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Top 30 Retail Startup Investors in Switzerland (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Switzerland Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Switzerland Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
SICTIC
VC Fund
2 Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $233k–$2.9M
Höhle der Löwen Schweiz
VC Fund
2 Switzerland Seed Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
Anja Graf
Angel
2 Switzerland, United States Seed, Angel Retail, Marketing, E-Commerce $100k–$1.3M
21Celsius Ventures
VC Fund
2 Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
Éric Thuillier
Angel
2 Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed iOS, Books, Retail
Helvetia Venture Fund
VC Fund
1 Germany, Switzerland, Spain Seed, Series A Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech $3.3M–$20M
Tobias Reichmuth
Angel
1 Switzerland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Travel, Internet $138k–$2.9M
Atomico
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $5M–$200M
Heinz Schwyter
Angel
1 Switzerland Seed Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
Soma Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $200k–$40M
TK-Solutions
VC Fund
1 Germany, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Apps, Retail $27k–$77k
Swiss Startup Group
VC Fund
1 Switzerland, India, United States Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail $261k–$2.2M
Century Oak Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Retail, Software $300k–$37M
Lukas Speiser
Angel
1 Germany, Switzerland Seed Wellness, Nutrition, Health Care
Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung
VC Fund
1 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B Health Care, Medical, Software
Roland Brack
Angel
1 Switzerland Seed Marketing, Advertising, Social Media
Ariel Luedi
Angel
1 Switzerland, Austria, Australia Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Augmented Reality, Enterprise Software $1M–$8M
Jürg Schwarzenbach
Angel
1 Switzerland Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce
Yellow
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom Seed Legal Tech, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Gigahertz Ventures
VC Fund
1 Switzerland Seed iOS, Retail, Android
Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $100k–$5.1M
Christopher Jentzsch
Angel
1 Switzerland, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Mobile Apps, iOS, Apps $1.2M–$1.5M
Mirko Kerschbaum
Angel
1 Germany, Switzerland Pre-Seed, Angel Retail, Grocery, Software
Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $148k–$21M
Swisscom Ventures
VC Fund
1 Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.8M–$59M
Bettina Hein
Angel
1 Switzerland Seed Travel, Leisure, Tourism $227k–$1.4M
Andreas Buhl
Angel
1 Switzerland Seed Rental, Retail, Social $748k–$5.1M
Gentian Investments
VC Fund
1 Switzerland, Germany, United States Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $933k–$13M
KFW DEG
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, United States Debt Financing, Grant Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $100k–$570M
TR Invest
VC Fund
1 Switzerland, Spain, Sweden Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Apps $350k–$3.5M
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SICTIC
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

SICTIC is the leading angel investor network in Switzerland with the largest Swiss seed-stage startup dealflow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Seed $583k–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $233k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qala — Qala delivers real-time data classification, discovery, and policy enforcement. Auto-classify sensitive data, map full lifecycles, and label at source.
  • hypt — hypt is a Swiss based SaaS marketing solution that empowers companies to digitalize word-of-mouth. By using our word-of-mouth manager companies are able to activate 40% of their customers to send out a personal recommendation to their peers increasing sales through word-of-mouth by 4 times. Our solution empowers our ICP customers in the finance andinsurance segments to strategically use and optimize the most authentic and cost effective advertising channel – word-of-mouth – and makes it an accessible asset of every marketing mix.
  • Ionic Wind Technologies — Ionic wind technologies, which use an internationally patented concept, alter the way airflow is generated. Instead of conventional rotating machinery, we move air with electric fields.
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Höhle der Löwen Schweiz
VC Fund · 2 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Höhle der Löwen Schweiz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • feey — feey is a houseplant shop. They offer plants that include entry-level plants, baby plants, animal-friendly plants, large plants, home office plants, hanging plants, aglaonema, alocasia, calathea, hoya, monstera, and philodendron.
  • Fabas — Explore Fabas Solutions' innovative, sustainable, plant-based yogurt mixes. Perfect for creating high-protein, vegan dairy alternatives from natural ingredients, driving food industry innovation.
  • Sleepiz — Sleepiz is a Zürich based startup with the aim to enable the medical community to take healthcare into the home environment. Sleepiz provides an easy and comfortable to use solution with a device that is simply placed on the bedside table. The device operates in a non-contact fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions andbreathing patterns as well as body motions with medical grade accuracy.By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence Sleepiz will in the future not only able to diagnose sleep disorders, but also to perform long-term monitoring. Thereby, the progression of chronic diseases can be monitored to allow faster intervention and better treatment.
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Anja Graf
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Anja Graf is an individual investor and real estate entrepreneur .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Marketing, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.3M; Angel $100k–$350k
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fabas — Explore Fabas Solutions' innovative, sustainable, plant-based yogurt mixes. Perfect for creating high-protein, vegan dairy alternatives from natural ingredients, driving food industry innovation.
  • Refluence — LinkTrust offers powerful business-building tools for agencies and networks. Discover how to manage campaigns, partners and channels at scale. Book a demo.
  • Refluenced — Refluenced is an online platform that specializes in connecting brand enthusiasts with brands, aiming to revolutionize word-of-mouth marketing. Originating from the success of the SunIce Festival's micro-influencer campaign, which reaches millions annually, Refluenced offers a unique opportunity for creators to engage with brands andcampaigns. With a focus on marketing services, the company operates with a team of 15 employees and is based in Switzerland. Refluenced is dedicated to transforming the interaction between brands and their advocates, providing new avenues for marketing engagement.
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21Celsius Ventures
VC Fund · Baar, Zug, Switzerland · 2 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

21Celsius Ventures is an investment company based in Zug, Switzerland led by independent, lateral thinkers who aim to help their partners overcome financial and operational hurdles and grow alongside them. At 21Celsius, we operate in a straightforward, honest and laser-focused manner.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • C WIRE — C WIRE is an Advertising Platform delivering great ad formats exclusively on the best websites with a cookieless by design technology.
  • POP UP SHOPS — POP UP SHOPS is an online marketplace for retailers and brands to find and rent retail space. Reinventing Retail. Set up Pop Up Shops.
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Éric Thuillier
Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 2 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Mr. Eric Thuillier is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Deep Wealth, a Geneva-based investment advisory firm providing private capital solutions and investment consulting services to institutional investors including foundations and single family offices. Eric is also a business angel and active in the Swiss VC and growth ecosystem. Priorto Deep Wealth, Eric has co-founded Investivity, an award winning Geneva-based wealth manager and private office. He led before the multi-asset quantitative trading department in Geneva of Koch Industries, one of the largest private US companies and has held quant positions as VP, at a hedge fund trading equity futures, in the rates exotics dealing room of HSBC and in the FX models validation group at ABN Amro. Eric is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), a level 2 CFA (level 3 pending), graduated as a French computer science engineer and further holds a MSc in corporate finance from Dauphine University (France) and another MSc in quantitative finance from ENSAE / Dauphine.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Books, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ZenOwn — All your products in one place. Collect invoices, track warranties and sell what you no longer need. Declutter your home with ZenOwn.
  • Jeux d'enfants — Founder and inventor.
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Helvetia Venture Fund
VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Helvetia has a long tradition: in over 150 years, it has grown from a number of Swiss and foreign insurance companies into a successful international insurance group. Today, Helvetia has subsidiaries in its home market Switzerland as well as in the countries that make up the Europe market area: Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain. Helvetia is alsopresent in France with its Specialty Markets market area and through selected regions worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$4.1M; Series A $5.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $53M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Napo Pet Insurance — Comprehensive pet insurance by Napo. Full dental cover included. Free unlimited video vet and behaviourist consultations. 5% multi-pet discount.
  • Flitter — Flitter is a neo-insurance company that provides pay-per-mile insurance and connected technology.
  • Benefit Büroservice — Benefit Büroservice is a office management company.
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Tobias Reichmuth
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Tobias Reichmuth - Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder @ Maximon

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$2.9M; Angel $138k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Firstcar — Firstcar provides car driving learning assistant services. They offer services that include hand-picked driving schools, student cars with double pedals for rent before and for the driving test, entry-level vehicles that are inexpensive to buy and maintain, support and advice on vehicle purchase, and selected insurances with special rates.
  • MyFeld.ch — MyFeld.ch is the holder of a fresh farm food platform that aims to create a digital link between consumers and our local agriculture. The company's platform provides products directly from the farm, allowing people to improve their comprehension of seasonality and regionality while also raising awareness of the sustainable use of food byallowing them to purchase fresh produce from the farm.
  • Testmate Health — 2 in 1 urine test with immediate results for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Results within minutes & 100% anonymous.
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Atomico
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 227
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$31M; Series B $12M–$95M; Series C $25M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.1B in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Y42 — Y42's Turnkey Data Orchestration Platform gives you a unified space to build, monitor and maintain a robust flow of data to power your business
  • LabGenius — Finding the next generation of drugs with machine learning, synthetic biology and laboratory automation
  • Bossa Studios — Co-creating players most memorable stories
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Heinz Schwyter
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Heinz Schwyter - Member of the Board @ The eLocations Ltd

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • POP UP SHOPS — POP UP SHOPS is an online marketplace for retailers and brands to find and rent retail space. Reinventing Retail. Set up Pop Up Shops.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Welcome to Soma Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 525
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Pre-Seed $200k–$4M; Series A $7.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BlueCargo — BlueCargo is a predictive algorithm platform that brings visibility to optimize operations in seaport terminals. Their proprietary predictive algorithms streamline container management to increase terminal’s productivity while reducing operational costs and enhancing the quality of the service.
  • Cambium — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.
  • Chapter One — Chapter One helps service professionals grow with comprehensive business support, including funding, AI automation, lead generation, sales training, and marketing materials. Our mission is to empower home service providers to become successful business owners, whether established or just starting out.Chapter One-backed businesses span all majorcities in the nation and achieve an average 186% ROI within three years - all with no money down. Apply today at startchapterone.com.
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TK-Solutions
VC Fund · Pleckhausen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Business Angel Investor based in Germany near Cologne Grew up in a entrepreneur family with diverse businesses in disposal, regenerative energy, real estate and funeral services, Tobias Klein is a hands on entrepreneur and searching for Start Ups not only to invest in, rather to share the ups and downs on the way to success.Open minded we cantalk about your business idea.Thank you

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Apps, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $27k–$77k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SONAH GmbH — S O NAH supports cities funneling the global megatrend of urbanization in a sustainable manner. Our ai enabled sensor technology generates a digital twin of streets and curbsides to reduce parking traffic and understand how urban space is used.
  • Annanow — Annanow is quick commerce enabler to the retail industry. Our technology and services connect online shops, couriers, instore picking, payment and insurance services to end customers. Our services help our retail partners deliver a cost effective market-leading service to their customers.
  • Eldertech — ET vereinfacht familiäre Pflege von Älteren um ein selbstbestimmtes Leben zuhause zu ermöglichen (B2C). Pflegende können durch Cloudbasierte Vernetzung von Hilfsmitteln und Videokommunikation aus der Ferne per App schnell & einfach Unterstützung leisten.
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Swiss Startup Group
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Swiss Ventures Group Website

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $261k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Lyfa — Lyfa offers home delivery of about 250 different products all completely waste-free in reusable packaging and collects empty packaging from customers during a subsequent delivery.
  • Pabio — Infinitely scalable B2B sales with AI: Grow your business exponentially with predictable, fully-automated sales using cutting-edge AI, backed by Y Combinator.
  • Supersapiens — Master your metabolism. A real-time glucose monitor optimising performance, recovery, and nutrition through glucose stability.
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Century Oak Capital
VC Fund · Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $600k–$2.5M; Series A $5M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Luna POS — Luna POS provides cloud-based cashier, inventory management, and accounting solutions for SMEs in Indonesia. The company offers a seamless mobile cloud-based Point of Sale (POS) and accounting system, helping the retail industry with managing business activities such as checking the stock of goods, making a bundle menu, calculating sales, and tosee financial statements of the business.
  • Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
  • SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
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Lukas Speiser
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Lukas Speiser is the founder and CEO of Amorana.ch

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wellness, Nutrition, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • feey — feey is a houseplant shop. They offer plants that include entry-level plants, baby plants, animal-friendly plants, large plants, home office plants, hanging plants, aglaonema, alocasia, calathea, hoya, monstera, and philodendron.
  • Sleepiz — Sleepiz is a Zürich based startup with the aim to enable the medical community to take healthcare into the home environment. Sleepiz provides an easy and comfortable to use solution with a device that is simply placed on the bedside table. The device operates in a non-contact fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions andbreathing patterns as well as body motions with medical grade accuracy.By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence Sleepiz will in the future not only able to diagnose sleep disorders, but also to perform long-term monitoring. Thereby, the progression of chronic diseases can be monitored to allow faster intervention and better treatment.
  • Dunatura — Dunatura engages in the manufacture and supply of vitamins and micronutrients.
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Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung
VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung is a Swiss investment firm owned by the Eckenstein family. It invests money in companies such as technological startups across Switzerland. Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung has a headquarters in Basel in Switzerland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • b-rayZ — Optimize and streamline your breast imaging workflow with AI excellence and precision from b-rayZ. Your trusted partner in breast diagnostics.
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
  • Viebeg — Viebeg transform the way medical products are bought and sold, advancing the 4th industrial revolution in the developing world.
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Roland Brack
Angel · Frick, Aargau, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Roland Brack is an online trade pioneer and investor in the TV24 programme "Höhle der Löwen Schweiz" (Lion's Den Switzerland). The entrepreneur from Aargau founded his own company BRACK.CH in 1994 while studying electrical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Brugg-Windisch. In doing so, he focused on the Internet ande-commerce at an early stage. Today BRACK.CH is the largest independent online retailer in Switzerland and part of the Competec group of companies. This group of companies employs over 780 staff with more than 40 apprentices

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Advertising, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • feey — feey is a houseplant shop. They offer plants that include entry-level plants, baby plants, animal-friendly plants, large plants, home office plants, hanging plants, aglaonema, alocasia, calathea, hoya, monstera, and philodendron.
  • Sleepiz — Sleepiz is a Zürich based startup with the aim to enable the medical community to take healthcare into the home environment. Sleepiz provides an easy and comfortable to use solution with a device that is simply placed on the bedside table. The device operates in a non-contact fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions andbreathing patterns as well as body motions with medical grade accuracy.By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence Sleepiz will in the future not only able to diagnose sleep disorders, but also to perform long-term monitoring. Thereby, the progression of chronic diseases can be monitored to allow faster intervention and better treatment.
  • Amplify — Amplify is a platform that allows users to create a powerful, optimized, and targeted advertising campaign to sell their products and services. Their platform enables users to track and analyze the results of their advertising campaigns.
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Ariel Luedi
Angel · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Augmented Reality, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Switzerland, Austria, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $4.6M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CREAL — CREAL makes Hi-Fi light-field projector for smart eyewear which ultimately everyone will use everyday for everything from cooking to neurosurgery.
  • Squirro — Boosts productivity, cuts costs, and enhances decision-making with secure, private, and accurate AI-driven enterprise intelligence at scale
  • Fluent Commerce — Fluent Commerce, a leading order management system, improves the customer experience, optimizes fulfillment & solves inventory visibility issues. Learn more!
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Jürg Schwarzenbach
Angel · Wohlen, Bern, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Jürg Schwarzenbach - Member of the Board of Directors @ Comvation

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Lifestyle, E-Commerce
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • feey — feey is a houseplant shop. They offer plants that include entry-level plants, baby plants, animal-friendly plants, large plants, home office plants, hanging plants, aglaonema, alocasia, calathea, hoya, monstera, and philodendron.
  • Sleepiz — Sleepiz is a Zürich based startup with the aim to enable the medical community to take healthcare into the home environment. Sleepiz provides an easy and comfortable to use solution with a device that is simply placed on the bedside table. The device operates in a non-contact fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions andbreathing patterns as well as body motions with medical grade accuracy.By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence Sleepiz will in the future not only able to diagnose sleep disorders, but also to perform long-term monitoring. Thereby, the progression of chronic diseases can be monitored to allow faster intervention and better treatment.
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Yellow
VC Fund · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Pre-seed fund backing the most ambitious European founders with capital and access to the most powerful Southern European network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Legal Tech, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Afori — Afori provides intelligent task management and workflow automation by using specialised AI agents.
  • Kiku — Kiku is a platform that automates frontline hiring we help companies source, screen and shortlist the best-fit candidates. We have an ai-agent that through voice or chat engages with candidates 24/7, in +100 languages - all integrated in ATS. To find candidates we analyse your current talent pool, find new candidates in external sources and use. Kiku's value proposition: candidate are sourced and screened at the fraction of the cost of humans, 24/7 and a better candidate experience. We differentiate by 1) industry-specific integrations and setup 2) vertical focus for good onboarding, UX, and features.
  • Zenline AI — Zenline AI empowers European retailers with AI agents for modern assortment optimization. In a market shaped by global platforms and increasing margin pressure, Zenline helps build profitable, shopper-centric assortments. Its AI delivers automated, product-level recommendations, from product launches and consolidation to the ongoing optimization ofexisting items. By analyzing internal margin and competitor data alongside social trends, Zenline identifies assortment gaps and suggests concrete pricing actions. The result: intelligent, competitive assortments aligned with what shoppers truly want.
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Gigahertz Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Proven experience, network and scale in industrial markets, and beyond

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Retail, Android
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ZenOwn — All your products in one place. Collect invoices, track warranties and sell what you no longer need. Declutter your home with ZenOwn.
  • HandsOn Robotics
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
  • Simulon — Studio-quality VFX on a mobile. Sign up to the Simulon beta.
  • ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
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Christopher Jentzsch
Angel · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Christopher Jentzsch

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, iOS, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • seventhings — By digitizing all business assets and connecting all relevant data and processes from existing systems into one platform, we help companies to easily track their long-lived assets and to establish a climate neutral inventory management.
  • ZenOwn — All your products in one place. Collect invoices, track warranties and sell what you no longer need. Declutter your home with ZenOwn.
  • Gelato — Build enterprise-grade wallets and rollups with Gelato. Launch smart wallets, gasless transactions, and custom rollups with ERC-4337 & 7702 support across 100+ chains.
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Mirko Kerschbaum
Angel · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Mirko Kerschbaum is the Founder and CEO of Pegaza.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Grocery, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lyfa — Lyfa offers home delivery of about 250 different products all completely waste-free in reusable packaging and collects empty packaging from customers during a subsequent delivery.
  • amberSearch — info@amberoad.aiambeRoad is developing an intelligent enterprise search engine to help employees to find all relevant documents easily and quickly by integrating all company internal data sources into one search engine. Our solution allows access to all company-wide files from anywhere. Even if you don't exactly know what you are lookingfor, our cutting-edge AI will know because of a range of features implemented in our software.No need to tag documents manually, all in milliseconds - only one search request away.
  • aSR advanced Simulated Reality
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Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 205
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $148k–$2.2M; Series A $5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Parting Pro — Funeral home software dedicated to creating the best death care experience. Grow your business with online arrangements and digital case management.
  • Orbit Fab — Orbit Fab is creating the future of on-orbit satellite refueling. We maximize your operational assets by enabling mission flexibility and freedom of action in space.
  • Storybook — 193K Followers, 662 Following, 804 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Storybook: Masajes & Cuentos (@storybookapp)
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Swisscom Ventures
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Swisscom Ventures is an venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, that specializes in early stage tech investments founded in 2007.Swisscom Ventures invests in growth companies with emerging business models and technologies of strategic relevance to Swisscom's core business. As a value-add investor, Swisscom brings its investees the technicalexpertise and strategic insights of an incumbent telecom operator. We act as a bridge to Swisscom's operational business units, which portfolio companies can also leverage as a test environment for their products and services.Swisscom Ventures seeks minority stakes in companies related to the information/communications/entertainment space.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 142
  • Round size: Series A $1.8M–$23M; Series B $2.3M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Bring! Labs — Bring! Labs is an app for multi-device use that accompanies the user through all aspects of shopping for groceries and other everyday items. It offers grocery shopping for millions of people with shared shopping lists, integrated recipes, online shopping, local offers, and loyalty cards. Bring! Labs offers innovative mobile advertising platforms tocompanies in the retail and FMCG.
  • Kandou AI — We enable faster and more energy efficient interconnects with a smaller physical footprint than competing technologies. Our chip connection technologies improves the speed to power consumption trade-off frontier.
  • amnis — Check out your possibilities to transfer money abroad, collect international payments and exchange currencies all in one account. Make payments fast with amnis.
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Bettina Hein
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Bettina Hein is the founder and CEO. She is a repeat entrepreneur based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to founding Pixability, Bettina co-founded Swiss-based SVOX AG and led the venture-backed speech software company to profitability. Bettina was the initiator of the START, an organization that advances entrepreneurship among college students.In 2000, START received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Bettina holds a Master of Science degree from MIT, where she was a Sloan Fellow; a law degree from the University of Constance; and a degree in business administration from the University of St. Gallen.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Leisure, Tourism
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $227k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • feey — feey is a houseplant shop. They offer plants that include entry-level plants, baby plants, animal-friendly plants, large plants, home office plants, hanging plants, aglaonema, alocasia, calathea, hoya, monstera, and philodendron.
  • Sleepiz — Sleepiz is a Zürich based startup with the aim to enable the medical community to take healthcare into the home environment. Sleepiz provides an easy and comfortable to use solution with a device that is simply placed on the bedside table. The device operates in a non-contact fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions andbreathing patterns as well as body motions with medical grade accuracy.By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence Sleepiz will in the future not only able to diagnose sleep disorders, but also to perform long-term monitoring. Thereby, the progression of chronic diseases can be monitored to allow faster intervention and better treatment.
  • LuckaBox — LuckaBox is a carrier-independent delivery experience platform for retailers and their customers. Passionate about data, the SaaS solution standardizes delivery information to bring transparency to logistics operations and enhances customer experience. With 60+ carriers covered LuckaBox is a strong partner for retailers, carriers, and B2Bbusinesses.LuckaBox serves leading brands like e.g. IKEA, Decathlon and Metro to help improve their post-purchase customer experience, reduce customer service costs and optimize their logistic smanagement.
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Andreas Buhl
Angel · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Andreas Buhl

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Rental, Retail, Social
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $748k–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Annanow — Annanow is quick commerce enabler to the retail industry. Our technology and services connect online shops, couriers, instore picking, payment and insurance services to end customers. Our services help our retail partners deliver a cost effective market-leading service to their customers.
  • Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
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Gentian Investments
VC Fund · Sarnen, Obwalden, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Gentian is an early-stage investment company founded by the Entrepreneurs Elian Kool and Gerhard Gerner. We focus on investments in SaaS platforms, Mobile, Robotics/Drones and adjacent areas we have a passion for.Based in Switzerland, most of our investments are in the DACH region, but with a clear focus on a global market.We investexclusively in enthusiastic teams, which we support with our experience as entrepreneurs as board member or advisor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $933k–$10M; Series A $2.1M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Creaitor — Creaitor is the ultimate solution for content producers, offering a comprehensive suite of AI tools and integrated SEO features. Streamline your content creation process and optimize your online presence with our powerful platform.
  • Yeastup — Yeastup transforms brewer's yeast into proteins & fibers for food & supplements. Contact us for sustainable ingredient solutions.
  • Sunflower Labs — Fully autonomous AI-powered drone security with thermal imaging and real-time threat detection for commercial, industrial, and residential properties.
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KFW DEG
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Grant
  • Geography: India, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Grant $100k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $10M–$570M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Etana — PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana) is an emerging producer of high-quality, affordable and innovative biopharmaceuticals to treat a range of metabolic, autoimmune and other major life-threatening diseases, including cancer. Nathan Tirtana. Legend Capital. UOB Venture Management. Innovent Bio
  • IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
  • Fourth Partner Energy — Top renewable energy company in India offering solar, wind, and hybrid solutions for commercial & industrial sectors.
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TR Invest
VC Fund · Tafers, Fribourg, Switzerland · 1 investments in Switzerland Retail startups

Private Investment Company

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Switzerland, Spain, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$3.4M; Series A $2.1M–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CompPair — CompPair develops sustainable composites with an ultra-fast repair technology to extend their lifetime and reduce waste.
  • Pipra — PIPRA AG (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk assessment) is developing a cutting-edge AI-based pre-operative test to assess a patient's risk of suffering from cognitive disorders after surgery.
  • Fidentity — Certified identification and signing solutions from fidentity. For better conversion rates. Maximum reliability and quick time-to-market.
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Retail Investor funding in Switzerland at a glance

Stats across 41 deals from 69 investors.

69
investors
in Switzerland Retail startups
41
deals
in Switzerland Retail startups
$2.4M
median round
in Switzerland Retail startups
48%
lead investors
lead at least one round
27%
Seed
most common funding stage
78/22
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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