Top 10 Sporting Goods VC Funds & Investors in Switzerland (September 2026)

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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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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• Pond5 — Explore Pond5's vast library of HD & 4K stock video, music tracks, SFX, motion graphics, and images. Professional quality at affordable prices.
• Refinery29 — Refinery29 is a digital media and entertainment company focused on women. Through a variety of lifestyle stories, original video programming, and social, shareable content across all platforms, Refinery29 provides its audience with the inspiration and tools to discover and pursue a more independent, stylish, and informed life.The company wasfounded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York.
• Audio Network — Audio Network have commissioned and recorded a comprehensive music catalogue comprising over 150,000 music tracks.The Group has been listed as one of the UK's fastest growing tech / media companies in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and in the Sunday Times Profit Track 100 in 2013, 2014 and 2015Ownership of bothpublishing and recording rights in all the music allows Audio Network to bypass the traditionally complex and traditionally expensive process of licensing music usage to television broadcasters and professional audio-visual producers worldwide.The team comprises 800 leading film and television composers covering almost every conceivable style and genre of music and sound.Home / Student / Corporate or occasional users of audio content can also instantly access and download the same professional music and sound resource for use in their films or video projects using the Audio Network website.

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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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• 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 accelerating the exploration and development of flowing critical minerals and industrial gases. Atana uses a proprietary tech stack to identify and mature mineral resources quickly and effectively.

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• CSX Carbon — Cutting-edge natural capital management. By using high quality data analysis to measure carbon, we enable landowners to receive a fair return on their natural assets and allow businesses to independently verify their climate actions.
• 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.

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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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• 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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• Bewelab SA — Bewe is a mobile game designed to reduce cravings, using neuroscience to automatically retrain your brain and effortlessly reclaim your health.
• 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.

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• Rivelock — Rivelock is a swiss conditional payment platform that secures payments between service providers and customers.
• Nextrainers — Nextrainers is a sports technology company that provides AI-powered football training sessions, tactical analysis, and player progression.
• Documenter AI — Complete AI copilot platform for enterprise project management, compliance automation, and business process automation. Deploy intelligent agents, automate workflows, and ensure compliance across all industries.