# Top 15 Biotech Angel Investors in Switzerland in October 2023

## Penny Schiffer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Finance

Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai

## Patrick Delarive
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Security, Wireless, Wearables

Patrick is a businessman active in real estate, wealth management, show business, hospitality, education and private equity, benefiting from a strong network. At Biowatch since November 2015.

## John Zimmer
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Mining, FinTech, Mineral

John Zimmer is the co-founder and President of Lyft, the on-demand ridesharing platform, that was founded in 2007 with Zimride as its first of two products built to create a more social, sustainable and affordable transportation system. John’s interest in peer-to-peer transportation began at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration. Uponlearning that only 20% of seats in cars on highways are occupied, he began working on ways to use existing information infrastructures to solve the problem of unused empty seats. After graduating first in his class, John spent two years at Lehman Brothers before (luckily) leaving to rideshare his way from New York to San Francisco to join co-founder Logan Green in launching Zimride. John was recognized in 2009 as one of Businessweek's Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25, and has spoken at top tier events such as SXSW, The Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT) International Conference and Stanford Business School. With Lyft, John hopes to fix the current state of transportation across the country, and eventually around the world, to make cities safer, more affordable and better connected. Since unveiling the product in June 2012, Lyft has quickly become one of the fastest-growing tech companies with more than $80 million raised from leading investors Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund and has been featured in The Economist, the New York Times and on NBC’s TODAY Show. Lyft is currently available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, Chicago, Boston and Washington, D.C., with more than a million rides shared on the platform to date.

## Thorsten Schroeder
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Electronics, Children, Life Science

Thorsten Schroeder

## Alexsis de Raadt-St. James
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Alexsis is the Founder and Managing Partner of Merian Ventures, an early-stage venture firm focused on investing in women founded, co-founded and majority-owned companies in the US and UK. Alexsis has extensive investment, venture and operations experience based on businesses she has founded or funded. As managing partner of Merian Ventures since2015, Alexsis serves as a Board Member and Advisor to Merian Venture portfolio companies Provenance, Pivigo, Populus, Honeycomb, ImpactVision, CareerLark, Cirrus Identity and Compaas, among others. Merian Ventures was named after Maria Sibylla Merian, a botanist, entrepreneur and intrepid traveler born in 1647. In addition to Merian Ventures, Alexsis is a US-UK Fulbright Commissioner; Board member of the Oxford Internet Institute; Board member of The Oxford Foundry; Founder and funder of the WEInnovate STEM accelerator for Women at Imperial College, London; and Board Member and Advisor to companies she's funded. Alexsis is also Chairman and Founder of The Althea Foundation, established in 2003 as a family office. Today, The Althea Foundation is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation and it is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a public charity described in Internal Revenue Code Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1).

## Ulf Claesson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage

Ulf Claesson

## Tej Tadi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Robotics, Neuroscience

Tej Tadi is an Electronics Engineer and has pursued an advanced master in Virtual Reality & Computer Graphics at The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland. During his PhD (EPFL), he set up an immersive virtual reality system in combination with state-of-the-art brain imaging technologies enabling trans-disciplinary work incognitive psychology, neuroimaging, and virtual reality. His research has led to important and highly visible scientific publications (Science) and awards (Pfizer Award for Neuroscience in 2009). Through his research, he has built a strong multi-disciplinary base spanning computer science, systems biology, neuroimaging, and computational and cognitive neuroscience. He founded MindMaze in 2011 to design and develop novel applications in Neuro-Rehabilitation, Game training & Interfaces. The technology platform from MindMaze will help in the neurology, psychiatry and sports rehabilitation.

## Emily Leproust
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Product Research

As an early pioneer in long DNA synthesis, Emily is poised to accelerate the biofactory market. She and co-founder Bill Peck share the world record for synthesizing the longest, highest quality oligo library. Emily architected the successful SureSelect product line which lowered the cost of sequencing and elucidated dozens of mendelian diseases,and she developed Agilent’s Oligo Library Synthesis technology. Emily has co-authored over 34 peer-reviewed papers—many on synthetic DNA—and has extensive marketing, management, and business development experience. Prior to Twist Bioscience, Emily was Director of Applications and Chemistry R&D—Genomics at Agilent Technologies.

## Lukas Speiser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Nutrition, Health Care

Lukas Speiser is the founder and CEO of Amorana.ch

## Nicolas Mermod
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Science and Engineering

Nicolas Mermod

## Arda Kara
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software

Arda Kara

## Feike Sijbesma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Product Research

Feike has been the CEO and Chairman of the Managing Board of Directors of Royal DSM N.V. (a global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company) since May 2007. In 1995, Feike became director of Gist-Brocades Food Specialties Division and joined Gist-Brocade’s executive committee. Following the acquisition by Royal DSM N.V. in 1998, he became adirector of the business group DSM Food Specialties. In 2000 he joined Royal DSM’s managing board of directors, becoming Chairman and CEO in May 2007.He is currently a member of the supervisory board of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB, the Dutch Central Bank), and a board member of CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council) and member of the Global CEO Council (GCC) of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC).His previous roles have included member of the Supervisory Board of DSM Netherlands, the Utrecht University, the Dutch Genomics Initiative (NGI) and the Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek Hospital/Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI/AVL), chairman of Chemical Governors and a Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, Dutch Food Chain Sustainability Foundation (DUVO) and of EuropaBio (European Biotech Association), a member of the Dutch Innovation Platform 2.0, board member of BIO (US Biotechnology Association), the Swiss Society of Chemical Industries (SCGI) and the Dutch Nutrition/Food Top-Institute (WCFS) and a member of the advisory board of ECP-EPN (e-commerce) and the Rotterdam Business School of the Erasmus University.

## Reinhard Ambros
- Type: Angel
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical

Reinhard Ambros

## Walter Fischl
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

Walter Fischl

## Beat Schillig
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Music

Beat Schillig - Founder @ Venture Kick

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