Top 15 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Switzerland in July 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sporting goods startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sporting goods companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Switzerland in July 2025
Investor | Sporting Goods Switzerland investments |
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GoBeyond | 3 |
Dave Morin | 2 |
Alex Hoye | 2 |
Octopus Ventures | 2 |
octopus investments | 1 |
Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT) | 1 |
Sean Park | 1 |
Capital Risque Fribourg | 1 |
3wVentures | 1 |
Verve Ventures | 1 |
The New Frontiers (TNF) | 1 |
Lorenz Bogaert | 1 |
Effort Fribourg | 1 |
Sam Lessin | 1 |
Lucian Wagner | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Medical, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- LEND — LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.
- AVAtronics — AVA Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Solution is a breakthrough in Audio Industry. AVA is the first and only TRUE WIDE-BAND ANC in the market capable of selectively cancelling all annoying noises we want to get rid of without compromising the quality of Music or speech.
- Blumer — Blumer is a social networking platform that provides social networks that can monetize time by consuming advertisements, selling nfts, and making crypto transactions. It offers social networks, crypto, digital marketing, and blockchain.
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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- Mobile, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, France, Finland
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- Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
- Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
- 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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- Software, Apps, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Romania
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- 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 — Carv 2 clips onto any ski boot, analyzes your technique, and coaches you with live audio as you ski.
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- CRED — Compare millions of commercial data points and uncover unique and personalised opportunities for your brand.
- Perci Health — Connecting cancer patients with expert practitioners. On-demand, affordable appointments. Get personalised support and a tailored care plan today.
- Lyrebird Health — Lyrebird Health is revolutionising medical scribing with AI. Our AI medical scribe helps healthcare professionals save time and improve patient care.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Finland
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- 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
The Foundation for Technology Innovation gives financial assistance to creative and technological projects at various phases of development. FIT funds projects in energy and the environment, information and digital technology, life sciences and health, precision industries, and nutrition and agriculture.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Switzerland, France
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- INERGIO — This EPFL spin-off is developing faster, portable energy units that offer ten times the power at half the weight of current technology. Founder Mahmoud Hadad’s fuel cell innovation, which uses standard butane or propane that’s safe and available worldwide, offers high autonomy. INERGIO’s fuel cell geometry allows unlimited scaling, making thetechnology suitable for applications ranging from charging consumer electronics to auxiliary power for drones to automobile fuel cells. The team has a working prototype and is looking to have its minimal viable product by summer 2020 to start the pilot project with potential partners and customers.
- Brightank — Catalyzing your Decarbonization. Brightank accelerates decarbonization with ammonia cracking catalysts, turning ammonia into fuel for heavy transport, hydrogen supply, and power. EPFL spin-off
- DigeHealth — DigeHealth's approach to monitoring gut health using bowel noises and body measurements could provide some really valuable insights into digestive well-being.
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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- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Topia — Topia supports companies with global mobility programs, business travelers and remote workers, to enhance efficiencies and ensure compliance.
- Perkbox — Harmonise your employee benefits and rewards globally. Provide benefits, support wellbeing and create a culture of recognition to boost employee engagement.
- Roam International — Sign a single lease, and you can roam among magical properties across 3 continents.
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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- Manufacturing, Sports, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany
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- 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.
- Bionomous — Bionomous - the world's first provider of AI-powered solutions for screening, sorting and dispensing of small biological entities. We are an innovative, agile
- Seprify — Enabling sustainable products
3wVentures provides seed money and venture capital to international internet startups. As they focus on early stage projects and prototypes, our investments and co-investments target a volume of up to USD 250,000.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Switzerland, Spain, Austria
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- Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
- GUURU — GUURU's Community Solution enables trustworthy and authentic live conversations between shoppers and your customer community.
- Pregnolia — Pregnolia ensures that every woman can have a happy, healthy and informed pregnancy until term. Their team knows that the existing research about preterm birth assessment is very promising, but this alone does not guarantee success. Sabrina, Francisco and Annette are highly committed to develop the commercial version of the device, complete theclinical trial, follow the regulatory roadmap and execute on their business vision to successfully support gynaecologists in improving the preterm birth risk assessment and birth management.
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Switzerland, France, Germany
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- Metafuels — Our breakthrough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology, aerobrew™, will make affordable net-zero aviation a reality. The technology is innovative, highly scaleable and able to tap into future global renewable energy systems efficiently. Starting from renewable feedstocks including green hydrogen, driven by renewable electricity, andsustainably sourced CO2, for example from direct air capture, aerobrew™ provides an efficient route to large-scale production of e-kerosene, overcoming the scale up challenges and high costs of alternative e-fuels technologies. aerobrew™ is also compatible with the biogenic route whereby the carbon required for the process is derived from renewable and sustainable cellulosic biomass which, does not compete with the food chain (wood, miscanthus, etc.). With a high carbon conversion, high selectivity and a high overall SAF yield, aerobrew™ leads to attractive production economics and cost leadership. With a rapidly growing demand for SAF, aerobrew™ stands to contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of global aviation and to support the achievement of net zero 2050 targets.
- Poppins — Mila merges music, technology, and neuroscience to reshape therapy into a musical experience. We create musical games for children based on neurologic music therapy methods. These games are designed to address learning dissabilities like dyslexia, providing a digital treatment at home and helping identify these conditions. Behind these games, weleverage data science and new technologies to interpret learning, language, and motor performance into a cognitive score. Our goal is to improve the process for patients receiving treatment and to reaching the vast undiagnosed majority.
- Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.
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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- FinTech, Blockchain, EdTech
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, India, United Kingdom
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- 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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
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- FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
- Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
- 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.
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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- Sports, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
- Series A
- Switzerland
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- 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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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Israel, Switzerland
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- Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
- Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Skiing, Sports, Fitness
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- 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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