Top 25 Travel Angel Investors in Switzerland in February 2025
A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Travel startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Travel Angel Investors in Switzerland in February 2025
Investor | Travel Switzerland investments |
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Paul Sevinç | 5 |
Myke Naf | 4 |
Adrian Locher | 2 |
Matteo Gamba | 2 |
Jürg Marquard | 2 |
Walter Güntensperger | 2 |
Teodoro D'Ambrosio | 2 |
Armin Meier | 2 |
Roland Brack | 2 |
Tobias Reichmuth | 2 |
Jose Marin | 1 |
Jürg Schäppi | 1 |
Georg Bauser | 1 |
Chris Sukornyk | 1 |
Morten Lund | 1 |
Reto Graf | 1 |
Dr. Cornelius Boersch | 1 |
Dr. Li Wu | 1 |
Fabio Cannavale | 1 |
Loic Amado | 1 |
Fabrice Grinda | 1 |
Bettina Hein | 1 |
Marco Valta | 1 |
Jose Marin | 1 |
Yuri Gurski | 1 |
Paul E Sevinç is Co-Founder & CTO at Doodle.
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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.
Myke Naf is the Managing Partner of Übermorgen Ventures.He attended University of St.Gallen.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Yokoy — Yokoy automates spend management for medium and large enterprises with artificial intelligence, combining expense management, supplier invoice management, and smart corporate cards into one single intuitive platform. In March 2019, Yokoy Group AG was created as Expense Robot GmbH.
- Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
- Frontify — Best-in-class software for simplifying brand management through a platform that connects everything (and everyone) important to the growth of your brand.
Adrian Locher is the Founder, CEO and General Partner of Merantix. He Kausa as a Board Member.Adrian Locher attended the University of St.Gallen.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Altoida — Altoida is creating a new gold standard in brain health with Precision Neurology. We're radically transforming the method for measuring brain function and diagnosing neurological disease, using just your smartphone or tablet.Our products are backed by more than 20 years of innovative research in digital biomarkers, augmented reality (AR),and artificial intelligence (AI).Altoida received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in July 2021. Our first device is a Computerized Cognitive Assessment Aid that is classified as Class II, 510(k) exempt.
- Crypto Finance (Asset Management) AG — Unser Asset Management Team bietet qualifizierten und institutionellen Anlegern einen sicheren und transparenten Zugang zum Crypto Asset Markt. Kontaktieren Sie uns!
- Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.
Matteo leads the product teams taking care of Payments & Fraud at Wayfair, one of the top e-commerce retailers selling furniture and home goods in North America and Europe. Before Wayfair, he led the product function for the growth teams at (Transfer)Wise.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Series A
- United Kingdom, Italy, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Kroo — B-Social is a financial technology company that develops innovative services for a new generation of customers.It aims to make personal and social finances move at the speed of life. The fintech company builds an app that intuitively connects personal finances with their customers' social world, making it easy for them and their friends tobuy, track, and shares the experiences that bring them closer.Nazim Valimahomed and Tim Brown formed the company in 2016 in London, England.
- GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
- Chip — Get the best savings rates brought to you and smash your savings goals automatically with Chip. Join over 400,000 savers today. We're building the best savings accounts in the world for you, with you.
Jürg Marquard
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Investment focus
- Travel, Rental, Leisure
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Walter Güntensperger - CEO @ Active Travel
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Travel, Tourism
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- TrekkSoft — The leading online booking solution for day tour companies. Use a centralised booking system that connects your online and offline sales channels to simplify back-end booking management.
Teodoro D'Ambrosio is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Biocentis. He previously worked at Hotelscan as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Teodoro D'Ambrosio attended the University of Trieste.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Automotive, Marketplace
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- HAPPYCAR — As a metasearch engine HAPPYCAR offers customers an extended transparency of offers showing insurance packages, kilometer fees and one-way fees, among many others. By providing an easy, user-friendly booking process and a free customer service hotline in case any questions arise, they ensure that their customers can enjoy a hassle free rental cartrip. To conclude, customers benefit from HAPPYCAR by saving time and money.HAPPYCAR (www.happycar.de) is one of the fastest growing online car rental companies in Europe. HAPPYCAR is operating within the tourism sector as a meta-search engine for rental cars. Their goal is to provide the best prices for rental cars worldwide, while comparing all offers of their partners. To achieve this, HAPPYCAR has access to more than 1.000 car rental companies for eight countries through Europe and worldwide destinations – further expansion is going on.
- SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
- CarPrice.ru — CarPrice is the largest online auctioneer for second-hand cars in Russia, providing buyers with free online valuations in mere seconds. More than 4,000 dealers from across the country can then determine the best price during an average 30-minute online bidding process to complete auctions.Within a year from being set up, CarPrice became a topthree Russian used car seller operating from more than 20 locations including Moscow, St. Petersburg and the regions. CarPrice achieved this position while an adverse economic environment translated into a 40% drop in new car sales in Russia. The Company intends to increase total monthly auctions from 4,000 currently to 10,000 until the end of 2015.The company's Round B was adjudged as "Deal of the Year" by Venture Awards Russia 2015 (investors included Baring Vostok Capital Partners & Almaz Capital).
Armin Meier - Managing Partner @ Boyden
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Travel, Tourism
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- TrekkSoft — The leading online booking solution for day tour companies. Use a centralised booking system that connects your online and offline sales channels to simplify back-end booking management.
Roland Brack - Mr. @ Ziano
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Investment focus
- Travel, SaaS, Rental
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Neon — Neon is an independent Swiss mobile account.
- Appentura — Appentura is guide your friend on the phone by his personal surprise - the content you choose.
- Kollabo — Kollabo - the deep job platform for skilled blue collar workers. Thanks to our large network of temporary offices & our qualified team, we excel at finding the perfect match for job seekers and staffing agencies. Never before has the recruiting process been so easy and hassle-free for everyone involved. The goal is to digitally enable allstakeholder, generating a win-win-win situation. It can be that simple with Kollabo – We make work easy.
Tobias Reichmuth - Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder @ Maximon
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Firstcar — Firstcar provides car driving learning assistant services. They offer services that include hand-picked driving schools, student cars with double pedals for rent before and for the driving test, entry-level vehicles that are inexpensive to buy and maintain, support and advice on vehicle purchase, and selected insurances with special rates.
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Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
- Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
- Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.
Juerg Schaeppi is chairman and founding partner of 2Xideas. He is also a founding partner and principal shareholder of Bellevue Group AG, a Swiss securities firm primarily active in brokerage, corporate finance and asset management. Since 1998 he has been active as an investor and an independent director on the boards of several Hedge Funds,including the Voltaire Fund, the Zadig Fund, diverse Funds within the Henderson ( ex-Gartmore) umbrella, as well as the Ratio, Montpelier and Verrazzano funds.He managed Bank am Bellevue as Chief Executive Officer for a ten year period from 2000-2010. Prior to Bellevue, Juerg Schaeppi was employed as an investment banker by S.G. Warburg in Geneva as well as Julius Baer and Citicorp in Zurich. Juerg holds a degree from the Hochschule St. Gallen (lic.oec) and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Massachusetts.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Travel, Tourism
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- TrekkSoft — The leading online booking solution for day tour companies. Use a centralised booking system that connects your online and offline sales channels to simplify back-end booking management.
Georg Bauser is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Expansion Partner, an internationalization consultancy. Before he spent 4.5years as Director of Operations at Airbnb, an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations around the world.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Hospitality, Rental Property
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
Chris Sukornyk is the founder of Disco.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Tourism, Real Estate
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Emerald Stay — Emerald Stay is a prop-tech and hospitality firm that is transforming second-home rentals.We target, acquire, optimize and grow vacation rental managers earning between €250k and €1.5mm per year.We then integrate them in our tried-and-tested technology, operations and distribution umbrella, while continuing to grow their brand in their localdestinations.BEST LEISURE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY at the 2021 worldwide Shortyz awards.
Morten Lund is a serial entrepreneur based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has founded or co-invested in more than 100 high-tech startups in the last 15 years. These include Skype, ZYB, Polar Rose (facial recognition), Bullguard, Tradeshift, AirHelp and itembase. Lund was declared bankrupt in January 2009 from the aftermath of his stalled freenewspaper venture Nyhedsavisen. He announced he was out of bankruptcy in April 2010 and started to rebuild. He has spoken multiple times on failing. With his experiences of never having to look at price tags to riding the subway to events and having his possessions taken away. Since bankruptcy, Lund has had a particular interest in Financial Tech companies. His most notable venture being Tradeshift and later Capital Aid. After seeing first hand the effects of the economic downturn, Lund sees finance as an industry ripe for disruption. Tradeshift's most recent round raised $75 million from Scentan Ventures in February 2014. Lund stays composed and grounded to his startup roots. He works tirelessly on the onlyXO network of companies. His portfolio has an interesting blend of finance, consumer protection, commerce and social companies. The exciting fundXO venture which aims to bring finance to the startup ecosystem is launching soon.Lund creates a synergy amongst his portfolio with partnerships appearing between companies such as Tradeshift and Capital Aid. Some of the onlyXO companies came into existence through solving a particular pain point Lund felt as an investor. pitchXO is one of these companies which gave Lund the answer to what happens to his PDF documents after he sends them through email.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Travel
- Angel, Series A, Seed
- United States, France, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Valuer —
- Ocast — Ocast is an innovative SaaS platform that provides media publishers with an easy to edit, real-time compatible, digital media kit, and advertising page. For advertisers, the platform is a crystal ball to potential business all in one place. Ocast is also available for influencers, influencer networks, media agencies, and PR agencies. Thecompany's goal is to deliver quality technology to the advertising and media industry that have never seen before, an open and dynamic media information platform. It works with global leading brands such as eBay Classifieds, Discovery, Bauer Media Sweden, IDG, and Spotify for Brands.Ocast was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Itembase — Leading Companies use Itembase to onboard merchants across Commerce Systems with enterprise-grade integration and scalability features.
Reto Graf - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ EAT.ch
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Travel, Tourism
- Seed
- France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Somm'it — Restaurant profits are low. Somm’It thinks beverages are the main driver for profit within restaurants, but are not leveraged enough because of management complexity, lack of tools, skills, and expertise.Somm’It is the automated sommelier for every restaurant. Restaurants can also optimize the management of beverages through data intelligence,easy stock management, dynamic purchasing, and reliable, in real-time management of the wine lists.
- TrekkSoft — The leading online booking solution for day tour companies. Use a centralised booking system that connects your online and offline sales channels to simplify back-end booking management.
Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
- Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
- Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Dr. Li Wu is a renowned health research scientist and founder of Ringier AG-backed Virtusan.
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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.
Loïc Amado is the founder of Loic Amado. Loic Amado attended Harvard Business School Executive Education in 2018.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Leisure, Tourism
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Viatu — Discover conscious travel through expertly curated trips & free carbon offsetting. Explore sustainable destinations & stays and book your entire itinerary in one place!
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
- OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
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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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.
Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry.
As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MIRA BEAUTY™ — KASIRJUDI Situs Togel Online Pasaran Hk,Sgp,Cambodia Dan Toto Macau Lengkap dengan Prediksi Togel Online Hari ini
- SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
- Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.
Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
- Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
- Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.
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.
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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.
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