Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Switzerland in October 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Web3 startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Switzerland in October 2024
Investor | Web3 Switzerland investments |
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Soheila Yalpani | 5 |
Danny Hayes | 5 |
Stani Kulechov | 2 |
Zand Bank | 2 |
Ryan Selkis | 2 |
Hayden Adams | 2 |
Aly Madhavji | 2 |
Sam Lim | 2 |
Adrian Locher | 2 |
Tegan Kline | 2 |
Rahul Sethuram | 2 |
Marc P. Bernegger | 2 |
Alexander Pack | 1 |
Daniel Gutenberg | 1 |
Darian Shirazi | 1 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 1 |
Mainardo De Nardis | 1 |
Deniz Devrim Cengiz | 1 |
Adriant Harrison | 1 |
Catherine Wood | 1 |
Makoto Inoue | 1 |
Mike Demarais | 1 |
Joeri van Geelen | 1 |
Ajit Tripathi | 1 |
Dean Eigenmann | 1 |
Griff Green | 1 |
Tristan Frizza | 1 |
Kento Inami | 1 |
Private Accredited Group | 1 |
Matt Iannelli | 1 |
John O'Connor | 1 |
Paul Kim | 1 |
Guillaume Lestrade | 1 |
Professor, “Emeritus” Robert Dibble | 1 |
Ben Davey | 1 |
Anatoly Yakovenko | 1 |
Anatoly Yakovenko | 1 |
Ross Mason | 1 |
Phil Rubin | 1 |
Anna Rose | 1 |
Matias Woloski | 1 |
Lars Seier Christensen | 1 |
Alex Svanevik | 1 |
Mara Schmitman | 1 |
David Hoffmann | 1 |
Christian Edler | 1 |
Pascal Gauthier | 1 |
Aaron Choi | 1 |
Dennis Liu | 1 |
Anthony Pompliano | 1 |
oheila is an entrepreneur with C-team leadership experience on project management and pre-master planning of large-scale smart, resilient green infrastructure projects.
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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.
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.
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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.
Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
- RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Zand Bank - Co-Founder @ Asia Finance
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Zand — Zand Bank bridges TradFi and DeFi, empowering UAE and global corporate, institution and wealth clients to unlock infinite opportunities in the evolving digital economy
- Pier Wallet — Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Web3 offer great opportunities. To truly access it, you need a wallet. But selecting and investing into digital assets in your own wallet is complex, expensive and often feels unsafe. nobank makes DeFi and Web3 accessible for everyone. We offer the simplest and cheapest way to transact with digital assets by -drastically improving usability - offering financial products that generate yield or diversify your portfolio - building on multiple L2 blockchains - sharing our knowledge
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Agora — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.
- StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
Hayden Adams is founder of Uniswap, one of the most widely used decentralized applications built on Ethereum. Prior to Uniswap, Hayden was an engineer at Siemens. He graduated from Stony Brook University with a bachelor in engineering in 2016.
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Investment focus
- Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Funding Round
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
Aly Madhavji is the Blockchain Founders Fund's Managing Partner and a Consultant of United Nations. He is a Senior Blockchain Fellow of INSEAD and LP and Venture Partner at Loyal VC.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Yumi — Start selling to China in minutes. Join thousands of brands just like you and reach Chinese millennial consumers via WeChat social commerce.
- Dopamine — Dopamine provides decentralized finance for everybody, everywhere and is the first end-to-end user-centered crypto mobile app.
- web3intelligence — Build wealth and trust in the world of crypto with intelligent financial tools, data and infrastructure.
Sam Lim
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Investment focus
- Apps, Blockchain, Recruiting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- IMPRESSO — The place where recruiters search for authentic career profiles. Job seekers mint and save their career NFT. Save your NFT CV on the blockchain. Meet and connect with verified professionals on the Metaverse. Real identities, jobs and networking on IMPRESSO.
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 — At Altoida, we strive to radically change the method for assessing brain health through our comprehensive cognitive function tests and brain health app.
- 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.
Tegan Kline, Co-Founder and CEO at Edge & Node, working to make The Graph the Internet’s unbreakable foundation of open data to create a world powered by individual autonomy shared self-sovereignty and limitless collaboration. She was on the initial team that launched The Graph. The Graph is Edge & Node’s first protocol, an indexing andquery protocol organizing the world’s open blockchain data and making open data a public good. Tegan helps leaders and innovators connect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem. Tegan made Forbes 30 under 30’s class of 2022. The Information’s 30 Most Powerful People in Crypto List. Tegan Kline is the former International Business Development Manager and Investor Relations Lead for an A16z and Sequoia backed blockchain company that created tools and protocols for users to obtain digital freedom and an open and accessible internet. Tegan has launched 3 unicorns in her lifetime. Tegan began her career on Wall Street in Investment Banking at BAML and, prior to discovering blockchain, worked in Sales and Trading at Barclays.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- EthSign — EthSign is an e-signing platform that utilizes blockchain technology to offer a decentralized, customizable and transparent version of traditional signature service. EthSign aims to tackle data security issues caused by an over-reliance on centralized providers and build back trust in electronic signature services. With its Web3 technology(decentralized Identity, smart contract platforms and decentralized storage networks), the platform enables users to comment on, edit and access each version of an electronic agreement seamlessly and securely.
- Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
Rahul Sethuram - Partner @ Lone Wolf Partners
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Ethereum
- Funding Round, Seed
- Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
- WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
- LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.
Marc P. Bernegger is a Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder. Marc previously worked at Crypto Finance Group as a Founding Board Member (acquired by Deutsche Boerse). He attended the University of Zurich.
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Investment focus
- Events, Young Adults, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Altoida — At Altoida, we strive to radically change the method for assessing brain health through our comprehensive cognitive function tests and brain health app.
- Sandbox — We are an eclectic community of nomads, entrepreneurs, journalists, academics, politicians, artists, and indomitable misfits from over 100 countries. Together we seek to develop our authentic selves, form meaningful relationships, discover resources to live fulfilling lives, and to lead significant impact on the world around us.
- 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.
Alex Pack is a Founding Partner on the deal team at AngelList, the largest platform for early-stage tech investing in the world. Previously he was an investor with Arbor Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Hong Kong, where he focused on opportunities in cross-border FinTech, EdTech, and blockchain technology.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
- Affine — Alpine Empower Banking offers an exceptional financial solution designed to maximize your financial growth. With secure deposits and high yields, you can rest assured that your funds are protected while earning attractive returns. Additionally, Alpine Empower Banking provides convenient card benefits, ensuring easy access to your funds and a seamless banking experience.
- Non-fungible Technologies — We build financial platforms & infrastructure for the non-fungible asset class.
Daniel joined VI Partners in July 2003 as a Venture Partner focusing on IT. He started his career as Chairman and CEO of Gutenberg Communication Systems AG, a company he founded in 1991. Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in 2000, he became Country Manager of Telindus for Switzerland, Austria andHungary during the next two years, and he was also a member of the Executive Board. Since 2002 he has been taking consulting and advisory board assignments for various companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Noat — NOAT is a new dawn for nicotine users. The future has no place for chemicals that hurt your mouth and gums. Experience a nicotine product unlike any other.
- BOND — Get closer to the people and products behind your screen than ever before. Step inside creator wardrobes. Shop their edits. Swipe their curations. Be inspired. We're bringing you a new way to discover.
- Unique — Try Unique Finance GPT to increase productivity by automating manual workload through AI and ChatGPT solutions.
Darian Shirazi is the General Partner of Gradient Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Medmo — Medmo is an all-encompassing solution for providers to order, schedule, and track medical imaging appointments for their patients. Improve completion rates with less staff burden and lower costs.
- Resend — Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.
- Leya — By streamlining and simplifying legal workflows, we empower elite law firms and legal professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. Enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks and deliver exceptional results for their clients.
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
- RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
Mainardo de Nardis has been CEO of OMD Worldwide since 2009.OMD Worldwide is a leading global media communications agency, recognized for its global footprint, strategic integration and creative innovation. It has been acknowledged as Most Creative Media Agency by The Gunn Report for nine consecutive years; Adweek Global Media Agency of theYear for 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014; and the 2002, 2005, 2009 and 2011 Media Agency of the Year by Advertising Age.Prior to joining OMD he was CEO of both Aegis Media and Mediaedge:cia Worldwide. He was a co-founder of one of Italy’s “third wave” ad agencies before moving from advertising to media communications to start Medianetwork, Italy’s first media independent.Mainardo presided over the Cannes Festival’s Media Lions Jury in 2012 and sits on the Boards of Omnicom Media Group and the Ad Council. He resides in NY and London with his family.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- qiibee — Access world-class brands your customers love. Enhance customer loyalty by offering world-class brands and rewards from our marketplace that your customers love.
Deniz Devrim Cengiz
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
- Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
- Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
- Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
Adriant Harrison - Sr. Executive Vice President, Office of CEO @ TerraScale
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Consulting, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Mountain Gate — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Cathie registered ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”) as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2014. Prior to ARK, Cathie spent twelve years at AllianceBernstein as Chief Investment Officer of Global Thematic Strategies where she managed $5 billion. Cathie joined Alliance Capital from Tupelo CapitalManagement, a hedge fund she co-founded which, in 2000, managed $800 million in global thematic strategies. Prior to her tenure at Tupelo Capital, she worked for 18 years with Jennison Associates as Chief Economist, Equity Research Analyst, Portfolio Manager and Director. She started her career in Los Angeles, California at The Capital Group as an Assistant Economist. Cathie received her Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in Finance and Economics from the University of Southern California in 1981. In 2016, Cathie received the “Women in Finance – Outstanding Contribution Award” from Market Media.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Canada, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 21Shares — The simplest way to invest in the best performing asset class of the last decade using your existing bank or brokerage.
- Labelbox — A complete solution for taking control of your training data with fast labeling tools, human workforce, data management, a powerful API and automation features.
- mimik — mimik provides a hybrid edge cloud computing application development platform and business enablers for digital transformation. Developers and enterprises can achieve their business objectives without compromising time to market, cost, scalability, interoperability, data privacy and security, and being locked in proprietary technology stacks.mimik enables hybrid edge native application development that works across ecosystems of devices (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, QNX, Raspbian, OpenWRT and smart IoT freeRTOS sensors), networks, and any private and/or public cloud. The mimik platform is the fastest and most direct way of connecting siloed and fragmented applications from the edge with minimal reliance on middlemen. We can help enterprises save millions of dollars in legacy backend integration while reducing their ongoing operational costs through an edge-in approach. mimik enables systematic digital transformation for a sustainable digital economy to help enterprises secure business leadership in the hyper-connected world.
Makoto Inoue
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Investment focus
- Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Series A
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
Mike Demarais
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Investment focus
- Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Series A
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
Joeri van Geelen is the managing director of Prysm Group. It is an economic consulting firm led by Harvard PhD economists specialized in distributed ledger and blockchain technology. Taking a first-principles approach, Prysm Group uses the tools of contract theory, game theory, market design, social choice theory, and monetary economics to designcustomized solutions for distributed ledger technology and blockchain-based projects.Prysm Group’s areas of expertise include consortium governance, consensus governance, token economics, incentive design, and market structure. Prysm Group counts among its Senior Advisors former Chief Economist at Microsoft and Nobel Prize-winning Harvard economist; the firm’s research has been presented at DARPA, Federal Reserve, IBM, Microsoft, Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital, Harvard, MIT, NBER, and Stanford.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Portal — The only custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin. Swap native BTC, Ordinals, Runes with L2s and L1s
- IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
- Zest — Zest helps create and manage Investment DAOs, backed by a real-world LLC. We're a full-suite concierge, offering DAO tooling alongside back-office and compliance support. We remove the inherent complexities surrounding Investment DAOs so members can form a global community that compliantly coordinates capital to maximize investmentopportunities together.
Ajit Tripathi is a Head of Institutional Business at Aave.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Ethereum
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Singapore, India, France
Portfolio highlights
- Flint — Earn 13% p.a. stable returns by leveraging the power of crypto. Withdraw-able anytime without fees.
- Spark — Spark is a decentralized network that provides a predicate-based central limit order book.
- WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
Dean Eigenmann
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Apps
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Squid — Squid is a routing protocol that connects users and developers with cross-chain liquidity. It allows any token to be swapped between blockchains and unlocks access to apps across chains with a single click.
- FortyTwo — FortyTo is developing UX frontend technology for decentralized finance, enhancing user experience, promoting diversified token baskets, better yields, and affordable swap rates in the interchain ecosystem.
- DELV — Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets
Griff Green - Co-Founder @ The Commons Stack
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Finance, Communities
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- DoinGud — DoinGud is an NFT ecosystem focused on inspiring creativity & positive social impact. We empower individuals, communities, and brands to create, curate, collaborate, and connect with one another while generating positive impact for the world.
- PrimeDAO — PrimeDAO is an open finance system based on programmable money that is being realized on Ethereum. The company develops tools that transform Defi into a collaborative ecosystem.
Tristan Frizza
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Investment focus
- Blockchain
- Seed
- Switzerland
Kento Inami is the CEO/Founder at UXD Protocol.He attended University of California, Berkeley.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Elusiv — Elusiv offers compliance in mind with next-generation privacy solutions for a better Web3.
Private Accredited Group
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Investment focus
- Solar, Energy, Blockchain
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Canada, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Authena — Authena is an IoT and Blockchain platform used for traceability and authenticity protection of brands. With its platform, the company revolutionizes how brands of high-value goods protect their products and reputation against counterfeiting and reach unprecedented levels of end-user engagement. It protects product identity against counterfeit,product diversion, and fraud by gaining access to detailed customer insights and analytics and improving finances by limiting distribution costs and boosting direct-to-consumer sales.
- Pure Energies Group — PNG Info Org is committed to providing practical information pertinent to the finance industry. Click the link to gain insights and ideas.
Matt Iannelli previously served Netorian as CEO and Sr. systems engineer for over 11 years.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Sustainability, Project Management
- Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mountain Gate — 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.
Director of African Operations at IOHK, the blockchain development company behind Cardano. He previously worked as Head of Strategy and Communications at the Cardano Foundation. Cardano is a leading blockchain platform and cryptocurrency.
John graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
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Investment focus
- Computer, Software, Blockchain
- Funding Round
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
VP Product Strategy & Founder at Apvera
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Lending
- Seed
- Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bima Labs — Bima Labs provides Bitcoin-backed stable coins.
- aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
- Ion Protocol — Ion is an Open Source Protocol built to support Ethereum stakers and restakers, to unlock a world of new applications for their assets.
Guillaume Lestrade is the co-founder of Meero and Leeto.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Cryptr — Convert more B2B customers with our authentication SSO solution. A few lines of code to be SSO-ready, and you can start working with enterprise customers
- Abyssale — Abyssale is a banner creation platform enabling you to generate stunning social media & online advertising for your brand.
- Klub — Klub operates as a private wealth and private services platform.
Professor R. W. Dibble is the principal investigator of the Combustion Analysis group. His main area of research is the internal combustion engine. He is also the leading scientist behind the development of the Argon Power Cycle technology.Research Description:Laser diagnostics in turbulent reactive flows, generation of “green” fuels frombiomass, including ethanol and bioDiesel mitigation of greenhouse gases, highest efficiency and lowest pollution combustion of fuels derived from biomass, combustion issues related to global warming, conversion of waste heat to power via Organic Rankine Cycle ( ORC ), spectroscopy, chemical kinetics, turbulent combustion, optics and electronics. Combustion in turbine engines, combustion of oxygenates and biodeisel fuel in diesel engines. Combustion in new engine concept of Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI).
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Consulting, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, United States
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.
Ben Davey
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Travel
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, India, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- qiibee — Access world-class brands your customers love. Enhance customer loyalty by offering world-class brands and rewards from our marketplace that your customers love.
- LawAdvisor — because status quo no longer works
- Flexmoney — Flexmoney is to re-invent consumer credit as an instant digital service at the point of sale for lenders and merchants.
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
- SOON — SOON is building the highest throughput stack that allows for any SVM L2 to be deployed on any L1.
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
- SOON — SOON is building the highest throughput stack that allows for any SVM L2 to be deployed on any L1.
Created the Mule Project, Founded MuleSoft, gone public (MULE:NYSE). Work on their product direction, vision and strategy. Active investor and advisor.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- M3O — Next Generation Cloud Platform
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- DLT (short for data load tool) — Write any custom data source, achieve data democracy, modernise legacy systems and reduce cloud costs.
Phil Rubin is a Founder & Principal at Grey Space Matters.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- qiibee — Access world-class brands your customers love. Enhance customer loyalty by offering world-class brands and rewards from our marketplace that your customers love.
Anna Rose is the Co-Founder at zkValidator. She also the Strategic Advisor at Videopath.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Ethereum, Internet
- Series A, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Switzerland, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Portfolio highlights
- DeversiFi — DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet.Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need tomove fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.
- WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Spain, Brazil, Mexico
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- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
- Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
- Num Finance — Num Network offers businesses a fast way to scale operations in emerging markets with yield, loans and stablecoins.
Lars seier Christensen is the chief executive officer of Saxo Bank, an online trading and investment specialist that enables clients to trade forex, CFDs, stocks, futures, options, and other derivatives.
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- Software, Communities, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Switzerland, Japan
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- Paperflow — Paperflow is a company that developed a cloud-based system that, using artificial intelligence, scans and handles vouchers such as receipts or invoices so that the manual posting is done automatically.
- Concordium — Layer-1 Proof of Stake Blockchain, sustainable and science-proven with an ID layer to ease regulatory compliance. Fast and real finality with stable and low fees. Built for Defi, NFTs, and the metaverse.
- Wikifactory — Wikifactory's product development platform unifies teams in real-time, streamlines workflows, and accelerates time-to-market. Try it today.
Alex Svanevik is a Co-Founder & CEO of Nansen.
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- Blockchain, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Singapore, Vietnam
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- Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
- Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
Mara Schmitman - Manager @ Schmitman SAS
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Investment focus
- Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
- Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
David Hoffmann
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- Lending, Ethereum, Organic Food
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, United States
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- Hooray Foods — Hooray makes delicious plant-based meats that are designed to look, cook, and taste just like the real thing. Plants that remind us of our favorite meats while being made of ingredients we can feel good about? Now that's something to celebrate and say Hooray!
- Liquity — Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral.
Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
- Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
- Visual Layer — Visual Layer is a Tel Aviv based startup providing visual data management platform that scales to billion images and videos.
Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- Runes DEX — Runes DEX is the automated market maker for runes on the Bitcoin blockchain. Its platform allows users to create and trade meme-based tokens while also providing novel liquidity solutions and farming rewards.
- Original — Original is the #1 Digital Collectibles Platform empowering game studios and developers create entertaining experiences by integrating collectibles for games easily.
Aaron Choi
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Investment focus
- Computer, Software, Blockchain
- Funding Round
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
Dennis Liu
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Blockchain, Communities
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- SwissBorg — SwissBorg is revolutionizing wealth management services with a community-centric approach powered by blockchain technology. We are a wealthtech DAO offering Swiss-made crypto investment solutions to the world.
Anthony Pompliano currently works as an Entrepreneur and Investor for Pomp Investments. He previously worked at Morgan Creek Digital Assets as a Co-Founder and Partner. Anthony Pompliano attended Bucknell University.
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- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Mexico
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