# Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Switzerland in June 2026

## Daniel Gutenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Daniel joined VI Partners in July 2003 as a Venture Partner focusing on IT. He started his career as Chairman and CEO of Gutenberg Communication Systems AG, a company he founded in 1991. Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in 2000, he became Country Manager of Telindus for Switzerland, Austria andHungary during the next two years, and he was also a member of the Executive Board. Since 2002 he has been taking consulting and advisory board assignments for various companies.

## Ariel Luedi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Augmented Reality, Enterprise Software

Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.

## Myke Naf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Myke Naf is the Managing Partner of Übermorgen Ventures.He attended University of St.Gallen.

## Soheila Yalpani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Consulting, GreenTech, Cyber Security

oheila is an entrepreneur with C-team leadership experience on project management and pre-master planning of large-scale smart, resilient green infrastructure projects.

## Danny Hayes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Clean Energy, Cyber Security, Finance

As the CEO of Climate Transition Swiss AG, I lead a Swiss company that develops and finances green, resilient infrastructure projects across North America, Europe, and Japan. With over 20 years of international business experience, I have a strong track record of delivering sustainable energy solutions that create positive environmental and socialimpact.In addition to my role as CEO, I am also a Lobbyist for Climate Policy at the U.S. House of Representatives, where I focus on influencing environmental initiatives in Japan and Europe. I am passionate about advocating for climate action and fostering global collaboration on this urgent issue. I am also a member of the Forbes Business Council and a regular contributor to their climate section, where I share my insights and expertise on green business and policy.

## Penny Schiffer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Finance

Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai

## Siraj Khaliq
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Siraj is a Partner on the investment team at Atomico. As a former computer scientist and co-founder/CTO of the successful Atomico investment The Climate Corporation, Siraj now continues his love for entrepreneurship “on the other side of the table” as a venture capitalist. He focuses on companies enabled by machine learning, AI and computervision, (particularly in intelligent assistants), IoT, Agtech, and works with a number of portfolio companies.Siraj founded The Climate Corporation in 2006, a company that pioneered the use of machine learning in helping farmers to optimize crop yield. Climate (acquired by Monsanto in 2013 and now a subsidiary) still sits at the vanguard of precision agriculture, an industry that is expected to play a key role in delivering the yield boosts needed to feed humanity in the decades ahead.Prior to this, Siraj was an early engineering hire at Google in 2001, and one of the founding engineers for the Google Book search project. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BA Hons in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, UK. Siraj speaks fluent English, advanced Urdu, and just enough German to be dangerous.An enterprising child, Siraj taught himself to code in C at age 13, and wrote and sold his first piece of software, a database for medical research, at 15. He is a fan of functional programming languages, and still enough of a geek to spend the occasional weekend trying out new languages and frameworks.

## Bhavik Bajaj
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech

Bhavik Bajaj

## Patrick Lütjens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: iOS, SaaS, Mobile

Patrick Lütjens is an investor, an Experienced Senior Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry. 

## Adrian Locher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Adrian Locher is the Founder, CEO and General Partner of Merantix. He Kausa as a Board Member.Adrian Locher attended the University of St.Gallen.

## Andreas Pfluger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Retail Technology, Information Technology

Andreas Pfluger is a Director at JUMI Enterprises.

## Dario Fazlic
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Baby, EdTech, Children

Dario Fazlic has 2 current jobs as Founder and Member of the Board at Immozins and Founder & CRO at wefox.

## Flavio Pfaffhauser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Flavio is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Beekeeper, Entrepreneur and Early Stage Investor in B2B SaaS companies.

## Alex Ott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, CAD, CRM

Alex Ott founded CrossContinentalVentures in 2002. He is a veteran in the enterprise software industry with operational and board level experience on four continents.He has been partnering with many entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and Israel in building thought leading technology enterprises that seek to make a difference such as QlikTech whomhe was an investor and is a current board member.Before founding CrossContinentalVentures, Alex was a member of the Executive Committee of Siebel Systems, where he was responsible for building a major presence in EMEA as VP and General Manager, growing revenues, customer and employee base tenfold in just two years. He then ran the Americas geography, Siebel’s largest market with revenue responsibilities of over $1B.Prior to Siebel Systems, Alex played key executive roles within SAP AG (member of the extended global board) and SAP America (Executive Committee member) for almost a decade. Latterly, he held the position of CEO SAP International and Senior VP of Latin America, dramatically growing revenue and profitability through a sustained increase in SAP's Latin American infrastructure and the establishment of new subsidiaries.Alex holds a degree in Economics and Business Management from University BA of Mannheim, Germany.

## Gian Reto à Porta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Gian Porta currently works as the Board Member for Relio. He previously worked at Contovista as the Co-Founder and CEO. Gian Porta attended University of Zurich in 2005.

## Paul Sevinç
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Travel, Software, Information Technology

Paul E Sevinç is Co-Founder & CTO at Doodle.

## Steven Nzonzi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Soccer, Sports

Steven Nzonzi is a French professional footballer at Qatar Stars League club Al-Rayyan and winner of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

## Mehdi Ghissassi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Mehdi Ghissassi serves as the Head of Product Management at DeepMind.

## David Sikorsky
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Content, Software, Education

David Sikorsky - Venture Partner @ JAL Ventures

## Bettina Buechel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Drones, Robotics, Security

Bettina Büchel has been Professor of Strategy and Organization at IMD since 2000. Her current research topics include strategy implementation, new business development, strategic alliances and change management.She is Director of the public program Orchestrating Winning Performance as well as several partnership programs. She has workedextensively with companies such as Nestlé, Allianz, Evonik, Commerzbank, Nilfisk-Advance and others in developing strategic priorities, implementating strategic initiatives and managing change.Professor Büchel is of German origin. She received her bachelor of economics and public administration at the University of Constance, Germany, her Masters of Human Resources and Industrial Relations at Rutgers University, USA and her PhD at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. After obtaining her PhD, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok where she was teaching MBA and PhD students from across Asia.

## Myke Naef
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Sports

Myke Naef

## Raul Vejar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, B2B

Raul Vejar - Advisor @ Pramata

## Renato Profico
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, iOS, SaaS

Renato Profico

## Dominik A. Lysek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Medical Device

Dominik A. Lysek - Co-CSO @ vVardis

## Philippe Bubb
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, CRM

Philippe Bubb is the Founder at session.vc. Philippe Bubb attended at University of St.Gallen - University of Economics, Law and Social Sciences.

## Andy Honess
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Andy Honess - Founder and Owner @ JumpXL

## Aly Madhavji
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Aly Madhavji is the Blockchain Founders Fund's Managing Partner and a Consultant of United Nations. He is a Senior Blockchain Fellow of INSEAD and LP and Venture Partner at Loyal VC.

## Tim Draper
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

## Marc P. Bernegger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Events, FinTech, Finance

Marc P. Bernegger is a Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder. Marc previously worked at Crypto Finance Group as a Founding Board Member (acquired by Deutsche Boerse). He attended the University of Zurich.

## Remy Lazarovici
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, PaaS, SaaS

Remy Lazarovici

## James Isilay
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

James Isilay serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Cognism.

## Oliver Samwer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Oliver Samwer was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1972. Oliver holds M.Sc. degree in Business Administration from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Upon graduation, Oliver and his two brothers founded Alando.de in 1999. After the sale of Alando.de to eBay Inc., he was Managing Director of eBay, responsible for Germany, Switzerland andAustria. In 2000, Oliver and his two brothers founded Jamba! AG, which was acquired by Verisign Inc. in 2004. In 2007, Oliver founded Rocket Internet. Since 2014, Oliver has served as Rocket’s Chief Executive Officer. Oliver is responsible for strategy development and implementation, business development and investor relations.

## Rahul Sethuram
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Ethereum

Rahul Sethuram - Partner @ Lone Wolf Partners

## Tegan Kline
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Tegan Kline, Co-Founder and CEO at Edge & Node, working to make The Graph the Internet’s unbreakable foundation of open data to create a world powered by individual autonomy shared self-sovereignty and limitless collaboration. She was on the initial team that launched The Graph. The Graph is Edge & Node’s first protocol, an indexing andquery protocol organizing the world’s open blockchain data and making open data a public good. Tegan helps leaders and innovators connect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem. Tegan made Forbes 30 under 30’s class of 2022. The Information’s 30 Most Powerful People in Crypto List. Tegan Kline is the former International Business Development Manager and Investor Relations Lead for an A16z and Sequoia backed blockchain company that created tools and protocols for users to obtain digital freedom and an open and accessible internet. Tegan has launched 3 unicorns in her lifetime. Tegan began her career on Wall Street in Investment Banking at BAML and, prior to discovering blockchain, worked in Sales and Trading at Barclays.

## Armin Meier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Travel, Tourism

Armin Meier - Managing Partner @ Boyden

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC.

## Hayden Adams
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency

Hayden Adams is founder of Uniswap, one of the most widely used decentralized applications built on Ethereum. Prior to Uniswap, Hayden was an engineer at Siemens. He graduated from Stony Brook University with a bachelor in engineering in 2016.

## Mihai Faur
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, SaaS, Software

Mihai Faur

## Andreas Kemi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Niederhelfenschwil, Ausser-Rhoden, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, iOS

Andreas Kemi - Director of the Board @ Fortnox

## David Studer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Biel, Bern, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Social

David Studer

## Marton Szoke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, EdTech

An entrepreneur and investor with a business background and solid technical experience. Founded several startups, the latest being Indextools, a software company specializing in enterprise on-demand web analytics software. In April 2008 Indextools got acquired by Yahoo! Inc. At the time of the acquisition, Indextools was recognized as one of thetop five web analytics vendors world-wide by Forrester / Jupiter Research. Mr. Szőke served at Yahoo for three years to lead integration efforts and to realign Indextools’ business model.

## Tobias Reichmuth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Internet

Tobias Reichmuth - Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder @ Maximon

## Ryan Selkis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

## Young Sohn
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Young Sohn is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose passion is building businesses and fostering emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the world for the better. Currently, Sohn serves as Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics and Chairman of the Board of HARMAN. He leads Samsung’s strategy forglobal innovation, investment, and new business creation, and led the company’s $8 billion acquisition of HARMAN. Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, Sohn served as CEO of two successful, public Silicon Valley companies and on the boards of Arm, Cadence, Cymer (ASML), and others. Under his leadership as CEO and board member, he took PLX Technologies, Synnex Technologies, and Inphi public. He was also a seed investor in some of the industry’s most innovative companies, including Bitfury, Fungible, Graphcore, and Zoom.Sohn is a leader of the global Tech for Good movement. He helped launch the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), the world’s largest startup competition for entrepreneurs addressing global challenges.  He also serves as a North America board member at MIT Sloan, a senior advisor to the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, a board member at Cadence, and an advisor for the University of California Innovation Council. Sohn holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management. An avid outdoorsman, Sohn spends his personal time kite surfing, cycling, running, hiking, and competing in triathlons.

## Dr. Cornelius Boersch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

## Harry Stebbings
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Harry Stebbings is based out of London, England, and is the Founder of The Twenty Minute VC and Non-Executive Director of LBG Media. Harry previously worked at Stride.VC as a Founder and General Partner. Harry Stebbings attended King's College London.

## Paul Wahl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, CRM

Paul Wahl

## Niklas Ostberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, E-Commerce, Mobile

Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Östberg is the Co-Founder and CEO of Delivery Hero. He holds a Master of Industrial Engineering & Management from Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm & ETH Zurich.Following five years as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman, Niklas co-founded Pizza.nu (later OnlinePizza.se) where he served as afull-time chairman. After winning the Swedish market he was responsible for building up market leading companies in online food ordering in Poland, Finland and Austria. In late 2010, Niklas convinced Team Europe to develop the concept to the German market under the name of Lieferheld (Lieferheld.de) and got the license to use the technology and know-how from the original Swedish company.After a successful market entry into the competitive German market, Niklas Östberg and his team decided to launch the business model internationally under the name of Delivery Hero in May 2011. The company has since then expanded the concept organically and through acquisitions into 34 international markets, and is today the largest global platform for online food ordering with 200,000+ local restaurants in its network, processing more than 10m orders monthly.What initially was a small vision narrowed to the Swedish market has today expanded into a global vision to provide a platform of choice, convenience, reliability and quality. Or, in essence, an entire food court in your pocket.Niklas’ vision is to transform the industry. Therefore services of Delivery Hero will reflect changing eating habits just as new opportunities in technology and logistics.

## Olivier Crespin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Olivier Crespin - Co-Founder @ Asia Finance

## Jari Ovaskainen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tampere, Western Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Gaming, PC Games

Jari Ovaskainen - Business Development Director @ Modulight