# Top 25 Finance Angel Investors in Switzerland in May 2026

## Penny Schiffer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Finance

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

## Carole Ackermann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services

Carole Ackermann

## Marc P. Bernegger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Events, Young Adults, Financial Services

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.

## James Sowers
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pensacola, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Secondary Market
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

James Sowers is a Korean-American businessman and philanthropist. He is a former singer/songwriter who was abandoned at birth who had his music career tragically ended by a reckless driver in a car accident. He is currently a Director @ the GreaterGoodSociety . James is An experienced ICO and blockchain advisor.He has angel invested in over 40startups and initial coin offerings. He is also a contributor to Known Blockchain publications and has been featured in other well known financial publications.James has already made a very positive impact on the project, his vision and professionalism along with his great personality traits complement the SafeCrypt.io team in a very positive way.

## Gian Reto à Porta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Gian Porta currently works as the Board Member for Relio. He previously worked at Contovista as the Co-Founder and CEO. Gian Porta attended University of Zurich in 2005.

## Tobias Reichmuth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Internet

Tobias Reichmuth - Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder @ Maximon

## Daniel Gutenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Simon Murdoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Analytics

Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.

## Lily Liu
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Software, Apps

Lily Liu is the co-founder and CFO at Earn.com. He is a former partner at Multi family office and CFO at Chinaco Healthcare Corporation. Lily holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University.

## Amir Suissa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Credit, Dating, Banking

Amir Suissa - President of the Board @ wefox

## Philipp Cottier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Blockchain

Philipp Cottier

## Myke Naef
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Sports

Myke Naef

## Joseph Eagan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Apps, Finance

Joe holds a BA in political science from Georgetown University, Washington DC.

## Eva Richterich
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services

Eva Richterich

## Alan Howard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.

## Rainer-Marc Frey
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Blockchain

Rainer-Marc Frey

## Guillaume Lestrade
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Guillaume Lestrade is the co-founder of Meero and Leeto.

## Carsten Thoma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Carsten co-founded hybris in 1997. He is responsible for global operations, marketing and corporate planning of the company. After successfully driving the hybris North America market entry Carsten led the team that managed the acquisition of iCongo in August 2011. His relentless pursuit for talent has resulted in a highly motivated and passionateworkforce and unique corporate culture as that is at the center of the company’s success. He began his career at Hewlett Packard, where his ideas for a standardized and flexible e-commerce software were the starting point for what would become hybris. Carsten studied law and also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration

## Myke Naf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Myke Naf is the Managing Partner of Übermorgen Ventures.He attended University of St.Gallen.

## Markus Rinderer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS

Markus Rinderer

## Urs Wietisbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services

Urs Wietlisbach is the Co Founder at Partners Group. He attended the University of St.Gallen.

## Benoit Portoleau-Balloy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Manila, Manila, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Construction, Software Engineering

François Portoleau Balloy is a Cofounder and CRO at Leeto.

## Adrian Locher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Adrian Locher is the Founder and CEO at Merantix. Additionally, Adrian Locher has had 4 past jobs including Founder & Investor at Altoida. He attended the University of St.Gallen.

## Alexandre Gonthier
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services

Alexandre Gonthier is the Founder & Executive Chairman, Trustly North America + Sr Advisor Trustly Group at Trustly. He attended EPFL.

## Tim Ringel
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series E
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Big Data

Tim Ringel is a Global CEO at Meet The People. He attended the University of Duisburg-Essen from 1996 to 2001.

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