Polytech Ventures
VC Fund
Lausanne, Switzerland
Polytech Ventures is a VC fund in Lausanne focused on Software and Financial Services. Polytech Ventures are an early stage VC firm based in Switzerland with a strong international focus. Their strategic location at EPFL in Lausanne grants us access to one of the most dynamic and recognized innovation centers in the world
- Total investments:
- 53
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
- Fund size:
- $40M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Polytech Ventures invests in
Stages Polytech Ventures invests in
Countries Polytech Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$3.5M
- Series A
- $2.1M–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (17%)
- Financial Services 9 (17%)
- FinTech 8 (15%)
- Health Care 6 (11%)
- Big Data 5 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 25 (47%)
- Series A 13 (25%)
- Series B 2 (4%)
- Series C 2 (4%)
- Funding Round 2 (4%)
Country
- Switzerland 24 (45%)
- United States 12 (23%)
- Spain 1 (2%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
- Belgium 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Alexander Fries
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Guillaume Dubray
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Jacques Billy
Non Executive Director
|
Non Executive Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Laurent Bischof
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sal Matteis
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| HemostOD manufactures platelets on-demand from engineered stem cells. | $5.4M / Seed / Oct 01, 2025 | ||
| Relai is the easiest way to invest in Bitcoin for the long-term investor. A simple and intuitive app that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute, without registration, KYC verification or deposits. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. | $2.4M / Equity Crowdfunding / Apr 28, 2022 | ||
| Relai is the easiest way to invest in Bitcoin for the long-term investor. A simple and intuitive app that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute, without registration, KYC verification or deposits. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. | $2.3M / Equity Crowdfunding / Apr 28, 2022 | ||
| Earny allows for entering data securely into a central platform that is automatically included in a company’s payroll. | $1.1M / Seed / Sep 28, 2021 | ||
| Relai is the easiest way to invest in Bitcoin for the long-term investor. A simple and intuitive app that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute, without registration, KYC verification or deposits. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. | $2.8M / Series A / Jun 16, 2021 | ||
| Relai is the easiest way to invest in Bitcoin for the long-term investor. A simple and intuitive app that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute, without registration, KYC verification or deposits. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. | $2.8M / Seed / Jun 16, 2021 | ||
| yamo is on a mission to give parents healthier and easy food choices for their children. Its products are available online via a direct to consumer subscription model and through grocery stores. The latter includes Coop in Switzerland and select Edeka and Rewe stores in Germany. | $11.4M / Series A / Jul 09, 2020 | ||
| Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQconsolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively. | $6M / Series A / Jun 25, 2019 | ||
| KiWi is the mobile terminal with the lowest commission in the market to accept credit or debit cards from your android cell phone without forced deadlines or monthly payments or annuities. | $3.7M / Series A / Jan 17, 2019 | ||
| Inpher.io is a secret computing technology for privacy-preserving machine learning and AI.Inpher is a veteran team of entrepreneurs, cryptographers, and computer scientists who believe that privacy and security are foundational to the future of computing. It has developed transformational Secret Computing™ technology to run analytics andmachine learning algorithms on private data sources with zero-knowledge. This provides a secure path to cloud services and the monetization of analysis and insight without revealing sensitive data. | $10M / Series A / Nov 02, 2018 | ||
| See all 53 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Polytech Ventures invest in?
Polytech Ventures invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 53 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Polytech Ventures invest in?
Polytech Ventures typically joins rounds of $500k–$3.5M at Seed and $2.1M–$10M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Polytech Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Polytech Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Polytech Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Polytech Ventures?
The team at Polytech Ventures includes Alexander Fries (Founder), Guillaume Dubray (Managing Partner) and Jacques Billy (Non Executive Director). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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