# Verve Ventures

> Verve Ventures is a VC fund in Zug backing Health Care and Software. See 286 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Switzerland
- Total investments: 286
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Fund size: $66M
- Last fund: Jun 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/verveventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/VerveVentures
- Website: http://verve.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/verve.vc

Verve Ventures is a European startup investment platform for qualified and institutional investors. Their fully digital platform enables private investors to build a diversified portfolio with investments starting at CHF/EUR 10'000. Since its launch in 2010, Verve Ventures has invested more than EUR 130 million in over 100 startups. Theircommunity consists of 5’000 registered qualified private investors, family offices, and pension funds. Several institutional investors such as a large Swiss pension fund and numerous corporates also rely on their expertise to invest in promising startups. Verve Ventures is backed by Switzerland's third-largest bank, Zürcher Kantonalbank. They have a dedicated investment team based in Zurich, Lausanne, Berlin, Paris, and Cambridge, that screens thousands of startups each year and selects the top 1% after a rigorous due diligence process. They are reshaping the European venture capital landscape and granting investors superior access to this traditionally intransparent asset class. They source the best deals, and structure rounds, and enable their investors to participate in competitive startup deals.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$11M |
| Series A | $2.3M–$18M |
| Series B | $4.2M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 35 | 12% |
| Software | 32 | 11% |
| Biotechnology | 26 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 19 | 7% |
| Medical | 18 | 6% |

209 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 70 | 24% |
| Seed | 64 | 22% |
| Series B | 36 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 22 | 8% |
| Series C | 12 | 4% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 91 | 32% |
| Germany | 18 | 6% |
| France | 17 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 15 | 5% |
| United States | 4 | 1% |

16 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Seel | Institutional clients | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-seel |
| Chris Gay-Crosier | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-gay-crosier-3b38 |
| Chris Gay-Crosier | Investment Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-gay-crosier |
| Lukas Weber | Co-Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer & Chairman | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lukas-weber |
| Michael Blank | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-blank-d1ca |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aylight | Aylight develops semiconductor laser and photonics platforms designed to improve optical connectivity in AI datacenters and related infrastructure. The company focuses on frequency modulated comb laser technology that generates multiple stable wavelengths from a single InP-based laser cavity. Its architecture produces an equidistant, RF-lockedwavelength grid that aligns with dense wavelength-division multiplexing requirements and reduces control complexity and power consumption. Aylight targets use cases in AI datacenter interconnects, quantum computing hardware, precision metrology, and communication equipment. Its products aim to integrate with terabit optical links and wavelength-division multiplexing systems while remaining compatible with existing fabrication processes. | $5.1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| Atana Elements | Atana is a data-driven resource company that accelerates the exploration and development of flowing critical minerals. | $27.5M | Seed | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| Axelera AI | Axelera AI is a company that delivers purpose-built hardware and software platforms designed to accelerate artificial intelligence tasks, particularly in edge computing. The company's flagship product, the Metis™ AI Platform, integrates both hardware and software components to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI inference solutions.This platform has been recognized for its innovation, notably being named a CES® 2024 Innovation Awards Honoree.Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies. | $250M | Series C | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Haelixa | Haelixa provides IN-product traceability solutions to ensure consumer's good supply chain transparency and integrity. | $2.4M | Seed | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| NcodiN | NcodiN develops nanophotonic chips for data transport for processors that improves speed, energy efficiency and heating of the circuit | $18.5M | Seed | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| Ferroelectric Memory Company | FMC is the provider of extremely efficient FeFET memory solutions for non-volatile storage. FeFET is ultra-low-power, high-performance, very dense, and extremely temperature stable. It will scale to transistor sizes ranging from 28nm to 5nm and below. The FMC team has been supported by “EXIST Forschungstransfer”, a program of the Federal Ministryfor Economic Affairs and Energy. The company is based in Dresden, Germany.FMC commercializes a disruptive material innovation that will solve this problem for current and future technology nodes, i.e. eNVM based on ferroelectric hafnium oxide (FE-HfO2). The unexpected physical effect of ferroelectricity in HfO2 allows for the transformation of classical high-k metal-gate (HKMG) transistors into nonvolatile ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFET). In this way, MCUs can easily be scaled from e.g. 65 nm down to 28 nm and beyond enabling tremendous advantages for the overall system: SoC cost reduction of around 80%, per bit write energy reduction by a factor of 1000 and an overall performance gain of the system of around 70% due to the transition to advanced process nodes. Due to the close relation of FeFET and CMOS baseline, there is no roadblock for FMC’s technology to be applied to cutting-edge technology nodes like 22 nm FDSOI, 1X nm FinFET and beyond. | $89.6M | Series C | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Metafuels | Our breakthrough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology, aerobrew™, will make affordable net-zero aviation a reality. The technology is innovative, highly scaleable and able to tap into future global renewable energy systems efficiently. Starting from renewable feedstocks including green hydrogen, driven by renewable electricity, andsustainably sourced CO2, for example from direct air capture, aerobrew™ provides an efficient route to large-scale production of e-kerosene, overcoming the scale up challenges and high costs of alternative e-fuels technologies. aerobrew™ is also compatible with the biogenic route whereby the carbon required for the process is derived from renewable and sustainable cellulosic biomass which, does not compete with the food chain (wood, miscanthus, etc.). With a high carbon conversion, high selectivity and a high overall SAF yield, aerobrew™ leads to attractive production economics and cost leadership. With a rapidly growing demand for SAF, aerobrew™ stands to contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of global aviation and to support the achievement of net zero 2050 targets. | $24.8M | Series A | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| Sizable energy | Sizable Energy addresses the critical need for secure, affordable, and sustainable energy storage. Sizable Energy patented technology and straightforward design extends pumped hydro deployment to any offshore location with a depth of at least a few hundred meters. By leveraging a novel, modular, and easily deployable method, we utilize thegravitational potential of a solution 20% heavier than seawater, like saturated sea salt brine, within seawater. | $8.8M | Seed | Oct 22, 2025 |  |
| Ecorobotix | ecoRobotix contributes to an agriculture that respects the environment, focusing on soil and hydrological resources conservation and using a minimum amount of energy. ecoRobotix aims to offer precise, safe, reliable and affordable robotic solutions that simplify farmers’ life to produce healthy food. In particular, its revolutionary solar-poweredweeding robot offers a more sustainable use of herbicides while reducing farmers costs. | $105.7M | Series D | Oct 13, 2025 |  |
| Kiutra | At kiutra, our mission is to provide our research and industry customers with easy-to-use, turn-key cryostats that give them the time to focus on their work rather than on their cryostats. We facilitate low-temperature investigations of material samples and accelerate the development and testing of quantum hardware and related electronics by meansof fast-cooling tools and innovative sample exchange mechanisms. Our cooling platforms offer continuous sub-Kelvin cooling independent of liquid cooling media, notably independent of rare and costly helium-3. This is essential to provide cryogenic temperatures in a simple, compact, and cost-efficient way, and a prerequisite for the application of quantum electronics, such used for quantum computing, quantum communications and quantum sensing at an industrial scale. | $15.2M | Series A | Oct 02, 2025 |  |

10 of 286 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Zürcher Kantonal Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/z%C3%BCrcher-kantonalbank) — VC Fund, 57 deals together
- [3wVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3wventures-com) — VC Fund, 28 deals together
- [Swisscom Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swisscom-ventures) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [Swisscanto Private Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swisscanto-invest) — VC Fund, 20 deals together
- [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [SICTIC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sictic) — VC Fund, 14 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Verve Ventures invest in?

Verve Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Software and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 286 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Verve Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$11M at Seed, $2.3M–$18M at Series A and $4.2M–$45M 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 Verve Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Verve Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Verve Ventures?

The team at Verve Ventures includes Alexander Seel (Institutional clients), Chris Gay-Crosier (Investment Manager) and Chris Gay-Crosier (Investment Manager), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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