Top 15 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Switzerland in May 2025
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 May 2025
Investor | Retail Switzerland investments |
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Höhle der Löwen Schweiz | 2 |
21Celsius Ventures | 2 |
SICTIC | 2 |
Century Oak Capital | 1 |
Gentian Investments | 1 |
Swiss Founders Fund | 1 |
Atomico | 1 |
Helvetia Venture Fund | 1 |
Asymmetry Ventures | 1 |
Soma Capital | 1 |
Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung | 1 |
Gigahertz Ventures | 1 |
TK-Solutions | 1 |
Swisscom Ventures | 1 |
TR Invest | 1 |
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.
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.
Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC) connects smart money investors to Swiss seed and early-stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pelt8 — Pelt8 enables climate action through the platform with scalable processes and controls to collect sustainability-related data in an easy and traceable way.
- 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.
- Insurteam — Insurteam provides the benefits of its technology to all insurance companies that service the travel and leisure sector.
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
- FinTech, Retail, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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.
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 upcycles by-products from the beer-brewing process into quality ingredients, thus promoting the circular economy. Yeastup is headquartered in Brugg, Aargau and was founded in 2020.
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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Investment focus
- 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
- Cortea — Cortea leverages artificial intelligence to revolutionize the auditing process by enhancing speed, accuracy, and transparency. Cortea transforms audits from traditional, labor-intensive processes into faster, more reliable, and more transparent operations.
- R.grid — Research Grid is the automation engine for admin-free clinical trials. Research Grid has developed two industry-leading products that leverage its AI-powered automation engine.
- Neko Health — Neko Health is a Swedish health-tech business. Its ambition is to build a healthcare system that can help people stay healthy by focusing on prevention and early detection. Neko has created a new medical scanning technology concept that allows for comprehensive and non-invasive health data collection that is both convenient and economical for thegeneral people.
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
- Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, Switzerland, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- 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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
- Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs | The world's first AI copilot For mobile game marketers
- Coreshell Technologies — Battery Capacity Unlocked
Welcome to Soma Capital
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Podqi — Podqi is an AI-powered platform specifically designed for entertainment companies to automate monitoring, takedown, and retroactive compensation for infringement on their portfolio of IP.
- Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
- Flashnet — Flashnet is commited to build a Bitcoin exchange that anyone can use and where people keep their own money.
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
- Health Care, Medical, Software
- Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
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.
Proven experience, network and scale in industrial markets, and beyond
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Investment focus
- iOS, Retail, Android
- Seed
- Switzerland
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.
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
- Information Technology, Apps, Smart Cities
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Switzerland
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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Software, Apps
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Spain, Sweden
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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