Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Switzerland in October 2023
Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Switzerland in October 2023
| Investor | Payments Switzerland investments |
|---|---|
| Soheila Yalpani | 5 |
| Danny Hayes | 4 |
| Marc P. Bernegger | 2 |
| Sam Lim | 2 |
| Adrian Locher | 2 |
| Zand Bank | 2 |
| Mike Demarais | 1 |
| Vadim Koleoshkin | 1 |
| David Chen | 1 |
| Scott Moore | 1 |
| Joseph Eagan | 1 |
| Myke Naef | 1 |
| Catherine Wood | 1 |
| Andreas Buhl | 1 |
| Tobias Reichmuth | 1 |
| Philipp Cottier | 1 |
| Benoit Portoleau-Balloy | 1 |
| Phil Rubin | 1 |
| Marco Milone | 1 |
| Ajit Tripathi | 1 |
| Christian Edler | 1 |
| Viktor Bunin | 1 |
| Alexander Salnikov | 1 |
| Ross Mason | 1 |
| Patrick Delarive | 1 |
| Matt Mickiewicz | 1 |
| Alex Svanevik | 1 |
| Eric Conner | 1 |
| Aly Madhavji | 1 |
| Darian Shirazi | 1 |
| Mainardo De Nardis | 1 |
| Ben Davey | 1 |
| Adriant Harrison | 1 |
| Tirto Cuaca | 1 |
| Ryan Selkis | 1 |
| Anna Rose | 1 |
| Professor, “Emeritus” Robert Dibble | 1 |
| Greg Kidd | 1 |
| Daniel Gutenberg | 1 |
| Rainer-Marc Frey | 1 |
| Calvin Ayre | 1 |
| Kjell Fischer | 1 |
| Jascha Samadi | 1 |
| Anthony Pompliano | 1 |
| Spencer Yang | 1 |
| Markus Rinderer | 1 |
| Alan Howard | 1 |
| Matias Woloski | 1 |
| Mara Schmitman | 1 |
| Hart Lambur | 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.
Marc P. Bernegger is a Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder. Marc previously worked at Crypto Finance Group as a Founding Board Member (acquired by Deutsche Boerse). He attended the University of Zurich.
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- Events, Young Adults, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Altoida — At Altoida, we strive to radically change the method for assessing brain health through our comprehensive cognitive function tests and brain health app.
- Sandbox — We are an eclectic community of nomads, entrepreneurs, journalists, academics, politicians, artists, and indomitable misfits from over 100 countries. Together we seek to develop our authentic selves, form meaningful relationships, discover resources to live fulfilling lives, and to lead significant impact on the world around us.
- Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.
Sam Lim
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- Apps, Blockchain, Recruiting
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- IMPRESSO — The place where recruiters search for authentic career profiles. Job seekers mint and save their career NFT. Save your NFT CV on the blockchain. Meet and connect with verified professionals on the Metaverse. Real identities, jobs and networking on IMPRESSO.
Adrian Locher is the Founder and CEO at Merantix. Additionally, Adrian Locher has had 4 past jobs including Founder & Investor at Altoida. He attended the University of St.Gallen.
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- Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Altoida — At Altoida, we strive to radically change the method for assessing brain health through our comprehensive cognitive function tests and brain health app.
- Crypto Finance (Asset Management) AG — Unser Asset Management Team bietet qualifizierten und institutionellen Anlegern einen sicheren und transparenten Zugang zum Crypto Asset Markt. Kontaktieren Sie uns!
- Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.
Zand Bank - Co-Founder @ Asia Finance
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Zand — Zand is a digital bank to provide both retail and corporate banking
- Pier Wallet — Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Web3 offer great opportunities. To truly access it, you need a wallet. But selecting and investing into digital assets in your own wallet is complex, expensive and often feels unsafe. nobank makes DeFi and Web3 accessible for everyone. We offer the simplest and cheapest way to transact with digital assets by -drastically improving usability - offering financial products that generate yield or diversify your portfolio - building on multiple L2 blockchains - sharing our knowledge
Mike Demarais
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- Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Series A
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
Co-Founder at Zerion.
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- Ethereum, Internet, Messaging
- Series A
- Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 3Box — 3Box Labs is a Web3 studio that creates software to advance a more open, safe, and composable Web3. We're hiring!
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
David Chen - PM @ Telexpress corporation
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- Payments, Fraud Detection, Machine Learning
- Angel
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- KapeIQ — KapeIQ is a blockchain-based intelligent fraud detection platform.
Scott Moore is the Co-Founder at Gitcoin. He attended the University of Toronto from 2015 to 2016.
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- Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Yup — Yup is a crypto-backed social media platform.
- WeaveDB LTD — WeaveDB is Firestore on Smart Contract bringing web2 UX to web3 dapps both for users and developers.
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
Joe holds a BA in political science from Georgetown University, Washington DC.
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- Cryptocurrency, Apps, Finance
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Nested — The best decentralized portfolio management & copy trading experiences
- Spruce — Your Keys, Your Data - Spruce lets users control their data across the web. We believe that the world is evolving toward one based on cryptography, networks, and digital economies that are user-controlled. Today, the dominant use case for user keys is the signing of blockchain transactions, but we think this barely scratches the surface of what is possible.
Myke Naef
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- FinTech, SaaS, Sports
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
- Birdsy — Birdsy is the first AI based video platform for birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts. Connecting the mainstream with birds & wildlife.
- G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
Cathie registered ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”) as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2014. Prior to ARK, Cathie spent twelve years at AllianceBernstein as Chief Investment Officer of Global Thematic Strategies where she managed $5 billion. Cathie joined Alliance Capital from Tupelo CapitalManagement, a hedge fund she co-founded which, in 2000, managed $800 million in global thematic strategies. Prior to her tenure at Tupelo Capital, she worked for 18 years with Jennison Associates as Chief Economist, Equity Research Analyst, Portfolio Manager and Director. She started her career in Los Angeles, California at The Capital Group as an Assistant Economist. Cathie received her Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in Finance and Economics from the University of Southern California in 1981. In 2016, Cathie received the “Women in Finance – Outstanding Contribution Award” from Market Media.
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- Drones, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Canada, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 21Shares — The simplest way to invest in the best performing asset class of the last decade using your existing bank or brokerage.
- Labelbox — A complete solution for taking control of your training data with fast labeling tools, human workforce, data management, a powerful API and automation features.
- mimik — mimik enables systematic digital transformation for a sustainable digital economy launch your apps four times faster and reduce operational costs by up to 90%.
Andreas Buhl
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- Rental, Retail, Social
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Annanow — Annanow is quick commerce enabler to the retail industry. Our technology and services connect online shops, couriers, instore picking, payment and insurance services to end customers. Our services help our retail partners deliver a cost effective market-leading service to their customers.
- Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
Tobias Reichmuth - Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder @ Maximon
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- E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Firstcar — Firstcar provides car driving learning assistant services. They offer services that include hand-picked driving schools, student cars with double pedals for rent before and for the driving test, entry-level vehicles that are inexpensive to buy and maintain, support and advice on vehicle purchase, and selected insurances with special rates.
- MyFeld.ch — MyFeld.ch is the holder of a fresh farm food platform that aims to create a digital link between consumers and our local agriculture. The company's platform provides products directly from the farm, allowing people to improve their comprehension of seasonality and regionality while also raising awareness of the sustainable use of food byallowing them to purchase fresh produce from the farm.
- Testmate Health — Testmate Health is a medtech startup and award-winning spin-off of University of Geneva (Switzerland). We have developed a smartphone compatible platform test kit that diagnoses any disease with an identifiable DNA or RNA sequence - without the need for a lab, providing results directly at home in minutes. Based on this platform, our firstsolution is the first rapid urine self-test for the four most common sexually transmitted diseases (STD). One million new STDs are diagnosed a day, and yet the best improvements to date still need a lab, with results taking up to 7 days to be ready. Our easy to use all-in-one-kit provides results in minutes, anywhere, at any time, and the result is scannable by a smartphone to enable people to immediately gain access to treatment – if needed. Further test-kits with other diseases are in the pipeline to empower users to skip the waiting room, and take charge of their health from home.
Philipp Cottier
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- FinTech, Finance, Blockchain
- Series A
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.
François Portoleau Balloy is a Cofounder and CRO at Leeto.
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- Information Technology, Construction, Software Engineering
- Seed
- France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Leeto — Clan empowers companies to take care of their employees. We are building the future of employees benefits by providing companies with an innovative banking & SaaS platform to manage their employee benefits.
- Hiboo — Hiboo is data infrastructure platform that helps you collect, control, and visualise your equipment data.
- Taurus — Taurus is a digital asset platform to issue and manage cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets and digital currencies. HSM & MPC technology. It is the European leader in the banking-segment.
Phil Rubin is a Founder & Principal at Grey Space Matters.
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- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- qiibee — qiibee is a software company that offers a solution for businesses and consumers in its blockchain-based platform. Through qiibee’s plug-and-play solutions, enterprises worldwide are running and operating their loyalty programs on the blockchain in just a few hours. The company is creating a decentralized, Ethereum infrastructure-based loyaltyecosystem by providing a loyalty platform and developer interface on which every loyalty application can be tokenized. qiibee enables companies all around the world to run their loyalty applications on the blockchain. The cutting-edge, easy-to-use solutions set the new global standard for loyalty.
After a long experience in the cultural industry, aimed at developing independent comics and cinema sector, he decided to leverage the skills gained through his studies in Economics and Commerce, followed by General Management to study and operate in the startup industry. Marco is driven by a wide variety of interests and is a successfulinstitutional investor in various Italian and international startups.
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- Internet, Blockchain, Video Games
- Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- The Nemesis — The Nemesis is the Metaverse for the mass market: virtual worlds, adventures, gaming Play & Earn and amazing experiences.
Ajit Tripathi is a Head of Institutional Business at Aave.
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- Blockchain, Finance, Ethereum
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Singapore, India, France
Portfolio highlights
- Flint — Earn 13% p.a. stable returns by leveraging the power of crypto. Withdraw-able anytime without fees.
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
- Router Protocol — Router Protocol is a Cross Chain Bridge. Currently live on Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Building an interoperable cross chain future of the blockchain ecosystem.
Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.
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- Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Blobr — Get your branded developer portal to launch and grow adoption of your API products.
- Comet Rocks — Comet helps brands launch remote stores with one click checkout in any 3rd party online application. No redirects, more engagement, full control.
- Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
viktor bunin
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- Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Internet
- Series A
- Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Thesis — Thesis is a cryptocurrency venture production studio. We build and invest in products that empower individuals.
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
Co-founder and Head of Product at Rarible - The first community-owned NFT Marketplace
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- Ethereum, Internet, Blockchain
- Series A
- Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Upshot — The source for NFT pricing. Upshot uses machine learning to provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlocks a wave of exotic new DeFi possibilities.
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
Created the Mule Project, Founded MuleSoft, gone public (MULE:NYSE). Work on their product direction, vision and strategy. Active investor and advisor.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- M3O — Explore the cloud as serverless building blocks
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
- DLT (short for data load tool) — the data loading library for python
Patrick is a businessman active in real estate, wealth management, show business, hospitality, education and private equity, benefiting from a strong network. At Biowatch since November 2015.
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- Security, Wireless, Wearables
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Biowatch — Biowatch is a user-friendly wrist veins biometric reader that functions as a security solution for mobile payment protection and smart device interaction. Users can access the app for enrolling their vein pattern and selecting applications and devices that needs to be connected to their Biowatch, wear their BioWatch and activate it by matchingtheir vein pattern with their enrolled reference, get PKI encrypted user code transmitted from their Biowatch, and start opening doors without the use of keys and passwords.Biowatch was launched by Joe Rice and Matthias Vanoni and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Matt Mickiewicz is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of SitePoint. Mickiewicz also co-founded the web companies Flippa, 99designs, and Hired.Born in Kraków, Poland, living in Hameln -Germany, and currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, Mickiewicz created his first website at the age of 14 called Webmaster-Resources.com, whichlater became SitePoint. At 16, Mickiewicz traveled to Melbourne with his mother and met his soon-to-be business partner and co-founder, Mark Harbottle. At 16, Mickiewicz found himself closing $10,000 advertising deals between classes at high school. Mickiewicz barely finished high school and did not attend college.In 2008, Mickiewicz spun off 99designs from SitePoint, which went on to raise $35 million in capital from Accel Ventures, Michael Dearing / Harrison Metal, Dave Goldberg (SurveyMonkey), Anthony Casalena, and Stewart Butterfield (Flickr). In June 2009 Mickiewicz and Harbottle launched Flippa.com, the largest marketplace for buying and selling websites in the world. In the fall of 2012, Mickiewicz co-founded DeveloperAuction.com which raised $2.7 million was later renamed Hired. The company later raised a $15 million Series-A round in March 2014. By December 2014, Hired was reportedly valued at $200m and had raised an additional $15m in the capital in its Series B round.Mickiewicz was named a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur by Forbes and INC in 2011, a Smart Company 30 under 30 in 2012, and frequently speaks at conferences and seminars worldwide.
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- Human Resources, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.
- Continuum Technology — Connecting world-class executive talent to the best venture-backed companies for consulting, advising and full-time roles.
Alex Svanevik is a Co-Founder & CEO of Nansen.
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- Blockchain, Internet, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Vietnam, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Loop Crypto — Learn how to accept crypto payments. Loop Crypto makes it easy to turn on crypto autopay so that any subscription or SaaS business can accept crypto.
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
- Lighthouse Labs — Lighthouse is the open metaverse navigation engine. Discover places, friends, experiences and events across the spatial web.
Angel Investor
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- Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.
- Matter Labs — Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.Thecompany was founded in 2018 with its head office in Berlin, Germany.
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
Aly Madhavji is the Blockchain Founders Fund's Managing Partner and a Consultant of United Nations. He is a Senior Blockchain Fellow of INSEAD and LP and Venture Partner at Loyal VC.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, China
Portfolio highlights
- Yumi — Start selling to China in minutes. Join thousands of brands just like you and reach Chinese millennial consumers via WeChat social commerce.
- Dopamine — Dopamine provides decentralized finance for everybody, everywhere and is the first end-to-end user-centered crypto mobile app.
- Splinterlands — A digital trading card game built on blockchain technology. Collect the cards, level them up, and battle for great prizes!
Darian Shirazi is the General Partner of Gradient Ventures.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Resend — Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.
- Infisical — Infisical is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted tool that supports developers in managing their teams, devices, and infrastructure's secrets and environment variables. Using an end-to-end encrypted method, it avoids the leakage of confidential information to version control and over insecure channels like email.
- Alongside — Alongside builds indexes for cryptocurrencies.
Mainardo de Nardis has been CEO of OMD Worldwide since 2009.OMD Worldwide is a leading global media communications agency, recognized for its global footprint, strategic integration and creative innovation. It has been acknowledged as Most Creative Media Agency by The Gunn Report for nine consecutive years; Adweek Global Media Agency of theYear for 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014; and the 2002, 2005, 2009 and 2011 Media Agency of the Year by Advertising Age.Prior to joining OMD he was CEO of both Aegis Media and Mediaedge:cia Worldwide. He was a co-founder of one of Italy’s “third wave” ad agencies before moving from advertising to media communications to start Medianetwork, Italy’s first media independent.Mainardo presided over the Cannes Festival’s Media Lions Jury in 2012 and sits on the Boards of Omnicom Media Group and the Ad Council. He resides in NY and London with his family.
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- Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- qiibee — qiibee is a software company that offers a solution for businesses and consumers in its blockchain-based platform. Through qiibee’s plug-and-play solutions, enterprises worldwide are running and operating their loyalty programs on the blockchain in just a few hours. The company is creating a decentralized, Ethereum infrastructure-based loyaltyecosystem by providing a loyalty platform and developer interface on which every loyalty application can be tokenized. qiibee enables companies all around the world to run their loyalty applications on the blockchain. The cutting-edge, easy-to-use solutions set the new global standard for loyalty.
Ben Davey
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- Software, Blockchain, Travel
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, India, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- qiibee — qiibee is a software company that offers a solution for businesses and consumers in its blockchain-based platform. Through qiibee’s plug-and-play solutions, enterprises worldwide are running and operating their loyalty programs on the blockchain in just a few hours. The company is creating a decentralized, Ethereum infrastructure-based loyaltyecosystem by providing a loyalty platform and developer interface on which every loyalty application can be tokenized. qiibee enables companies all around the world to run their loyalty applications on the blockchain. The cutting-edge, easy-to-use solutions set the new global standard for loyalty.
- LawAdvisor — because status quo no longer works
- Flexmoney — Flexmoney is to re-invent consumer credit as an instant digital service at the point of sale for lenders and merchants.
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.
Tirto Cuaca
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- Payments, Fraud Detection, Machine Learning
- Angel
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- KapeIQ — KapeIQ is a blockchain-based intelligent fraud detection platform.
- TryShifu —
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, France
Portfolio highlights
- Demox Labs — Demox Labs develops a decentralized, trustless oracle protocol for the connection of smart contracts to any off-chain data source. The company's data bridge from web2 to web3 unlocks all online data for smart contract development. Demox Labs was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
- Gateway — Gateway is a decentralized protocol for creating, consuming, and displaying verifiable credentials.
- Ion Protocol — Ion Protocol is a lending protocol that accepts pledged and re-pledged assets, allowing users to deposit any validator-backed asset (including LST and re-pledged holdings, among others).
Anna Rose is the Co-Founder at zkValidator. She also the Strategic Advisor at Videopath.
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- FinTech, Ethereum, Internet
- Series A, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Switzerland, Saint Kitts and Nevis
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- DeversiFi — DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet.Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need tomove fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
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.
Believer that ones identity credentials should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments. The trade-off between security and privacy can meet the needs of both traditional institutions worried about compliance and risk, but also consumer protection advocates who care about the underserved andunderbanked.Adviser/Investor via hardyaka.com for numerous startups in the exchange space including Shift, Ripple and 3taps, and previously Square and Twitter. Previously a director at Promontory Financial and a senior analyst for payments at The Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve. Senior Associate at Booz Allen. Founded and took Dispatch Management Services Corp public on the NASDAQ. Have worked as an instructor/leader for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School.Specialties: Portable identity, digital currencies and exchange markets for goods, services, and information with functional emphasis on messaging, payments, and reputation/trust/risk. Well versed in visualizations for risk reporting and controls.
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- FinTech, Mobile, Payments
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Aeldra — Exclusive U.S. Banking for Indians. Open a U.S. bank account in 10 minutes from India if you have an Indian Passport. Visa, Social Security Number or U.S. Address not required. Get a Mastercard Global Debit Card and a cutting-edge Mobile Banking App. Aeldra is the first neo-bank offering cross-border banking to Indians. Indians can now apply for a U.S. Bank Account with a Mastercard Debit Card from India using their Indian Passport. Using revolutionary technology based on Machine Learning Aeldra has proprietary KYC, Risk Management and Info Security capabilities to be in compliance with U.S. & Indian regulations as well as meeting the highest standards of safety and security. Aeldra's mission is to democratize global banking by providing seamless access to all. Indian citizens can open a U.S. bank account from home, and manage the account through an intuitive App.
- Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
- Tribe — Tribe is a global blockchain ecosystem builder that connects startups and tech talents with leading opportunities. By working closely with organizations including blockchain protocols, corporates, governments, startups, and developer communities, it strives to power the next wave of talents and companies' leap from Web2 to Web3. Some ofTribe's official partners include Enterprise Singapore, Pfizer, HSBC, Infineon Technologies, IMDA, BMW Group Asia, ConsenSys, IBM, Intel, Nielsen, PwC, R3, and Temasek amongst others. For more information, please visit https://tribex.co/
Daniel joined VI Partners in July 2003 as a Venture Partner focusing on IT. He started his career as Chairman and CEO of Gutenberg Communication Systems AG, a company he founded in 1991. Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in 2000, he became Country Manager of Telindus for Switzerland, Austria andHungary during the next two years, and he was also a member of the Executive Board. Since 2002 he has been taking consulting and advisory board assignments for various companies.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Israel, Germany
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- Spiden — SPIDEN - Products that enable real-time and continuous monitoring of blood biomarkers for treatment of critical and high-risk patients.
- BOND — Get closer to the people and products behind your screen than ever before. Step inside creator wardrobes. Shop their edits. Swipe their curations. Be inspired. We're bringing you a new way to discover.
- Unique — Try Unique Finance GPT to increase productivity by automating manual workload through AI and ChatGPT solutions
Rainer-Marc Frey
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- FinTech, Finance, Blockchain
- Series A, Series B
- Switzerland
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- Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.
Calvin Ayre (born May 25, 1961, in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada) is the founder of the Bodog online gaming and entertainment brand, which he developed and launched in 1994.Ayre received a Bachelor of Sciences (BSc) in General Sciences from the University of Waterloo in 1984. In 1989, Ayre earned an MBA in Management Finance from CityUniversity of Seattle.
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- Blockchain, Information Technology, Bitcoin
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Mijem — Mijem is the buy sell marketplace app to tap into your campus community. Save money. Earn cash. Connect with students. Download the free app.
- Centi — Get a real-time payment solution designed for media, events, and e-commerce. Download the app and discover all the benefits Centi brings for business worldwide!
- Transmira — Augmented and Virtual Reality Solutions
Kjell Fischer is CEO & Founder at Buying Labs and Apprupt GmbH.
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- SaaS, Computer, Software
- Seed
- Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Aiden.ai — Aiden provides an AI analytics platform intended to assist marketers how to spend their budget efficiently. Its platform uses machine learning reading to analyze large sets of paid advertising data, enabling clients to proactively make changes to improve ROI of their manage multichannel paid acquisition campaigns easily.
- SEDA — Flux is a cross-chain oracle that provides smart contracts with access to economically secure data feeds on anything.
Jascha Samadi is Co-Founder and Partner at Greenfield One (www.greenfield.one), a Berlin-based early-stage venture fund dedicated to blockchain and crypto. Greenfield One makes long-term bets on early developer teams building towards an open, decentralized and more robust architecture of tomorrow’s web. Prior to Greenfield One, Jascha wasCo-Founder and CEO of apprupt, a mobile platform for app developers and brands which was acquired by browser maker Opera Software (NASDAQ: OPRA) in 2014, where he also got involved with blockchain and crypto. Over the past years he has been an active investor in the space and also Co-Founder of Flux (www.flux.market), a scalable open market protocol.
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- Marketing, 3D Technology, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- Stoyo — Financial Times Fastest Growing Advertising Company in Europe
- Aiden.ai — Aiden provides an AI analytics platform intended to assist marketers how to spend their budget efficiently. Its platform uses machine learning reading to analyze large sets of paid advertising data, enabling clients to proactively make changes to improve ROI of their manage multichannel paid acquisition campaigns easily.
- SEDA — Flux is a cross-chain oracle that provides smart contracts with access to economically secure data feeds on anything.
Anthony Pompliano is a Product Manager at Facebook. Previously, Pompliano successfully founded and sold two software companies in Raleigh, NC.Pompliano's most recent startup, DigaForce, was acquired by Strategic Link Partners in December 2013. Before tech, he played football at Bucknell University and served a tour of duty in support ofOperation Iraqi Freedom.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Spindl — Make more intelligent business decisions in web3 using Spindl’s attribution tooling.
- Zion — Join our mission in creating the last platform you will ever build
- Exponential DeFi — View risk assessment ratings and expert research for 500+ decentralized finance pools from Exponential DeFi.
Spencer Yang is a Co-Founder at Gomu. He attended AngelPad in 2016.
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- Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Nametag — Nametag is a digital collector lens to search the internet for collectors, view their NFTs and Nokens, and badges.
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
Markus Rinderer
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- FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SMART VALOR — SMART VALOR is a secure investment platform offering easy buy and sell of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash and more. Trade and store digital assets.
- AngeLink — AngeLink is the world’s first crowdfunding platform powered by women. Built for all. We drive social impact through life-changing technology with a safer, more trusted crowdfunding community. We're on a mission to close the gap on gender-based economic disparity. And, it's about time.
- Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.
Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.
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- Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
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- NVG8 — The Community Platform Powering the Next Generation Data Ecosystem
- Atmos Labs — When is a game more than a game? Welcome to Planet Atmos: a universe of next-generation gaming experiences blending action, customization, storytelling, community, and digital ownership.
- ScienceMagic.Studios — A digital assets venture studio
Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.
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- Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Spain, Brazil, Mexico
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- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
- Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
- Num Finance — Num Network offers businesses a fast way to scale operations in emerging markets with yield, loans and stablecoins.
Mara Schmitman - Manager @ Schmitman SAS
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- Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Series A
- Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
- Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
Hart Lambur is the Co-Founder, CEO & Board Member of umaproject.
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- Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Switzerland
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- Gyroscope — Gyroscope: an asset-backed stablecoin built on resilient DeFi infrastructure leveraging a diversified reserve, autonomous monetary policy, and innovative AMMs
- DELV (Formerly Element Finance) — Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets
- Domination Finance — Domination Finance is a developer of a non-custodial financial instrument for traders. Its platform is an ethereum app built on the UMA protocol that allows users to long or short Bitcoin Dominance and enables trading in the cryptocurrency market.
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