# Hammer Team

> Hammer Team is a VC fund in Cham backing Software and Information Technology. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cham, Switzerland
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/team-hammer
- Website: https://hammerteam.com/

Hammer Team is a VC fund in Cham focused on Software and Information Technology. The “Hammer Team” is the investment vehicle of Ariel Luedi. The mission is to support software companies during their startup and growth phase. Hammer Team provides its companies with venture capital but also with expertise in different areas required to grow a company (Sales Ops, Product Management, Customer Success, Finance, Marketing, Legal, Taxor Branding). Ariel and his team have created a platform for those companies to communicate openly, leverage synergies and find new ways of solving challenges.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$5.5M |
| Series A | $5M–$7.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 62% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 31% |
| SaaS | 3 | 23% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 23% |
| Augmented Reality | 3 | 23% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 46% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 9 | 69% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ariel Luedi | Founder | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ariel-luedi |
| Guillaume Garreau | COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-garreau |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Syntheticus | Public and private entities are facing major risks when handling sensitive data due to the big dilemma between data privacy and data utility. Syntheticus provides a solution that uses cutting-edge Deep Learning to generate synthetic data for different file formats and ensures that entities leverage their full data potential while staying fullycompliant.Synthetic Data, Data Privacy, Deep Learning, GDPR, SaaS, Data Anonymization, Machine Learning, AI, Cloud, PrivacyTech, HIPAA, Data Analytics, PII, Personally Identifiable Information, Private Data Analysis, and Privacy Shield |  | Seed | Sep 23, 2022 |  |
| Imverse | Imverse is an EPFL spin-off and a 3D graphics software company providing volumetric software components for tech companies creating products and services for the markets of installations, live broadcasting, and telepresence. Using their proprietary patent pending voxel engine, Imverse envisions to enable the 3D future of content & communicationthrough groundbreaking graphics technology. | $4.8M | Seed | Jun 10, 2022 |  |
| Zoovu | Zoovu is the next generation digital commerce search platform that merges context and meaning across channels to help brands and retailers have rich, personalized conversations with their customers. Zoovu’s proprietary AI naturally understands and speaks the customer’s language by turning technical specs into an easy-to-understand conversation.Ultimately adapting to the customer’s conversation style to help better engage, educate and empower them in making purchase decisions in the moments that matter. With Zoovu's world-class semantic library you can easily interpret the context and intent behind your customers' every search.More than 3,500 brands and retailers use Zoovu to engage, educate and empower shoppers to find and buy the right product, including Amazon, P&G, Whirlpool and Microsoft. Zoovu operates worldwide in 500+ product categories, across all languages. | $169M | Series C | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| Scandit | Scandit is a technology platform for mobile computer vision and augmented reality (AR) solutions for enterprises. The company software brings unrivaled scanning performance to any app on any camera-equipped smart device, from smartphones to wearables to drones and robots - to read barcodes, recognize text and objects, and display real-timeinformation as AR overlays. It helps consumers and employees find things on store shelves with their smartphones, and as things become more contactless.Organizations in retail, transport, logistics, and manufacturing use Scandit to power apps such as mobile shopping, self-checkout, inventory management, proof of delivery, and asset tracking. Use cases in healthcare include tracking patients, medication, specimens, and supplies. Scandit solutions take cost and time out of operations and improve employee and customer satisfaction. Clients include 7-Eleven, Alaska Airlines, Carrefour, Hermes, Johns Hopkins Hospital, La Poste, Levi Strauss & Co, Mount Sinai Hospital, Sephora, and Toyota. | $150M | Series D | Feb 09, 2022 |  |
| OXIAL | OXIAL is the Governance Risk and Compliance Software vendor and developer. Their solutions have been enabling customers to deliver consistent Governance, Risk and Compliance procedures since 2005.They provide new generation GRC software solution that eliminates the main flaws of current GRC software packages, like long implementation time andcomplex change management. OXIAL offering enables interoperable software modules for the comprehensive management of risk, internal control and internal audit – allowing the safe and phased implementation of a tool for enterprise risk management. | $5M | Series A | Jan 05, 2022 |  |
| Threatray | Threatray produces code-based threat intelligence by making massive malware repositories and feeds searchable and correlatable. Their code-based threat intelligence and advanced analytics tools enable enterprise security and incident response teams to develop a deep understanding of cyber-attacks and to quickly and effectively detect, investigate,and disrupt attacks. | $2.3M | Seed | Jun 17, 2021 |  |
| RAW Labs | RAW Labs SA tames the exponential growth of Big Data through innovative tools which federate and query raw data in-situ. | $5.5M | Seed | Feb 11, 2021 |  |
| Threatray | Threatray produces code-based threat intelligence by making massive malware repositories and feeds searchable and correlatable. Their code-based threat intelligence and advanced analytics tools enable enterprise security and incident response teams to develop a deep understanding of cyber-attacks and to quickly and effectively detect, investigate,and disrupt attacks. | $2.2M | Seed | Jan 27, 2021 |  |
| CREAL | CREAL develops near-eye light-field display bringing true optical depth and better immersion into virtual and mixed reality.This technology solves the eye-strain, nausea and pain problems of current headsets, while offering low manufacturing complexity and small form factor. | $7.4M | Series A | Nov 17, 2020 |  |
| Beekeeper | Beekeeper is a mobile-first communication platform that reaches every shift, location, and language through real-time messaging and targeted streams. Managers keep frontline teams productive and turnover low by automating workflows while leveraging an analytics dashboard to measure engagement. Beekeeper integrates with operational systems, makingthem accessible in one central portal. | $45M | Series B | Sep 16, 2019 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [BackBone Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backbone-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hammer Team invest in?

Hammer Team invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hammer Team's check size?

Hammer Team typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$5.5M at Seed and $5M–$7.4M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Hammer Team participates in.

### How do I contact Hammer Team?

Public channels for Hammer Team include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Hammer Team?

The team at Hammer Team includes Ariel Luedi (Founder) and Guillaume Garreau (COO). 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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