Thomas Dübendorfer
President, Founder & Board Member @ SICTIC
Zürich, Switzerland
Thomas Dübendorfer is a seed investor at SICTIC in Zürich focused on Software and Information Technology. Thomas Dübendorfer holds a Ph.D. and master in computer science with honors with distinction from ETH Zurich. He worked as software engineer in Silicon Valley and seven years as Tech Lead on security and privacy projects at Google in Zürich, receiving three Google OC awards. As president he shaped the Information Security Society Switzerland ISSSfor five years during which the number of members more than doubled to over a thousand. He is a lecturer at ETH Zürich and has co-founded several Internet technology based product centric startups in Switzerland, among them Spontacts (exit to Scout24 Group), Contovista (big data for finance) and Frontify (collaborative web design).
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 47%
Last updated:
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Industries Thomas Dübendorfer invests in
Stages Thomas Dübendorfer invests in
Countries Thomas Dübendorfer invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $583k–$11M
- Pre-Seed
- $835k–$2.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (35%)
- Information Technology 4 (24%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (24%)
- Machine Learning 3 (18%)
- SaaS 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (29%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (29%)
- Angel 2 (12%)
- Convertible Note 2 (12%)
- Series A 1 (6%)
Country
- Switzerland 11 (65%)
- Germany 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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DeepJudge
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DeepJudge is the core AI platform for legal professionals. Powered by world-class enterprise search that serves up immediate access to all of the institutional knowledge in your firm, DeepJudge enables you to build entire AI applications, encapsulate multi-step workflows, and implement LLM agents. | $10.7M / Seed / Jun 19, 2024 | |
Agrinorm
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Agrinorm is a technology company on a mission to transform fresh produce sourcing through digitalization and AI. The company is building a new supply chain model that enables buyers and growers to work directly together profitably, reduce waste, and adapt to climate change. Recognized as one of the top 100 Swiss start-ups and among the top 500 foodtech start-ups globally, Agrinorm is on a path to scale its innovative sourcing method worldwide. | $1M / Seed / Dec 05, 2022 | |
Riskwolf
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Connectivity insurance is a multi-billion dollar risk not yet covered. Work-from-Home and the digital economy are expanding. This creates new connectivity risks. If the Internet is off, workers and businesses lose income and revenues. Billions of hours are lost due to network connectivity issues typically caused by weather, cable cuts and localincidents. There is a billion dollar protection gap currently not addressed by insurers.Riskwolf partners with insurers to protect digital platforms from disruptions. Our platform allows a fast go-to-market. In our pricing service, Insurers calibrate, price and offer protection products. In addition, Riskwolf offers a real-time claims service to detect connectivity problems and to automate the payment process.In cooperation with a leading global reinsurer, Riskwolf currently pilots its first outage benefit product in South East Asia.Riskwolf. Simple, Reliable and Fast. | $415.6K / Convertible Note / Jul 26, 2022 | |
Get More Brain
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Digital learning platform connecting learners and their employers with teachers and schools, publishers and EdTech companies. Marketplace for learning content and learning related services. | $2.7M / Pre-Seed / Mar 31, 2022 | |
Signifikant Solutions
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Signifikant Solutions develops big data analysis software solutions that measure and optimize marketing campaigns. Its solutions monitor and control in real time to improve the performance of marketing campaigns using different channels to optimize and determine the optimal communication mix. Signifikant Solutions began operation in 2017, withits headquarters in Lucerne in Switzerland. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 29, 2021 | |
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Agrinorm
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Agrinorm is a technology company on a mission to transform fresh produce sourcing through digitalization and AI. The company is building a new supply chain model that enables buyers and growers to work directly together profitably, reduce waste, and adapt to climate change. Recognized as one of the top 100 Swiss start-ups and among the top 500 foodtech start-ups globally, Agrinorm is on a path to scale its innovative sourcing method worldwide. | Convertible Note / Jun 15, 2021 | |
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Riskwolf
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Connectivity insurance is a multi-billion dollar risk not yet covered. Work-from-Home and the digital economy are expanding. This creates new connectivity risks. If the Internet is off, workers and businesses lose income and revenues. Billions of hours are lost due to network connectivity issues typically caused by weather, cable cuts and localincidents. There is a billion dollar protection gap currently not addressed by insurers.Riskwolf partners with insurers to protect digital platforms from disruptions. Our platform allows a fast go-to-market. In our pricing service, Insurers calibrate, price and offer protection products. In addition, Riskwolf offers a real-time claims service to detect connectivity problems and to automate the payment process.In cooperation with a leading global reinsurer, Riskwolf currently pilots its first outage benefit product in South East Asia.Riskwolf. Simple, Reliable and Fast. | $835K / Pre-Seed / Jun 02, 2021 | |
Nexoya
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Nexoya is a Swiss AI-powered platform for cross-channel marketing attribution, budget optimization, and scenario simulation. The platform uses privacy-safe, regression-based attribution modeling to measure the true impact of each advertising channel, without cookies or pixels. Based on these insights, Nexoya's AI automatically reallocatesbudgets across 40+ connected ad platforms with one click, delivering measurable uplifts in conversions, ROAS, and revenue.Trusted by brands like Zurich Insurance, Generali, Vodafone, Swisscom, flaschenpost, Benetton or Zürcher Kantonalbank, Nexoya has demonstrated results including +72% conversions (Generali), +13% revenue (Vodafone), and +47% add-to-carts (ZKB). Founded in 2018 in Zurich, the company operates across Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, and the UK. | $1.5M / Seed / Apr 20, 2021 | |
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Agrinorm
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Agrinorm is a technology company on a mission to transform fresh produce sourcing through digitalization and AI. The company is building a new supply chain model that enables buyers and growers to work directly together profitably, reduce waste, and adapt to climate change. Recognized as one of the top 100 Swiss start-ups and among the top 500 foodtech start-ups globally, Agrinorm is on a path to scale its innovative sourcing method worldwide. | Pre-Seed / Jul 01, 2020 | |
Frontify
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Frontify is a SaaS B2B platform for brand management that helps brands create consistent brand experiences over all communication channels. With their cloud-based software, brand managers can create online style guides, manage their brand assets, create UI pattern libraries and work collaboratively in creative projects. This leads to a new level ofbrand consistency over all communication channels and strengthens every brand.Frontify platform is super intuitive and user-friendly, allowing you to use project spaces to simplify feedback loops and get approvals profoundly increasing productivity. It is designed to facilitate and streamline day-to-day branding, marketing and development operations. The company offers solutions include Digital Asset Management, CI/CD Guidelines, Digital Productivity, Web & Print Publishing, Brand Portal, Design System, and Project Collaboration. They create a user-friendly brand management platform that enables anyone to deliver compelling and consistent brand experiences.Frontify was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland with an office in New York, USA. | $22.3M / Series B / Jan 28, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
About SICTIC
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.
SICTIC Contacts
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Steffen Ehrhardt
VP Investor Community, Partnerships and Sustainability
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Thomas Dübendorfer
President, Founder & Board Member
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Henrique Martins de Araujo
Angel Investor
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Ozgur Aksakal
Member and Angel Investor
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Raphael Lüscher
Member
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FAQ
What does Thomas Dübendorfer invest in?
Thomas Dübendorfer invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Thomas Dübendorfer's check size?
Thomas Dübendorfer typically joins rounds of $583k–$11M at Seed and $835k–$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 Thomas Dübendorfer participates in.
When did Thomas Dübendorfer last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Thomas Dübendorfer closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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