# Top 50 Health Care Angel Investors in Switzerland in May 2026

## Ralph Gygax
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics

Ralph Gygax is a Chief Administrative Officer at SWISS Gate AG. He attended KV, SVIT from 1999 to 2007.

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

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

## Werner Hoffmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bachenbülach, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Wellness, Cosmetics

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

## Patrick Lütjens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: iOS, SaaS, Mobile

Patrick Lütjens is an investor, an Experienced Senior Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry. 

## Renato Profico
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, iOS, SaaS

Renato Profico

## Ertan Wittwer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Beauty, Dental

Ertan Wittwer is the Founder and Board Member bestsmile. He attended BBZ Uzwil.

## Andrea Jansen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Baby, Children, Nutrition

Andrea Jansen

## Christian Wenger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

Christian Wenger - Chairman @ Startup INVEST

## Yann Sommer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Fitness, Internet, Wellness

Yann Sommer

## Dominik A. Lysek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Medical Device

Dominik A. Lysek - Co-CSO @ vVardis

## Nikolaus Nieder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Beauty, Dental

Nicholas Nieder is an Individual investor.

## Melanie Gabriel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Employee Benefits

Melanie Gabriel is the CMO & Co-founder at Yokoy. Attended University of St.Gallen.

## Hans C. Werner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Employee Benefits

Hans C. Werner is the Leiter Group Human Resources at Swisscom.
Born in 1960, he is the member of the Swisscom Group Executive Board, since September 2011.


## Jeffrey Wilke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Information Services

Jeff Wilke has served as Amazon’s CEO Worldwide Consumer since April 2016. He leads Amazon Stores, Prime, operations, technology, and marketing. He joined Amazon in 1999 to lead global operations. Prior to Amazon, he was vice president and general manager of pharmaceutical fine chemicals at AlliedSignal (now Honeywell). He spent the preceding sixyears in a variety of operations and general management assignments in the chemical, polymer, and electronics industries. He began his working career writing code and managing software development projects at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). He is a 1993 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Leaders for Global Operations program, where he earned an MBA and an S.M. in chemical engineering. He also holds a BSE degree in chemical engineering, summa cum laude, from Princeton University. He serves as the chairman of the governing board for MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations program. Mr. Wilke was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He spent many evenings as a teenager writing code, and currently serves on the board of Code.org.

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

Beat Schillig - Founder @ Venture Kick

## Willi Miesch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Personal Health

Willi Miesch is an experienced entrepreneur with focus on the MedTech segment. Since 1998 he is CEO of Medartis managing the complete operative business. He is additionally member of the Board of Medartis as well as member of the Board of the International Bone Research Association (IBRA). Before joining Medartis, he worked in various productiondepartments of Stratec Medical (Ticino), the Institut Straumann AG (Switzerland and USA). Moreover, he was a member of the Board of Management of a bicycle manufacturer being responsible for the entire technical part for several years. Willi Miesch started as a precision engineer and extended his qualifications by finishing his degree as an operations technician TS at the ABB Engineering School Baden. He completed his postgraduate studies in market-oriented Business Management at the University of Central Switzerland.

## 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.

## Rajat Khare
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Drones, Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence

An Internet-age investor and a serial entrepreneur, Rajat Khare is the founder of the European (luxembourg based) investment firm -Boundary Holding. A prominent investment fund with presence in France and Luxembourg, Boundary Holding invests globally in spaces related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and allied fields such as Data Analytics andMining, Machine learning and Predictive Analytics.Boundary Holding primarily acts as a Bridge fund for startups and organizations, facilitating funds across Safe cities, Internet of Things, Algorithmic trading, AI and Analytics. The company has a network of startup programs around the world.Rajat khare holds a Computer Science degree from IIT-Delhi, and has interned at RUCA, University of Antwerp in the Department of Mathematics. He has been a keynote speaker in over 20 major conferences and events across the globe. His work as an investor has also been cited as a case study in the course of Entrepreneurship run by Professor Patrick Turner in INSEAD Business School. He has authored various research papers published in international conferences and books, such as Data Mining V by WIT press. Rajat has co-authored Make the Move on entrepreneurship and Science of Achievement on education. Both the books reflect Rajat’s inclination towards promoting entrepreneurship and a holistic incubation of innovative solutions around the world.An active member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), the IIT Delhi alumni association and the Indian angel network, Rajat proactively supports and encourages entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ventures around the world. For his efforts to promote entrepreneurship, he was appreciated by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam at the President’s house in 2006.

## Max Schnoedl
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Retail

Max Schnoedl is an independent board director, advisor and investor.He currently serves as Chairman emeritus of Springbrook. Previously, Max was President/CEO of Springbrook and COO, CFO and CSO of Accela. In addition, he also served as Board Chair of BRZ, Deputy Board Chair of Österreichische Post and Investment Committee Member ofÖsterreichische Beteiligungs AG. Prior to that, Max served as the Vice President of Deutsche Bank in San Francisco and New York, and previously held positions in Moscow, Russia and Frankfurt, Germany. Max holds an MBA from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria.

## Stephan Schmidheiny
- Type: Angel
- Location: Balgach, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Food Processing, Personal Health, Food and Beverage

Stephan Ernst Schmidheiny is a Swiss entrepreneur.

## Michael Halbherr
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Marketplace, Industrial Automation

Michael heads the Location and Commerce business in Nokia, overseeing Nokia's Location and Navigation activities, including NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of mapping assets.The Location and Commerce business combines Nokia's global footprint and social location services product portfolio with its NAVTEQ subsidiary's leadingmapping assets.Michael is a recognised authority in the industry.Prior to joining Nokia in 2006, he held positions at the Boston Consulting Group and at europatweb, the internet investment vehicle of Groupe Arnault, overseeing all technology investments.In 2001, Michael became CEO of gate5 AG, a leading supplier of mapping, routing and navigation software and services globally. In 2006, gate5 was acquired by Nokia.Since joining Nokia, Michael has held different senior positions within Nokia's Services organisation. Most recently, he was head of the Product sub-unit in Nokia's Services business, based in Berlin, responsible for integration of all services, including product development, marketing, road mapping and deployment efforts across Nokia.He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich, spending four years at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.Swiss born Michael (1964) is married and has two children. Living in Berlin, Germany, he enjoys riding his motorbike, skiing and reading history books in his spare time.

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

Walter Fischl

## Vic Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Medical

Vic Lee is the founder and managing partner of Virtus Inspire. Vic is one of the founders and former senior executive vice president of Tencent, the largest Internet company in China with a market value of about USD 200 billion. He joined Tencent in 1999 and was responsible for planning, construction and managing the operation platforms, includingtechnical architecture, information security, payment settlements, business intelligence, sales channel connection, fundamental IT, applications maintenance and customer services. From 2010 to 2012, Vic was in charge of the Company’s online search businesses. After leaving Tencent in 2012, he began to invest in technology companies in US, Israel and China. Vic was recognised as the "China Top Chief Information Officer" by 'CEO & CIO China' magazine in 2010.

## Bruno Glaus
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Drones, Computer, Robotics

Bruno Glaus

## Fritz Mumenthaler
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Drones, Computer, Robotics

Fritz Mumenthaler - Chairman @ Komed Health AG (PLC)

## Bracken Darrell
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, FinTech, Software

Bracken Darrell joined Logitech as president in 2012 and became chief executive officer a year later. In this role he has led a transformation of Logitech. He is a proponent of the importance of the liberal arts and design in business, especially of their role in innovating product experiences for consumers. He is an English major from HendrixCollege. Bracken brings to Logitech experience in product and brand building through design. He has worked around the world on iconic brands like Old Spice, Gillette and Braun, for which he was president. He has spent time at P&G, GE, Gillette, and Whirlpool. Since he took over five years ago, Logitech has been a top performer on the SIX Swiss stock exchange and on the NASDAQ. The company’s stock price and profits have more than quadrupled in the same period.

## Rafael Zemp
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Health Care

Rafael Zemp serves as Chief Legal Officer and Secretary to the Board of Directors at Yokoy.

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

Thorsten Schroeder

## Daniel Heller
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Therapeutics, Biotechnology, Medical

Daniel Heller currently works as the General Partner and Chief Investment Officer for Affinity Asset Advisors.

## Raul Vejar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, B2B

Raul Vejar - Advisor @ Pramata

## Andri Mengiardi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Health Care

Andri Mengiardi

## Ali Ciger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Machine Learning

Ali is the Head of Vaccines for Pfizer Germany. He was previously part of the global rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.
He is investing at early stage Digital Health startups, being part of Sprinboard Health Angels (www.springboardangels.com).
He is also a Newton Fellow, the joint program of London Business School and Local Globe.

## Nathan Kaiser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Computer, Software, Analytics

Nathan Kaiser is a Swiss and Taiwan dual national, admitted as an attorney-at-law and foreign lawyer at the Zurich, Berlin and the Taipei bar association, as well as a member of the Hong Kong Law Society. He speaks at and hosts events pertaining to law & tech, and legal issues related to the digital economy and Asia. He advises companies ondigital and policy issues, and their international market presence, bridging Asia, Switzerland and the US.Nathan spent two decades practicing law in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Taipei. Nathan is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center of Harvard University in Cambridge, MassachusettsOriginally from Solothurn, Switzerland, Nathan studied in Lausanne, Strasbourg and St. Gallen.

## Adrian Bult
- Type: Angel
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Mobile, Medical

Adrian Bult studied business administration and marketing at the University of St. Gallen (lic. oec. HSG). From 1984 to 1997 he held several national and international sales positions with IBM and served as a member of the Executive Board of IBM Switzerland. Until 1998 he was Head of Information Technology at Telecom PTT, after which he joined theGroup Executive Board of Swisscom, first as CIO, then as CEO of Swisscom Fixnet and finally as CEO of Swisscom Mobile.From 2007 to 2012 Adrian R. Bult was a member of the Executive Board and also a shareholder of COO Avaloq Evolution AG. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Swissgrid AG and also sits on the boards of directors of several other companies, including Swissquote AG and Regent Beleuchtungskörper AG. Adrian R. Bult is married and has one daughter.

## Jacques R. Seguin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Medical Device, Health Care

Jacques Seguin is the Chairman Of The Board at Emanate Biomedical.

## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.

## JP Duque
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data

Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing

## Dr. Cornelius Boersch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

## 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

## Adrian Bührer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Subscription Service, Food and Beverage

Adrian Bührer

## Clement Benoit
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse

## Philip Magoulas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, iOS, Apps

Co-founder and managing director Alexander Henn is mainly responsible for markets, marketing and business development. He first accessed the digital world during the stock market boom in 1999 with the Boersen-Investor.de exchange platform and founded the first German shop for vitamin products at the age of 15. He later founded other companies suchas the online shop Libute.de and Xantera AG. This young entrepreneur graduated from high school by taking evening classes in Munich and then, in addition to his professional activity, studied law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. During his free time, Alexander Henn devotes himself to politics and history and relaxes listening to classical or electronic music.

## 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

## Simon Michel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Robotics, Manufacturing, Medical Device

Mr. Simon Michel has been the Chief Executive Officer of Ypsomed Holding AG since July 2014. Mr. Michel serves as a Senior Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Ypsomed Holding AG and is responsible for the business development and marketing of the injection, infusion and blood glucose meters as well as pen needles. He has been working withYpsomed since October 2006 and has been a Member of management since 2008. He served as a Finance Director of International, MIM at New Look Group Limited. He served as Senior Vice President of Marketing at Ypsomed Holding AG since October 2006 and also served as its Senior Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Michel served as Head of the Infusion Business Division at Ypsomed Holding AG. From 2003 to 2006, he worked for Orange Telecommunications in Zurich and Lausanne, was responsible for, among other things, the introduction and marketing of UMTS. Mr. Michel has been a Director of Sphinx Werkzeuge AG since 2006. He has been a member of executive committee of the local trade and industry association since 2008. He studied Masters with a focus on Media and Communications Management and Economics at the University of St. Gallen.

## Dario Fazlic
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Baby, EdTech, Children

Dario Fazlic has 2 current jobs as Founder and Member of the Board at Immozins and Founder & CRO at wefox.

## 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

## Jan Vichr
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Personal Health

Jan Vichr is a Co-Founder at FOLK. Jan previously worked at FORM Life VenturesFORM Life Ventures as a Founding Partner. He attended the University of Zurich.Jan is an early stage investor who empowers entrepreneurs to build disruptive companies in the health and wellness industry. As a child, Jan wanted to be an inventor. He could be foundsitting around all day sketching and inventing things that didn’t yet exist. Now as an entrepreneur and investor, he comes as close as he can to that dream.

## Adrian Dubler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Health Care

Adrian Dubler

## David Studer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Biel, Bern, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Social, Internet

David Studer

## Wieland Sommer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, SaaS, Internet

Founder and CEO of Smart Reporting; Professor of Radiology; Master in Public Health (Harvard, Boston, USA)

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