# Waypoint Capital

> Waypoint Capital is a VC fund in Geneva backing Health Care and B2B. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Geneva, Switzerland
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/waypoint-capital
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/wpcapital
- Website: http://www.waypointcapital.net/

Waypoint Capital is a VC fund in Geneva focused on Health Care and B2B. Waypoint is the business enterprise for the managers and advisers associated with the Bertarelli family. Their history is that of a family of entrepreneurs and today that spirit lives on in a diversified range of business interests.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Waypoint Capital. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Waypoint Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/waypoint-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 2 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |
| Sports | 1 | 17% |
| Travel | 1 | 17% |
| Cycling | 1 | 17% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 17% |
| Series D | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| Sweden | 1 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Viehbacher | Managing Partner | 1 | — |
| Chris Viehbacher | Managing Partner | 2 | — |
| Gordon McNair | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | — |
| Gretchen McCarey | Head of Accounting and Operations, US | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Volta Trucks | Volta Trucks is an automotive company that offers electric trucks for sustainable cities. The company is building a purpose-built full-electric large commercial vehicle to be manufactured for inner-city freight and urban distribution. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in London, England. | $260.4M | Series C | Feb 18, 2022 |  |
| Santhera Pharmaceuticals | Santhera Pharmaceuticals (SIX: SANN) is a Swiss specialty pharmaceutical company focusing on the development and marketing of innovative pharmaceutical products for the treatment of mitochondrial and neuromuscular diseases. This area of high unmet medical need includes many orphan and niche indications with no current therapy. | $21.6M | Post-IPO Equity | Sep 20, 2021 |  |
| Fornova | Fornova empowers hotels to optimise revenue and distribution while reducing costs and improving forecasting.We are on a mission to turn data into intelligence and align the entire hotel organization (from revenue and distribution to sales, e-Commerce and operations) so they can make smarter decisions together.Fornova is the only hospitalityBI solution provider that has corporate agreements with the majority of the world’s top 10 largest hotel chains, as well as the biggest global OTAs, while also serving hundreds of smaller brands and independent hotels.Using our patented VisualScan technology, we monitor over 75 thousand websites and conduct more than 1.25 billion price comparisons every month.Founded in 2010, we have grown our team to over 150 members, with offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Israel, Belarus, Ukraine and India. | $17M | Series B | May 02, 2017 |  |
| DME Express | DME Express was founded over 10 years ago to fulfill its mission of providing hospices and nursing facilities with the highest quality equipment and service, at the lowest price, whenever they need it. The founders and managers of DME Express have over 100 years of hospice and nursing facility experience and understand the unique needs of hospicesand nursing facilities. Since 2006, DME Express has expanded to become the provider of choice in every market within its service areas. DME Express is committed to always be available to its patients with high quality medical equipment, proprietary technology, and unmatched customer service. |  |  | Dec 19, 2016 |  |
| Zwift | Zwift is a provider of an interactive fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling and running workouts into dynamic and social adventures.Its platform connects users to physical indoor trainers so that cyclists can pedal inside while immersed in any number of virtual landscapes on a screen in front of them that enable usersto join in rides together with friends. Zwift uses gaming technology to bring the outdoor experience indoors, making at-home exercise fun, and engaging. It promotes social experience by connecting cyclists and runners in 3D computer-generated platform. Users of the Zwift platform interact, train, and compete together by wirelessly pairing a bike trainer or treadmill to the Zwift app, to power their in-game avatars.Zwift was launched in 2014 by Alarik Myrin, Eric Min, Jon Mayfield, and Scott Barger and is headquartered in Long Beach, California. | $27.2M | Series A | Nov 16, 2016 |  |
| Simplivity | SimpliVity provides a hyper-converged infrastructure that accelerates the deployment of resources and workloads. It offers OmniCube, a 2U rack-mounted building block that delivers server, storage, and networking services as well as a functionality to the management, protection, and performance of virtualized workloads, OmniCube HyperconvergedInfrastructure, a platform that addresses data efficiency and global management requirements in virtualized and cloud computing environment, OmniView, a web-based support dashboard with predictive analytics for enterprises, and OmniStack Hyperconverged Infrastructure that integrates with Cisco UCS that assimilates up to a dozen core data center functions on Cisco UCS C240 rack-mount servers that includes hypervisor, compute, network switching, backup, replication, cloud gateway, caching, WAN optimization, real-time deduplication, and more. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts. | $175M | Series D | Mar 19, 2015 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Agility](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agility-3) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Byggmästare A J Ahlström](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/byggm%C3%A4stare-a-j-ahlstr%C3%B6m) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DFJ Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dfj-growth) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DTCP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dtcp) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Waypoint Capital invest in?

Waypoint Capital invests primarily in Health Care, B2B and Sports startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Waypoint Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Waypoint Capital?

The team at Waypoint Capital includes Chris Viehbacher (Managing Partner), Chris Viehbacher (Managing Partner) and Gordon McNair (Chief Financial Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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