Helvetia Venture Fund
VC Fund
Basel, Switzerland
Helvetia Venture Fund is a VC fund in Basel focused on Financial Services and Information Technology. Helvetia has a long tradition: in over 150 years, it has grown from a number of Swiss and foreign insurance companies into a successful international insurance group. Today, Helvetia has subsidiaries in its home market Switzerland as well as in the countries that make up the Europe market area: Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain. Helvetia is alsopresent in France with its Specialty Markets market area and through selected regions worldwide.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
- Fund size:
- $54M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Helvetia Venture Fund invests in
Stages Helvetia Venture Fund invests in
Countries Helvetia Venture Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $3.3M–$4.9M
- Series A
- $5.9M–$17M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2.6M–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 6 (19%)
- Information Technology 5 (16%)
- FinTech 4 (13%)
- Software 4 (13%)
- InsurTech 3 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (34%)
- Series A 6 (19%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (19%)
- Funding Round 4 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (6%)
Country
- Germany 9 (28%)
- Switzerland 7 (22%)
- Spain 2 (6%)
- France 1 (3%)
- Austria 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Wieser
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Philipp Gmür
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| CIO | Total investments: 2 | Find email | ||
Stefano L. Saeger
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Napo is an Insurtech start-up committed to bringing innovative, customer-centric and transparent products to the market. | $15.2M / Series B / Feb 26, 2025 | ||
| Flitter is a neo-insurance company that provides pay-per-mile insurance and connected technology. | $3.8M / Seed / Nov 06, 2023 | ||
| INKI's platform transforms company mobile devices (laptops, phones, tablets) into a service to bring order to device management and for all costs to become forecastable. We specialise in serving remote teams where companies outsource to us sourcing > security > insurance > repair > maintenance > end of lifecycle management. | Seed / Sep 20, 2023 | ||
| klarx is the leading platform for construction equipment rental in Europe, enabling the energy transition currently underway. klarx is revolutionizing the way machines are rented and used, which in turn is enabling the massive expansion of solar energy in Germany. So far, klarx has served over 6.800 customers and has operated more than 330k rentaldays. Through the vast network of 4.900 supplier stations and our logistic centres, we can ensure that machines are travelling less than 50km to the construction site and are always used with the highest utilization rates. After successfully building up the klarxManager software and network business, klarx has launched two logistic centres in Europe and plans to open another 9 logistic centres across Europe within the next three years. klarx has already raised over 23.7 Mio. € from investors like Target Global, Lukasz Gadowski, the Flixbus founders and the B&C Holding. | $12.6M / Jun 28, 2023 | ||
| CamperBoys rents out fully equipped camper vans in Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig-Halle & Berlin. | Seed / Jan 27, 2023 | ||
| Urban Connect is a corporate mobility platform offering company employees access to a fleet of low-carbon, shared vehicles like e-bikes, bikes, e-scooters and e-cars. The offering is structured as a mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) solution. The company services large blue chip clients like Roche, Avaloq, Hilti, Sonova or Zurich Insurance. The team iscomposed of a number of people from different nationalities & backgrounds, all with the common goal of helping companies reduce their carbon and space footprints. | Seed / Nov 22, 2022 | ||
| Napo is an Insurtech start-up committed to bringing innovative, customer-centric and transparent products to the market. | $17.3M / Series A / Nov 08, 2022 | ||
| Benefit Büroservice is a office management company. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 28, 2022 | ||
| Skribble is a platform for electronic signatures that presupposes the identification of the signatures. The platform provides the legally suitable electronic signature for every type of contract even if the law requires the same legal weight as a handwritten signature. It allows signing documents electronically with just a few clicks legallybinding in accordance with Swiss & EU law.Skribble was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. | $10.2M / Series A / Sep 01, 2022 | ||
| Moojo helps freelancers and creators streamline their invoicing process and get paid instantly. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Apr 21, 2022 | ||
| See all 32 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Helvetia Venture Fund invest in?
Helvetia Venture Fund invests primarily in Financial Services, Information Technology and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Helvetia Venture Fund invest in?
Helvetia Venture Fund typically joins rounds of $3.3M–$4.9M at Seed, $5.9M–$17M at Series A and $2.6M–$11M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Helvetia Venture Fund's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Helvetia Venture Fund took part in.
How do I contact Helvetia Venture Fund?
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Who are the partners at Helvetia Venture Fund?
The team at Helvetia Venture Fund includes Michael Wieser (Managing Partner), Philipp Gmür (CEO) and Ralph-Thomas Honegger (CIO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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