Top 15 Impact Angel Investors in Switzerland in October 2023
Top 15 Impact Angel Investors in Switzerland in October 2023
| Investor | Impact Switzerland investments |
|---|---|
| Soheila Yalpani | 5 |
| Danny Hayes | 4 |
| Alois Flatz | 1 |
| Cristian Mazzoleni | 1 |
| Jaime Martin Chocano | 1 |
| Valentin Stalf | 1 |
| Dr. Cornelius Boersch | 1 |
| Igor Kim | 1 |
| Hermann Arnold | 1 |
| Professor, “Emeritus” Robert Dibble | 1 |
| Roland Brack | 1 |
| Adriant Harrison | 1 |
| David Helgason | 1 |
| Nico Hribernik | 1 |
| Jürg Marquard | 1 |
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Soheila Yalpani is Co-Founder and COO at TerraScale. She attended The University of British Columbia.
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- Consulting, Sustainability, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 33 Agency — Strategic advice, unique insights and strong relationships to move your agenda forward. 33 Agency’s experienced team is adept at executing targeted marketing as well as government relations campaigns. We advise and represent clients in areas where business and government intersect. With a focus on sustainability-centric clients whose initiativessupport climate transition efforts. Our team members have led successful careers in infrastructure development, renewables, finance and technology and maintain strong connections with industry relationships and corporate partners. We bring to every engagement deep experience and extensive industry knowledge in order to better deliver on our client’s goals.33 Agency is a U.S. House of Representatives registered Lobbyist (Registrant ID #: 55868).
- TerraScale — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
- TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
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.
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- Cyber Security, Aerospace, GreenTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Energos — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
- TerraScale — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
- TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Alois Flatz is a Venture Partner with 20 years' experience in private equity, investment management and sustainability. He is a member of the boards of va-Q-tec and The Mobility House.Before joining Zouk, Alois was a Partner and Head of Research at Sustainable Asset Management in Zurich, where he co-founded the Dow Jones SustainabilityIndex. Alois was also Managing Partner of BTS Investment Advisors, a private equity advisor in India with over $3 billion AUM, and an advisor to the Austrian Ministry of the Environment.A published author on sustainable investment, Alois has a PhD in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen, an MBA from Vienna University of Economics and studied International Management at HEC.
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- Software, Real Estate, Social Media
- Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Tset — The perfect combination of industry knowledge and modern technology to realize cost and CO2 savings. Learn more.
- Kooky — - What is kooky? kooky is a digital cup smart system and offers you the possibility to dispose your reusable cup on your way in an easy and sustainable way through kooky boxes.- How does kooky work? You order your drink as usual and get it in a kooky cup. You simply pay for the drink plus 1 CHF deposit. When you return the cup in a kooky drop offbox, you will immediately get your 1 CHF deposit credited in the wallet of your app.- What do I have to do when I got the cup with the drink? Simply scan the QR code of the cup with the kooky app (registration required), and the cup will be paired to your app account.- Where can I return the cup? In all the kooky boxes around town and in all the venues of the kooky network. You can find both in the app.- How do I get my credit? In order to withdraw the credit in your app wallet, you need to enter your bank details in the app. Then you submit a payout request of the desired amount. Kooky only takes a 10% fee as cost of service, you will receive a receipt for each withdrawal.- What does kooky do with the cups? Our employees empty the kooky boxes and bring the cups to our rinsing logistics. There, they are cleaned according to hygiene regulations and standards, picked, packed and distributed to our partners again.- Are e-vehicles used for logistics? Yes, the logistics for collecting and distributing the cups takes place exclusively with electric vehicles.
- Allthings — Allthings enables digital communication and interaction between property users, owners and property managers. Allthings bundles various digital services around life and work in buildings in one app. By doing so, Allthings achieves operational cost reductions while simultaneously increasing the value of the property. The company was founded in 2013by an experienced team and has offices in Basel, Berlin and Freiburg i. Breisgau.
Cristian Mazzoleni is a Chief Financial Officer at KIKO MILANO
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- Gaming, Sustainability, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Ólixir — Ólixir is an organic extra-virgin olive oil with a superior level of freshness, heart-protective polyphenols, fruitiness, and taste.
Jaime Martin Chocano is an individual investor.
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- Gaming, Sustainability, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Ólixir — Ólixir is an organic extra-virgin olive oil with a superior level of freshness, heart-protective polyphenols, fruitiness, and taste.
Valentin Stalf is co-founder and CEO of N26. In 2013 he founded N26 with his longtime friend Maximilian Tayenthal. Back then already, both shared a vision of building a bank that the world loves to use. Since the initial product launch in 2015, N26 has grown to include more than 2.5 million customers across 24 European markets — with plans toenter the US in 2019. The firm has raised more than USD 500 million from some of the world’s most well-known investors, including Insight Venture Partners, GIC - Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, Tencent, Allianz X, Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures, Earlybird Venture Capital, Battery Ventures, in addition to members of the Zalando management board, and Redalpine Ventures. N26 has more than 800 employees based in in Berlin, New York and Barcelona, who are concentrated on reinventing the banking experience for the digital generation. With its full banking license, state-of-the-art technology and no branch network, N26 is redesigning banking for the 21st century. Before N26, Valentin was an Entrepreneur in Residence for Rocket Internet, an incubator and investor in online startups. There he helped to develop several companies in the mobile payments industry, including payleven and Paymill GmbH. Moreover, he worked in strategy consulting and investment banking. Valentin has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management and a master’s degree in accounting and finance from the University of St. Gallen. He is currently a member of the advisory board at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
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- Retail, Grocery, Big Data
- Seed, Series A
- Germany, Hungary, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Kooky — - What is kooky? kooky is a digital cup smart system and offers you the possibility to dispose your reusable cup on your way in an easy and sustainable way through kooky boxes.- How does kooky work? You order your drink as usual and get it in a kooky cup. You simply pay for the drink plus 1 CHF deposit. When you return the cup in a kooky drop offbox, you will immediately get your 1 CHF deposit credited in the wallet of your app.- What do I have to do when I got the cup with the drink? Simply scan the QR code of the cup with the kooky app (registration required), and the cup will be paired to your app account.- Where can I return the cup? In all the kooky boxes around town and in all the venues of the kooky network. You can find both in the app.- How do I get my credit? In order to withdraw the credit in your app wallet, you need to enter your bank details in the app. Then you submit a payout request of the desired amount. Kooky only takes a 10% fee as cost of service, you will receive a receipt for each withdrawal.- What does kooky do with the cups? Our employees empty the kooky boxes and bring the cups to our rinsing logistics. There, they are cleaned according to hygiene regulations and standards, picked, packed and distributed to our partners again.- Are e-vehicles used for logistics? Yes, the logistics for collecting and distributing the cups takes place exclusively with electric vehicles.
- Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
- SEON — SEON Fraud Prevention tools help organisations reduce the costs and resources lost to fraud. Spot fake accounts, slash manual reviews and cut chargebacks now.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
- Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
- Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Igor Kim is a Managing Partner at Xploration Capital. Xploration backs ambitious founders building next-generation platforms, digital ecosystems and SaaS companies worldwidePrior to Xploration Capital, Igor held the position of investment director in InVenture Partners specializing in disruptive technology startups across industries.Beforethat, Igor worked at Morgan Stanley where he participated in financing, capital markets and M&A transactions in excess of US$ 2 billion, including taking Yandex public on Nasdaq.Prior to Morgan Stanley, Igor worked at Credit Suisse in London, focused on Emerging Markets Coverage.Igor holds a BSc in Management from University of London, Royal Holloway.
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- Mining, Mineral, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Open Mineral AG — Technology-enabled global metal commodity trade & market intelligence platform.
- Mirai Flights — Mirai Flights is a UK-based service for instant booking charter flights with price transparency and focus on the UK, Europe, Middle East, and the CIS states. Mirai Flights connects clients to private jets, offering a suitable time and place of departure with an option to choose the class of the aircraft, price, number of passengers, comfort leveland a payment of up to €300.000 in one click. Founded in 2021, Mirai Flights aims to change the flyers' purchasing habits and save time. Its founders’ expertise is manifested by successful businesses in private aviation.
Hermann Arnold - co-founder, co-initiator @ 42hacks.com
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- SaaS, Software, CleanTech
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Thingsy — Thingsy is the digital hub for the implementation of the circular economy.
- 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.
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).
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- Aerospace, Consulting, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- TerraScale — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
- TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
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.
Adriant Harrison - Sr. Executive Vice President, Office of CEO @ TerraScale
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- Aerospace, Consulting, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- TerraScale — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
- TreesPlease Games — TreesPlease Games develops various computer and online games. The company is headquartered in London.
- Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
Nico Hribernik is the Founder at Wellster Healthtech Group.
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- Gaming, Sustainability, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Ólixir — Ólixir is an organic extra-virgin olive oil with a superior level of freshness, heart-protective polyphenols, fruitiness, and taste.
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.
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