Top 10 Social Startup Investors in Switzerland in May 2025
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Social Startup Investors in Switzerland in May 2025
| Investor | Social Switzerland investments |
|---|---|
| Founderful | 2 |
| Joachim Schoss | 2 |
| Dominique Locher | 1 |
| Bucherer | 1 |
| Privilège Ventures | 1 |
| Gentian Investments | 1 |
| Atlantic Labs | 1 |
| Andreas Buhl | 1 |
| .. .. | 1 |
| Pascal Meyer | 1 |
Founderful operates as a venture capital firm and a Switzerland’s leading pre-seed fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Oxyle — Permanently eliminate PFAS from your wastewater. Book a pilot and lead the way to clean, safe waters.
- Zuriq — Thoughts, stories and ideas.
- Kyan Health — Kyan Health is the first Swiss digital health company to provide end-to-end, fully personalized, evidence-based mental wellbeing and health solutions for employees and their families. The company's mission is to create a frictionless experience when accessing and engaging with mental health and wellbeing support services at work – fromemployee engagement and awareness creation over self-improvement and self-care to coaching and counseling.
Mr. Schoss has a history of founding successfulcompanies, including TellSell Consulting and Telcare, which merged with Sykes Enterprises. In 2004 his latest company, Scout24, was acquired by T-Online for $221 million. He was named 2002’s “Business Angel of the Year†in Switzerland.In addition to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Mr. Schoss also has extensive investment experience, going back to the 1990s. From 2000-2003, he was the Chief Excecutive for Beisheim Holding Schweiz, and is currently the cornerstone investor of 6S Capital, a quantitative hedge fund firm.Mr.Schoss is President of the charitable foundation MyHandicap.com, and the Chapter Chair of the Young Presidents Organisation in Zurich.Source:
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Investment focus
- Internet, Social Media, Music
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, Germany, United States
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- HAUSGOLD — HAUSGOLD is a fast-growing property technology company that provides assistance in all matters relating to the real estate sale. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
- iMusician — iMusician offers music distribution, promotion, mastering, and monetization for independent musicians & labels. Get on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, TikTok & many more.
- CareerLunch — CareerLunch is a recruitment platform that pairs potential hires with employees through informal exchanges over lunch. It was founded in 2019 by Simon Hofer and Konstantin Nesterov.
Dominique Locher
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- SaaS, Rental, Social
- Seed
- Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
- Reckon.ai — Reckon.ai have been working with several retail customers for the last years and they found that the task of competitive analysis in this vertical is still in the early days of what modern technology can do for them. You wouldn’t believe the number of problems and inefficiencies screaming for solutions in the digital age.So they decided to buildReckon, a cloud platform for smart retail product analysis and price comparison that uses powerful machine learning algorithms, data fusion and computer vision to reshape the way retailers get their competitive intelligence data.
- Quantia — A powerful and easy to use analytics platform for tracking, analyzing and understanding the performance of your brand in the ecommerce world.
Founded in 1888, the family-owned Bucherer Group is one of Europe's most traditional watch and jewelry retailers. The company's stores attract an international clientele with jewelry creations, an extensive choice of luxury watch brands and possibly the largest selection of Rolex watches available anywhere. Among its specialties are theBucherer jewelry lines together with other exclusive creations from its own workshops. These feature particularly rare natural-colored diamonds, unique colored gemstones and much-sought-after cultured pearls from Tahiti.
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Investment focus
- Social, Digital Marketing
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- Artdeal — Artdeal is a digital art marketplace that provides a truly immersive, virtual, social, engaging, and fun buying experience within a community.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Hardware, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, France
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- Wyth — Wyth creates private digital spaces for virtual and hybrid audiences. With our fully customizable platform organizations can build a seamless experience and an online home for their communities to connect, learn, work, share and play without ever leaving Wyth. We give our customers full control over their brand experience, data ownership andbusiness relationships.
- Smeetz — Smeetz is the future of a unified, data-driven and dynamic pricing-oriented commerce for attractions and cultural venues.
- Avelo — Our mission is to save lives by bringing fast and actionable infectious disease diagnosis closer to the patient. Avelo's solution is a breath collection device. It works with existing molecular tests to detect multiple respiratory tract infections causing pneumonia
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
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- 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.
Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures. <br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
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- Mago — Mago is an AI-native, fully controllable tool revolutionizing video production through style transfer. We empower creators to transform and stylize any video - from live-action to 3D animations - into any aesthetic, seamlessly blending cutting-edge AI with human creativity from concept to final cut.
- Prior Labs — Prior Labs develops Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) like TabPFN to solve AI's structured data challenge, enabling native understanding & boosting ML performance.
- Grouphug — Generates memes from the archive of group WhatsApp chats
Andreas Buhl
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Investment focus
- Rental, Retail, Social
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- 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.
- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
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Investment focus
- Rental, Social
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
Pascal Meyer Loutre in chief @ QoQa
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Investment focus
- Rental, Social
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
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