Top 10 Social Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026
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 January 2026
| Investor | Social Switzerland investments |
|---|---|
| Founderful | 2 |
| Joachim Schoss | 2 |
| Andreas Buhl | 1 |
| Atlantic | 1 |
| Dominique Locher | 1 |
| Privilège Ventures | 1 |
| Pascal Meyer | 1 |
| .. .. | 1 |
| Bucherer | 1 |
| Gentian Investments | 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 — We are building a quantum computer with scalability at its heart. Trapped-ion qubits with freedom to move and connect.
- Chipmind — AI agents to speed-up development of chips, design and verification, collaborative, custom and confidential with open-source EDA tools.
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.
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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- Voyfai — Voyfai provides a platform to manage shipments, procurement, back-office tasks, and logistics services for freight forwarders.
- Omnisent — Passive acoustic AI for tactical drone detection and localization. Reliable, jam-resistant situational awareness for defense and homeland security.
- Mirelo AI — Mirelo AI offers AI-driven tools that generate custom sound effects and music to match video content through upload or API integration. It enables users to produce synced audio from silent footage and refine or edit audio tracks with an intuitive online editor. The platform also provides APIs and model fine-tuning options that let other productsembed its video-to-sound capabilities directly into their workflows. Mirelo’s technology is based on proprietary AI models designed to interpret visual media and automatically generate corresponding audio elements. The company sources and processes input files to output audio that aligns with visual action and creative intent.
Dominique Locher
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Rental, Social
- Seed, Pre-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.
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- 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
Pascal Meyer Loutre in chief @ QoQa
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Investment focus
- Rental, Social
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
.. .. - Co-founder and CEO @ Bond Mobility
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Investment focus
- Rental, Social
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
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.
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.
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