# Top 50 Life Science Startup Investors in Switzerland in May 2026

## Eclosion SA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care

Eclosion assists entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to bridge the gap between their laboratories and the stage where the start-up

## Zürcher Kantonal Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology

Zürcher Kantonalbank - as an independent, incorporated public-law institution - is wholly owned by the canton of Zurich.

## Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology

The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) has been helping startups since 1994, encourages entrepreneurship & supports innovation.

## BioMedPartners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

BioMedPartners is one of the leading European venture capital firms providing private equity and mezzanine financing to early- and mid-stage healthcare and human life science companies. They target the entire industry with special focus on pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostics and medical technology.

## EQT life science
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

EQT life science develops innovative medicines, devices, and tools to address the single important thing that matters to the preservation of health. The organization believes that such opportunities add value to all stakeholders.

## Verve Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

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.

## Fongit Seed Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Plan-les-ouates, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology

Fongit Seed Invest (FSI) is the leading Seed Money Fund of Switzerland for young technology companies. It provides smart seed capital.

## FAST — by GETTYLAB
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Backing engineers building awe, wonder, speed.

## Sunstone Life Science Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Sunstone Life Science Ventures is an independent European venture capital investment firm. We enable and empower life science therapeutics innovations.

## Kinled Holding
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

Kinled was founded in 1980 to retain the investment assets of the Aisher family.In 1990, the investment focus shifted to a portfolio of early stage investments applying Kinled’s company development experience alongside the endurance and passion of family owned investments together with the strategic focus of venture capitalists.Since then,Kinled has taken 8 companies to public markets and many more to successful trade sales at significant multiples.

## High-Tech Grunderfonds
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology

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.

## BlueOcean Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Plan-les-ouates, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Personal Health

BlueOcean Ventures SA provides capital, operational and company development advisory support (mentoring, company management, divestment experience, network, negotiation support) to entrepreneurs in Switzerland.
BlueOcean Ventures is based in Geneva, Switzerland.

## Rheingau Founders
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Rheingau Founders is a Berlin&Munich based Venture Capital firm active since 2011. Focusing on pre-seed to Series A investments in Europe, predominantly B2B in the fields of Marketplaces, Software as a Service, InsurTech, and eHealth. Rheingau targets start-ups that have the potential to sustainably disrupt existing processes and value chains.Besides the financial investment, we offer strategic support through the mentorship of our partners.

## VINCI CAPITAL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

Vinci Capital is a leading Swiss private equity firm with over MCHF 200 under management. Since 1998 they have provided equity to over 30 Swiss technology and industrial companies to finance innovation, growth and succession-buyouts.Their investment team capitalizes on 40 years of cumulated experience in private equity and a solid operationalbackground in growth, turn-around, consolidation, IPOs and M&A situations.

## Versant Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Versant partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build and fund breakthrough biotechnology companies around the globe.

## Acequia Capital (AceCap)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

## OCCIDENT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology

Occident macht Investments in Deep Tech Startups aus den Bereichen Lifesciences, Hightech und Digital. Finanzierung ab Seed-Finanzierungsrunde

## SICTIC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

How to Invest in Swiss Startups That Last The Investor community of the Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC) helped to fund to more than 160 Swiss tech startups to date. While doing so, they learned a lot about what to watch out for and how to foster success. Read more Get your FREE angel handbook

## Novartis Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Our primary focus is on the development of novel therapeutics and platforms. We balance the therapeutic focus with investments in medical devices, diagnostics or drug delivery systems. In our investments we look for unmet need and clinical impact, novel proprietary science and understanding of mechanism, management and board experience and capitalefficiency in the program.We prefer to have our initial investment at the early stage to build the company and follow with additional investment in pace with the company:tm:s progress. We continue our approach of larger focused investments and anticipate total investments up to USD 30 to 50 mio per company over its life, but it can be as little as 100'000 USD to get started. We will increase our activities to lead or co-lead deals further and remain open to participate in larger syndicates. SectorsNew therapeutics & platformsMedical devices/implantsDiagnostics/biomarkersDrug delivery/biopolymersGeographyUSA/CanadaEuropeSwitzerlandAsia/Pacific

## Idinvest Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care

Idinvest Partners is a pan-European private equity manager focused on the low and middle-market segments. With over 6 billion euros under management, the company has developed several complementary areas of expertise, including equity investments in buyout deals focusing on both mid-size as well as young innovative European companies; primaryinvestments in European private equity funds focusing primarily on the middle market segment; secondary investments; mezzanine investments in Europe; and private equity consulting.Idinvest Partners’ recent success stories include Criteo, Clear2Pay, Meetic, Prosensa, Converteam, Kwik Fit, Lastminute.com, Dailymotion, Deezer, Talend, Synthesio, Menlook, Vestiaire Collective, Pretty Simple, Curse.com, Withings, Kantox, Secret Escapes, Happn, Peakon, Dayuse, Botify, Financefox, Azalead and many more.

## Rhia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Women's

Rhia Ventures invests in reproductive healthcare solutions that empower women.

## Primal Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Task Management

Primal Capital, an independent venture capital " incubator bait fund at ", served as the Associate than July 2012 Hiroshi was Sasaki is the venture capital fund that serves as the representative partner. Representative of Sasaki, the seed acceleration program "Incubate Camp" operated by Incubate bait fund is carried out a totalof four times of planning and management than in 2012, They have also engaged in support operations of portfolio companies. - See more at: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primal-capital#sthash.m2z1DCbt.dpuf

## FiveT Capital AG
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Health Care

FiveT is an independent alternative asset manager established in 2006. Starting in 2021, FiveT set out to finance the foundation of the hydrogen economy. 

## TiVentures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Renewable Energy

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.

## Polytech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## MedHoldings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Life Science

MedHoldings operates as a venture capital and private equity firm.
MedHoldings focuses primarily on development and late-stage medtech ventures in Switzerland, Europe, and emerging markets. The company conducts its business in Switzerland.

## Lichtsteiner Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berne, Bern, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

Boosting health pioneers. We invest in early stage start-ups in different sectors: medtech, life science, biotech, mental health, public health, well-being.

## Nicolas Mermod
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Science and Engineering

Nicolas Mermod

## White Loop Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Software, Life Science

White Loop Capital is the first investment firm specialized in crypto-assets in France. Accompanying those who dare.

## Recipharm Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Clinical Trials

Recipharm Venture Fund is part of Recipharm AB.

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

Beat Schillig - Founder @ Venture Kick

## Think.Health
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fürstenfeldbruck, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device

Think.Health invests as a boutique risk-taker in healthcare ventures. We continuously seek innovations and disruptive business models in digital healthcare, medical technologies and health service providers,

## Igor Fish
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Science and Engineering

Igor Fish

## NEST pension fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

For more than 35 years, Nest, as the first ecological and ethical pension fund in Switzerland, has remained true to its guiding principle: the optimal provision for the companies affiliated with us and their employees.

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

Thorsten Schroeder

## M Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

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.

## University of Zurich
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1

The University of Zurich is one of the leading research universities in Europe and offers the widest range of degree programs in Switzerland.

## Heritage Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biopharma, Life Science


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## Esperante Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

A corporate venture investment company focussed on investing in mid to late stage clinical stage therapeutics development companies in North America and Europe

## 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

## Technology Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Grant
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Energy

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

## 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

## Privilege Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Hardware, Software

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.

## Horizon 2020
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

The EU framework programme for research and innovation

## Kurma Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Kurma Partners is a management company based in Paris, specializing in the financing of innovation in healthcare and biotechnology, from pre-creation to development capital. Kurma Partners, which manages the Kurma Biofund I, II funds and the Kurma Diagnostics fund, is one of the main players in the financing of therapeutic and medical innovationsin Europe, particularly through links with many institutes. research and prestigious hospitals.

## Bruker
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madison, Wisconsin, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care

Bruker Corporation is a provider of high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial and applied analysis.

## Medicxi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Medicxi is a life sciences-focused investment firm, originally created at Index Ventures, a leading international venture capital firm with offices in London, San Francisco, Geneva, and St. Helier (Jersey).Francesco De Rubertis joined Index at the end of 1997 to launch the firm's life sciences practice and was joined in the following yearsby three partners: Kevin Johnson, Michèle Ollier and David Grainger. Over the years, Index raised a total of twelve funds, managed with separate life sciences and technology investment teams.In 2012, Index launched sector-specific venture funds for the first time, raising separately Index Ventures VI (technology focus) and Index Life VI (life sciences focus). Global Pharma GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) and affiliates of Johnson & Johnson (Janssen; NYSE: JNJ) both partnered with Index by investing in Index Life VI. This was a key step in the path towards the founding of Medicxi as an independent venture firm. (read here)Medicxi started its operations in February 2016, with offices in London, Geneva and St Helier (Jersey). Giuseppe Zocco, co-founder of Index Ventures, joined Medicxi shortly thereafter to help build the firm’s late-stage platform and lead the launch of its first Medicxi Growth fund, MG1. (read here)Currently, the firm is actively investing its 2 most recent funds, Medicxi Ventures 1 (focus on early-stage companies) and Medicxi Growth 1 (focus on later stage companies), in addition to managing the entire portfolio of all prior Index life sciences investments.The firm is led by its five co-founders and Partners: Francesco, Kevin, Michèle, David and Giuseppe. Over the years, the five of them have collectively been involved in starting over seventy companies in several countries.

## Renaissance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Software, Health Care

Renaissance is an investment foundation for pension funds investing in Swiss SMEs. It acts as a partner of the SMEs, participating in companies within the framework of succession planning or company outsourcing and thus promotes the Swiss SME landscape by maintaining and creating jobs.The firm was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Lausanne,Vaud.

## Skyviews Life Science
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Medical

Skyviews Life Science is a privately held advisory company specialised in personalised health.

## UZH Life Sciences Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device

The UZH Life Sciences Fund involves two equal partners: the UZH Foundation and the Novartis Venture Fund. It seeks donations from private individuals, foundations and companies for the strategic priorities of the University of Zurich.

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