Top 20 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Switzerland (August 2026)

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• Stylect — Stylect is a mobile app to to help women discover their perfect shoe. They aggregate products from multiple websites and based on users' preferences (that they gather through a hot-or-not interface), they recommend better products. Their users are able to keep track of and buy the products they like and receive notifications whenever a productthey love goes on sale. Finally, They use geolocation to let their users know when a shoe is selling in a store nearby.
• Prestodiag — Prestodiag develops, manufactures and sells innovative solutions for rapid detection of bacteria. Their analytical solutions are based on an innovative optics technology called Surface Plasmon Resonance imaging and allow detection and identification of pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella, Listeria or E.coli. They provide users with a result injust a few hours instead of 1 to several days. Their market is primarily the food safety sector, and also on medical and environmental applications.
• Arktis Radiation Detectors — Arktis develops and manufactures next generation systems that detect and categorize radiological and nuclear materials to enhance security and operations.

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• geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
• Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
• Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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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.
• Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS
• Blueprint Bryan Johnson — On the surface, Blueprint may seem something about health, wellness and aging. It's really a system to make tomorrow better for you, me, the planet and our shared future with AI.

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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 — 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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• LineWise — LineWise, a Y Combinator-backed startup, helps manufacturers maximize production uptime. We use AI to diagnose machine failures, accelerate troubleshooting
• Feedelity — The #1 feedback management platform. Centralize guest feedback from Google, Tripadvisor, social media, email, Uber Eats, Deliveroo and more, and see what your guests really think.
• Maurice & Nora — Maurice & Nora regelt vertrouwde hulp aan huis door zorgvuldig gescreende studenten. Van boodschappen en kinderopvang tot begeleiding, tuinhulp en gezelschap.

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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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• Pond5 — Explore Pond5's vast library of HD & 4K stock video, music tracks, SFX, motion graphics, and images. Professional quality at affordable prices.
• Califia Farms — Califia Farms' (Califia, pronounced like California), mission is to bring you delicious and mindful nourishment through California-grown fruits and nuts. Califia Farms is led by beverage visionary Greg Steltenpohl, bringing you beautifully bottled goodness from the San Joaquin Valley. The name comes from the Spanish legend of warrior queenCalifia who ruled over the mythical island of California. Spanish conquistadors believed they had discovered Califia’s bountiful island when they first explored California.
• LaLa Land Kind Cafe — LaLa Land Kind is an organic cafe dedicated to empowering and mentoring young individuals through employment.LaLa Land Kind Cafe's mission is to empower foster youth through employment and mentorship while promoting kindness as a social norm.They firmly believe that the measure of success lies in the positive impact they create in society.By striving to make a positive difference in the lives of every individual who enters their doors, they aim to ignite a contagious wave of kindness. With each new store they open and every person they touch, they seek to exemplify that kindness is the true path forward.

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• bexio — Bexio is a Swiss-based company that helps small businesses with cloud-based business and accounting software to grow their businesses. It develops and sells accounting software for small and medium companies. Bexio was founded in 2013 and is based in Rapperswil, Zurich.
• Dagsmejan — Dagsmejan changed this by introducing the technology from the sportswear to sleepwear sector. The company has launched two product lines – BALANCE, adjusting to the natural temperature of the sleeper, - and STAY WARM.
• Verity — Verity is the global leader in autonomous indoor drone systems, delivering cutting-edge solutions that work—every time. Our track record for building systems that are 100% reliable in environments where failure is not an option has earned us the trust of our clients around the globe including IKEA and DSV.Our integrated inventory tracking systemis powered by autonomous drone technology to enable zero-error warehouses for big box retailers, high-turnover 3PLs, and consumer goods manufacturers in Europe and the US. Verity’s solutions automate inventory management, monitoring, and inspection tasks, providing clients actionable insights into their daily operations.In the live events industries, Verity’s systems create magical moments for audiences around the globe, providing stunning light shows for clients including Cirque du Soleil and Madison Square Garden, and for global tours of major artists including Metallica, Drake, and Céline Dion.

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• 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.

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• Axelera AI — Axelera AI is a company that delivers purpose-built hardware and software platforms designed to accelerate artificial intelligence tasks, particularly in edge computing. The company's flagship product, the Metis™ AI Platform, integrates both hardware and software components to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI inference solutions.This platform has been recognized for its innovation, notably being named a CES® 2024 Innovation Awards Honoree.Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies.
• Aylight — Aylight develops semiconductor laser and photonics platforms designed to improve optical connectivity in AI datacenters and related infrastructure. The company focuses on frequency modulated comb laser technology that generates multiple stable wavelengths from a single InP-based laser cavity. Its architecture produces an equidistant, RF-lockedwavelength grid that aligns with dense wavelength-division multiplexing requirements and reduces control complexity and power consumption. Aylight targets use cases in AI datacenter interconnects, quantum computing hardware, precision metrology, and communication equipment. Its products aim to integrate with terabit optical links and wavelength-division multiplexing systems while remaining compatible with existing fabrication processes.
• Atana Elements — Atana is a data-driven resource company that accelerates the exploration and development of flowing critical minerals.

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• Cutiss — CUTISS AG can now bio-engineer large quantities of individually customized human skin grafts, denovoSkin™, starting off from a very small piece of healthy patient’s skin. Because of its intrinsic characteristics, denovoSkin™ is expected to result in a minimally scarring outcome after transplantation. denovoSkin™ received a Swissmedic, EMA and FDAOrphan drug designation for the treatment of burns.
• qCella — qCella Impregnate natural fibers with copper and utilize them to create heating mats that outperform commercially available heating wires. When linked to a power source (e.g., a battery), the mats have the right electrical resistance over the entire structure, allowing them to heat uniformly.
• Capt'n Greenfin — Capt'n Greenfin is a new material for sustainable fishing baits and aims to revolutionize the sportfishing industry in a sustainable way.

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• 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.

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• ENANTIOS — ENANTIOS specializes in creating benchtop analytical instruments that provide industries, research institutions, and academic facilities.
• Snowcookie — Ski tracking sensors by bode miller for racers and coaches
• Carewell — Carewell is influencing the way people work in healthcare by providing flexible digital solutions tailored to their specific needs.

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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.
• Bloom Biorenewables Ltd — By transforming natural materials found in biomass, we create the first true alternative to petroleum.
• Seprify — Enabling sustainable products

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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 Solutions — Discover how community-powered advice can turn your PDPs into trusted, high-converting content and get cited in AI search.
• 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.

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• Capt'n Greenfin — Capt'n Greenfin is a new material for sustainable fishing baits and aims to revolutionize the sportfishing industry in a sustainable way.

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• MyStones — MyStones - the athlete-centric platform redefining track and field. Daily progress into clear, shareable insights.
• Skilder Ai — skilder is the Agent Skills Management Platform to govern AI across Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. Sovereign hosting, full governance, vendor-agnostic.
• Isospec Analytics — Isospec Analytics SA is a life science company that aims at simplifying molecular identification. We are unlocking the potential of glycomics and metabolomics in disease biomarker discovery and for the development of safer nutritional and pharmaceutical products.

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• Peak — Challenge your brain with Peak, the No.1 app for your mind. Push your cognitive skills to their limits and use your time better with fun, challenging games and workouts that test your Focus, Memory, Problem Solving, Mental Agility and more.
• The Faction Collective — The Faction Collective - manufacturers of high performance freeride and freestyle skis since 2006.Skis are more than just pieces of wood, steel & fibreglass. They are tools of escape. A medium for personal expression. A way to challenge fears, push limits & share incredible experiences with friends.The Faction Collective was formedin 2006 by a group of friends with the aim of creating the best designed & built freeride & freestyle skis you can buy, with a world-class manufacturing base in heart of the European Alps and a strong commitment to social and environmental sustainability. Every year new ideas and products expand our range - but the manifesto remains the same.In 2010 we partnered with Swiss helmet manufacturer TSG to produce a new line of lightweight, high performance protection, and in 2012 we are working with acclaimed French skier Candide Thovex to create a range of revolutionary superlight park and freeride skis using recycled PET cores and minimalist graphics that support our ethos of uncompromised performance.From our bases in Verbier, Switzerland and Breckenridge, USA we still ski over 100 days a year, refining our products and keeping the stoke alive. We hope you are too.
• Plum Guide — Plum Guide handpicks the world's best vacation rentals, holiday homes, short term lets and Airbnbs from over 25 different sites

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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

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• 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.