Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in Switzerland in October 2023
Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in Switzerland in October 2023
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The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) has been helping startups since 1994, encourages entrepreneurship & supports innovation.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Switzerland, France
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- Voltiris — Voltiris filters natural sunlight to transmit it to plants and recycle the "wasted" sunlight into green electricity.
- PeriVision — Perivision combines artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the cloud to build the next generation of systems to understand visual function. The company's systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.
- AdVentura Works — AdVentura Works is a Swiss technology company offering material handing as a service to logistics and industrial companies
We dedicate our know-how, experience and energy to the new generation of startup founders, helping them navigate the skies on their way to success.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- Ascento — Secure, maintain, and inspect outdoor assets by reducing the intervention times and augmenting data capturing capability.
- Tune Insight — Tune Insight orchestrates secure collaborations on sensitive data between multiple organizations to extract collective insights.
- Saeki Robotics — Building the future of autonomous robotic manufacturing.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Axom — Axom automating visual inspection through image analysis in the healthcare industry.
- Gaia Tech — Gaia Technologies turns agricultural sidestreams into high-value ingredients for cosmetics, food, and feed manufacturers.
- PeriVision — Perivision combines artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the cloud to build the next generation of systems to understand visual function. The company's systems improve workflow efficiency in practices and hospitals and provide deeper clinical insight into eye diseases.
Zürcher Kantonalbank - as an independent, incorporated public-law institution - is wholly owned by the canton of Zurich.
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- Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Japan, Germany
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- Helio — Carbon Aware Cloud Computing.
- Tune Insight — Tune Insight orchestrates secure collaborations on sensitive data between multiple organizations to extract collective insights.
- Nagi Bioscience — Enabling small organisms testing to any lab. Unleash unique datapoints efficiently at a high-throughput rate.
Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.
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- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Switzerland, Germany, France
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- MedTrace Pharma — MedTrace develops a hardware platform (MT-100) that automates the production and injection of the gold standard tracer 15O-water into the patient. MedTrace also develops an analytical software platform to interpret the results from the PET scanner.By use of 15O-water, doctors will increase sensitivity in the analysis of the patient while at thesame time increasing patient throughput up to a factor of 4 compared to today's clinical workhorse.
- Hylomorph — Hylomorph is a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovative materials designed to transform the biocompatibility of implantable medical devices.
- Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030
Climate protection through innovative technologies. The Technology Fund offers loan guarantees to Swiss companies whose novel products contribute to a sustainable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
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- Information Technology, Software, Energy
- Debt Financing, Grant, Funding Round
- Switzerland
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- FGen — FGen is a Swiss start-up company founded 2011 in Basel as a spin-off from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of the ETH Zurich. As a contract reasearch organization we collaborate with partners from Biotech, Life Sciences, and Pharma in order to establish efficient bioprocesses and to develop new biopharmaceuticals.
- Calopad — Calopad, awarded by the Swiss Confederation, offers a unique and the most holistic solution in pain therapy and muscle regeneration. The therapeutic deep heat of 42 degrees solves any muscle pain, muscle tension, or muscle spasms of chronic patients in the long term and in a highly efficient way through new forms of therapy. With the associatedapp, Calopad brings the physiotherapist digitally into any user's home and enables personalized all-around care in real time - utterly independent of time and place. In the future, the modular design will make it possible to combine different therapies such as heat, cold, or light with just one device, opening up the possibility of new therapeutic successes.
- Selfrag — SELFRAG AG is specialized in the development of high voltage pulse power products, plants and systems for selective fragmentation of solid materials.
ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage. ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
- ANYbotics — ANYbotics provides autonomous legged robots for industrial applications to provide high availability and reliability in automated routine inspections.
- Pledge — Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to measure, reduce and offset the climate impact of their products.
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
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- 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.
Serpentine Ventures (SERV) is the investment arm of the Swiss startup group. Serpentine refers to the meandering roads found across the Swiss Mountains. Unreachable mountain peaks become accessible by following the serpentine path.
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- Software, Information Technology, Automotive
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, Germany, United States
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- DuraMon — DuraMon provides sensor for monitoring durability in concrete.
- Arda Biomaterials — Arda Biomaterials transforms waste feedstocks into smarter, circular biomaterials for fashion, home goods, automotive and more.
- Antefil Composite Tech — Microengineered hybrid fibres for lightweight structures. What are hybrid fibres? The fastest, most affordable, scalable, and high-quality solution for the production of energy-efficient lightweight structures. Hybrid fibres are glass reinforcement fibres which are individually coated with a meltable, recyclable plastic.They provide all the material needed to produce lightweight composites in a perfect mix - at
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
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- 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.
TiVenture is a seed investment fund owned by the Fondazione Centenario Banca Stato that invests in early stage companies with innovative technologies and high growth potential, principally in southern Switzerland. TiVenture is actively looking and ready to support exceptional founders and entrepreneurs developing scalable products for the globalmarket. TiVenture has a diversified portfolio of companies and is mainly active in the life science, medical, high-tech and IT sectors.
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- Software, Analytics, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Italy, United States
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- BigOmics — Get robust and reproducible results in a few clicks with Omics Playground: your user-friendly Omics Data Analysis Software.
- Hive Power — Hive Power provides a SaaS platform to optimise your existing electrical distribution grid, both from the technical and economic points of view.
- Gaia Turbine — Gaia Turbine creates a plug-and-play hydroelectric microturbine with an efficiency of over 90% that is perfect for aqueducts and the smallest necessary outflows. Gaia's two patent applications have been filed to protect the technology of the mini/micro hydroelectric turbine.
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- Software, Marketplace, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Switzerland
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- WriteSea — Writesea helps online recruitment marketplaces unlock new revenue by offering white-labeled career services to its candidates. Our mission is to help candidates find meaningful work and employers find quality talent. By partnering with us, job boards have the capability to increase their bottom line and improve the overall candidate experience. If you truly care about your candidates, schedule a demo with our team today.
- SmartHelio — SmartHelio wants to be the doctor for solar plants: we remotely diagnose existing problems, predict faults and prescribe solutions in real time. Our team is made up of highly skilled engineers and scientists with deep domain knowledge of solar technology and data science. The company has developed a cost effective Edge Computing IoT device(HelioHealth, FitBit for Solar), world’s first in its category, that collects and processes data at the panel level using its proprietary physics-based algorithms. SmartHelio provide a dashboard or fully integrate into the existing customers’ IT platform. SmartHelio is deploying AI on Edge devices to reduce the cost of data collection, storage, and processing without compromising the quality of analytics services. This empower energy developers and managers to maintain their assets consistently at a high-performance level with minimum human intervention. SmartHelio is able to generate 5% extra energy and optimize 30% of O&M effort.
- National Cycling League — The National Cycling League (NCL), a pioneering professional sports league powered by cutting-edge technology, offers fans a first-of-its-kind experience by using its own patented technology to measure athletes' speed, performance, and health in real-time.
3wVentures provides seed money and venture capital to international internet startups. As they focus on early stage projects and prototypes, our investments and co-investments target a volume of up to USD 250,000.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Switzerland, Spain, Austria
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- Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
- GUURU — Convert undecided shoppers into confident buyers with instant, authentic advice from your expert community.
- Pregnolia — Pregnolia ensures that every woman can have a happy, healthy and informed pregnancy until term. Their team knows that the existing research about preterm birth assessment is very promising, but this alone does not guarantee success. Sabrina, Francisco and Annette are highly committed to develop the commercial version of the device, complete theclinical trial, follow the regulatory roadmap and execute on their business vision to successfully support gynaecologists in improving the preterm birth risk assessment and birth management.
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
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- D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
- jiritsu.network — Jiritsu is a decentralized protocol enabling verifiable compute.
- Mythic Protocol — Mythic Protocol is an entertainment company that develops games, media and platforms.
Baker Hughes is an energy technology company that provides solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Series A, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- United States, Chile, Spain
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- Levidian — We use patented technology to decarbonise methane, creating hydrogen and graphene. Our vision is a decarbonised world, powered by hydrogen and built on graphene.
- ExerGo Sàrl — We provide sustainable, affordable, and efficient heating and cooling services for cities, utilities, and private companies. Learn more.
- Unity National Bank — Unity National Bank It improves lives and helps people and businesses prosper. They achieve this by providing services that value their time, simplify banking, and maintain their financial competitiveness. Use this chance wisely. They concentrate on lending to businesses, but we still offer loans to consumers. The employment of numerous agencies isencouraged by business lending philosophies in order to boost and improve the chances of loan approval.
Agility operates and invests in companies that transform supply chains by making them smarter, faster, cleaner, fairer and more efficient. Click to learn more.
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- Apps, Solar, Logistics
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- Sweden, Switzerland
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- TVP Solar — TVP Solar SA is a Swiss company which designs, develops, manufactures and markets innovative, high-vacuum flat solar thermal panels based on a proprietary technology for cooling and heating applications.
- Volta Trucks — Electric trucks for sustainable cities, with people at the heart of everything we do.
EREN Groupe is recognized as a key player in renewable energy production, mainly in the wind and photovoltaic sectors.
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- Manufacturing, Solar, Industrial
- Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Switzerland, United States
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- Air2O — Air2O manufactures and supplies hybrid air conditioning systems and sustainable cooling appliances globally.
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- ExerGo Sàrl — We provide sustainable, affordable, and efficient heating and cooling services for cities, utilities, and private companies. Learn more.
Privilege Ventures is the venture capital arm of Privilège Management and invest in seed and early stage companies. Geographical focus is Switzerland and the rest of Europe. Focus sectors are industrial-tech, med-tech, wearables and in general ICT.
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- Health Care, Hardware, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, France
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- Wyth — Wyth makes technologies that help humans create meaningful relationships by bringing emotions, stories and connections beyond the interface.
- Smeetz — Smeetz is the future of a unified, data-driven and dynamic pricing-oriented commerce for attractions and cultural venues.
- Avelo — Our mission is to save lives by bringing fast and actionable infectious disease diagnosis closer to the patient. Avelo's solution is a breath collection device. It works with existing molecular tests to detect multiple respiratory tract infections causing pneumonia
Swiss Federal Office of Environment
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- Water, Battery, Recycling
- Seed, Grant, Debt Financing
- Switzerland
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- Librec — Librec provides technology for “closed-loop” recycling of large lithium-ion batteries from e-mobility, with all components recoverable by more than 90% and re-used in new batteries. Besides Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel, Copper, Aluminium, Manganese, electrolyte, separator, and all housing components.
- TreaTech — TreaTech is a Swiss Cleantech company founded in 2015 by EPFL engineers. We are developing a ground-breaking treatment technology that will enable an eco-friendly treatment of the ever-increasing quantities of wastewater while recycling its valuable by-products and most notably, clean water. Our catalytic hydrothermal gasification (HTG) systemhas been developed for the disposal of different types of liquid wastes (such as sewage sludge) that are usually incinerated or landfilled and instead, turns them into by-products such as biogas, clean water, and mineral salts that can further be upgraded into phosphorus products (e.g. fertilizers).
Alpana Ventures is a Swiss VC focusing on digital transformation.Since 2016 we backed 45 founder teams with 3 Funds, supporting them in their journey towards a positive impact.Committed to value creation, we discover deep tech solutions in Switzerland, Europe and the US.We invest to embed them into innovative business models and back them tobecome global market leaders.Applying ESG criteria, our portfolio companies help create a more sustainable future.
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- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Switzerland, Germany
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- Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
- Nezasa — Nezasa’s travel booking solution empowers travel brands globally to combine all planning and booking related actions into one seamless end-to-end experience.Our tools, enable to plan and book any type of multi-product or multi-stop itinerary.TripBuilder Hyper-personalised packaging Real-time planning and booking of personalised itinerariesPowerful, easy to use and very interactive Deep integration possibilities into existing fulfilment landscapes Enterprise-grade, proven with large TO customersTripBooster Hyper-personalised In-Destination Upselling The extension of TripBuilder’s power throughout the entire travel lifecycle The perfect travel companion Seamless purchasing of perfectly fitting additional products Smart upselling recommendation, available in both a push and pull mode
- Tinamu — Tinamu Labs has developed a technology that converts commercially available drones into camera equipment reaching professional standards.
Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds
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- Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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- DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
- Opna — Opna is a financing platform for climate projects that remove carbon and protect natural ecosystems. Opna offers data, proprietary risk assessments, and efficient capital structures, helping companies to translate net-zero committed capital from financial institutions, and corporates into direct financing across a project's lifecycle.
- Jitty — See every thing, about every home
Statkraft Ventures is a long-term partner for entrepreneurs disrupting the energy sector.
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- Software, Big Data, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Germany, France, Norway
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- Hydrosat — Hydrosat provides daily, high-resolution thermal and multispectral infrared imagery of the entire Earth. Leveraging our first-in-history thermal capabilities, we also provide analytics solutions to solve climate and agriculture issues.
- Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
- Efficient Energy Technology — Photovoltaik mit Speicher zum Einstecken in der Steckdose - Mit deinem Balkonkraftwerk von EET produzierst du eigenen Sonnenstrom.
Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional emerging technology companies around the world.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, Indonesia, Japan
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- Xanadu — Xanadu is a Canadian quantum computing company with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and accessible to people everywhere. Sign up for Xanadu Cloud today to access hardware, software, applications, and educational resources!
- SmartHelio — SmartHelio wants to be the doctor for solar plants: we remotely diagnose existing problems, predict faults and prescribe solutions in real time. Our team is made up of highly skilled engineers and scientists with deep domain knowledge of solar technology and data science. The company has developed a cost effective Edge Computing IoT device(HelioHealth, FitBit for Solar), world’s first in its category, that collects and processes data at the panel level using its proprietary physics-based algorithms. SmartHelio provide a dashboard or fully integrate into the existing customers’ IT platform. SmartHelio is deploying AI on Edge devices to reduce the cost of data collection, storage, and processing without compromising the quality of analytics services. This empower energy developers and managers to maintain their assets consistently at a high-performance level with minimum human intervention. SmartHelio is able to generate 5% extra energy and optimize 30% of O&M effort.
- DispatchHealth — DispatchHealth is a provider of mobile and virtual healthcare for people of all ages in the comfort of their own homes. DispatchHealt was founded in 2013 and was formerly known as True North Health Navigation. It aims to create an integrated, convenient, triage, and care delivery solution that extends the capabilities of the patient's careteam and provides quality care in the home while decreasing costs.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Polytech Ventures are an early stage VC firm based in Switzerland with a strong international focus. Their strategic location at EPFL in Lausanne grants us access to one of the most dynamic and recognized innovation centers in the world
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United States, Spain
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- yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
- Relai — Relai is a Bitcoin investment app that allows anyone to buy bitcoin within one minutes or set up an automated savings plan.
- Earny — Payroll management built for Startups & SMEs. Swiss payroll service with no hidden fees & no hassle
An open innovation platform of Ciech Group
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- DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
- Ecobean — Ecobean developed a proprietary technology to process waste coffee grounds into sustainable raw materials and specialty chemicals. The company addresses a global problem with a scalable, deep-tech solution that decreases carbon footprint and creates significant economic value. Coffee is the second most valuable commodity traded globally and itswaste is a rich source of compounds which require greater reuse.
- UniSieve — UniSieve is a cleantech company that provides molecular separation membrane solutions for a wide range of applications. Its platform technology enables a unique combination of various molecular sieves and polymeric membranes, yielding reliable separation solutions. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
Innovation Endeavors is helping entrepreneurs drive a super evolution of industry. We invest in visionary founders, transformational technology and emergent ecosystems for a new world. The firm manages $1.5 billion, and is headquartered in three major regions of innovation: Silicon Valley; Tel Aviv; and New York City. Investments include: Astra,Fabric; Vicarious Surgical; Planet; Plenty; SoFi; Uber; and Zymergen.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Israel, Chile
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- Fero Labs — Fero is a machine learning solution powering the next wave of industrial process improvement.
- Plotlogic — We are Plotlogic, one of the world’s most innovative mining technology companies.
- Trunk Tools — Construction and manufacturing workers are more productive if the right goals and incentives are in place. We can help!
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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- Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Nigeria
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- WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
- Okra Solar — Okra Solar is an IoT technology solution that enables solar generating communities to share and utilize more energy. It is a plug-and-play smart grid technology that enables rapid electrification for last-mile communities. Using mobile payments, modular grid design, and remote monitoring, they provide utility companies with a low-cost, data-drivensolution to operate solar networks in hard to reach communities. They are on a mission to connect off-grid communities to the modern economy.Okra Solar was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
- Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a seed investor that finances high-potential, tech-driven startups. With EUR 895.5 million in total investment volume across three funds and an international network of partners, HTGF has already helped forge more than 500 startups since 2005. Driven by their expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion, its teamof experienced investment managers and startup experts help guide the development of young companies. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech startups in a range of sectors, including software, media, internet, hardware, automation, health care, chemistry, and life sciences.To date, external investors have injected over EUR 2 billion into the HTGF portfolio via about 1,400 follow-on financing rounds. HTGF has also successfully sold interests in more than 100 companies. Investors in this public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry For Economic Affairs and Energy, the KfW Banking Group, and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V., as well as the companies ALTANA, BASF, BAYER, B.Braun, Boehringer Ingelheim, Robert Bosch, BÜFA, CEWE, Deutsche Post DHL, Dräger, Drillisch AG, EVONIK, EWE AG, FOND OF Haniel, Hettich, Knauf, Körber, LANXESS, media + more venture Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, PHOENIX CONTACT, Postbank, QIAGEN, RWE Generation SE, SAP, Schufa, Schwarz Gruppe, STIHL, Thüga, Vector Informatik, WACKER and Wilh. Werhahn KG.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
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- Inovedis — Inovedis offers innovative solutions in medical technology that contribute both to optimized patient care as well as time and cost reductions in the healthcare sector.
- Resourcify — Mein Recycling is developed by Resourcify GmbH from Hamburg. The app is the easiest solution for businesses to easily manage all of their waste, collections, and recyclers in one app, and for waste management companies to seamlessly connect with their customers online. Their vision is zero-waste: enabled with the digital transformation of the wastesector as the foundation for the circular economy.
- traceless materials — traceless materials offer a holistically sustainable alternative to plastics: 100% biobased on plant residues, compostable under natural conditions, and free of toxic chemicals. For a future free of pollution and waste!
Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
- Paxton AI — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
- Atropos Health — Atropos Health rapidly provides personalized real-world evidence for any clinical decision
Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
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- 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
- Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
- Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
Merck Ventures is the strategic, corporate venture capital arm of Merck. Its mandate is to invest in innovative technologies and products with the potential to significantly impact Merck‘s core business areas. From its headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in the US and Israel we invest globally in transformational ideas driven by greatentrepreneurs. Merck Ventures takes an active role in its portfolio companies and teams up with entrepreneurs and co-investors to translate innovation towards commercial success. Merck Ventures has a significant focus on early-stage investing and company creation including the creation of spin-offs to leverage Merck‘s science and technology base.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- Iktos — Iktos is the only company to offer generative modeling with built-in synthetic accessibility for successful drug discovery
- PxE — PxE has developed a full-stack perception solution, chip-based combination of HW and SW that is deployable to any platform
- Anavo Therapeutics — UNLOCKING THE PHOSPHATASE TARGET CLASS: Anavo Therapeutics is the first company to systematically drug phosphatases, a rich target space previously considered undruggable for decades.
Amadeus APEX Technology Fund operates as a ventures capital firm. Amadeus APEX Technology Fund will initially invest between €1-1.5M in seed and series A stage deep tech ventures with unique and defendable technology.
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- Chemical, CleanTech, Oil and Gas
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- UniSieve — UniSieve is a cleantech company that provides molecular separation membrane solutions for a wide range of applications. Its platform technology enables a unique combination of various molecular sieves and polymeric membranes, yielding reliable separation solutions. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
Wingman Campus Fund aims to educate students and support entrepreneurs to disrupt the startup culture on campuses, producing the next generation of tech leaders, and creating more value for society.
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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Switzerland, Bulgaria
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- tiun — Tiun is a software company that allows media and streaming services to accept online payments from non-subscribed users who are willing to pay for the time they used a service for.
- Bollwerk — Bollwerk is the modern finance data stack: All the finance data you need with awesome collaboration features.
- Maven Health — Maven Health is an AI-powered metabolic health prediction system for preventive care.
One of Switzerland's largest gas distribution and energy services companies
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- Energy, Energy Storage, Clean Energy
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
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- Ubiq.ai — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.
- Stabl Energy — Stabl Energy is a developer of a technology that significantly improves battery storage systems.
- ChargeX — ChargeX provides electric car charging solutions. Tobias Wagner, Michael Masnitza, and Johannes Engeln founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.
Bloomsbury Natural Capital invests in firms that manage natural systems in a sustainable or regenerative manner.
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- B2B, Forestry, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Switzerland
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- Xilva — Invest in forests with a regenerative approach. Our forest investment platform allows you to invest in forests that are managed sustainably and regeneratively.
BAS Ventures is established for promoting the sustainable development of the Blockchain industry by cooperating and selectively allying with reputable, industry-savvy organizations and individuals; build the best support mechanism for quality projects applying Blockchain technology.
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- Blockchain, Online Games
- Seed
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- Cowboy Snake — Cowboy Snake is the TvT play-to-earn game inspired by snake on the blockchain. Cowboy Snake is a product of OrenCT Ltd.
- Cleveron — Cleveron is an innovative Swiss start up company that has developed an intelligent system for radiator heating systems. With Cleveron, the room temperature in each individual room of a building can be individually and optimally controlled. This can save costs and energy. Simple Home's technology makes an active contribution to reducing CO 2emissions.They have the vision to make part of the big, public buildings in Switzerland and Europe, such as school buildings and administrative buildings, more environmentally friendly. To make this happen, they want to convince cities and communities to convert their buildings to Cleveron technology as quickly as possible. Because with the conversion they are now making a concrete contribution to the rescue of the climate.
Twenty-Three Capital is an investment firm.
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- Gaming, Sustainability, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
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- Ólixir — Ólixir is an organic extra-virgin olive oil with a superior level of freshness, heart-protective polyphenols, fruitiness, and taste.
CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Italy, United States, Germany
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- Picosats — PicoSaTs envisages a new generation of telecommunication systems for space applications dedicated to CubeSat pico-satellites. The key technologies at the core of this system are a software defined radio and a highly directive and configurable antenna, operating at higher frequencies (Ka band), and providing very high data rates.
- Leaf Space — Leaf Space aims to become a global leading service provider in the new, emerging microsatellite market by developing a technology platform providing all basic services required by microsatellite operators.
- Energy Dome — Energy Dome | Groundbreaking Long Duration Energy Storage. Using CO2 against climate change. Our Technology enables to store renewable energy efficiently.
exelixis capital operates as an investment firm.
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- Textiles, CleanTech, Recycling
- Seed
- Switzerland
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- OceanSafe — OceanSafe is a textile technology company for circular, biodegradable, and toxin-free circular textiles.
At better ventures we invest in early-stage founders who aim to change our world for the better.
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- Software, Environmental Consulting, Advanced Materials
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland
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- Logistikbude — Logistikbude is a web-based software to automate the load carrier management. It is independent of load carrier types and addresses both the tracking of own load carriers and the management of exchange processes in open pools.
- Dr. Vivien Karl — Dr. Vivien Karl relies on a cream for moisturizing care against vulva dryness.
- MAGNOTHERM — Next generation cooling - zero GWP, no toxicity, no explosivity
We're just another venture capital firm. We invest as soon as you made up your mind to start a company. Sometimes even before that.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, France, Switzerland
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- ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
- Enabl — Using the enabl Digital Platform, customers can easily link their warehouse systems to our digital interface. Customers can quickly connect their vehicles to our drivers and, with a few clicks, schedule material transportation that meets their needs. Depending on the mission, a driver or an autonomous driving system executes the transport orderremotely. Our transport services are available for reservation at any time, with only the hours of service being charged.
- ATMOS Space Cargo — ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments, Commercial products to entire rocket stages.
ALANTRA is a PROJECT, a firm being built by all its partners and professionals, a collective aspiration which aims to become an enduring institution for the generations to come. It is a GLOBAL FIRM, being founded by the partners of the 19 countries we are present in.It is an open firm, articulated around the principles of ENTREPRENEURSHIP,PARTNERSHIP, INNOVATION and FLEXIBILITY.Their segment is the MID-MARKET, a space for growth, for new ambitions, for creative and innovative spirits. We grow with our clients, we share their mindset and we build very long-term relationships with them.
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- Financial Services, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Private Equity, Debt Financing, Series B
- Spain, France, Sweden
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- enmacc — The enmacc OTC platform is a energy trading platform for the future of the global energy markets. We are building a next-generation trading platform, powered digital RFQ technology, that will help you to trade smarter, faster and better.
- SunRoof — Roof of the future
- Eturnity AG — Die Eturnity Software automatisiert den und erleichtert den Beratungs- und Verkaufsprozess im Bereich der Erneuerbaren Energiesysteme.
Infinity Recycling develops markets for waste streams at the end of their useful lives by investing in cutting-edge recycling technologies.
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- CleanTech, Waste Management
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
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- DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
- Itero — Itero is a clean tech company based in London. We are helping to build the circular economy for plastics by sustainably and economically diverting plastic waste from landfill and incineration. With our patented chemical recycling technology, we are able to convert previously non-recycled plastic was
We want to build better ways to make people feel good in their skin. Find out if we are the right Venture Capital Partner for your brand, project or technology!
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- Health Care, Wellness, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, The Netherlands
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- DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
- Dermanostic — Dermanostic is an e-health app where patients receive a medical diagnosis and therapy recommendation for skin diseases.
- Routinely — Personalized self care with digital guidance
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
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- 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.
Quadia is a regulated investment manager specialized in social and environmental finance. With more than CHF 70 million invested in over 20 companies, Quadia is a leading and pioneering impact investor. Our core investment thesis centers on sustainability as a pillar of risk management and economic valuation. It targets significantly impactfulcompanies which have positioned their products and services to meet a growing demand which is influenced by an irreversible paradigm shift. This paradigm shift is driven by worldwide interdependent social, environmental and economic stakes.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, Switzerland, United States
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- Rediv — Patatam is the european's most trusted online shop for buying and selling like-new clothing for kids and babies. Parents can send their quality kids' clothing in a free pre-paid bag (the Patabag), earn cash up front for their clothing selected, and can shop the best brands for their kids at Patatam.com for up to 90% off retail. Based inthe south west of France, Patatam was launched in 2013 by Mariève Bidart, Eric Gagnaire and Mathieu Bidart. The company is advised and backed by former Price Minister CEO and founder Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Frederic Mazzella and Francis Nappez (founders of BlaBlaCar) and several other investors.
- Fairphone — Fairphone is a social enterprise which aims at raising awareness about conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the sourcing of these minerals is fueling in the DR Congo.
- Nous anti-gaspi — We anti-Gapsi is the network of anti-waste food stores. This grocery store project offers producers and manufacturers the opportunity to their downgraded and unsold products at a fair price. They are a qualitative environment, they market products excluded from the usual mass distribution circuits for small defects, physical defects, contract-datenot respected, and end of series. They offer consumers a new mode of consumption that gives priority to common sense and that is at the same time smart, qualitative, and eco-responsible. In their stores, they offer you to find, in a warm atmosphere, a complete choice of food products to save waste: fruits and vegetables, fresh and frozen products, groceries, and even a small bulk section.
BMC's primary business is ship management. Our success in ship management is based on providing prompt, honorable, and dependable services.
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- Blockchain, Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
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- Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency
Brainforest is an impact venture studio focused on forests and climate change.
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- B2B, Forestry, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
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- Xilva — Invest in forests with a regenerative approach. Our forest investment platform allows you to invest in forests that are managed sustainably and regeneratively.
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
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- Terra.do — Learn about climate change and start working on climate change solutions today with the Terra.do community.
- Salesroom — Experience the energized sales platform that puts personality first. Where conventional video calls fall flat, Salesroom excites.
- TreesPlease Games — TreesPlease Games develops various computer and online games. The company is headquartered in London.
Our impact investing arm, Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises that increase the resilience of people and communities in frontier markets.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Nigeria
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- Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
- Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
- Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency
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