# Volker Wendel

> Volker Wendel is a pre-seed investor at Sanoptis backing Software, Film and SaaS. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sanoptis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanoptis)
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-volker-wendel-04345611b

Volker Wendel is a pre-seed investor at Sanoptis focused on Software and Film. Volker Wendel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sanoptis. He previously worked at ARTEMIS Augenkliniken und med. Versorgungszentren as a CFO. Volker Wendel attended the University of Mannheim.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| Film | 1 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Mobile | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retinai | RetinAI optimises and simplifies clinics, research and pharmaceutical workflows to improve healthcare. To achieve this goal, the company builds tools to collect, analyze and organize health data, empowering healthcare professionals and patients with automatic image and data analysis supported by advanced machine learning. RetinAI has proprietarytechnology that provides unforeseen image quality enhancement, as well as automatic analysis of medical data for hospitals, private practitioners, pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers at similar level of performance as a human would produce. | $7.8M | Series B | Oct 16, 2024 |  |
| alao AG | alao is here to help end customers finding the right mobile subscription, TV and internet plan for their needs, while saving time and money. On B2B level, alao offers an integration for third-party, non-telco resellers (digital or POS) to sell alao's well-curated products. alao provides retailers with access to the telco market, as well as thetechnology and infrastructure to sell plans to their customer base. | $5.5M | Debt Financing | Nov 10, 2023 |  |
| PRODUCER | PRODUCER is an all-in-one cloud-based software that provides a suite of digital tools to manage all stages of video production, in one place. Our solution reduces the complexity of producing and managing video content, by consolidating multiple tools and point-to-point solutions used to solve specific steps of the production process, into oneunified system. | $544.3K | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Topcon Healthcare](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/topcon-healthcare-solutions) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [UBS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ubs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Verve Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/verve-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Zürcher Kantonal Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/z%C3%BCrcher-kantonalbank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Sanoptis

VC Fund · Pfaffikon, Switzerland

Sanoptis is an innovative European ophthalmology services group, covering the full spectrum of diagnostic and surgical ophthalmic treatments. The group partners with leading ophthalmologists to deliver on the organic and inorganic growth opportunities within the market.

2 contacts available at Sanoptis.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Volker Wendel | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/volker-wendel |
| Carsten Horn | Founder & CDO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carsten-horn-c351 |

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## FAQ

### What does Volker Wendel invest in?

Volker Wendel invests primarily in Software, Film and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Volker Wendel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Volker Wendel closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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