Top 35 Community Angel Investors in Switzerland in October 2023
Top 35 Community Angel Investors in Switzerland in October 2023
| Investor | Community Switzerland investments |
|---|---|
| Ralph Gygax | 5 |
| Werner Hoffmann | 4 |
| Joachim Schoss | 2 |
| Fabio Cannavale | 1 |
| Pascal Meyer | 1 |
| .. .. | 1 |
| Peter Kessel | 1 |
| Adrian Bührer | 1 |
| Jordan Ellis | 1 |
| Andreas Buhl | 1 |
| Griff Green | 1 |
| Ronald Strässler | 1 |
| Christian Wanner | 1 |
| Roland Brack | 1 |
| Idris Ayodeji Bello | 1 |
| Dominique Locher | 1 |
| Mattias Ljungman | 1 |
| Bettina Hein | 1 |
| Fritz Mumenthaler | 1 |
| Marc P. Bernegger | 1 |
| Bruno Glaus | 1 |
| Ivo Petrov | 1 |
| David Studer | 1 |
| Edouard Lambelet | 1 |
| Siraj Khaliq | 1 |
| Paul Sevinç | 1 |
| Myke Naf | 1 |
| Dennis Liu | 1 |
| Jürg Marquard | 1 |
| Andrea Jansen | 1 |
| Roland Zeller | 1 |
| Stefan Brunner | 1 |
| Dario Fazlic | 1 |
| Sandeep Nailwal | 1 |
| Daniel Gutenberg | 1 |
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Ralph Gygax is a Chief Administrative Officer at SWISS Gate AG. He attended KV, SVIT from 1999 to 2007.
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- Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- SWISS Gate AG — SWISS Gate AG is a family-run Swiss company founded in November 2019 by brothers Dominic, Marco & Michael Hoffmann with the support of their father Werner Hoffmann and uncle Ralph Gygax.SWISS Gate AG focuses with its positioning on the areas of Lifestyle & Wellbeing. The offered product assortment ranges from CBD Anti-Aging and Day Creamsto Skin Creams as well as Shampoo, Shower Gel or Conditioner to Hemp Foods like Hemp Tea or Hemp Seed Oils to CBD Hemp Flowers to CBD Hemp Oil for humans and animals.SWISS Gate AG exclusively distributes its products of the company-owned brands Herbalea and Old Donald's through selected resellers as well as through the company-owned e-commerce channel cbuy.ch - Alles Gute aus Cannabis.SWISS Gate AG manufactures all products together with exclusive partners from the cosmetics, food & consumer goods industry and has the exclusive production & distribution rights over the products.SWISS Gate AG has launched its Series A financing round in mid-September 2021 with the goal to raise CHF 5'000'000. Currently, CHF 200,000 of this amount has been raised. The financing round is currently open - interested parties can contact CEO Marco Hoffmann directly via the contact details.
Professional experience: Expert for Risk Management and Public Relations Strategic & operational responsibility Compliance & Safety Management Decades of leadership experience as colonel & professional military pilot in the Swiss Air Force
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- Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- SWISS Gate AG — SWISS Gate AG is a family-run Swiss company founded in November 2019 by brothers Dominic, Marco & Michael Hoffmann with the support of their father Werner Hoffmann and uncle Ralph Gygax.SWISS Gate AG focuses with its positioning on the areas of Lifestyle & Wellbeing. The offered product assortment ranges from CBD Anti-Aging and Day Creamsto Skin Creams as well as Shampoo, Shower Gel or Conditioner to Hemp Foods like Hemp Tea or Hemp Seed Oils to CBD Hemp Flowers to CBD Hemp Oil for humans and animals.SWISS Gate AG exclusively distributes its products of the company-owned brands Herbalea and Old Donald's through selected resellers as well as through the company-owned e-commerce channel cbuy.ch - Alles Gute aus Cannabis.SWISS Gate AG manufactures all products together with exclusive partners from the cosmetics, food & consumer goods industry and has the exclusive production & distribution rights over the products.SWISS Gate AG has launched its Series A financing round in mid-September 2021 with the goal to raise CHF 5'000'000. Currently, CHF 200,000 of this amount has been raised. The financing round is currently open - interested parties can contact CEO Marco Hoffmann directly via the contact details.
Mr. Schoss has a history of founding successfulcompanies, including TellSell Consulting and Telcare, which merged with Sykes Enterprises. In 2004 his latest company, Scout24, was acquired by T-Online for $221 million. He was named 2002’s “Business Angel of the Year†in Switzerland.In addition to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Mr. Schoss also has extensive investment experience, going back to the 1990s. From 2000-2003, he was the Chief Excecutive for Beisheim Holding Schweiz, and is currently the cornerstone investor of 6S Capital, a quantitative hedge fund firm.Mr.Schoss is President of the charitable foundation MyHandicap.com, and the Chapter Chair of the Young Presidents Organisation in Zurich.Source:
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- Internet, Social Media, Music
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- HAUSGOLD — HAUSGOLD is a fast-growing property technology company that provides assistance in all matters relating to the real estate sale. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
- iMusician — iMusician offers music distribution, promotion, mastering, and monetization for independent musicians & labels. Get on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, TikTok & many more.
- CareerLunch — CareerLunch is a recruitment platform that pairs potential hires with employees through informal exchanges over lunch. It was founded in 2019 by Simon Hofer and Konstantin Nesterov.
Pascal Meyer Loutre in chief @ QoQa
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- Rental, Social
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
.. .. - Co-founder and CEO @ Bond Mobility
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- Rental, Social
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
Peter Kessel
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- Software, Analytics, InsurTech
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Sustema — Sustema behavioural analytics enables commercial insurers to analyse publicly available data of over 17,000 listed companies, providing a consistent and objective client behavioural analysis that integrates with existing processes to deliver improved underwriting performance.
- Veertly — Veertly provides a modular all-in-one platform that satisfies all your needs for digital collaboration.
Adrian Bührer
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- E-Commerce, Subscription Service, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
- UNOWN — Unown is a service and SaaS provider for the fashion industry. Our goal is to revolutionize the way we buy & sell clothing and thereby save 100,000 tons of CO2e every year. We believe that through our leasing, subscription and pre-loved services, we can use resources smarter and create higher value per asset.We enable brands to secure theirshare in the growing secondary markets. They lease out their assets through our revenue share model and get access to deep usage data. We enable customers to experience fashion with a completely new mindset. Our service allows them to rotate their wardrobe while maintaining an efficient and conscious lifestyle.
- Farmy.ch — Farmy.ch is an online marketplace for local and organic food, directly from farmers and food makers. It places a lot of importance on the selection of producers and its uncompromising focus on quality and transparency. The company smart logistics and own fleet and e-mobiles deliver these goods incomparably fresh, emission-reduced, and time-savingdirectly to users’ front doors with its own fleet of e-mobiles.Farmy.ch provides online retailing of fresh and local food products with more than 10'000 hand-picked products from more than 1'000 authentic producers. It also offers products include fruits and vegetables, cheeses from Swiss dairies, meat, delicacies, and sweet temptations from real bakers and confectioners, as well as pantry and drugstore items. Farmy.ch was founded in June 2014 by Roman Hartmann and Tobias Schubert and is based in
Jordan Ellis
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- Blockchain, Communities, Marketplace
- 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.
Andreas Buhl
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- Rental, Retail, Social
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Annanow — Annanow is quick commerce enabler to the retail industry. Our technology and services connect online shops, couriers, instore picking, payment and insurance services to end customers. Our services help our retail partners deliver a cost effective market-leading service to their customers.
- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
Griff Green - Co-Founder @ The Commons Stack
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- 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.
Ronald Strässler is a Co-Founder at Avaloq.
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- Software, Hardware, Industrial
- Seed, Series B
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Veertly — Veertly provides a modular all-in-one platform that satisfies all your needs for digital collaboration.
- yeekatee — yeekatee is an independent investing-based networking connecting people and investing for the whole investment journey.
- bNovate Technologies — bNovate Technologies SA was founded in 2011 with the goal to be the best in the field of automated cells analysis. The company is based at the Innovation Park of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL). They started their activities with a few people. Today, bNovate Technologies SA has grown into a strong team of scientificexperts and managers who can address the challenge of developing the most demanding, fully automated analysis instruments.They develop instruments for clients, but they also created their own cell detection instruments for drinking water that they distribute through partnering companies.
Christian Wanner
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- Diving, Sports, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Diviac — Diviac is the world’s leading online travel agency for scuba divers.A platform like no other, that inspires divers to dive more, travel more and take care of our oceans.Researching and booking a scuba holiday has never been easier, nor more enjoyable.Founded in December 2012 in Switzerland, Diviac is on a mission to energize and grow theoverall scuba diving market for the benefit of all players. It already offers more dive destinations and more scuba holidays than any other travel company in the world.Catering to groups and individual travelers alike, Diviac uniquely combines best in class online booking experience with truly personalized expert advice, delivered by its global team of scuba travel experts.Diviac also cares deeply about sustainability and with the launch of Diviac Eco Travel, it now offers divers the opportunity to experience life-changing dive vacations that have an impact on the conservation of our oceans.
- Remote Social — Remote Social is the ultimate destination for remote and hybrid teams to build connection and culture through play and shared experiences.
Roland Brack - Mr. @ Ziano
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- 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.
The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
Dominique Locher
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- SaaS, Rental, Social
- Seed
- Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
- Reckon.ai — Reckon.ai have been working with several retail customers for the last years and they found that the task of competitive analysis in this vertical is still in the early days of what modern technology can do for them. You wouldn’t believe the number of problems and inefficiencies screaming for solutions in the digital age.So they decided to buildReckon, a cloud platform for smart retail product analysis and price comparison that uses powerful machine learning algorithms, data fusion and computer vision to reshape the way retailers get their competitive intelligence data.
- Jiffy Grocery — Grow your business with Jiffy SaaS platform which includes app/website, picking, delivery, supply chain & replenishment services
Mattias launched Atomico in 2006 alongside Niklas Zennström, sourcing investments and building Atomico's team of experts who help portfolio companies to scale globally. In that time, Mattias has been involved with exits or substantial transactions in companies including Supercell (sold a majority stake to SoftBank over two transactions in2013 and 2015), 6Wunderkinder (acquired by Microsoft in 2015), The Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto for $1.1B in 2013), Xobni (acquired by Yahoo! in 2013) and Power Reviews (acquired by Bazaarvoice in 2012). Mattias works closely with a number of portfolio companies on their expansion, including Truecaller, Klarna, Hailo, and ChemistDirect. He also leads the work of Atomico's experienced global team on the ground in China, Japan, Brazil and Turkey, helping portfolio companies to scale into these major international markets. Before launching Atomico, Mattias was the head of investments at CLS Holdings where he was responsible for the sale of Sit Up TV for $360 million in 2005 and held previous roles working in M&A consultancy at LEK and in fund management at Valu-Trac. Mattias holds a Masters from the Stockholm School of Economics and a B.A. in Geography and Economics with Honors from McGill University.
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- FinTech, Software, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Pento — Pento provides a SaaS-based online platform intended to optimize payroll services. Its platform helps to automate payroll system and offer complementary features to employees, such as user-friendly access to pay history and personal pay-related data, enabling small and medium-sized companies to find a digital way to automate salary processing,taxes and is fully connected to HMRC.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
- Willa — Willa is a fintech startup solving freelancers' biggest pain: getting paid on time, every time.
- Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.
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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- Travel, Leisure, Tourism
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Appentura — Appentura is guide your friend on the phone by his personal surprise - the content you choose.
- 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.
Fritz Mumenthaler - Chairman @ Komed Health AG (PLC)
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- Drones, Computer, Robotics
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Flyability — Flyability is an EPFL spin-off dedicated to creating safe, collision-tolerant robotics to access inaccessible places, replacing dangerous human operations with unmanned devices.
- Komed Health — Komed Health provides a secure messaging platform for instant medical team communication. The application eases, bundles and organizes real time communication between medical teams making other forms of in-hospital communication such as fixed phones, pagers, faxes and emails obsolete over time. The application is integrated seamlessly with existingclinical systems enabling integrated care pathways. Additionally, it allows physicians and nurses to access and share medical information for decision-making and facilitates communication at the point-of-care. The team is working closely with healthcare providers to build and advance rich feature sets tailored to modern healthcare professionals and care workflows.
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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- 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.
Bruno Glaus
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- Drones, Computer, Robotics
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Flyability — Flyability is an EPFL spin-off dedicated to creating safe, collision-tolerant robotics to access inaccessible places, replacing dangerous human operations with unmanned devices.
- Komed Health — Komed Health provides a secure messaging platform for instant medical team communication. The application eases, bundles and organizes real time communication between medical teams making other forms of in-hospital communication such as fixed phones, pagers, faxes and emails obsolete over time. The application is integrated seamlessly with existingclinical systems enabling integrated care pathways. Additionally, it allows physicians and nurses to access and share medical information for decision-making and facilitates communication at the point-of-care. The team is working closely with healthcare providers to build and advance rich feature sets tailored to modern healthcare professionals and care workflows.
chairman
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- Events, Software, Broadcasting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Imverse — Imverse is an EPFL spin-off and a 3D graphics software company providing volumetric software components for tech companies creating products and services for the markets of installations, live broadcasting, and telepresence. Using their proprietary patent pending voxel engine, Imverse envisions to enable the 3D future of content & communicationthrough groundbreaking graphics technology.
- Voltiris — Voltiris filters natural sunlight to transmit it to plants and recycle the "wasted" sunlight into green electricity.
David Studer
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- SaaS, Social, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Moodtalk — Moodtalk is an employee engagement platform to help companies improve teamwork, communication and employee wellbeing. Our software helps companies understand employees and identify ways to improve employee engagement. Sign up now.
- contactify — Are you ready to enrich your interactions and networking with digital content? biz.card by contactify is your platform for efficient data exchange & contact management.
- CareerLunch — CareerLunch is a recruitment platform that pairs potential hires with employees through informal exchanges over lunch. It was founded in 2019 by Simon Hofer and Konstantin Nesterov.
Edouard is Chairman Finity SA and Paper.li. Prior to this new initiative, he founded MNC, a leading international mobile application and service provider that has been acquired by Alcatel- Lucent in 2004 (now Nokia). Edouard focused then on developing Alcatel-Lucent activities in the Mobile Media Market enabling business.Edouard holds a Masterin Business Administration from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland, for which he also collaborated as lecturer in Financial Strategy and Enterprise Service Strategy.
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- Apps, Communities, Blogging Platforms
- Angel, Funding Round
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- SmallRivers — SmallRivers develops web services that are facilitating the interconnection of people around shared interests. SmallRivers is a privately held startup incorporated in Switzerland (Lausanne) and located on the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL campus, Scientific Park.
- Scenes Developpement —
Siraj is a Partner on the investment team at Atomico. As a former computer scientist and co-founder/CTO of the successful Atomico investment The Climate Corporation, Siraj now continues his love for entrepreneurship “on the other side of the table” as a venture capitalist. He focuses on companies enabled by machine learning, AI and computervision, (particularly in intelligent assistants), IoT, Agtech, and works with a number of portfolio companies.Siraj founded The Climate Corporation in 2006, a company that pioneered the use of machine learning in helping farmers to optimize crop yield. Climate (acquired by Monsanto in 2013 and now a subsidiary) still sits at the vanguard of precision agriculture, an industry that is expected to play a key role in delivering the yield boosts needed to feed humanity in the decades ahead.Prior to this, Siraj was an early engineering hire at Google in 2001, and one of the founding engineers for the Google Book search project. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BA Hons in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, UK. Siraj speaks fluent English, advanced Urdu, and just enough German to be dangerous.An enterprising child, Siraj taught himself to code in C at age 13, and wrote and sold his first piece of software, a database for medical research, at 15. He is a fan of functional programming languages, and still enough of a geek to spend the occasional weekend trying out new languages and frameworks.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, Switzerland, France
Portfolio highlights
- Jua — A new paradigm in weather forecasting. AI learning physics. Delivering accuracy beyond expectation. Covering use cases beyond belief. Accessible to everyone, wherever in the world they are. The world's first end to end deep learning model for weather forecasting, delivered on an intuitive platform for anyone to customise it. Startups,governments and large companies alike can now develop global, high frequency and high accuracy weather models within days.
- Altruistiq — Altruistiq is a decision-making environment for business sustainability teams.
- RosieReality — Rosie is an educational app for iPhone and iPad. The app is perfect for curious kids of ages 9 and up. Kids program Rosie the Robot using magical 3D shapes to explore AR puzzles.
Paul E Sevinç is Co-Founder & CTO at Doodle.
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- 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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- 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.
Dennis Liu
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- FinTech, Blockchain, Communities
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- SwissBorg — Join thousands of smart users and start investing with the SwissBorg app at the best available price anywhere at any time.
Jürg Marquard
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- Travel, Rental, Leisure
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Appentura — Appentura is guide your friend on the phone by his personal surprise - the content you choose.
- MyCamper — MyCamper is a camper sharing platform that opens the camper rental market to private offers.. MyCamper is the Airbnb for campers in Switzerland and Sweden.
Andrea Jansen
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- Baby, Children, Nutrition
- Angel
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
- Aepsy — Finde Psychologinnen oder Psychologen, die zu dir und deinem Anliegen passen. Freite Termine und kostenlose Intros jederzeit online.
Roland Zeller is the Founder, President, and General Manager at Innuvik Ventures.
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- Travel, Leasing, Leisure
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 3BaysOver — 3BaysOver is a B2B networking platform and online marketplace for the world's travel companies. They enable their customers to run their business more efficiently by letting them:- easily create an engaging online presence- more easily manage their global industry relationships- create, manage and promote a beautiful portfolio ofproducts3BaysOver is like like AngelList for travel: we seamlessly connect the different members of the travel industry value chain - strengthening existing relationships, facilitating new ones, and helping information flow more efficiently. It is a platform is about relationships, not transactions.
Entrepreneur | Co-founder bexio AG
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- SaaS, Audio, Music
- Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- OPTUNE — Optune is the first digital workspace that connects all stakeholders in the live music industry to facilitate their daily tasks focusing on event management and booking processing. Optune revolutionizes the existing workflow regarding efficiency, transparency and data driven optimization. onescreener, Optune’s promotion tool, helps artists tocreate a web presence in few simple clicks.
Dario Fazlic has 2 current jobs as Founder and Member of the Board at Immozins and Founder & CRO at wefox.
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- Baby, EdTech, Children
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
- Evulpo — Evulpo is a free learning website that provides an instructional videos, summaries, and practice units for curriculum-related topics. Evulpo provides assistance with all relevant curriculum in the primary, secondary, high school, and BMS levels.
- CNC24 — The leading manufacturing-as-a-service platform for high quality precision parts in Europe.
Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
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- Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
- Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens Protocol.
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Israel, Germany
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- Spiden — SPIDEN - Products that enable real-time and continuous monitoring of blood biomarkers for treatment of critical and high-risk patients.
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- Unique — Try Unique Finance GPT to increase productivity by automating manual workload through AI and ChatGPT solutions
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