Top 15 Transportation Angel Investors in Switzerland
A list of 15 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 15 Transportation Angel Investors in Switzerland
Investor | Transportation Switzerland investments |
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Flavio Pfaffhauser | 2 |
Siraj Khaliq | 2 |
Manfred Petri | 2 |
Ruedi Noser | 1 |
Fabio Borzatta | 1 |
Matthias Hilpert | 1 |
Jari Ovaskainen | 1 |
David Nothacker | 1 |
Julius Koehler | 1 |
Bettina Hein | 1 |
Penny Schiffer | 1 |
Ed B. | 1 |
Robert Karsunky | 1 |
Adrian Bührer | 1 |
Ingo Drexler | 1 |
Flavio is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Beekeeper, Entrepreneur and Early Stage Investor in B2B SaaS companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Switzerland, France
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.
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
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- 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).
- Smart Mobile Labs — Welcome to the Real Real-Time
Ruedi Noser
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Investment focus
- GovTech, Big Data, Politics
- Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Farmy.ch — Farmy.ch is an online marketplace for local and organic food, directly from farmers and food makers. It places a lot of importance on the selection of producers and its uncompromising focus on quality and transparency. The company smart logistics and own fleet and e-mobiles deliver these goods incomparably fresh, emission-reduced, and time-savingdirectly to users’ front doors with its own fleet of e-mobiles.Farmy.ch provides online retailing of fresh and local food products with more than 10'000 hand-picked products from more than 1'000 authentic producers. It also offers products include fruits and vegetables, cheeses from Swiss dairies, meat, delicacies, and sweet temptations from real bakers and confectioners, as well as pantry and drugstore items. Farmy.ch was founded in June 2014 by Roman Hartmann and Tobias Schubert and is based in
- politik.ch – PolitAnalytics — PolitAnalytics is a data and knowledge management platform for experts in politics, fully neutral and non-partisan. We serve policy makers, public affairs / government relations experts, thought leaders and pundits, compliance managers and risk assessors, politicians and their staff, as well as scientific researchers and journalists.We usethe power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide predictive policy making analytics. Our customers can track the political development of their topics quickly and in real time, while the platform provides estimates of the speed of legal implementation, or the likelihood of success, along with knowledge management and collaboration features.
Fabio Borzatta
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Agriculture, Organic Food
- Funding Round
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Farmy.ch — Farmy.ch is an online marketplace for local and organic food, directly from farmers and food makers. It places a lot of importance on the selection of producers and its uncompromising focus on quality and transparency. The company smart logistics and own fleet and e-mobiles deliver these goods incomparably fresh, emission-reduced, and time-savingdirectly to users’ front doors with its own fleet of e-mobiles.Farmy.ch provides online retailing of fresh and local food products with more than 10'000 hand-picked products from more than 1'000 authentic producers. It also offers products include fruits and vegetables, cheeses from Swiss dairies, meat, delicacies, and sweet temptations from real bakers and confectioners, as well as pantry and drugstore items. Farmy.ch was founded in June 2014 by Roman Hartmann and Tobias Schubert and is based in
Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
Jari Ovaskainen - Business Development Director @ Modulight
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Internet of Things, PC Games
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Finland, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Invstr — Invstr is an award-winning investment app that helps you invest smarter. Invstr gives you the confidence, knowledge and expertise to start investing to build your wealth. Unlike other investing apps, Invstr is committed to educating you before you even make your first trade. Because we believe that investing isn’t just about buying and sellingstocks. It’s about understanding the markets and making more informed investing decisions before risking real money. Invstr lets aspiring investors learn and practice with Fantasy Finance, a virtual portfolio management game. Get smart with our huge wealth of educational resources, including an in-app investing course, daily podcasts, and live news and updates. When you’re ready, invest from just $5 with our commission-free brokerage and banking platform. Track and improve your performance with Stats, and get personalized investment picks with Portfolio Builder. It’s everything you need to invest confidently and take charge of your financial future today. Invstr also boasts a huge community of over 800,000 members. The social aspect of the app makes it unique in that our members can share updates and post to their feeds, send group or private messages, create private leagues to compete against friends and socialize all within the app, forming the first active investing community of its kind. Invstr was founded in 2013 by Kerim Derhalli, who created Invstr after seeing first-hand how a lack of knowledge and confidence bars individuals from starting to invest.
- CREAL — CREAL makes Hi-Fi light-field projector for smart eyewear which ultimately everyone will use everyday for everything from cooking to neurosurgery.
- Kizy Tracking — Kizy Tracking provides global supply chain visibility with real-time IoT data. Benefit from small size, long autonomy, low cost. Start tracking now!
David Nothacker is the Co-Founder & CEO at Sennder.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Spain, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Root Global — Root Global is the ClimateOS of the F&B industry. Turn emission reduction targets into reality, with verified data collection and quantifiable reduction levers all the way to your agricultural producers.
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.
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- Travel, Leisure, Tourism
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Appentura — Appentura is guide your friend on the phone by his personal surprise - the content you choose.
- 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.
Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Finance
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Versameb — Versameb AG is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company located in Basel, Switzerland managed by an experienced scientific and business pharmaceutical industry team. The company’s focus is the development of novel RNA-based therapeutics. Versameb’s proprietary VERSagile technology platform enables efficient development of functional mRNAmolecules for customized protein expression and modification in multiple disease areas with high unmet medical need.
- Enterprise Bot — Cost-effective Conversational AI solutions transforming customer interaction for global enterprises. Discover cutting-edge chat, email, and voice tech.
- Scientific Visual — Scientific Visual supplies quality control workstations to visualize defects in non-polished sapphire such as watch covers, ingots and wafers.
Ed B.
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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.
Robert Karsunky
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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.
Adrian Bührer
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Subscription Service, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
- UNOWN — Unown is a service and SaaS provider for the fashion industry. Our goal is to revolutionize the way we buy & sell clothing and thereby save 100,000 tons of CO2e every year. We believe that through our leasing, subscription and pre-loved services, we can use resources smarter and create higher value per asset.We enable brands to secure theirshare in the growing secondary markets. They lease out their assets through our revenue share model and get access to deep usage data. We enable customers to experience fashion with a completely new mindset. Our service allows them to rotate their wardrobe while maintaining an efficient and conscious lifestyle.
- Farmy.ch — Farmy.ch is an online marketplace for local and organic food, directly from farmers and food makers. It places a lot of importance on the selection of producers and its uncompromising focus on quality and transparency. The company smart logistics and own fleet and e-mobiles deliver these goods incomparably fresh, emission-reduced, and time-savingdirectly to users’ front doors with its own fleet of e-mobiles.Farmy.ch provides online retailing of fresh and local food products with more than 10'000 hand-picked products from more than 1'000 authentic producers. It also offers products include fruits and vegetables, cheeses from Swiss dairies, meat, delicacies, and sweet temptations from real bakers and confectioners, as well as pantry and drugstore items. Farmy.ch was founded in June 2014 by Roman Hartmann and Tobias Schubert and is based in
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.
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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
- Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about our WFM solution.
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