Top 15 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Switzerland (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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GoBeyond
VC Fund
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3 | Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Medical, Software | $544k–$10M |
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Dave Morin
Angel
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2 | United States, France, Finland | Seed, Series A | Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce | $1M–$13M |
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Alex Hoye
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Romania | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, Internet | $20k–$1.5M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.9M–$48M |
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octopus investments
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Finland | Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | |
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Sean Park
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS | $1.8M–$53M |
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Chung Ng
Angel
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1 | United States, Spain, France | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Real Estate, Internet | $1M–$15M |
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The New Frontiers (TNF)
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Blockchain, EdTech | $1M–$12M |
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Lorenz Bogaert
Angel
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1 | Belgium, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $120k–$5.7M |
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Lucian Wagner
Angel
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1 | Switzerland | Seed | Skiing, Sports, Fitness | |
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Stripes
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Germany | Series B, Series C, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $8M–$200M |
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Sam Lessin
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Mobile Apps | $1.3M–$47M |
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Capital Risque Fribourg
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, Germany | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Sports, Energy | $1.1M–$15M |
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Verve Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland, Germany, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Software, Biotechnology | $1.4M–$43M |
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Effort Fribourg
VC Fund
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1 | Switzerland | Series A | Sports, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods | |
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GoBeyond is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small and large, novice to experienced investors. It offers a unique deal platform, portfolio tools, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services, training and certified deal leaders.Its clients are individuals, familyoffices, professional groups and corporations. It is active in the EU, Switzerland and the US. GoBeyond also offers educational training modules for angel investors in 11 categories.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Medical, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 163
- Round size: Seed $544k–$5M; Series A $1.2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fastree3D — Fastree3D imaging sensors help recognize and measure distance to fast moving objects in real-time, enabling driving assistance or autonomous navigation. Fastree3D SA is a fabless semiconductor company, spin-off from EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland founded in September 2013 (UID CHE-291.330.490). The company subsidiary Fastree3D B.V. performs researchwith TU-Delft, Netherlands (KvK 58866973).
- Spyra One — Single Shot Technology | Tactical display | Automatic Refill | Power Shot SpyraTwo - the world's strongest water gun! Start epic water battles with the only water gun in the world that features our patented Single-Shot-Technology, fully automatical pump, a hightech tactical display and the Power Shot for extra impact.
- Arktis Radiation Detectors — Arktis develops and manufactures next generation systems that detect and categorize radiological and nuclear materials to enhance security and operations.
Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.
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- Industry: Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $2.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zeel — Zeel delivers Massage On Demand:registered: - top-quality massages from licensed, vetted massage therapists to homes, hotels, workplaces, and events in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. With Zeel, customers enjoy a massage in the comfort, convenience, safety, and privacy of the place and time of their choosing, 7 days a week, 365days a year, with start times as early as 8 am and as late as 10:30 pm. Services by app for iPhone or Android . Our first service offering is Massage On Demand:registered:. Zeel has been offering Massage On Demand since December 2012, launching the app on April 2, 2013. Massage On Demand:registered: is disrupting the $15B US and $80B global massage market.The Zeel app allows customers to get massage at their home, hotel, workplace or event in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. They choose between a soothing Swedish and invigorating deep tissue massage. Customers pay a set price (including tax & tip), charged to their credit card on file. All therapists are fully vetted in person, licensed in their state of practice, insured (minimum of $1M), background-checked and trained by the Zeel team to reach the highest levels of customer service and experience. In September 2013, Zeel launched Massage Zeelot, the first-ever same-day, on-demand massage subscription service. Customers receive at least one in-home, on-demand Zeel Massage per month at a preferred rate, along with a free professional-grade massage table, theirs to keep.
- Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
- Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS
Alex Hoye is the Co-founder and CEO of Full Stack Supply Co. He previously worked at Runway East as a Co-founder. Alex Hoye attended Stanford University.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Romania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $53k–$943k; Angel $20k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Motion - Activity Goals — Use Motion to set your personal weekly activity goal and visualise progress. Create a team with friends and share your goals.
- Grabble — Grabble is an application that enables its users to discover daily hand-picked fashion. It allows its users to browse, save, and purchase fashion apparel and accessories from retailers. It also provides them with sales alerts. Grabble was launched on May 1, 2013 in London, United Kingdom.
- Carv — Improve your skiing technique with real-time audio coaching. Carv uses pressure and motion analysis to score your technique and help you improve.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 368
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$13M; Series A $3M–$21M; Series B $7.5M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $101M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Wazoku — Wazoku - Where Innovation Works Wazoku
- Mojo — Join 600,000+ men worldwide using AI-powered coaches to build a performance mindset and take back control of their love lives.
- Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Trafi — Stay connected Be the first to hear about our product updates, city launches, and more.
- Weev — End To End EV Solution
- Perfect Ward — Unleash the power of your quality data from the frontline to CQC inspections
Sean Park combines a powerful mix of entrepreneurial, investment and corporate experience and is widely recognized as a leading independent thinker on the future of financial services, informed by his many years as a senior executive in capital markets and investment banking.Founder of Anthemis Group SA, author of The Park Paradigm, andserving as non-executive director on the board of a number of high growth companies, Sean has a proven track record of successfully investing in and advising innovative and disruptive startups.A founding investor in innovative companies such as Betfair, The Climate Corporation (WeatherBill), Markit and an early investor in Zoopla, before founding Anthemis Group, Sean was part of the Global Markets Management Committee at Dresdner Kleinwort where he ran a number of businesses including their groundbreaking Digital Markets initiative. He was instrumental in driving the introduction and adoption of electronic book building in the European fixed income markets in early 2000s and authored the seminal “AmazonBay” video exploring the future of finance in 2005.Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Sean has a BSc in Materials Science from Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is now based in Geneva and refuses to give up on his dream of one day skiing in the Olympics.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$10M; Series A $3M–$24M; Series B $6.5M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Topia — Discover our professional services designed to elevate your business with expert solutions tailored to your needs. Contact us today for trusted support.
- Perkbox — Discover a global employee benefits and rewards platform. Perkbox delivers perks, wellbeing, and engagement tools to help your teams thrive worldwide.
- Roam International — Sign a single lease, and you can roam among magical properties across 3 continents.
Solving Human Problems for over 25 years as ex-CXO @Publicis Groupe | Exited $50M ARR Agency | Web 2&3 Investor & Advisor
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Real Estate, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Spain, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.8M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stuf — Stuf Storage Homepage
- Daring Foods — Craveable delicious plant chicken made from non-GMO plants and a short list of wholesome ingredients.
- Hero Cosmetics — Hero Cosmetics is creating solutions for those times they have a pimple emergency. Their broader vision is to create products that can be their hero when their skin is in a pinch.
We act as a catalystfor innovation and industry disruptiontowards building a smarter world. TNF is an international investment firm that acts as a catalyst for innovation and industry disruption towards building a smarter world. TNF takes a long-term approach to creating value through venture capital, private equity investments and private financing.
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- Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $8.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MSMEx — MSMEx: Leading SME IPO consultants in India, offer tailored strategies and expert guidance for small and medium businesses navigating IPO complexities.
- Equip Sport — Gain access to the fastest growing network of rental lockers worldwide. Equip gives you instant access to SUP and sports rental anywhere, anytime.
- Metaphysiks — Metaphysiks is a groundbreaking immersive technology company combining world leading neuroscience and robotics to create multisensory experiences.
Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $445k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.7M; Series A $4.1M–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Driven — Driven is the easiest platform to design smart incentives, align targets, and boost overall sales performance.
- Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
- Maison Sport — Book ski lessons online with highly qualified ski instructors. Ski & snowboard lessons & ski school in Morzine, Meribel, Val Thorens, Courchevel, Avoriaz, Tignes, Val d'Isere, Zermatt, Verbier & more
Lucian has a truly global outlook with an extensive set of contacts in North America, Europe, and Asia. Lucian is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur with several successful start-ups to his credit. He has 20 years of semiconductor industry experience. Lucian was born in Germany, educated in the French school system, and went on to earn a B.Sc.in International Economics from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (with a minor in Russian) and an MBA from INSEAD.
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- Industry: Skiing, Sports, Fitness
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Adiposs — Adiposs is a Swiss biotech start-up company developing medical imaging products and technologies for early detection of cachexia.
- Snowcookie — Ski tracking sensors by bode miller for racers and coaches
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 154
- Round size: Series A $8M–$100M; Series B $20M–$100M; Series C $30M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Connecteam — Communicate, operate and train your non-desk employees with Connecteam's all-in-one employee app. Easy to use, customizable and affordable like no other!
- fabric — A flexible and headless platform for modern e-commerce experiences.
- Siete Family Foods — We're a Mexican-American food brand, rooted in family, that makes delicious grain free products.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.2M; Series A $11M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OnlyFans — Jahid (Bengali:জাহিদ) is a rising Indian YouTuber, Gamer, Telegram Channel Moderator,Onlyfans Video Creator and Entrepreneur .Jahid was born on 03 June 2000. Being optimistic about his chosen career, he has an outstanding Digital Knowledge. He always says “Born To Express, not Impress”.
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- Riverside — Riverside.fm makes it easy for podcasters and media companies to record remote interviews in studio quality. End result? 4k video and WAV audio content.
Capital Risque Fribourg is a venture capital that provides funding opportunities for startups and SMEs. The company’s product portfolio includes creating jobs in Canton, Entrepreneurial quality design, industrialization, shareholder loans, identifying promising markets, and more. Capital Risque Fribourg was founded in 1998 is headquarteredFribourg, Switzerland.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Sports, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$4M; Series A $1.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cortexia — Cortexia provides to the cities worldwide an objective and automatic measurement system, based on intelligent vision. Mobile cameras recognise and map the littering according to categories in the whole city and compute a cleanliness index.
- Bloom Biorenewables Ltd — By transforming natural materials found in biomass, we create the first true alternative to petroleum.
- Seprify — Enabling sustainable products
Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 260
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $2.3M–$17M; Series B $4.2M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sleepiz — Sleepiz is a Zürich based startup with the aim to enable the medical community to take healthcare into the home environment. Sleepiz provides an easy and comfortable to use solution with a device that is simply placed on the bedside table. The device operates in a non-contact fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions andbreathing patterns as well as body motions with medical grade accuracy.By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence Sleepiz will in the future not only able to diagnose sleep disorders, but also to perform long-term monitoring. Thereby, the progression of chronic diseases can be monitored to allow faster intervention and better treatment.
- Biograil — Biograil, founded in 2019 and led by CEO Karsten Lindhardt, is using injection molding to manufacture a device contained in a standard size capsule able to deliver active substances into the gastrointestinal wall. The Biograil device avoids mechanical moving components and makes use of the body’s own peristaltic forces to facilitate the delivery ofthe biologic efficiently into the gastrointestinal wall.
- iMusician — iMusician offers music distribution, promotion, mastering, and monetization for independent musicians & labels. Get on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, TikTok & many more.
Effort Fribourg aims to promote the economic development of the city and the agglomeration of Freiburg. In particular, it supports the creation and development of companies or any other economic activity that creates new jobs.
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- Industry: Sports, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dahu — DAHU Sports is a Swiss company that manufactures ski boots for skiing, walking, hiking, and driving. Founded in 2011 by Nicolas Frey, DAHU Sports was officially launched in November 2013 with thousand pairs sold during the 1st season.
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