Top 10 Publishing Startup Investors in Switzerland

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Publishing startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Publishing Startup Investors in Switzerland

Investor	Publishing Switzerland investments
Founderful Campus	1
Yves Latour	1
Fondation d'Aide aux Entreprises	1
Edipresse	1
Balz Roth	1
3wVentures	1
Valuta Capital Partners	1
Arvin Zuberbuehler	1
Bolko Hohaus	1
Polytech Ventures	1

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Wingman Campus Fund aims to educate students and support entrepreneurs to disrupt the startup culture on campuses, producing the next generation of tech leaders, and creating more value for society.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Pre-Seed, Seed
Switzerland, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

tiun — Stay flexible. Pay flexible. All with one click.
Bollwerk — Bollwerk is the modern finance data stack: All the finance data you need with awesome collaboration features.
SAEKI — Building the future of autonomous robotic manufacturing.

Yves Latour is the Co-Founder of 3wVentures. Yves Latour attended the University of St.Gallen.

Investment focus

Software, Search Engine, Internet
Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Verve Ventures — Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.
PresseTrends.com — What is happening today, this week or this month? Which people matter, what major events are taking place or which organizations are acting? These questions are topic in news and weekly magazines and can be found answered on www.pressetrends.com where the German speaking press can be searched.
Uberchord — Uberchord is an interactive guitar teacher. Listens and adapts to personal progress, teaching you chords, rhythm, strumming and songs. Learn guitar!

Fondation d'Aide aux Enterprises is a company that provides corporate financing services.In line with its mission, the Foundation for Business Support (FAE) intervenes in a subsidiary way to facilitate access to financing for viable businesses based in the canton of Geneva. The objective, beyond solving strictly financing issues, is topromote the development of Geneva's SMEs by favoring the maintenance of a strong and diversified economy, provider of jobs.

Investment focus

Publishing, Brand Marketing, Network Security
Angel
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Faveeo — Faveeo is the first AI-Driven trusted content platform. Faveeo is a smart AI-driven tool highlighting only reliable, meaningful content on any topic, by finding and following the most trusted and valuable sources -- as opposed to the most popular ones, like everyone else...
Orbiwise — OrbiWAN, OrbiWAN-Edge, Sampols, Noise solution, LoRaWAN Network Server, Best LoRaWAN Network Server in world

Edipresse is an international media group. Headquartered in Lausanne Switzerland, Edipresse Group's main activities are magazine publishing and digital media.

Investment focus

CRM, Big Data, Payments
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

SmartWall (SwissPay) — SmartWall is a monetization platform for media and advertisers that drives engagement, loyalty, interactions and more revenue.SmartWall personalizes reader experience through differentiated customer journeys. It optimizes settings in real-time based on user engagement, traffic sources, type of content and many other data points. It providespublishers and media with a powerful marketing tool to understand and segment their audience to find each user's tipping point towards conversion.SmartWall allows publishers to sell digital content without any friction, on their website or their mobile applications. The SmartWall technology relies on Machine Learning algorithms, behavioral analysis and reading context to instantly select the best suited advertising, the proper price for news articles or the best subscription offer.SmartWall allows advertisers to boost engagement and interactions from users through an utmost advertising space.

Balz Roth, a long time member of the Go Beyond community, has been an entrepreneur for more than 20 years, during which time he has developed several startup companies mainly in the areas of technology/media and lifestyle/entertainment. His focus has been on deal sourcing and investment structuring; advising and coaching several startupsin business model engineering, strategy development and operational excellence as well as in training Business Angels.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Internet
Funding Round, Convertible Note, Series A
Switzerland, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Faveeo — Faveeo is the first AI-Driven trusted content platform. Faveeo is a smart AI-driven tool highlighting only reliable, meaningful content on any topic, by finding and following the most trusted and valuable sources -- as opposed to the most popular ones, like everyone else...
The Faction Collective — The Faction Collective - manufacturers of high performance freeride and freestyle skis since 2006.Skis are more than just pieces of wood, steel & fibreglass. They are tools of escape. A medium for personal expression. A way to challenge fears, push limits & share incredible experiences with friends.The Faction Collective was formedin 2006 by a group of friends with the aim of creating the best designed & built freeride & freestyle skis you can buy, with a world-class manufacturing base in heart of the European Alps and a strong commitment to social and environmental sustainability. Every year new ideas and products expand our range - but the manifesto remains the same.In 2010 we partnered with Swiss helmet manufacturer TSG to produce a new line of lightweight, high performance protection, and in 2012 we are working with acclaimed French skier Candide Thovex to create a range of revolutionary superlight park and freeride skis using recycled PET cores and minimalist graphics that support our ethos of uncompromised performance.From our bases in Verbier, Switzerland and Breckenridge, USA we still ski over 100 days a year, refining our products and keeping the stoke alive. We hope you are too.
ShoeSize.Me — Our technology helps the world's leading shoe brands and retailers to increase their conversion rates, and generate extra shoe orders with guided selling.

3wVentures provides seed money and venture capital to international internet startups. As they focus on early stage projects and prototypes, our investments and co-investments target a volume of up to USD 250,000.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
Switzerland, Spain, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
GUURU — Connect your customer community with your online shoppers to enable relevant, real-time advice from the people who love and use your products.
Pregnolia — Pregnolia ensures that every woman can have a happy, healthy and informed pregnancy until term. Their team knows that the existing research about preterm birth assessment is very promising, but this alone does not guarantee success. Sabrina, Francisco and Annette are highly committed to develop the commercial version of the device, complete theclinical trial, follow the regulatory roadmap and execute on their business vision to successfully support gynaecologists in improving the preterm birth risk assessment and birth management.

Valuta Capital Partners is an advisory outfit with its headquarters in Istanbul providing management consulting services to its affiliates.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, iOS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tailster — Tailster is an iOS and Android mobile application that matches pet owners with people who are willing to care for their pets. It allows its users to track dog walks, real time photo updates, free insurance, and online payment services. Individuals shares their requirements and they can get in touch with the carers. They also can book the carersonline and over the telephone. It provides customer testimonials for new users to get an idea about the company and their experiences.Tailster is a U.K.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Indy Sangha.
MyGoGames — My GO games (OTCQB: MYGG) is a publicly traded, on-line, ethical action game developer for outdoor enthusiasts. CEO Danny Hammett has extensive experience, leadership and sponsor contracts enabling the company to build a Games Universe of over 30 outdoors games. MYGG takes a proven outdoor action formula - recognized branding combined withfast paced hunting /fishing /riding/boating/camping, and outdoor enthusiast activities with a low barrier to entry - and puts it in a graphically rich MMO world specifically crafted for the over 500 million hunting, fishing, and outdoor enthusiasts, globally. Players can hike trails, camp out in the wilderness, try their hand at fishing, use firearms and bows against targets or various wild game animals, encounter numerous outdoor celebrities, and experience a variety of other games and activities with a central lodge focus. GO is designed to combine humanity’s oldest social experiences with the most powerful social networking tools available online.
Quantemplate — Insurance data integration, automation, validation & analytics. Automate all your insurance and reinsurance data preparation, including Bordereaux Management, MGA Reporting, Exposure Management, Fleet Auto, Aggregation and Clash with integrated data quality assurance. Turn all of your insurance data sources into insights you can trust with the Quantemplate SaaS platform.

Arvin Zuberbuehler is the Co-Founding Partner of 3wVentures.

Investment focus

Internet, Search Engine, News
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Youblisher — On youblisher.com people, companies, schools etc can publish their documents and create an easy handable page flipping document. The service is entirely free of charge and everything is hosted. Three easy steps and everything is done.
PresseTrends.com — What is happening today, this week or this month? Which people matter, what major events are taking place or which organizations are acting? These questions are topic in news and weekly magazines and can be found answered on www.pressetrends.com where the German speaking press can be searched.

Bolko Hohaus is the Founder and CEO of HCP Hohaus Advisory.

Investment focus

Publishing, Brand Marketing, Content Marketing
Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Faveeo — Faveeo is the first AI-Driven trusted content platform. Faveeo is a smart AI-driven tool highlighting only reliable, meaningful content on any topic, by finding and following the most trusted and valuable sources -- as opposed to the most popular ones, like everyone else...

Polytech Ventures are an early stage VC firm based in Switzerland with a strong international focus. Their strategic location at EPFL in Lausanne grants us access to one of the most dynamic and recognized innovation centers in the world