Top 10 Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Venture capital startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026
| Investor | Venture Capital Switzerland investments |
|---|---|
| 3wVentures | 2 |
| Fredrik Jung Abbou | 1 |
| Yves Latour | 1 |
| Square One Foods | 1 |
| Siddhi Capital | 1 |
| Ecosystem Ventures | 1 |
| Revent | 1 |
| Ingo Drexler | 1 |
| EQT Ventures | 1 |
| BackBone Ventures | 1 |
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.
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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:
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- 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.
Fredrik Jung Abbou is a CCO & Co-founder of KRY.
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- Food and Beverage, Apps, Grocery
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Kenya, Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
- HackCapital — Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system
- Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
Yves Latour is the Co-Founder of 3wVentures. Yves Latour attended the University of St.Gallen.
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Investment focus
- Software, Search Engine, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany
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- Verve Ventures — 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.
- PresseTrends.com — What is happening today, this week or this month? Which people matter, what major events are taking place or which organizations are acting? These questions are topic in news and weekly magazines and can be found answered on www.pressetrends.com where the German speaking press can be searched.
- Uberchord — Uberchord offers a mobile, interactive learning experience that is new, effective and motivating.Unlike competing products, like Yousician, JoyTunes or Flowkey, Uberchord's unique audio analysis technology is able to understand precisely what the user plays - even down to single finger mistakes within complex chords. This was unheard ofpreviously to Uberchord's new technology.As a result exercises can adapt automatically to the users needs and show them exactly how to improve. Further, Uberchord teaches musical understanding instead of mere note reproduction.Guitar is the first instrument Uberchord addresses, but technology and concept are applicable to any other instrument.
Square One Foods supports founders in building tomorrow's food brands and food tech startups...
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Pet, Food Delivery
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- HackCapital — Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system
- Epigenics — Epigenics supports health with the latest findings from Longevity research.
- HelloBello — HelloBello offers freshly cooked and cooled delivered human-grade food tailored to each dog’s nutritional needs. HelloBello is a PetTech company with a strong focus on the German speaking markets (for now). HelloBello’s personalized meals are free of any by-products and are portioned, packaged, and delivered directly to your door. By working with aspecialized veterinarian, HelloBello is able to derive each dog’s exact nutritional needs based on a proprietary algorithm. The recipes are made of natural sources like millet and seaweed, instead of heavy use of supplements, which makes it easier for the dog to absorb and get true nutritional benefits.Our credo in German is " ... Frisch. Individuell. Geliefert. - Frischfutter ist einfach besser ..."
Siddhi Capital is the growth equity partner for convention-crushing food and beverage companies.
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- Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, Canada
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- Brevel — Brevel is leading the way with its breakthrough fermentation technology, offering delicious, affordable and sustainable protein.
- Lembas — Lembas is redefining nutrition for the GLP-1 era. We craft natural, functional foods designed to work with biology - not against it. Our formulations are built for focus, recovery, and longevity, empowering a new generation of eaters to nourish smarter, not more. Explore how Lembas is re-engineering food for a world where better health begins within.
- Chef Robotics — Chef Robotics | Empowering Humans to Do What They Do Best
Ecosystem Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital, offers investment and strategic consulting services to seed-stage companies.
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- Mobile Apps, Internet, Advertising
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Switzerland
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- GeoIQ.io — ML-ready location data and no-code AI for fintech
- SpeEdLabs — SpeEdLabs is to provide a top-notch, technology-based Learning and Practice platform to students at an affordable price, thus empowering every student to grow into their full potential.
- Mindler — Discover your perfect career, stream, college & course with India's leading career counsellors. Career counselling & guidance programs for school, college students & graduates.
Revent is a tech fund backing purpose-driven founders addressing the biggest challenges of our time.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom, France
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- Perry — Turn complex technical knowledge into usable, step-by-step instructions with Perry. Improve safety, efficiency and workforce flexibility with AI.
- ScienceMachine — Revolutionize your scientific research with AI-powered data analysis. ScienceMachine makes your work 100 times faster and more efficient | Science Machine Inc.
- NetZeroNitrogen — Synthetic nitrogen fertilizer is estimated to contribute 1 billion+ tonnes of CO2e annually to global warming!
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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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, Austria
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- Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
- Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
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EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totaling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early-stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris, and San Francisco, taking a locals-with-locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Sweden, United States
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- Peanut App — Whether you're navigating fertility, pregnancy, motherhood or menopause, Peanut is a safe space to ask questions, find support and connect with other women.
- Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.
- Strawberry — Strawberry is an agentic browser with built-in, personalized AI companions.
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.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany, Israel
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- 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.
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