Top 15 Social Impact Startup Investors in Switzerland in October 2024

Investor	Social Impact Switzerland investments
Polytech Ventures	2
Alpana Ventures	2
Hard Yaka	1
Kenetic	1
Genblock Capital	1
Supernova	1
SICTIC	1
DWF Labs	1
Technology Fund	1
Griff Green	1
Innovationsstiftung der SZKB	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
MGO Digital Ventures	1
Ellipti	1
Jordan Ellis	1

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
Relai — Relai is a Bitcoin investment app that allows anyone to buy bitcoin within one minutes or set up an automated savings plan.
Earny — Payroll management built for Startups & SMEs. Swiss payroll service with no hidden fees & no hassle

Alpana Ventures is a Swiss VC focusing on digital transformation.Since 2016 we backed 45 founder teams with 3 Funds, supporting them in their journey towards a positive impact.Committed to value creation, we discover deep tech solutions in Switzerland, Europe and the US.We invest to embed them into innovative business models and back them tobecome global market leaders.Applying ESG criteria, our portfolio companies help create a more sustainable future.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
Nezasa — Nezasa’s travel booking solution empowers travel brands globally to combine all planning and booking related actions into one seamless end-to-end experience.Our tools, enable to plan and book any type of multi-product or multi-stop itinerary.TripBuilder Hyper-personalised packaging Real-time planning and booking of personalised itinerariesPowerful, easy to use and very interactive Deep integration possibilities into existing fulfilment landscapes Enterprise-grade, proven with large TO customersTripBooster Hyper-personalised In-Destination Upselling The extension of TripBuilder’s power throughout the entire travel lifecycle The perfect travel companion Seamless purchasing of perfectly fitting additional products Smart upselling recommendation, available in both a push and pull mode
Tinamu — Tinamu Labs has developed a technology that converts commercially available drones into camera equipment reaching professional standards.

A set of rules that govern how data is transmitted or processed in a network that is designed to be open, permissionless, decentralized,transparent, interoperable and inclusive. Protocols power everything from our societies to our biology. At Hard Yaka, we believe in the potential and principles of protocols.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

LimeWire — LimeWire develops peer-to-peer software and solutions for the file sharing industry. It offers LimeWire BASIC and LimeWire PRO, the peer-to-peer file sharing applications which connect to the Gnutella network and enables users to search for and download files through other users; and LimeWire Store, a digital media store. Limewire was founded in2000 and is based in New York, New York. The company operates as a subsidiary of Lime Group LLC.
Unifimoney — Unifimoney is an investment and money management app built to simplify, diversify and unify your money management. Manage and grow your wealth effortlessly and in one place. Passive and Active investing, plus alternative assets like Crypto and Precious Metals, a credit card with rewards paid in Bitcoin, Gold, or Equities, and a full suite of banking services. Plus exclusive benefits and offers for customers including student loans with bonuses up to $2,500, mortgages, auto loans, insurance, HSA, and more.
Universal Ledger — Universal Ledger provides digital asset and payment infrastructure on an identity and compliance-first blockchain. It is the first blockchain platform to apply digital identity to a fully compliant infrastructure, with the ability to control digital assets.

Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate their quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Degame — Degame is an NFT gaming platform that provides token analytics, tracking, research, gaming strategy, and IGO.
Tres — Crypto Accounting and Web3 Treasury - Enable financial workflows such as reconciliation, balance calculation, audit and reporting. Now businesses can monitor, manage and account for their Web3 assets from on-ramp to off-ramp.
Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
Jumbo — Jumbo is the solution for a decentralized solution that is ungoverned that seeks to lower the entry point to trade. They develop, tune, and process inherently present on the near blockchain. Their interface is used to configure a set of parameters for the asset. They provide a set of functionalities and interface-embedded constituents that help todetect the pools.
Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.

Supernova is a mentorship driven startup accelerator that runs acceleration programs twice an year providing mentorship, workshops, office-space, and access to executives and investors.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Communities, Marketplace
Seed, Funding Round
France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AFYREN — AFYREN develop innovation in biotechnologies for the valorization of non-food biomass and in respect of the environment.
DoinGud — DoinGud is an NFT ecosystem focused on inspiring creativity & positive social impact. We empower individuals, communities, and brands to create, curate, collaborate, and connect with one another while generating positive impact for the world.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Axom — Axom automating visual inspection through image analysis in the healthcare industry.
Gaia Tech — Gaia Technologies turns agricultural sidestreams into high-value ingredients for cosmetics, food, and feed manufacturers.
PeriVision — Perivision combines artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the cloud to build the next generation of systems to understand visual function. The company's systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.

DWF Labs Global digital asset market maker and multi-stage web3 investment firm

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Singapore, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mars4 — Mars4 (MARS$) defines itself as a virtual reality platform powered by the blockchain, that allows users to create, experience, and monetize content and applications and earn passive income through revenue generating Mars NFT Land Plots. In this virtual world on Mars, users purchase plots of land that they can later navigate, build upon and monetize.
Velo Labs — Velo Labs is software company revolutionizing the old correspondent bank system by creating a global settlement network. We are empowering financial institutions with blockchain-based and compliance-friendly solutions to move money across borders.
Parex Market — Parex Market provides DAO ecosystem that includes a range of solutions.

Climate protection through innovative technologies. The Technology Fund offers loan guarantees to Swiss companies whose novel products contribute to a sustainable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Energy
Debt Financing, Grant, Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

FGen — FGen is a Swiss start-up company founded 2011 in Basel as a spin-off from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of the ETH Zurich. As a contract reasearch organization we collaborate with partners from Biotech, Life Sciences, and Pharma in order to establish efficient bioprocesses and to develop new biopharmaceuticals.
Calopad — Calopad, awarded by the Swiss Confederation, offers a unique and the most holistic solution in pain therapy and muscle regeneration. The therapeutic deep heat of 42 degrees solves any muscle pain, muscle tension, or muscle spasms of chronic patients in the long term and in a highly efficient way through new forms of therapy. With the associatedapp, Calopad brings the physiotherapist digitally into any user's home and enables personalized all-around care in real time - utterly independent of time and place. In the future, the modular design will make it possible to combine different therapies such as heat, cold, or light with just one device, opening up the possibility of new therapeutic successes.
Selfrag — SELFRAG AG is specialized in the development of high voltage pulse power products, plants and systems for selective fragmentation of solid materials.

Griff Green - Co-Founder @ The Commons Stack

Investment focus

Blockchain, Finance, Communities
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

DoinGud — DoinGud is an NFT ecosystem focused on inspiring creativity & positive social impact. We empower individuals, communities, and brands to create, curate, collaborate, and connect with one another while generating positive impact for the world.
PrimeDAO — PrimeDAO is an open finance system based on programmable money that is being realized on Ethereum. The company develops tools that transform Defi into a collaborative ecosystem.

The Innovationfund by SZKB is an established and successful tech-focussed venture capital investor, with a capital of CHF 20 million. As a lead investor in companies such as Doodle, TrekkSoft, ElectricFeel, Dacuda, Codecheck, and Assetmax, the Innovation Fund has shaped many entrepreneurial success stories in Switzerland. We specialise infirst-round financings and act as lead investor in most of our investments. The Innovationfund is legally set up as a foundation, is managed by an entrepreneurial board of trustees and acts legally and strategically independently of the SZKB.

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Neon — Neon is an independent Swiss mobile account.
Yonder AG — Yonder helps users find relevant information by providing shorter documents and manageable revisions.
CodeCheck — Your shopping assistant for a conscious lifestyle.

Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens Protocol.
Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.

MGO Digital Ventures provides digital media startups with long-term investments and is based in Bamberg, Germany.

Investment focus

Shopping, Apps, E-Commerce
Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Hrmony — Hrmony introduces a highly innovative, digital and disruptive Platform to a traditional and antiquated yet global operating industry. The traditional tax-subsidized meal voucher market. Hrmony aims to replace the existing insufficient and technologically outdated solutions with a revolutionary and digital business model. With its Omni-Channelapproach, Hrmony enables employees to redeem vouchers for any food related item at any venue, giving them 100% acceptance across whole Europe. Hrmony is also the first to achieve a 100% tax and law compliant solution to ensure meal vouchers are only used in their originally intended way as a subsidization for food.
Skoove — Explore the magic of learning piano and discover your own little musical getaway. Join over 1 million people enjoying interactive piano lessons for beginners and advanced players.
Tausendkind — Tausendkind is the Children's Clothing Online Store for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, good friends - simply for those who wish to bestow a baby or small child is not only with children's and baby fashion. They have also a variety of other ways to discover beautiful gifts and necessities for your children. Likewise, you always getusing Their unique service that offers you advice and assistance, not only to issues relating to children's fashion the right answer. You will find thousands of child lovingly chosen children's and baby clothing that gives maximum comfort and your offspring will accompany you faithfully through the first months of life. The range also includes in addition to the children's fashion, fashion toy for young and old, well-known brands such as Brio and Haba, to smaller brands like Janod and Lilliputiens. The everyday life of families with young children living apart from children's clothing and toys but especially of practical accessories, not only parents in many situations in daily life to help with the little ones. Useful changing pads, hot water bottles and scrims, and practical items for soothing babies, such as mobile or music boxes, all this and much more can be found at their Baby Accessory again. If you are looking for products on special occasions is safe in their baby gifts find category - for baptism, birth, Christmas and Co. there with us something suitable, whether baby fashion, toys and accessories, you will always find a suitable gift.

Ellipti is a cross-border accelerator, building with the solid founders and teams in the Korean market and APAC region

Investment focus

Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

NFT3 — NFT3s will become a direct monetization path for individuals to associate value on their terms with various aspects of their data journeys through life with different projects, individuals, social networks, companies, and institutions.
DoinGud — DoinGud is an NFT ecosystem focused on inspiring creativity & positive social impact. We empower individuals, communities, and brands to create, curate, collaborate, and connect with one another while generating positive impact for the world.
Evrynet — Evrynet Providing infrastructure that enables developers and businesses to build an unlimited number of Centralised/Decentralised Finance (CeDeFi) applications, interoperable with many of the world's leading blockchains for everyone.

Jordan Ellis

Investment focus

Blockchain, Communities, Marketplace
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

DoinGud — DoinGud is an NFT ecosystem focused on inspiring creativity & positive social impact. We empower individuals, communities, and brands to create, curate, collaborate, and connect with one another while generating positive impact for the world.