# SICTIC

> SICTIC is a VC fund in Zürich backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 290 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 290
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sictic/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ICTinvestorclub
- Website: http://www.sictic.ch/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swissictinvestorclub

SICTIC is a non-profit association, which has a strong investor community and organizes the deal flow and matchmaking of startups and investors online and at pitching events. They have offices in Zürich, Lausanne and Ticino.Since 2018, SICTIC has become the largest and most active business angel network in Switzerland and was awarded “BestPerforming EBAN Member 2018” from over 150 member organizations in more than 50 countries.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for SICTIC. Shizune tracks 6 team members at SICTIC. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/sictic?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $537k–$3.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $302k–$2.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 30 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 19 | 7% |
| Information Technology | 14 | 5% |
| E-Commerce | 12 | 4% |
| Machine Learning | 12 | 4% |

190 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 68 | 23% |
| Pre-Seed | 20 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 4% |
| Series A | 10 | 3% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 2% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 104 | 36% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| Tanzania | 1 | 0% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Steffen Ehrhardt | VP Investor Community, Partnerships and Sustainability | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steffen-ehrhardt |
| Thomas Dübendorfer | President, Founder & Board Member | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-d%C3%BCbendorfer |
| Henrique Martins de Araujo | Angel Investor | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henrique-martins-de-araujo |
| Ozgur Aksakal | Member and Angel Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ozgur-aksakal |
| Raphael Lüscher | Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raphael-luscher |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carewell | Carewell is influencing the way people work in healthcare by providing flexible digital solutions tailored to their specific needs. | $1.9M | Seed | Jul 03, 2026 |  |
| Ionic Wind Technologies | Ionic wind technologies, which use an internationally patented concept, alter the way airflow is generated. Instead of conventional rotating machinery, we move air with electric fields. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 15, 2025 |  |
| Qala | Qala provides real-time data visibility through a dynamic, interactive map of the whole data ecosystem. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| PeriVision | Perivision combines artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the cloud to build the next generation of systems to understand visual function. The company's systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases. | $3M | Seed | Sep 11, 2025 |  |
| Scanvio | Scanvio offers AI-augmented ultrasound software for faster endometriosis diagnosis, providing expert sonography skills to gynecologists, improving health and surgical education. | $3.4M | Seed | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| machineMD | machineMD is a medical device company, headquartered in Switzerland, with a subsidiary in Boston, USA, that is innovating at the intersection of neuroscience and ophthalmology.The company’s mission is to radically improve the measurement of brain function, with a vision for a world where people receive an accurate, fast, and early diagnosis ofbrain disorders. Together with a global network of clinical and research partners, our goal is to bring the diagnostic quality of highly trained tertiary care specialists where it is needed most, in primary and secondary care. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Nextesy | Nextesy is a pioneering start-up that uses AI to simplify and automate important business processes, allowing businesses to alleviate the strain of repetitive manual procedures while increasing operational efficiency and scalability. | $3.6M | Pre-Seed | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Insurteam | Insurteam provides the benefits of its technology to all insurance companies that service the travel and leisure sector. | $767.3K | Seed | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| Correntics | Our vision is to make global supply chains future-proof. With our data-driven approach, a deep understanding of risks, we help our clients to reduce risks in their value chains. Through our expertise, we support our clients to improve their operations and their financial resilience in the face of climate change and emerging risks while ensuring thesustainability of their business activities. |  | Seed | Jan 05, 2025 |  |
| tiun. | Tiun is a software company that allows media and streaming services to accept online payments from non-subscribed users who are willing to pay for the time they used a service for. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 18, 2024 |  |

10 of 290 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Zürcher Kantonal Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/z%C3%BCrcher-kantonalbank) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Verve Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/verve-ventures) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [BackBone Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backbone-ventures) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Business Angels Switzerland (BAS)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-angels-switzerland-bas) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Alpana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpana-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [DAA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daa-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 10 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SICTIC invest in?

SICTIC invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 290 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SICTIC's check size?

SICTIC typically joins rounds of $537k–$3.4M at Seed and $302k–$2.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SICTIC participates in.

### How do I contact SICTIC?

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### Who are the partners at SICTIC?

The team at SICTIC includes Steffen Ehrhardt (VP Investor Community, Partnerships and Sustainability), Thomas Dübendorfer (President, Founder & Board Member) and Henrique Martins de Araujo (Angel Investor), among 6 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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