# Polytech Ventures

> Polytech Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 50 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
- Total investments: 50
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 26%
- Fund size: $40M
- Last fund: Mar 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/polytechecosystem-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Polytech_VC
- Website: https://polytechecosystem.vc

Polytech Ventures is a VC fund in Lausanne focused on Financial Services and FinTech. 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

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Polytech Ventures. Shizune tracks 5 team members at Polytech Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/polytech-ecosystem-venture?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$5M |
| Series A | $2.3M–$9.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 9 | 18% |
| FinTech | 8 | 16% |
| Software | 7 | 14% |
| Health Care | 6 | 12% |
| Big Data | 5 | 10% |

99 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 25 | 50% |
| Series A | 12 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 8% |
| Series B | 2 | 4% |
| Series C | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 24 | 48% |
| United States | 11 | 22% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Belgium | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Fries | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-fries-023d |
| Guillaume Dubray | Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-dubray |
| Jacques Billy | Non Executive Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacques-billy |
| Laurent Bischof | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurent-bischof |
| Sal Matteis | Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sal-matteis |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hemostod | HemostOD manufactures platelets on-demand from engineered stem cells. | $5.4M | Seed | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| Relai | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. | $11.1M | Series A | Jul 09, 2020 |  |
| Car IQ | 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 | 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 |  |
| KiWi | KiWi is the Fintech app of micro-businesses in emerging markets | $3.5M | Seed | Aug 18, 2018 |  |

10 of 50 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Polytech Ventures invest in?

Polytech Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 50 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Polytech Ventures's check size?

Polytech Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$5M at Seed and $2.3M–$9.7M 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 Polytech Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Polytech Ventures?

Public channels for Polytech Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 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 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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