Top 15 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Switzerland (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Höhle der Löwen Schweiz
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland | Seed | Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce | |
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21Celsius Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Retail, Internet, E-Commerce | |
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SICTIC
VC Fund
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2 | Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $233k–$2.9M |
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Helvetia Venture Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland, Spain | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech | $3.3M–$20M |
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Soma Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $200k–$40M |
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Gentian Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $933k–$13M |
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Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B | Health Care, Medical, Software | |
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Century Oak Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Retail, Software | $300k–$37M |
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Yellow
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed | Legal Tech, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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TR Invest
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, Spain, Sweden | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Software, Apps | $350k–$3.5M |
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Atomico
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Gigahertz Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland | Seed | iOS, Retail, Android | |
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Swiss Founders Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, Singapore, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $210k–$5.5M |
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TK-Solutions
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Apps, Retail | $27k–$77k |
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Swisscom Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.8M–$59M |
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Höhle der Löwen Schweiz
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- 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.
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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- 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.
SICTIC is the leading angel investor network in Switzerland with the largest Swiss seed-stage startup dealflow.
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- 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.
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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- 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.
Welcome to Soma Capital
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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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- 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.
Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.
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- 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.
Pre-seed fund backing the most ambitious European founders with capital and access to the most powerful Southern European network.
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- 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.
Private Investment Company
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- 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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 208
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Gengo — People-powered translation at scale. Gengo provides fast, affordable and quality translations by native speakers located worldwide.
- Ankar AI — Your AI Operating System for Patents
- Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.
Proven experience, network and scale in industrial markets, and beyond
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- 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 —
Swiss Founders Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Switzerland. We invest CHF 100k-300k in Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Singapore, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $800k–$4M; Pre-Seed $210k–$3.3M; Series A $2.1M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Canza Finance — We are an Open Finance Portal enabling access to unlimited financial services for emerging markets, backed by Polychain, Avalanche, CoinMarketCap...
- Reno Home — Reno is your ultimate destination for all your home or office renovation needs. Whether you're revamping your living space, workspace, or any other area, we've got you covered. Our mission is to link you with top-notch interior designers perfectly tailored to your style preferences. Moreover, we facilitate connections with skilledrenovators who can execute your envisioned design flawlessly. Count on us to ensure punctuality and uphold superior quality throughout the renovation process. Additionally, we offer financing options with 12 months to pay later, making it even easier to transform your space according to your vision
- RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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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- 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.
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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- 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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