Top 20 Transportation Angel Investors in Switzerland in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Transportation startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Transportation companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Transportation Angel Investors in Switzerland in July 2025

Investor	Transportation Switzerland investments
Manfred Petri	2
Siraj Khaliq	2
Flavio Pfaffhauser	2
David Nothacker	1
Ed B.	1
Ingo Drexler	1
JP Duque	1
Andreas Buhl	1
Bettina Hein	1
Julius Koehler	1
Robert Karsunky	1
Matthias Hilpert	1
Jason C. Foster	1
Nicolaus Schefenacker	1
Jari Ovaskainen	1
Thomas Rauber	1
Penny Schiffer	1
Hassine B.	1
Fabio Borzatta	1
Ruedi Noser	1

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Manfred Petri was named managing director of mpnewco GmbH, a small private equity holding company since 2004. He has been investor and advisor in renewable energy companies. Prior to joining mpnewco GmbH, he was the Managing Director of Gerhard Petri GmbH & Co. KG in Hof. He has over 20 years of executive level experience in designing,manufacturing and selling power accessories. During his leadership he oversaw the expansion of company activities to Australia, New Zealand, USA and Eastern Europe encompassing a territory with 600 customers in 52 countries. He founded/acquired the subsidiaries in Czech Republic, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Poland, which led to increase product development that led to several international patents. He was responsible for the vertical integration of the business segments and enormous growth of the company that made the family owned business Gerhard Petri GmbH & Co. KG most attractive to integrated health solution that ties health education, nutrition, community health worker training, telemedicine and e-medical record keeping together to increase access to health and reduce health stresses in different communities several international buyers including Nexans S.A. (French cable manufacturer), which ultimately acquired Gerhard Petri GmbH & Co. KG in 2002. His career started by joining the Gerhard Petri GmbH & Co. KG in Hof/Germany, a family owned business designing, manufacturing and selling power accessories (cable connectors, cable lugs etc.). Petri received his MA from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich/Germany, and his PhD/Dr. phil. (Dissertation supported by "Studienstiftung des Dt. Volkes"). He is fluent in German, English, Latin and has basic knowledge in French

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Sports
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Fastree3D — Fastree3D imaging sensors help recognize and measure distance to fast moving objects in real-time, enabling driving assistance or autonomous navigation. Fastree3D SA is a fabless semiconductor company, spin-off from EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland founded in September 2013 (UID CHE-291.330.490). The company subsidiary Fastree3D B.V. performs researchwith TU-Delft, Netherlands (KvK 58866973).
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Siraj is a Partner on the investment team at Atomico. As a former computer scientist and co-founder/CTO of the successful Atomico investment The Climate Corporation, Siraj now continues his love for entrepreneurship “on the other side of the table” as a venture capitalist. He focuses on companies enabled by machine learning, AI and computervision, (particularly in intelligent assistants), IoT, Agtech, and works with a number of portfolio companies.Siraj founded The Climate Corporation in 2006, a company that pioneered the use of machine learning in helping farmers to optimize crop yield. Climate (acquired by Monsanto in 2013 and now a subsidiary) still sits at the vanguard of precision agriculture, an industry that is expected to play a key role in delivering the yield boosts needed to feed humanity in the decades ahead.Prior to this, Siraj was an early engineering hire at Google in 2001, and one of the founding engineers for the Google Book search project. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BA Hons in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, UK. Siraj speaks fluent English, advanced Urdu, and just enough German to be dangerous.An enterprising child, Siraj taught himself to code in C at age 13, and wrote and sold his first piece of software, a database for medical research, at 15. He is a fan of functional programming languages, and still enough of a geek to spend the occasional weekend trying out new languages and frameworks.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jua — A new paradigm in weather forecasting. AI learning physics. Delivering accuracy beyond expectation. Covering use cases beyond belief. Accessible to everyone, wherever in the world they are. The world's first end to end deep learning model for weather forecasting, delivered on an intuitive platform for anyone to customise it. Startups,governments and large companies alike can now develop global, high frequency and high accuracy weather models within days.
Altruistiq — Altruistiq is a decision-making environment for business sustainability teams.
RosieReality — Rosie is an educational app for iPhone and iPad. The app is perfect for curious kids of ages 9 and up. Kids program Rosie the Robot using magical 3D shapes to explore AR puzzles.

Flavio is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Beekeeper, Entrepreneur and Early Stage Investor in B2B SaaS companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Archlet — Make better strategic sourcing decisions faster with Archlet's user-friendly sourcing software. Book your demo and master the complexity in strategic sourcing.
Amplo — Amplo is a no code platform that allows industrial customers to automate their machine operations using accessible AI.

David Nothacker is the Co-Founder & CEO at Sennder.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Procurement
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Spain, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Twain — You now have world-class selling skills at your fingertips. Use Twain for free to see what your sales pitch is missing.
Degura — Degura provides portals for the pension plans of the companies.
simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.

Ed B.

Investment focus

Transportation
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Swisspod — Our mission is to ensure high-speed transportation is sustainable and efficient using fully-electric Hyperloop pods, a breakthrough technology that allows for the scalable and fast travel between distant cities.We are currently safely building the most affordable and energy-efficient pods, and bringing together a strong team of multidisciplinaryexperts passionate about disrupting high-speed travel.Swisspod is an EPFL spinoff founded in 2019 by multiple award winners of the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition.

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
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Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Colombia, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
Pura Mente — Meditation app in Spanish
Plurall — At Plurall, we are applying technology, data science, and a hyper-focus on customer to deliver mission critical financial services to those entrepreneurs and SMEs who have been left out of the digital revolution. Despite decades of product design, market presence, and market dominance by incumbents, we believe the ideal financial servicesplatform – one that is accessible, instantaneous, friendly, and transparent – hasn’t been built yet.With the support of Visa and leveraging in proven technology from well established fintech suppliers in Latam, we will launch our MVP in the 1st Q of 2022. Our waitlist is available at www.plurall.com

Andreas Buhl

Investment focus

Rental, Retail, Social
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Annanow — Annanow is quick commerce enabler to the retail industry. Our technology and services connect online shops, couriers, instore picking, payment and insurance services to end customers. Our services help our retail partners deliver a cost effective market-leading service to their customers.
Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.

Bettina Hein is the founder and CEO. She is a repeat entrepreneur based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to founding Pixability, Bettina co-founded Swiss-based SVOX AG and led the venture-backed speech software company to profitability. Bettina was the initiator of the START, an organization that advances entrepreneurship among college students.In 2000, START received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Bettina holds a Master of Science degree from MIT, where she was a Sloan Fellow; a law degree from the University of Constance; and a degree in business administration from the University of St. Gallen.

Investment focus

Travel, Leisure, Tourism
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

feey — feey is a houseplant shop. They offer plants that include entry-level plants, baby plants, animal-friendly plants, large plants, home office plants, hanging plants, aglaonema, alocasia, calathea, hoya, monstera, and philodendron.
Sleepiz — Sleepiz is a Zürich based startup with the aim to enable the medical community to take healthcare into the home environment. Sleepiz provides an easy and comfortable to use solution with a device that is simply placed on the bedside table. The device operates in a non-contact fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions andbreathing patterns as well as body motions with medical grade accuracy.By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence Sleepiz will in the future not only able to diagnose sleep disorders, but also to perform long-term monitoring. Thereby, the progression of chronic diseases can be monitored to allow faster intervention and better treatment.
LuckaBox — LuckaBox is a carrier-independent delivery experience platform for retailers and their customers. Passionate about data, the SaaS solution standardizes delivery information to bring transparency to logistics operations and enhances customer experience. With 60+ carriers covered LuckaBox is a strong partner for retailers, carriers, and B2Bbusinesses.LuckaBox serves leading brands like e.g. IKEA, Decathlon and Metro to help improve their post-purchase customer experience, reduce customer service costs and optimize their logistic smanagement.

Julius Koehler is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sennder. He was the Head of Sales at Styla and Senior Director of Business Development at WATCHMASTER.COM.