# Top 25 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Switzerland in May 2026

## GoBeyond
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Medical, Software

GoBeyond is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small and large, novice to experienced investors. It offers a unique deal platform, portfolio tools, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services, training and certified deal leaders.Its clients are individuals, familyoffices, professional groups and corporations. It is active in the EU, Switzerland and the US. GoBeyond also offers educational training modules for angel investors in 11 categories.

## Wingman Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

We dedicate our know-how, experience and energy to the new generation of startup founders, helping them navigate the skies on their way to success.

## Serpentine Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Automotive

Serpentine Ventures (SERV) is the investment arm of the Swiss startup group. Serpentine refers to the meandering roads found across the Swiss Mountains. Unreachable mountain peaks become accessible by following the serpentine path.

## Zürcher Kantonal Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology

Zürcher Kantonalbank - as an independent, incorporated public-law institution - is wholly owned by the canton of Zurich.

## Technology Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Grant
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Energy

Climate protection through innovative technologies.
The Technology Fund offers loan guarantees to Swiss companies whose novel products contribute to a sustainable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions

## Lakestar
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund.
The company has expandedand broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London.Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.

## LETA Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Our goal as an investment firm is to deliver high returns to our investors by financing improvements in the world through IT and new technologies.

## VI Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Altendorf, Schwyz, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device

VI Partners are Venture Capitalists successfully financing outstanding teams and innovations in the Healthcare and Technology space since 20 years.

## TRUMPF Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ditzingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Artificial Intelligence

The corporate venture capital arm TRUMPF Venture extends TRUMPF’s comprehensive activities to promote innovation and to detect disruptive technologies and business models early on. TRUMPF is the world technological and market leader for machine tools used in flexible sheet metal processing as well as industrial lasers. TRUMPF Venture investsglobally in early-stage start-ups active in areas complementary or adjacent to the TRUMPF core, such as Advances Photonics and Smart Factory. Funded start-ups benefit from an extensive network, deep domain knowhow, proven skills in scalability as well as support to access the TRUMPF group and its ecosystem. The requirements for a potential investment are a strategic fit, a high innovation leverage and differentiation in business model or technology, an experienced management team and risk adequate financial returns.

## Solvay Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle, Chemical

Solvay Ventures is the Venture Capital arm of Solvay through a 100 millions $ evergreen fund.

## Next47
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology

Next47 is a $1.2 billion independent, global venture firm backed by Siemens AG. We specialize in enterprise-focused businesses, make fast decisions and share deep conviction with the teams we invest in. We have the resources and the motivation to unleash maximum potential in every startup we work with. We leverage our own global footprint as wellas the Siemens ecosystem that spans a broad set of industries across hundreds of countries and regions worldwide.

## Block.one
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: George Town, Midland, Cayman Islands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology

Block.one is a blockchain software company that offers technology and products to help people architect integrity into our world.

## Samsung Catalyst Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware

Samsung Catalyst fosters innovation through guidance, expertise and connections, transforming innovative ideas into world-changing products at scale.

## Notion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

## TR Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tafers, Fribourg, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Apps

Private Investment Company

## Redalpine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Redalpine is one of the leading European Venture Capital investors with a focus on highly scalable start-ups. The firm's mission is to help talented entrepreneurs turn an ambitious vision into reality by providing money, experience, coaching, and a strong network. The firm is focused on seed and early-stage investments in disruptivetechnologies in tech and health tech.
Redalpine launched its first fund (Redalpine Capital I) in 2007, following the founding partners’ track record of some excellent trade sales and IPOs as serial entrepreneurs and professional angel investors. In 2021 Redalpine closed its sixth fund (Redalpine Capital VI) and currently has approx. USD 1 Billion in AUM. The highly interdisciplinary Redalpine team supports more than 70 portfolio companies with operational and sector-specific expertise and with a rich international network.Redalpine started with its first fund (Redalpine Capital I) in 2007 based on the track-record of some excellent trade-sales and IPOs as serial entrepreneurs and professional angel investors. Redalpine sucessfully launched Redalpine Capital II in 2012 and Redalpine Capital III in 2016. The funds are registered in Luxemburg and backed by dozens of experienced entrepreneurs and investors representing various countries, and a broad range of industries.

## Smac Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Unterhaching, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Wireless

Smac Partners focused on early-stage ICT technologies and services of start-ups. The investment geographies are mainly Europe and Israel, with leverage of a global network.The secondary investments provide highly flexible customised solutions to optimise the value of single assets or entire portfolios of corporate and institutional venturecapital companies.In 2001 they started with Siemens Mobile Acceleration as a corporate venture arm of Siemens Mobile. In 2006 they performed a secondary transaction of the total Siemens fund with the new name Tempo Park Fund 1. smac | partners advises the fund with originally more than 30 ICT early-stage investments in the USA, Asia, Europe and Israel.In 2007 smac partners executed a typical tail-end secondary venture capital transaction by acquiring a portfolio from Vertex Venture Capital, Israel. This fund, smac partners Fund II, comprises nine ICT portfolio companies.In 2008 smac partners closed its third fund in 3 years, smac partners Fund III, and so far has acquired stakes in 10 ICT-companies in Finland, Israel and USA.Their exceptional background and remarkable global network in the ICT industry and relevant communities substantially underpins smac | partners’ passion for “leading entrepreneurs to success”.

## Verve Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

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.

## AXA Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

AVP invests in enterprise software, fintech/insurtech, digital health, and consumer tech, as well as other relevant technologies.

## Stratasys
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: 3D Technology, 3D Printing, Robotics

Stratasys is a maker of additive manufacturing machines for prototyping and producing plastic parts. The company markets under the brands uPrint and Dimension 3D Printers and Fortus Production 3D Printers. The company also operates RedEye On Demand, a digital manufacturing service for prototypes and production parts. Stratasys manufactures 3Dprinters for Hewlett Packard, which it sells under the brand Designjet3D. In 2011 Stratasys acquired 3D printer maker Solidscape Inc. According to Wohlers Report 2011, Stratasys had a 41 percent market share in 2010, and has been the unit market leader for the ninth consecutive year. Stratasys patented and owns the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM®) process. The process creates functional prototypes and manufactured goods directly from any 3D CAD program, using high-performance industrial thermoplastics. The company holds more than 285 granted or pending additive manufacturing patents globally. Stratasys products are used in the aerospace, defense, automotive, medical, business and industrial equipment, education, architecture, and consumer-product industries.

## Tamedia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Tamedia’s digital holdings are grouped under the umbrella of Tamedia Digital. They pursue ambitious goals: they see ourselves as a growth driver for the entire group and aim to further accelerate the digital transformation.

## EOS VC Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Gaming

Galaxy Digital is a NYC-based multi-strategy investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology.

## ACE & Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage.
ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.

## A3 Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Medical, Robotics, Marketing

A3 Angels provide support to alumni of Swiss engineering or business schools who want to launch technology companies. Investors pool individual seed investments. A3 Angel provides support in the form of a deal flow, screening, due diligence support, administrative support and investor or mentoring education. We typically look at 50 entrepreneurapplications every year and perform due diligence on 10. We also provide start-ups with a network of 600 EPFL alumni who have interest in our entrepreneurial activities in Switzerland and abroad. A3 Angels was founded in 2008 by EPFL alumni in order to support entrepreneurial efforts in the field of high-technology in Suisse Romande. A portfolio of 30 companies has been supported by 60 members who delivered over 200 hours/year of mentoring to entrepreneurs. A3 Angels also contributed to more than 3M CHF seed investments in syndicates with other regional business angel networks.

## Bâloise Holding
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Service Industry, Information Technology, Automotive

Bâloise Holding provides insurance and pension solutions. Bâloise Holding offers various non-life insurance products, including accident, health, general liability, motor, fire and other property, marine, credit protection, and legal expenses insurance. Bâloise Holding was founded on 1863 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

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