# Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Switzerland in May 2026

## Soheila Yalpani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Consulting, Sustainability, Information Technology

Soheila Yalpani is Co-Founder and COO at TerraScale. She attended The University of British Columbia.

## Danny Hayes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cyber Security, Aerospace, GreenTech

Danny is the CEO and Co-Founder of TerraScale, a green technology company reinventing the future of global sustainable development models.
Danny is committed to developing sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing energy and digital infrastructure challenges. He is currently leading various projects at the bleeding edge of technologicalinnovation and sustainable development, including Project Energos, TerraFinance, Global Vision 33, cybersecurity IP, MedTech, and more. In fact, his work as the developer of TerraScale’s flagship initiative, Project Energos, won the 2020 Platinum Outstanding Property Award London, the 2021 ICONIC Innovative Architecture Award, and the 2021 Golden Novum Design Award.Danny’s previous experience includes advising institutions, governments, corporations, and individual HNW clientele on developing smart, resilient infrastructure, master planning of industry development, large unit global sales, business negotiations with Fortune 500 companies, and lobbying political entities. He was also formerly a Metals Trader at Noble House Metal Trading.
Danny’s decades of work in and around sustainable infrastructure, finance, and technology led to his 2021 appointment to the role of Global Program Manager of the United Nations ImPPPact Program within the C.R.E.A.M. European PPP Alliance. He also is a member of the World Association of PPP Units & Professionals, a Managing Partner of Hudson Capital Advisors, and is advised by Goldman Sachs.In 2020, Danny was appointed Director Emeritus of the non-governmental organization Green Cross. Green Cross is a consultative member of the United Nations on Climate Change and the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. The Green Cross was founded in 1993 by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev and boasts honorary board members such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Jane Goodall. Danny serves as an Advisory Board Member of the University of California, Riverside. He serves as a Financial Advisor to Ambri (backed by Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures, KLP Enterprises, and GVB), FlowCell (Founded by Dr. Max Narovlyansky) and Chaired by Dr. Umer Sayeed-Shah (COB of Terrascale)Danny is also a member and the (best) Gold (50,000 USD) Sponsor of Top Tier Impact, a global ecosystem of investors, entrepreneurs, and professionals who are focused on solving the critical issues of our time.
Danny is also an (Incoming) Knight of Columbus (Knighted by Dominic Lanaway - Council: 611), a Catholic Fraternal Order founded in 1882, whose ranks have included prominent Americans such as President John F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, MLB Hall of Famer Babe Ruth, Governor Jeb Bush, Justice Samuel Alito, NFL Hall of Famer Vince Lombardi, and more. Committed to providing global charity and service, the Knights of Columbus have contributed $1.55 billion and 691 million volunteer hours to charitable projects over the past decade.

## Myke Naef
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Sports

Myke Naef

## Alex Ott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, CAD

Alex Ott founded CrossContinentalVentures in 2002. He is a veteran in the enterprise software industry with operational and board level experience on four continents.He has been partnering with many entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and Israel in building thought leading technology enterprises that seek to make a difference such as QlikTech whomhe was an investor and is a current board member.Before founding CrossContinentalVentures, Alex was a member of the Executive Committee of Siebel Systems, where he was responsible for building a major presence in EMEA as VP and General Manager, growing revenues, customer and employee base tenfold in just two years. He then ran the Americas geography, Siebel’s largest market with revenue responsibilities of over $1B.Prior to Siebel Systems, Alex played key executive roles within SAP AG (member of the extended global board) and SAP America (Executive Committee member) for almost a decade. Latterly, he held the position of CEO SAP International and Senior VP of Latin America, dramatically growing revenue and profitability through a sustained increase in SAP's Latin American infrastructure and the establishment of new subsidiaries.Alex holds a degree in Economics and Business Management from University BA of Mannheim, Germany.

## 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.

## Zand Bank
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Zand Bank - Co-Founder @ Asia Finance

## Chris Waclawek
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Lending, Trading Platform

Chris Waclawek is an Executive at Worldcoin. He attended the University of Warsaw.

## Peter Kurer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Legal, FinTech, Compliance

Peter Kurer - Advisor @ Apiax

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

Carole Ackermann

## Ingo Drexler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

## Ariel Luedi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS

Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.

## Sam Lim
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Blockchain, Recruiting

Sam Lim

## Daniel Gutenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Paul Sevinç
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Travel, Information Technology

Paul E Sevinç is Co-Founder & CTO at Doodle.

## Adrian Locher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

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

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

## 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.

## Christian Edler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

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.

## 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.

## Martin Strobel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, SaaS, FinTech

Martin Strobel - Non Executive Director @ msg life

## Adriant Harrison
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Aerospace, Consulting, Cryptocurrency

Adriant Harrison - Sr. Executive Vice President, Office of CEO @ TerraScale

## Kenneth Ng
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Lending, Database

Kenneth Ng

## 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.

## Aleksander Berentsen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Financial Services

Aleksander Berentsen

## Francesco Illy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Financial Services

Francesco Illy

## 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.

## Matias Woloski
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Financial Services, Software

Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.

## Viktor Bunin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Internet

viktor bunin

## Ryan Selkis
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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.

## Dennis Liu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Communities

Dennis Liu

## Hayden Adams
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency

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.

## Ross Mason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Created the Mule Project, Founded MuleSoft, gone public (MULE:NYSE). Work on their product direction, vision and strategy. Active investor and advisor.

## Max Lyadvinsky
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Information Technology

Max Lyadvinsky is the CEO and co-founder of Bloomio, a Swiss based equity crowdfunding platform powered by blockchain technology. He is an ambassador of the deployment of blockchain in the venture capital industry as this technology plays a major role in removing barrier to entry for individual investors and it allows the implementation of asecondary market solving the illiquidity issue. Max is a successful entrepreneur and angel investor with expertise in fundraising and scaling startup teams, envisioning future technology trends, developing product strategies and innovating disruptive technologies. Max was CTO and Co-Founder of Acronis, CTO in Parallels and he currently serves as a Board Member in several startups. He’s guest author in several publications as Entrepreneur, Bankingtech and Cryptoslate.

## Philipp Schnyder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Lending, Marketplace

Philipp Schnyder

## Roland Zeller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Leasing, Leisure

Roland Zeller is the Founder, President, and General Manager at Innuvik Ventures.

## 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.

## Mike Demarais
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency

Mike Demarais

## Jakob Kaya
- Type: Angel
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: FinTech, InsurTech, Wealth Management

Jakob Kaya is Co-CEO of mindnow AG. He attended Hochschule der Künste Bern.

## Alexander Salnikov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Ethereum, Internet, Blockchain

Co-founder and Head of Product at Rarible - The first community-owned NFT Marketplace

## Deniz Devrim Cengiz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Apps

Deniz Devrim Cengiz

## Marco Milone
- Type: Angel
- Location: Turin, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Blockchain, Video Games

After a long experience in the cultural industry, aimed at developing independent comics and cinema
sector, he decided to leverage the skills gained through his studies in Economics and Commerce, followed
by General Management to study and operate in the startup industry. Marco is driven by a wide variety of
interests and is a successfulinstitutional investor in various Italian and international startups.

## 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.

## Professor, “Emeritus” Robert Dibble
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Aerospace, Consulting, Cryptocurrency

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).

## Ajit Tripathi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Finance, Ethereum

Ajit Tripathi is a Head of Institutional Business at Aave.

## 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.

## Scott Moore
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Scott Moore is the Co-Founder at Gitcoin. He attended the University of Toronto from 2015 to 2016.

## Vadim Koleoshkin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Ethereum, Internet, Messaging

Co-Founder at Zerion.

## 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.

## Yves Latour
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Search Engine, Internet

Yves Latour is the Co-Founder of 3wVentures. Yves Latour attended the University of St.Gallen.

## Benedict von Hoffmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: FinTech, InsurTech, Wealth Management

I am an investor, founder, and executive passionate about leading high-performance teams, agile process design & disruptive strategies. I believe in output-oriented leadership and the empowerment of talent.
I stand for fairness, ownership, reliableness, and politeness.

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