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Top 25 Sports Angel Investors in Switzerland in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Sports startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Sports Angel Investors in Switzerland in January 2025

Investor	Sports Switzerland investments
Steven Nzonzi	3
Alex Hoye	2
Dave Morin	2
Martin Stypinski	1
Philip Wels	1
Dr. Li Wu	1
Jessica Vogel-Stypinski	1
Martin Kamml	1
Stefan Jufer	1
John Gleasure	1
Yann Sommer	1
Jeffrey Broer	1
Chung Ng	1
Yuri Gurski	1
Daniela Ryf	1
Lucian Wagner	1
Philippe Bubb	1
Christopher Spray	1
Christian Wanner	1
Sean Park	1
SAM LESSIN	1
Paul Sevinç	1
Jan van Berkel	1
Lorenz Bogaert	1
Fabrizio Papa	1

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Soccer, Sports
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Coachbetter - You are the game — Football drills for kids, youth and pro teams in one platform. Coachbetter is your digital assistant coach. Manage football trainings, matches, teams and your club.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Advertising
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Romania

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 — Discover the best new fashion and homeware with the Grabble app. Get inspired by amazing articles and edits curated by our expert stylists, and buy anything you like in one tap.
Carv — Carv 2 clips onto any ski boot, analyzes your technique, and coaches you with live audio as you ski.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

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

Martin Stypinski is the CEO and Founder of Veemg.

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

BreezeLabs — Our Vision

Philip Wels is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

BreezeLabs — Our Vision

Dr. Li Wu is a renowned health research scientist and founder of Ringier AG-backed Virtusan.

Investment focus

Travel, Fitness, Tourism
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

BODDY — Join Boddy to access a wide range of fitness classes tailored to your lifestyle. From Yoga to CrossFit, find the perfect workout for you.

Jessica Vogel-Stypinski is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

BreezeLabs — Our Vision

Martin Kamml is an Investment Associate at Helvetica Capital.

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

BreezeLabs — Our Vision

Stefan Jufer is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Sports, Software, Information Technology
Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

BreezeLabs — Our Vision

John Gleasure - Executive Vice Chairman @ DAZN

Investment focus

Sports, SaaS, Gaming
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Metail — Metail EcoShot helps fashion brands to go from 3D design to selling with real-life models in under 24 hours. Browzwear VStitcher users can use the EcoShot plugin to easily elevate the presentation of their designs beyond ghost mannequin and avatar renders. Coming soon: Support for Clo3D, Optitex, Style3D.
Coachbetter - You are the game — Football drills for kids, youth and pro teams in one platform. Coachbetter is your digital assistant coach. Manage football trainings, matches, teams and your club.
Mediarex Sports & Entertainment — Chiliz Chain is the world's only sports focused blockchain. Web3 partner to 70+ elite sports teams. Stop scrolling. Start building.

Yann Sommer

Investment focus

Fitness, Internet, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

MOVU — MOVU is a removal and cleaning service provider with online bookings. The company gets more than 1500 relocation requests per month. It partners with Swisscom, the Post, Helvetia, UBS, and Immoscout24. The firm offers its users with customer service representatives named Move Captains that helps its consumers. The person listens, clarifies, andintermediates between the user and the movers and provides correct solutions for every problem. Reviews of former clients as well as the price comparison between providers helps its users agree decisions.MOVU is a Switzerland-based company that was founded in 2014 by Laurent Decrue and Nenad Nikolic.
CARE — CARE provides personalised preventative medicine to people who wish to learn more about their bodies, detect changes early on, and enhance their overall health.
Planted Foods — Planted is an ETH Spinoff that uses cutting-edge technology to turn four natural ingredients into plant-based meat that mimics the taste, texture, and mouthfeel of traditional animal meat. It takes only the best raw materials from plants and creates that tasty, nutritious, high-protein, and juicy planted that the customers love.It was founded in2019 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

Jeffrey Broer is the Advisor and Venture Partner of Mulana Capital. Took up Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc / Ing. in Commercial Engineering (WTB) at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Computer
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
India, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Spydra — Spydra is an asset tokenization platform that offers low code tokenization solutions to help Businesses tokenize assets with ease. Learn more about Spydra platform today.
ZOTH — ZOTH brings Secured & Stable yield from emerging markets for defi investors
Jimi — Jimi is a business app made for freelance trainers and independant gym studios. Fitness freelancers use pen & paper because it is simple and just works. But there is no control over growth, no control over the customer experience, and it wastes time & money. Jimi PRO Fitness is a ridiculously simple solution for them.

Solving Human Problems for over 25 years as ex-CXO @Publicis Groupe | Exited $50M ARR Agency | Web 2&3 Investor & Advisor

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Real Estate, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

Stuf — Stuf is a next-generation self-storage startup that provides easy-to-access and "right next door" storage in a warm and inviting environment for tech-enabled users. At the same time, it partners with real estate owners to monetize underutilized spaces in commercial buildings, creating new cash flow opportunities while providingneighborhoods with new amenities.
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.

Yuri Gurski is a founder and CEO of Palta, visionaire and engine in all portfolio companies. Yuri Gurski has been building global tech and media businesses for many years as an executive, entrepreneur, investor and startup mentor.Yury is the co-founder and president of Flo Inc., the most popular female health app worldwide, with over 137 millionusers and Peter Thiel (Founders Fund) among investors. Tech companies that Yuri founded, invested in and advised have been acquired by Google (AIMATTER, neural network-based AI platform and SDK to detect and process images in real time, 2017), Facebook (MSQRD live selfie video filtering, 2016), Russian internet giant Mail.Ru (maps.me navigation services, 2014) and the world’s largest online gaming firm Playtech (mobile fitness pioneer sport.com, 2013). Yuri holds an eMBA degree from Kozminski University. He’s been repeatedly recognized as Entrepreneur-of-the-Year and Startup Mentor-of-the-Year in Belarus.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Belarus, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

MAPS.ME — MAPS.ME (MapsWithMe) are offline maps of the whole world. Map of the USA: New York, San Francisco, Washington. France Paris. Italy: Rome, Venice, Florence, Rimini. Spain: Barcelona, Madrid. Japan, Great Britain, Turkey, Russia, India. For Android and iOS devices.
Masquerade — Masquerade allows users to record video selfie animations, change the way you look and send it to friends via your favorite messengers and social networks.
Cherry Labs — Founded by serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits to Facebook, Google and Apple, Cherry Labs works on making our homes the safer. Cherry employs over 20 engineers, AI scientists and product designers in Cupertino, Berlin, Moscow and Shenzhen.

Daniela Ryf is a professional athlete and ia individual investor.

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Wellness
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Muuvr — Elevate your fitness journey with rewards, challenges, and a vibrant community. Embrace a more active life!

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.

Investment focus

Skiing, Sports, Fitness
Seed
Switzerland

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

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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 — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.

Christopher Spray served as a Venture Partner at Atlas Venture L.P. Mr. Spray worked in the technology group of Atlas Venture and invested in software and services and Internet related businesses. Mr. Spray established firm’s Boston office in 1986 and was responsible for United States operations until 1998 when he moved to London office. Mr. Sprayhad moved to United States in 1985 as an Investment Director at CIN Investment Company. He started his venture capital career in 1983 with CINVen. Mr. Spray serves as Director of DoveBid, GoIndustry, Kalido, NTRglobal, Zinwave, picoChip, KDS, and MOO Print Ltd. He served as a Director at Kalido, Inc., Koodos, Corizon Ltd., and 3V Transaction Services Limited. He has been an investor and Board Member in number of successful companies, including OnDisplay and RightPoint Software. Mr. Spray also served on the Board of Business Objects from 1992 to 1994. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in English Literature from Oxford University.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Video
Seed, Series B, Series A
United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

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

Christian Wanner

Investment focus

Diving, Sports, Travel
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Diviac — Diviac is the world’s leading online travel agency for scuba divers.A platform like no other, that inspires divers to dive more, travel more and take care of our oceans.Researching and booking a scuba holiday has never been easier, nor more enjoyable.Founded in December 2012 in Switzerland, Diviac is on a mission to energize and grow theoverall scuba diving market for the benefit of all players. It already offers more dive destinations and more scuba holidays than any other travel company in the world.Catering to groups and individual travelers alike, Diviac uniquely combines best in class online booking experience with truly personalized expert advice, delivered by its global team of scuba travel experts.Diviac also cares deeply about sustainability and with the launch of Diviac Eco Travel, it now offers divers the opportunity to experience life-changing dive vacations that have an impact on the conservation of our oceans.
Remote Social — Remote Social is the ultimate destination for remote and hybrid teams to build connection and culture through play and shared experiences.
Marlee (Fingerprint For Success) — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Topia — The Topia Global Talent Mobility platform enables businesses to deliver mobility as part of a broader talent and business strategy with enhanced employee experiences. This drives competitive advantage by ensuring the right people in the right place at the right time. The Topia platform automates the entire global talent mobility process, fromscenario-based planning, compliance risk management, expat payroll, reporting and more. Topia powers global talent mobility programs for many of the world's most trusted brands, including Schneider Electric, Dell, Veolia, Equinor, AXA.
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.

SAM LESSIN - Co-Founder @ Fin.com

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

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.fm — 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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Travel, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
Gossik — Gossik is the productivity assistant that helps you to stay on top of your tasks and responsibilities so that you can reach your full potential and crush your goals.
TestingTime — TestingTime’s customers are in the UX and market research industry and both markets are in need of participants for usability tests, interviews, focus groups, diary studies and surveys. TestingTime provides a pool of more than 350,000 test users from which customers order their desired target users for qualitative and quantitative user researchonline. Test users are acquired through online campaigns and referral mechanisms and a smart rating system and predictive machine learning algorithms ensure high quality test users with a low no-show rate. The company is currently used by large corporations like UBS, Zalando, Microsoft, Accenture and many more.

Jan van Berkel is a ironman hampion and professional ironman triathlete.

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Wellness
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Muuvr — Elevate your fitness journey with rewards, challenges, and a vibrant community. Embrace a more active life!

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).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Belgium, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.