# Patrick Delarive

> Patrick Delarive is a seed investor at Biowatch (Lausanne) backing Security and Wireless. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Biowatch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/biowatch)
- Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2017
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-delarive-73781458/

Patrick Delarive is a seed investor at Biowatch in Lausanne focused on Security and Wireless. Patrick is a businessman active in real estate, wealth management, show business, hospitality, education and private equity, benefiting from a strong network. At Biowatch since November 2015.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Security | 1 | 100% |
| Wireless | 1 | 100% |
| Wearables | 1 | 100% |
| Biometrics | 1 | 100% |
| Mobile Payments | 1 | 100% |

6 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Biowatch | Biowatch is a user-friendly wrist veins biometric reader that functions as a security solution for mobile payment protection and smart device interaction. Users can access the app for enrolling their vein pattern and selecting applications and devices that needs to be connected to their Biowatch, wear their BioWatch and activate it by matchingtheir vein pattern with their enrolled reference, get PKI encrypted user code transmitted from their Biowatch, and start opening doors without the use of keys and passwords.Biowatch was launched by Joe Rice and Matthias Vanoni and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. | $1.4M | Seed | Jan 19, 2017 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [i-tracing](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/i-tracing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Polytech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polytech-ecosystem-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SICPA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sicpa) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Biowatch

VC Fund · Lausanne, Switzerland

Biowatch is a user-friendly wrist veins biometric reader that functions as a security solution for mobile payment protection and smart device interaction. Users can access the app for enrolling their vein pattern and selecting applications and devices that needs to be connected to their Biowatch, wear their BioWatch and activate it by matchingtheir vein pattern with their enrolled reference, get PKI encrypted user code transmitted from their Biowatch, and start opening doors without the use of keys and passwords.Biowatch was launched by Joe Rice and Matthias Vanoni and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

2 contacts available at Biowatch.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Bodea | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-bodea |
| Patrick Delarive | Funding Partner & Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-delarive |

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## FAQ

### What does Patrick Delarive invest in?

Patrick Delarive invests primarily in Security, Wireless and Wearables startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Patrick Delarive last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Patrick Delarive closed in Jan 2017. Shizune tracks 1 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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