# Olivier Laplace

> Olivier Laplace is a Series A investor at VI Partners backing Software. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [VI Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vi-partners)
- Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivierlaplace/
- Website: https://www.vipartners.ch/

Olivier Laplace is a Series A investor at VI Partners in Lausanne focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Olivier Laplace - Partner @ VI Partners

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 17% |
| SaaS | 2 | 8% |
| Drones | 2 | 8% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 10 | 42% |
| Series B | 4 | 17% |
| Seed | 3 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 11 | 46% |
| United States | 2 | 8% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unique AI | Unique is a venture-backed B2B SaaS sales intelligence platform, transforming sales by empowering both sales teams and customers. Unique leverages the power of AI to augment sales teams with real-time coaching and insights to close more deals and build better customer partnerships; and to give customers a better, more transparent, informed buyingexperience. | $30M | Series A | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Almer Technologies | Almer Technologies is a startup developing compact and lightweight augmented reality (AR) glasses to deliver effortless communication for frontline workers. Almer Technologies provides AR as a service, including hardware as well as software. | $3M | Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| Acodis | Handling hundreds or even thousands of documents per day is tough. Either you’re juggling various manual data entry processes, or you’re stuck with tools that are powerful yet impossible to use. This means inaccurate data, expensive processes, and employees who are disengaged due to monotonous work. It doesn’t have to be that way. Acodis enablesyou to turn any document into structured data in just a few seconds. The machine learning engine that can read – and understand –documents like humans do. You’ll save valuable time and get all the information typically locked in documents. This allows you to scale your document processes with a few clicks. Acodis can process any document in any language and will seamlessly integrate with your systems. You can easily export your data from Acodis via API to feed and enhance your ERP, CRM, or RPA system of choice. Transform all your documents into machine-readable structured data. | $6.5M | Series A | Jan 23, 2023 |  |
| Morgen | Morgen lets you manage and optimize your time from a single app. As the demands on our time have grown increasingly complex, so too has our time management - multiple calendars for work and life, to do apps, project management tools, and schedulers. All those tools are fragmenting the way we manage time rather than simplifying it. Morgen integrateswith all calendars and your go-to task and project management tools. It additionally has a native scheduling tool. This lets Morgen users plan, organize and optimize their time all from one place. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Picterra | Geo-information is an essential ressource for the 21st century as well as a key factor of sustainable growth and an enabler of internationally competitive performance. Our ambition is to bring together Artificial Intelligence, satellite, drone and aerial data to provide industry users, public sectors and NGO members with optimized geo-informationin order to monitor and anticipate changes in their surroundings. At Picterra, we are convinced that without your expertise and situational awareness, Artificial Intelligence is nothing but an empty shell. This is why, we propose you to partner your field-specific knowledge with an unique interactive and scalable computer vision system, design to work in synergy with you. No programming or deep learning skills needed, simply train, deploy and customize your own AI to extract the geo-information you really care about. | $6.5M | Series A | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| GUURU Solutions | GUURU is a Customer Interaction Solution that combines AI with the human experience of product users. We enable brands to provide efficient First Contact Resolution with a single platform leveraging their most proficient and dedicated customers. Contact us to find out more. | $5M | Series A | Nov 27, 2020 |  |
| GUURU Solutions | GUURU is a Customer Interaction Solution that combines AI with the human experience of product users. We enable brands to provide efficient First Contact Resolution with a single platform leveraging their most proficient and dedicated customers. Contact us to find out more. | $5M | Series A | Nov 27, 2020 |  |
| Metaco | METACO is a Swiss company that designs institutional digital asset management solutions. We deliver a complete orchestration platform for digital assets in banking, the most secure and agile digital asset vault for self-custody and a single entry point to the broadest universe of trusted custodians. With our solution you can tokenize and manage thefull lifecycle of asset tokens with a complete smart contract framework supporting equities, bonds, derivatives and other asset classes. Trade without limits as we have connectivity with 50+ exchanges, brokers and market makers. | $17M | Series A | Jul 14, 2020 |  |
| Metaco | METACO is a Swiss company that designs institutional digital asset management solutions. We deliver a complete orchestration platform for digital assets in banking, the most secure and agile digital asset vault for self-custody and a single entry point to the broadest universe of trusted custodians. With our solution you can tokenize and manage thefull lifecycle of asset tokens with a complete smart contract framework supporting equities, bonds, derivatives and other asset classes. Trade without limits as we have connectivity with 50+ exchanges, brokers and market makers. | $17M | Series A | Jul 14, 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. | $10M | Series B | Jul 10, 2020 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Verve Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/verve-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Swisscom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swisscom) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Swiss Post](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swiss-post) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alpana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpana-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Avaloq](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avaloq-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [EquityPitcher Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equitypitcher) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About VI Partners

VC Fund · Altendorf, Switzerland

Healthcare & Technology Venture Capital since 2001

5 contacts available at VI Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arnd Kaltofen | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arnd-kaltofen |
| Cyrill Osterwalder | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyrill-osterwalder |
| Diego Braguglia | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diego-braguglia |
| Olivier Laplace | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/olivier-laplace |
| Alain Nicod | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alain-nicod |

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## FAQ

### What does Olivier Laplace invest in?

Olivier Laplace invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Olivier Laplace last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Olivier Laplace closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 24 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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