Top 10 Social Startup Investors in Switzerland
A list of 10 angel investors and VC 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
| Investor | Social Switzerland investments |
|---|---|
| Joachim Schoss | 2 |
| Founderful | 2 |
| Dominique Locher | 1 |
| Bucherer | 1 |
| Gentian Investments | 1 |
| Atlantic Labs | 1 |
| Privilège Ventures | 1 |
| Pascal Meyer | 1 |
| Andreas Buhl | 1 |
| .. .. | 1 |
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Founderful operates as a venture capital firm and a Switzerland’s leading pre-seed fund.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Apheros — Apheros is a metal foam cooling solutions company. It offers a patent-pending, easily scalable manufacturing approach for metal foams with unique cooling qualities.
- EthonAI — The EthonAI Manufacturing Analytics System is a powerful software suite to achieve operational excellence at scale.
- NetFabric — NetFabric is developing a next-gen network observability platform
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 — Seamless Shopping 24/7 with Reckon.ai. Our AI-powered solution enables autonomous stores, where customers can grab what they want and go, checkout free.
- 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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- 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
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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.
- aspaara AG — Algorithmic solutions for intelligent planning. Improve profitability and enhance strategic decision-making by gaining actionable business insights in real-time.
- 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.
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, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
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- Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
- SynthFlow AI — Build AI Agents at Scale. No Coding Required.
- SCRYPT Digital — Your trusted partner for crypto assets
Privilege Ventures is the venture capital arm of Privilège Management and invest in seed and early stage companies. Geographical focus is Switzerland and the rest of Europe. Focus sectors are industrial-tech, med-tech, wearables and in general ICT.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Hardware, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, France
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- Wyth — Wyth makes technologies that help humans create meaningful relationships by bringing emotions, stories and connections beyond the interface.
- 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
Portfolio highlights
- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
Andreas Buhl
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Investment focus
- Rental, Retail, Social
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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