Top 10 Social Impact VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Switzerland in January 2025
A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social impact startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social impact companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Social Impact VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Switzerland in January 2025
Investor | Social Impact Switzerland investments |
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Polytech Ventures | 2 |
Alpana Ventures | 2 |
DWF Labs | 1 |
SICTIC | 1 |
Technology Fund | 1 |
Innovationsstiftung der SZKB | 1 |
Supernova | 1 |
b2venture (formerly btov Partners) | 1 |
Genblock Capital | 1 |
MGO Digital Ventures | 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
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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.
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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.
DWF Labs Global digital asset market maker and multi-stage web3 investment firm
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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.
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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.
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
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Internet, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland
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.
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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.
Btov Partners is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. With investment teams in Digital and Industrial Tech, Btov invests EUR 50m per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AI21 Labs — AI21 Labs is an AI lab & product company whose mission is to reimagine the way we read and write by making the machine a thought partner to humans.
- Calvin Risk — We help companies manage the risks of their AI algorithms!
- NVision Imaging Technologies — NVision Imaging Technologies is leveraging advances in quantum physics to enable the first routine, convenient and affordable use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for assessing early patient response to cancer treatment at the metabolic level.
Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.
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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.
MGO Digital Ventures provides digital media startups with long-term investments and is based in Bamberg, Germany.
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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.
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