Top 15 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Switzerland in January 2026
A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Switzerland in January 2026
| Investor | Retail Switzerland investments |
|---|---|
| 21Celsius Ventures | 2 |
| Höhle der Löwen Schweiz | 2 |
| SICTIC | 2 |
| Swiss Founders Fund | 1 |
| Atomico | 1 |
| Helvetia Venture Fund | 1 |
| Asymmetry Ventures | 1 |
| Soma Capital | 1 |
| Yellow | 1 |
| Swisscom Ventures | 1 |
| TR Invest | 1 |
| Swiss Startup Group | 1 |
| Century Oak Capital | 1 |
| Gentian Investments | 1 |
| Gigahertz Ventures | 1 |
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
- Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Switzerland
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.
Höhle der Löwen Schweiz
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Switzerland
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.
SICTIC is the leading angel investor network in Switzerland with the largest Swiss seed-stage startup dealflow.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Qala — Qala delivers real-time data classification, discovery, and policy enforcement. Auto-classify sensitive data, map full lifecycles, and label at source.
- Nextesy — Nextesy is a pioneering start-up that uses AI to simplify and automate important business processes, allowing businesses to alleviate the strain of repetitive manual procedures while increasing operational efficiency and scalability.
- Scanvio — Scanvio Medical provides gynecologists, endometriosis centers and ultrasound manufacturers with an AI-guided ultrasound software for faster endometriosis diagnosis.
Swiss Founders Fund is a seed and early stage investment fund based in St.Gallen, Switzerland. SFF invests in and builds companies globally.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Singapore, Germany
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
Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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.
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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- Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, Switzerland, Spain
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- Napo — 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.
- INKI.TECH — Equip your business with high-end, secure IT equipment through INKI's device-as-a-service model. Reduce operational costs, increase agility, and embrace sustainability while minimizing total cost of ownership.
Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
- 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.
Welcome to Soma Capital
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
- Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.
- Orchard Robotics — We develop advanced camera systems and computer vision software to enable precision crop load management for growers.
Pre-seed fund backing the most ambitious European founders with capital and access to the most powerful Southern European network.
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- Legal Tech, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- 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.
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
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
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- rready — Boost internal innovation and engage employees with ready-to-use programs, accompanied by experts in intrapreneurship.
- Pexapark — We make PPAs for renewables simple. Master your wind and solar power purchase agreements and get the tools to manage merchant risk.
- Spacetek Technology AG — Our process control instruments measure gases in real time, delivering a full quantitative chemical analysis up to ten times per second.
Private Investment Company
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- Manufacturing, Software, Apps
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Spain, Sweden
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- 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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- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
- Switzerland, India, United States
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- 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.
Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.
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- FinTech, Retail, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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- 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.
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
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Aleno — aleno is the most professional online reservations system for restaurants. Full access to all data. Your own branding and design.
- 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.
Proven experience, network and scale in industrial markets, and beyond
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Investment focus
- iOS, Retail, Android
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- ZenOwn — All your products in one place. Collect invoices, track warranties and sell what you no longer need. Declutter your home with ZenOwn.
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