBuilder Hyper-personalised packaging Real-time planning and booking of personalised itinerariesPowerful, easy to use and very interactive Deep integration possibilities into existing fulfilment landscapes Enterprise-grade, proven with large TO customersTripBooster Hyper-personalised In-Destination Upselling The extension of TripBuilder’s power throughout the entire travel lifecycle The perfect travel companion Seamless purchasing of perfectly fitting additional products Smart upselling recommendation, available in both a push and pull mode | $4.9M |  | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| LEDCity | LEDCity develops energy efficient, simple, and autonomous lighting systems for industry. They help lower these operating costs. Leave light control to a computer built into the lamp, which adjusts the illuminance to your exact specifications. This saves up to 90% on energy costs while increasing comfort, and LEDCity achieves its mission ofdrastically reducing global energy consumption with the most user-friendly and efficient LED lighting system. The company's products are ideal for renovations and refurbishments of existing buildings because the simple conversion to cutting-edge technology is affordable for everyone: simply replacing the light bulb is frequently enough. | $2.9M | Debt Financing | May 31, 2023 |  |
| BlocPower | BlocPower is an energy technology startup that develops healthier, greener, and smarter buildings.It leverages advanced technologies, innovative electrification equipment, and structured finance to provide green heating and cooling to urban buildings. The company also connects government agencies, utilities, building owners, and smart equipmentproviders to identify unhealthy, energy-wasting buildings to retrofit. Its proprietary machine learning platform then determines which retrofits will produce the most energy savings at scale and uses the cloud and IoT to gather data and remotely monitor energy consumption. Since its founding, BlocPower has completed energy projects in nearly 1,000 buildings and delivered results ahead of schedule and under budget. It utilizes its proprietary software for analysis, leasing, project management, and monitoring of urban clean energy projects, and its customers are saving 20–40% on their energy bills each year. The company is backed by top investors, including Kapor Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, AccelR8, the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group, Elemental Excelerator, CityRock Venture Partners, the Schmidt Family Foundation, and Salesforce Ventures.Donnel Baird and Morris Cox co-founded the company in Brooklyn, New York in 2014. | $24M | Series B | Feb 28, 2023 |  |
| TOAE Security | A global leader in security, technology services, and digital security enablement. | $10M | Series A | Feb 24, 2023 |  |
| Taurus | Taurus SA is a Swiss FinTech, founded in April 2018, that provides enterprise-grade digital asset infrastructure to issue, custody, and trade any digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, NFTs, and digital currencies. Taurus is a global leader in the banking segment, entrusted by the full spectrum of financial institutions:systemic banks, universal banks, online banks, crypto-banks, private banks, and broker-dealers. Taurus also operates a marketplace for private assets and tokenized securities. Taurus SA is a securities firm supervised and regulated by FINMA. TDX is an organized trading facility operated by Taurus. | $65M | Series B | Feb 13, 2023 |  |

10 of 156 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Goldman Sachs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
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- [Bank of America](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bank-of-america) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Credit Suisse invest in?

Credit Suisse invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Debt Financing and Funding Round stage. Most of the 156 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Credit Suisse's check size?

Credit Suisse typically joins rounds of $4M–$66M at Series A and $50M–$564M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Credit Suisse participates in.

### How do I contact Credit Suisse?

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### Who are the partners at Credit Suisse?

The team at Credit Suisse includes Andreas Koopmann (Member of Board of Directors), Lydie Hudson (CEO: Sustainability, Research and Investment Solutions) and Alan Freudenstein (Managing Director), among 17 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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