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Top 50 Sustainability Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sustainability startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sustainability companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Sustainability Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026

Investor	Sustainability Switzerland investments
Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT)	18
Founderful	11
Zürcher Kantonal Bank	10
SICTIC	7
Verve Ventures	7
Kickfund	6
ACE & Company	5
Soheila Yalpani	5
TiVentures	5
Danny Hayes	5
Übermorgen Ventures	5
Technology Fund	5
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)	4
Angel Invest	4
Serpentine Ventures	4
Contrarian Ventures	3
Tiny VC	3
another.vc	3
Magility Ventures	3
Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company	3
BackBone Ventures	3
Bloomhaus Ventures	3
Innovation Endeavors	3
Singular	3
Swisscom Ventures	2
3wVentures	2
BASF Venture Capital	2
EDFI ElectriFI	2
Alpana Ventures	2
Polytech Ventures	2
EMPA	2
Swiss Federal Office of Environment	2
EIT Food	2
Gaingels	2
Privilège Ventures	2
Soma Capital	2
Qemetica Ventures (Formerly Ciech Ventures)	2
Planet A Ventures	2
ETH Zurich Foundation	2
Agility	2
Pegasus Tech Ventures	2
Union Square Ventures	2
Mercy Corps Ventures	2
Baker Hughes	2
EREN Groupe	2
Oliver Samwer	2
Founderful Campus	2
Energy Impact Partners	2
Ciri Ventures	2
Collab Capital	2

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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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

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.

Founderful operates as a venture capital firm and a Switzerland’s leading pre-seed fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Oxyle — Permanently eliminate PFAS from your wastewater. Book a pilot and lead the way to clean, safe waters.
Zuriq — We are building a quantum computer with scalability at its heart. Trapped-ion qubits with freedom to move and connect.
Chipmind — AI agents to speed-up development of chips, design and verification, collaborative, custom and confidential with open-source EDA tools.

Zürcher Kantonalbank is an independent, incorporated public-law institution is its public service mandate. Enshrined in law, it governs the bank's economic, social, and environmental commitment.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, Japan, Spain

Portfolio highlights

BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
TestResults — TestResults uses the TrueTest technology and AI-based virtual user that makes it possible for the first time to test autonomously across software, system, and technology boundaries from a user perspective with the same approach. The company has simplified automated testing massively and reduced time radically. With it, the automation andmaintenance effort is reduced to a minimum that allows zero flakiness and the enlightening feeling of being in control of automation and test scenarios.
QualySense — QualySense is a Swiss start-up company focused on innovative high-throughput grain, beans and seeds sorting technology. QualySense develops a high-speed multi-tons per hour sorting device, which will change how grains, beans and seeds are processed and valued worldwide by assessing the biochemical quality of grains one by one. The QualySensesorters will enable customers to separate grain batches into different biochemical quality classes and sell the corresponding premium products at higher average prices. Food processors will be able to considerably increase the production value, and produce higher quality products in a non-interrupted process.

SICTIC is the leading angel investor network in Switzerland with the largest Swiss seed-stage startup dealflow.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Qala — Qala delivers real-time data classification, discovery, and policy enforcement. Auto-classify sensitive data, map full lifecycles, and label at source.
Nextesy — Nextesy is a pioneering start-up that uses AI to simplify and automate important business processes, allowing businesses to alleviate the strain of repetitive manual procedures while increasing operational efficiency and scalability.
Scanvio — Scanvio Medical provides gynecologists, endometriosis centers and ultrasound manufacturers with an AI-guided ultrasound software for faster endometriosis diagnosis.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
Lexroom.ai — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.
EarlySight — EarlySight start-up company is founded in order to accelerate the development and to bring the technology to clinics.

Kickfund is a Venture Capital fund that systematically backs companies that successfully complete Venture Kick.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
Tethys Robotics — Tethys Robotics develops AI-powered application oriented robotics system that enables professionals in carrying underwater search & recovery to inspection & surveillance.
ASTRA Therapeutics — Astra - Therapeutics

ACE offers three core investment strategies across the stages of private investment: Secondaries, Buyout, and Venture. Our portfolio construction guidelines ensure that our investors access the necessary customization to achieve their risk and return requirements.ACE aims to drive returns by managing risks and strategically adjusting investmentexposure to the stage of a company’s development. We strongly believe that diversification and sizing of investments according to the risk profile are the most effective approaches to investing private capital.ACE’s specialized investment teams provide the support to create long-term and sustainable investment results.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.

oheila is an entrepreneur with C-team leadership experience on project management and pre-master planning of large-scale smart, resilient green infrastructure projects.

Investment focus

Consulting, Sustainability, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Mountain Gate — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.

TiVenture is a seed investment fund owned by the Fondazione Centenario Banca Stato that invests in early stage companies with innovative technologies and high growth potential, principally in southern Switzerland. TiVenture is actively looking and ready to support exceptional founders and entrepreneurs developing scalable products for the globalmarket. TiVenture has a diversified portfolio of companies and is mainly active in the life science, medical, high-tech and IT sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hoxell — Hoxell is an intuitive and easy-to-use integrated platform that digitizes and streamlines all hospitality operations.
Hive Power — Hive Power provides a SaaS platform to optimise your existing electrical distribution grid, both from the technical and economic points of view.
Gaia Turbine — Gaia Turbine SA - High-Performance Hydroelectric Turbine for micro and mini power plants

As the CEO of Climate Transition Swiss AG, I lead a Swiss company that develops and finances green, resilient infrastructure projects across North America, Europe, and Japan. With over 20 years of international business experience, I have a strong track record of delivering sustainable energy solutions that create positive environmental and socialimpact.In addition to my role as CEO, I am also a Lobbyist for Climate Policy at the U.S. House of Representatives, where I focus on influencing environmental initiatives in Japan and Europe. I am passionate about advocating for climate action and fostering global collaboration on this urgent issue. I am also a member of the Forbes Business Council and a regular contributor to their climate section, where I share my insights and expertise on green business and policy.

Investment focus

Clean Energy, Cyber Security, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Climate Transition Development — Climate Transition Development Corporation (CTD) is leading the Green Snow Project – an innovative hybrid renewable energy venture in Northern Japan. The company's mission is to revolutionize Japan’s renewable energy sector by harnessing the abundant low to medium-heat geothermal resources available in the region.Together with ourdevelopment partners, TerraScale Inc. and Global Family, the company is committed to tackling the challenges of the geothermal energy sector and transforming the way Japan generates power. The company's work forms an integral part of the Japan-US collaboration on geothermal energy development and aims to significantly reduce fossil fuel reliance and cut carbon emissions.

We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
Milvus Advanced — Our Midas-touch alloys replicate the functional properties of platinum-group metals at a fraction of the cost.
Zymvol Biomodeling — Physics-AI hyperrealistic enzyme discovery. ZYMVOL helps R&D managers uncover hidden opportunities and screen areas overlooked by traditional methods.

Technology Fund offers loan guarantees to Swiss companies whose novel products contribute to a sustainable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
Switzerland, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Distran — Distran ultrasonic cameras detect leaks of any type of gas in industrial facilities at a distance with live leak rate quantification. ATEX-certified.
Bionomous — Bionomous combines innovative micro-engineering design and machine learning methods to develop devices that automatically inspect and sort miniature biological entities.
AgroSustain — AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. It aims to reduce food waste and support organic food production by developing farm to fork solutions, like biological fungicides and coatings.

High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
Zeeg — Create a customized landing page in just a few clicks and let your customers easily book appointments with you.
viboo — viboo offers self-learning predictive control on the basis of physics-informed Machine Learning as a cloud service to smart-thermostat and building automation companies.

Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Peec AI — Peec AI helps marketing teams analyze brand performance across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. Track visibility, benchmark competitors, and optimize AI search presence.
Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
symmetrical.ai — Symmetrical is the only payroll service & fully integrated HR platform designed for modern People Teams.

Serpentine Ventures (SERV) is the investment arm of the Swiss startup group. Serpentine refers to the meandering roads found across the Swiss Mountains. Unreachable mountain peaks become accessible by following the serpentine path.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Automotive
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
Evulpo — Creating Futures - For students from Year 3 to Year 13. Exactly according to the national curriculum. Learn always and everywhere with evulpo.
Isochronic — Isochronic manufactures industrial robotic products for pick and place applications by transporting multiple parts simultaneously.

We are a hands-on, community-focused and founders vetted early-stage sustainable energy transition focused VC in Europe & Israel

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Lithuania, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Eliq — A platform for utilities to engage households with personalised energy insights and give internal teams the visibility to reduce churn and unlock new revenue.
PVcase — From site selection and design to yield optimization; PVcase helps streamline your entire process.
Urbio — Intuitive online software for urban energy planning and design. Urbio helps energy providers, utilities, consultants and real estate companies save time and money with generative design and digital twins.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Genie — Genie is a provider of a Shopify inventory management solution for fast-growing merchants.
Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.
Massive Dynamic — Massive Dynamic is an AI based software development and digital marketing company.

We're just another venture capital firm. We invest as soon as you made up your mind to start a company. Sometimes even before that.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Aletiq — Aletiq is an online PLM software that offers technical data management solutions for industrial companies.
CROWN — Drive savings and supplier competition with CROWN's eAuction service. Smart reverse auctions built for procurement teams. Book your free demo today.
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.

Magility Ventures multi-level business angel and venture capital platform.

Investment focus

SaaS, Energy, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Hive Power — Hive Power provides a SaaS platform to optimise your existing electrical distribution grid, both from the technical and economic points of view.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Along AI — Join our waitlist and try it first!
IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
Motley — Manual reporting costs business teams 2.4 billion hours a year. Get your time back with Motley, your AI reporting assistant.

BackBone Ventures' focus are early-stage investments, primarly in the area of innovative ICT, FoodTech and disruptive technologies in DACH & Israel. Committed to achieve a positive impact for the next generation by empowering access to proficient ventures investments.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Neon — With neon, you can pay, save and manage your money. Digitally, securely and with no hidden fees. Open your account online in less than 10 minutes!
Evoralis — Evoralis is an enzyme development company that specializes in the discovery and development of plastic-depolymerizing enzymes. It is a spin-out from the University of Cambridge.
Proofcheck — Proofcheck is a multilingual AI proofreading platform and a collaborative in-browser workspace for PDFs and epubs. Their next-generation AI workflow and collaboration tool helps content creators quickly catch costly mistakes before they reach audiences. Proofcheck is headquartered in Vienna, Wien and was founded in 2022.

We are a pioneering Swiss venture capital firm dedicated to empowering game-changing tech startups in Central Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
Skyld — Skyld create AI-powered security solutions The goal of our endeavor is to prevent reverse engineering and model theft. It is not possible to solve these issues with patents. A true "anti-theft" solution for AI models is what we are creating.
Manukai — Our AI models turn your production history into scalable automation. It runs fully on-premise, secure, and integrates seamlessly into your CAM software or NC code workflow.

Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in cutting-edge technologies to drive generational change in order to solve problems that matter. The firm’s central investment thesis, the Super Evolution, combines data, computational capacity, and advanced engineering to transform a range of industries including engineeringhealth, climate, computing infrastructure, intelligent software, the physical economy, and more. Its investments include Afresh, AlphaSense, Atom Computing, Color, Gatik, Eikon Therapeutics, Fabric, Homelight, Kong, Formlabs, Panther, Planet, Replica, SoFi, Uber, Upstart, Vicarious Surgical, and more. For more information, visit www.InnovationEndeavors.com.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Soffi — Soffi is a collaborative, AI-native product development platform redefining how enterprise teams build, edit, and ship software.Recent advances in AI make it possible to rethink the entire development cycle and create a new world where product managers, designers, and engineers work together seamlessly with contextual AI integrated directly intotheir workflows.Soffi isn’t another tool that generates prototypes or code that fails to meet your standards. We’re transforming the full product development lifecycle. Every step is versioned, visible, and automated—turning changes into production-ready tickets and PRs, eliminating friction between handoffs, and accelerating time from idea to production. Soffi is designed for complex enterprise systems and products: secure, integrated, and fast.We’re building for what’s next.
Flai — Flai is an AI-powered virtual assistant platform designed for enhancing dealership operations and customer engagement. Its core system handles incoming calls 24/7, schedules test drives and service appointments, answers common questions, collects lead information, and routes conversations to sales teams. The platform supports dealershipfollow-ups via automated phone, SMS, and email sequences and integrates with dealership management systems (DMS) and CRM tools. Flai emphasizes capturing after-hours or overflow calls to avoid losing potential customers due to missed or delayed responses. The company was built by founders with past experience in infrastructure, data science, and engineering and operates under seed-stage financing.
LightTable — LightTable is a software company that specializes in designing documents and fewer RFIs for architects and construction.

Singular is a generalist venture capital firm backing ambitious European entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Germany, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Climatiq — Climatiq provides an open dataset of global emission data and the technical infrastructure you need to inform meaningful reductions to your climate footprint.We collect and maintain open climate impact datasets that are constantly expanding and improving in collaboration with the science, technology and sustainability communities, making theinsight needed for accurate calculations and decision-making readily available.To make this data applicable in real-world settings, we pair it with a simple, lightning-fast API and powerful computational tools that allow for emission calculations in real-time, powering novel climate-positive solutions.
Tsuga — Tsuga is redefining observability for the modern enterprise. Our mission is to deliver next-generation insights, clarity, and control through innovative observability solutions that empower organizations to understand, optimize, and scale their systems with confidence.
FAIRMAT — We are bringing a new, sustainable and innovative way to recycle carbon fiber composite. Thanks to our proprietary technology, we produce a recycled material with a negative footprint! It's a light and strong high-tech material designed to be used in industries such as design, mobility, electronics, construction, transport, and logistics.

Swisscom Ventures is an venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, that specializes in early stage tech investments founded in 2007.Swisscom Ventures invests in growth companies with emerging business models and technologies of strategic relevance to Swisscom's core business. As a value-add investor, Swisscom brings its investees the technicalexpertise and strategic insights of an incumbent telecom operator. We act as a bridge to Swisscom's operational business units, which portfolio companies can also leverage as a test environment for their products and services.Swisscom Ventures seeks minority stakes in companies related to the information/communications/entertainment space.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

viboo — viboo offers self-learning predictive control on the basis of physics-informed Machine Learning as a cloud service to smart-thermostat and building automation companies.
Lumotive — Lumotive is a Seattle-based startup company developing high performance, solid-state lidar for autonomous systems in the automotive, UAV, robotics and related industries. The company's revolutionary beam-steering technology leverages Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (or LCMs) implemented in mature semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliversmall, inexpensive 3D perception systems with unprecedented performance and reliability. For more information, visit us at www.lumotive.com.
RTDT Laboratories — Make real-time decisions to optimise fleet operation through unique structural health insights

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
Switzerland, Spain, Austria

Portfolio highlights

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.

BASF Venture Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of BASF Group. They invest worldwide in promising young enterprises relevant to BASF’s current and future business fields and also in funds. Besides innovations in the fields of chemistry, new materials and sustainability, their areas of focus include digitization and new business models.They support their portfolio companies through selective interactions with the global research, partnership and customer networks of the BASF Group. They are headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany and have offices in San Francisco, Boston, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, and Tel Aviv.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Electronics
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
Gastrograph — Gastrograph AI has designed the first artificial intelligence platform to interpret and predict flavor preferences for over a billion unique consumer groups. This technology empowers CPGs to look beyond trends, and formulate unique, novel and successful food and beverage products based on custom sensory intelligence.
Bellatrix Aerospace — Bellatrix Aerospace is an Indian space R&D company that specializes in satellite propulsion.

Impact investment in sustainable energy

Investment focus

Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
Amped Innovation — At Amped Innovation, we design breakthrough products for people living on less than four dollars per day. Our first product, the Blossom, is a solar home power system which is the lowest-cost and highest-performance product in its class, at one third the price and twice the power handling of competing systems. We built the Blossom with asoftware-enabled Pay-As-You-Go interface, which allows customers to purchase it in payment installments that are equivalent to what they currently spend on kerosene, while providing much more light, cell-phone charging, and ability to run appliances like televisions and sewing machines.

Alpana Ventures is a Swiss VC focusing on digital transformation.Since 2016 we backed 45 founder teams with 3 Funds, supporting them in their journey towards a positive impact.Committed to value creation, we discover deep tech solutions in Switzerland, Europe and the US.We invest to embed them into innovative business models and back them tobecome global market leaders.Applying ESG criteria, our portfolio companies help create a more sustainable future.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
Nezasa — Discover how to grow your business with Nezasa TripBuilder, the world's leading travel commerce solution for travel businesses.
Tinamu — Tinamu Labs has developed a technology that converts commercially available drones into camera equipment reaching professional standards.

Polytech Ventures are an early stage VC firm based in Switzerland with a strong international focus. Their strategic location at EPFL in Lausanne grants us access to one of the most dynamic and recognized innovation centers in the world

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
Relai — Relai is the easiest way to invest in Bitcoin for the long-term investor. A simple and intuitive app that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute, without registration, KYC verification or deposits. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
Earny — Payroll management built for Startups & SMEs. Swiss payroll service with no hidden fees & no hassle

Interdisciplinary research institute of the ETH Domain. Empa conducts cutting-edge materials and technology research.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Sympheny — Ingenious software for ambitious energy planners
Perovskia — Perovskia digitally prints custom solar cells based on patent-protected technology, operating at the intersection of printed electronics, photovoltaics, and material science.
kuafu — kuafu is committed to accelerating grid decarbonization and driving the energy transition to net zero.

Swiss Federal Office of Environment

Investment focus

Water, Battery, Recycling
Seed, Grant, Debt Financing
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Librec — Librec provides technology for “closed-loop” recycling of large lithium-ion batteries from e-mobility, with all components recoverable by more than 90% and re-used in new batteries. Besides Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel, Copper, Aluminium, Manganese, electrolyte, separator, and all housing components.
TreaTech — TreaTech is a Swiss Cleantech company founded in 2015 by EPFL engineers. We are developing a ground-breaking treatment technology that will enable an eco-friendly treatment of the ever-increasing quantities of wastewater while recycling its valuable by-products and most notably, clean water. Our catalytic hydrothermal gasification (HTG) systemhas been developed for the disposal of different types of liquid wastes (such as sewage sludge) that are usually incinerated or landfilled and instead, turns them into by-products such as biogas, clean water, and mineral salts that can further be upgraded into phosphorus products (e.g. fertilizers).

EIT Food is a European Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), which was set up to transform our food ecosystem. By connecting consumers with businesses, start-ups, researchers and students from around Europe, EIT Food supports innovative and economically sustainable initiatives which improve our health, our access to quality food, and our environment

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Fyteko — For a more sustainable agriculture
Ficosterra — fertilizers and bio-fertilizers, 100% vegetable and ecological, with algae and microorganisms that favor the maximum development of crops and plants.
PFx Biotech — PFx Biotech transforms food through bioinnovation by creating sustainable and nutritional alternative protein solutions.

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ashby — Ashby is a developer of recruitment software used for high-growth companies. It develops usable, enterprise-grade employment software that enables company leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to run their hiring process significantly better. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Paxton — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
Viridian Space — Viridian Space develops a propulsion technology intended to use oxygen to stay in ultra-low earth orbit. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Culver City, California.

Where Entrepreneurs Thrive Rooted in reality, reaching for the extraordinary over five decades of combined investment experience Where Entrepreneurs Thrive Rooted in reality, reaching for the extraordinary Authentic, dedicated, disciplined, and goal-oriented, our team drives meaningful and lasting success About Team

Investment focus

Health Care, Hardware, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Wyth — Wyth creates private digital spaces for virtual and hybrid audiences. With our fully customizable platform organizations can build a seamless experience and an online home for their communities to connect, learn, work, share and play without ever leaving Wyth. We give our customers full control over their brand experience, data ownership andbusiness relationships.
Smeetz — Smeetz is the future of a unified, data-driven and dynamic pricing-oriented commerce for attractions and cultural venues.
Avelo — Our mission is to save lives by bringing fast and actionable infectious disease diagnosis closer to the patient. Avelo's solution is a breath collection device. It works with existing molecular tests to detect multiple respiratory tract infections causing pneumonia

Welcome to Soma Capital

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.
Orchard Robotics — We develop advanced camera systems and computer vision software to enable precision crop load management for growers.

An open innovation platform of Ciech Group

Investment focus

Chemical, CleanTech, Recycling
Seed
Switzerland, Poland

Portfolio highlights

DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
Xampla — Xampla's natural plant polymer technology is the innovative technology powering materials to change the world with plastic-free replacements and more.
Maxterial — Maxterial modifies the surface shape or texture of versatile materials, through a method that is very affordable and easy to introduce into the existing manufacturing process. The resulting microtextured materials dramatically reduce the contact area for the objects and droplets that contact the material surface.

Planet A supports founders tackling the world's largest environmental problems. We're building the economy our planet needs.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

HIVED — Looking for a greener, cheaper and better way to send your parcels? All parcels tracked and insured. Same-day, next-day and other options. Contact us today.
Makersite — AI, data and apps for procurement, product design and expert teams to make faster sustainable product and supply chain decisions, at scale.
Automated Architecture — A global ecosystem of automated micro-factories, to deliver sustainable, affordable and beautiful architecture to millions of people.

ETH Zurich Foundation is an independent, non-profit-making foundation under private law for the promotion of education and research at ETH Zurich.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Medical, Software
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

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.
Microcaps — Microcaps provides a novel solution to encapsulate ingredients naturally, protect them an enhance them with high-end appearence
Tethys Robotics — Tethys Robotics develops AI-powered application oriented robotics system that enables professionals in carrying underwater search & recovery to inspection & surveillance.

Agility Global Integrated Logistics (GIL) provides supply chain solutions to meet traditional and complex customer needs. GIL offers air, ocean and road freight forwarding, warehousing, distribution, and specialized services in project logistics, chemical logistics, and fairs and events. They are distinguished by their global network and leadingposition in emerging markets; a willingness to customize solutions for their customers; an entrepreneurial culture that has led us to invest and grow in areas where others see risk; and a deep commitment to personal service for their customers and communities.

Investment focus

Apps, Solar, Travel
Series A, Series B, Series C
Egypt, Sweden, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
TVP Solar — Our target Industrial Process Heat is the largest energy sink Urgency Industrial decarbonization has yet to be addressed and is critical to achievingESG targets. TVP cuts industrial fossil fuel use
Volta Trucks — Discover the future of electric transportation with Volta Commercial Vehicles

Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional emerging technology companies around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Japan, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Shikomel — Shikomel is a restaurant app that receives recipes from the store. The menu offered by other shops can also be ordered. The app can be used to develop new menus.
Iambic — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
NAiEEL Technology — NAiEEL Technology offers energy and environmental technology solutions.

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
Gumball — Gumball connects advertisers with podcast hosts to make it happen in a few clicks.
Slutty Vegan — Support your local Slutty Vegan. We are a Black-owned restaurant serving the best vegan food in Atlanta, period. Order your meatless masterpieces today.

Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Kenya, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
Blooms — Blooms provides trade finance and global payments solutions for LatAm produce exporters.
Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.

Baker Hughes is an energy technology company that provides solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
Spain, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Elcogen — Elcogen is a manufacturer and developer of high-performance anode-supported Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (IT-SOFC) and SOFC stacks based on proprietary materials and technological solutions. Fuel cells will help enable a clean energy future. Fuel cell technology significantly reduces emissions from natural gas systems,delivering twice the power for the same amount of gas. Fuel cells also unlock greater renewable energy generation, converting electricity to hydrogen for long-term storage. Solid oxide fuel cells are the most efficient energy conversion method possible, and Elcogen manufactures the highest performing SOFC. Elcogen makes the fuel cell technology underpinning the clean energy systems of the future.Elcogen was established in 2001.
HIF Global — HIF Global is an eFuel company engaged in the production of carbon neutral fuels.
Baseload Capital — At Baseload Capital we dream of a planet in balance with resilient societies that run on renewable geothermal energy.

EREN Groupe is recognized as a key player in renewable energy production, mainly in the wind and photovoltaic sectors.

Investment focus

Energy, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
France, Israel, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tigi — TIGI optimize & increase the utilization of renewable thermal energy generation & storage. Our solutions reduce energy costs & emissions
HEXANA — HEXANA is an energy platform that combines flexible sodium-cooled fast neutron reactors with a thermal management system.
Blue Capsule Technology — Blue Capsule Technology is a nuclear power company that specializes in the development of advanced innovative reactors to produce industrial-grade heat for industry.

Oliver Samwer was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1972. Oliver holds M.Sc. degree in Business Administration from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Upon graduation, Oliver and his two brothers founded Alando.de in 1999. After the sale of Alando.de to eBay Inc., he was Managing Director of eBay, responsible for Germany, Switzerland andAustria. In 2000, Oliver and his two brothers founded Jamba! AG, which was acquired by Verisign Inc. in 2004. In 2007, Oliver founded Rocket Internet. Since 2014, Oliver has served as Rocket’s Chief Executive Officer. Oliver is responsible for strategy development and implementation, business development and investor relations.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

MFG.com — MFG brings buyers and suppliers together by connecting buyers custom part requests with the right manufacturer. Register now for free!
Silkhaus — Silkhaus makes living comfortable and convenient through 24/7 mobile support and a digital concierge.
Pivot — Pivot operates as a fintech company.

Founderful Campus aims to educate students and support entrepreneurs to disrupt the startup culture on campuses, producing the next generation of tech leaders, and creating more value for society.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Renewable Energy
Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
Switzerland, Bulgaria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Avientus — Avientus is a revolutionary drone network with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities to autonomously transport a variety of payloads—including parcels, food, medical supplies, and spare parts—across both urban and rural areas.
Recreate — Recreate is a technology platform that focuses on AI-driven content generation and creative automation.
Aurora Analytics — Aurora Analytics specializes in creating novel research and diagnostic products for education, food safety, healthcare, and threat detection.

Energy Impact Partners LP (EIP) is a global venture capital firm leading the transition to a sustainable future. EIP brings together entrepreneurs and the world's most forward-looking energy and industrial companies to advance innovation. With over $2.5 billion in assets under management, EIP invests globally across venture, growth, credit,and infrastructure.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.
Atomic Canyon — The Atomic Canyon AI application is intended for use by nuclear power plants, next-generation reactor builders, and government and national laboratories.
Bedrock Energy — Bedrock Energy is developing drilling technology and advanced subsurface simulation software to enable geothermal heating and cooling. The company develops autonomous drilling technology and advanced subsurface simulation software to make geothermal heating and cooling more widespread, affordable, and accessible.

Ciri Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides investment and support for early stage companies. The firm engages in pre-seed and seed round. It emphasizes on funding companies that are focused on climate innovation technology.

Investment focus

Water, Construction, Renewable Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

BioEsol — BioEsol offers energy storage solutions to solar energy users who want to become more resilient to outages and independent of the saturated grid.
New Iridium — Kemvera is a sustainable chemical innovation company empowering customers to reduce carbon impact through sustainable, cost-effective, drop-in chemicals and materials with equal performance as fossil products.-
Crosstown H2R — Industrial-grade hydrogen burner technology for decarbonization. 95% emission reduction, retrofittable design, sub-15ppm NOx compliance.

Collab Capital - Transforming genius into generational wealth. A New Institution for Black Entrepreneurs

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

BoxedUp — Hundreds of products, delivered to your door in 2 days or less.
Culina Health — Connect with one of Culina Health's virtual dietitians for inclusive, science-backed nutrition plans that are covered by insurance.
Backpack Healthcare — Backpack Healthcare provides accessible, inclusive and comprehensive pediatric and family mental healthcare.

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