# PostFinance

> PostFinance is a VC fund in Bern backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bern, Switzerland
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/postfinance
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/postfinance
- Website: https://www.postfinance.ch/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/postfinance

PostFinance is a VC fund in Bern focused on FinTech and Financial Services. It is the fifth largest retail financial institution in Switzerland.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for PostFinance. Shizune tracks 9 team members at PostFinance. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/postfinance?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $466k–$7M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$19M |
| Series B | $6.4M–$37M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 8 | 35% |
| Financial Services | 8 | 35% |
| Finance | 4 | 17% |
| Payments | 4 | 17% |
| Insurance | 4 | 17% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 30% |
| Series A | 6 | 26% |
| Series B | 5 | 22% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 11 | 48% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 13% |
| Germany | 2 | 9% |
| Sweden | 1 | 4% |
| Singapore | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Thoma | Innovation Manager DLT/Blockchain | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-thoma |
| Beat Röthlisberger | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beat-r%C3%B6thlisberger |
| Benjamin Staeheli | Head of Payment Solutions | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-staeheli |
| Hansruedi Köng | CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hansruedi-k%C3%B6ng |
| Jasmin Farouq | Head of Strategy & Growth Platform Business Valuu | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jasmin-farouq |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wyden | AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally. | $16.9M | Series B | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Doconomy | Doconomy is a Sweden-based fintech company that offers digital banking services. Their vision is of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. Doconomy wants to inspire change in behaviour and reduce unsustainable consumption and carbon emissions. Doconomy activates a circular ecosystem, connecting the consumer, the producer, the retailer andinfluencer to futureproof planet earth, and achieve a sustainable lifestyle for all. | $36.8M | Series B | May 30, 2024 |  |
| Rivero | Rivero Ltd. is a privately held company based in Switzerland, with a strong focus on simplifying card payments operations. Rivero provides SaaS solutions for all players in the card payment ecosystem such as issuers, acquirers and FinTechs.Kajo - Scheme Compliance Made Easy The only solution designed for and tailored to the scheme licensecompliance management. By fully digitalising and automating the administrative part of the process, Kajo drastically reduces the overhead and time spent in organising all required work to stay compliant with changing rules and requirements of payment networks. For Service Providers, Kajo makes it easy to directly access relevant publications and announcements from Mastercard and Visa that impact their business.Amiko - Fraud Recovery & Dispute Management Reinvented The first and only Fraud Recovery and Dispute Management SaaS solution. Amiko creates a whole new way to tackle fraud reporting, fraud recovery and cardholder disputes. By covering the whole lifecycle of a dispute, from pre-dispute (via Ethoca & Verifi) to arbitration rulings by Mastercard and Visa, Amiko can replace any dispute management system. With a truly end-to-end digital approach, Amiko offers a set of unique features, such as automation and cardholder self-servicing in the issuing bank app or portals. | $7.2M | Series A | Jan 11, 2024 |  |
| Credit Exchange | Credit Exchange is a financial firm that provides mortgage exchange, credit management, lending, banking, and financial consulting services. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 16, 2023 |  |
| properti | "building the world's greatest real estate company"Properti is a modern, young and pioneering PropTech startup founded in November 2019. Through our unique Properti System, which combines the latest technologies, in-depth expertise and world-class marketing, we provide an exclusive service. Our mission is to change the real estateindustry sustainably with the symbiosis of technology and people to build trustworthiness and transparency. Our goal is to offer customers a full service around the housing ecosystem. | $3.3M | Seed | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| Token.io | Token.io is the leading Pay by Bank infrastructure provider. Powering major Pay by Bank schemes in the UK and Europe, Token.io’s turnkey infrastructure makes it simple for banks, platforms and payment companies to grow revenue, reduce costs and expand to new markets with Pay by Bank.The first and most experienced provider to own and operate a Payby Bank network, Token.io is a driving force for innovation as the single access point connecting businesses to the future of payments. Token.io combines unmatched expertise with the most flexible integration options to accelerate partners' time to success. Best‑in‑class technology, unrivalled acceptance, industry‑leading conversion rates, and a uniquely collaborative partnership and distribution model make Token.io the market benchmark, as recognised by independent analysts.Partnering with three of Europe’s five largest financial institutions, Token.io is the leading Pay by Bank infrastructure provider for banks, and proudly powers a blue‑chip payments community that includes Mastercard, ACI Worldwide, Global Payments, Nuvei, and Paysafe. | $40M | Series C | May 12, 2022 |  |
| Outfund | Outfund is a revenue-based finance startup that wants to help online businesses fund growth without giving away equity. | $18.8M | Series A | Apr 27, 2022 |  |
| Outfund | Outfund is a revenue-based finance startup that wants to help online businesses fund growth without giving away equity. | $125.4M | Debt Financing | Apr 27, 2022 |  |
| Helvengo | Helvengo's digital MGA model offers 360°-SME insurance solutions. SMEs and their advisors benefit from an end-to-end digital process including an AI-based risk analysis to unveil potential coverage gaps and automated quote calculations providing real-time offers. | $4.5M | Seed | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| Capitalise.com | At Capitalise.com, our vision is to unlock UK businesses’ full potential today by matching the right business to the right lender. With 360 plus lenders and growing this funding journey has become increasingly complex and hard to navigate. Capitalise.com uses in-house technology and data analytics to identify the best financing options availablefor UK businesses. We've partnered with over 80 institutional and fintech lenders throughout the UK to offer business loans to UK SMEs. | $13.8M | Series B | Aug 31, 2021 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1818 Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1818-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Credit Suisse](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credit-suisse) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Force Over Mass Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/force-over-mass-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Salica](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hambroperksltd) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Seed X Liechtenstein AG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seed-x-liechtenstein) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SICTIC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sictic) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does PostFinance invest in?

PostFinance invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is PostFinance's check size?

PostFinance typically joins rounds of $466k–$7M at Seed, $2.5M–$19M at Series A and $6.4M–$37M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds PostFinance participates in.

### How do I contact PostFinance?

Public channels for PostFinance 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 PostFinance?

The team at PostFinance includes Alexander Thoma (Innovation Manager DLT/Blockchain), Beat Röthlisberger (CEO) and Benjamin Staeheli (Head of Payment Solutions), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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