# Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Switzerland in May 2026 ## 21Celsius Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Baar, Zug, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce 21Celsius Ventures is an investment company based in Zug, Switzerland led by independent, lateral thinkers who aim to help their partners overcome financial and operational hurdles and grow alongside them. At 21Celsius, we operate in a straightforward, honest and laser-focused manner. ## SICTIC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - 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 ## Christopher Jentzsch - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile Apps, iOS, Apps Christopher Jentzsch ## Andreas Buhl - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Rental, Retail, Social Andreas Buhl ## Helvetia Venture Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech Helvetia has a long tradition: in over 150 years, it has grown from a number of Swiss and foreign insurance companies into a successful international insurance group. Today, Helvetia has subsidiaries in its home market Switzerland as well as in the countries that make up the Europe market area: Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain. Helvetia is alsopresent in France with its Specialty Markets market area and through selected regions worldwide. ## Gentian Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sarnen, Obwalden, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Gentian is an early-stage investment company founded by the Entrepreneurs Elian Kool and Gerhard Gerner. We focus on investments in SaaS platforms, Mobile, Robotics/Drones and adjacent areas we have a passion for.Based in Switzerland, most of our investments are in the DACH region, but with a clear focus on a global market.We investexclusively in enthusiastic teams, which we support with our experience as entrepreneurs as board member or advisor. ## Heinz Schwyter - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce Heinz Schwyter - Member of the Board @ The eLocations Ltd ## Century Oak Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Software Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets. ## Ariel Luedi - Type: Angel - Location: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich. ## Atomico - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world. ## TK-Solutions - Type: VC Fund - Location: Pleckhausen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Apps, Smart Cities Business Angel Investor based in Germany near Cologne Grew up in a entrepreneur family with diverse businesses in disposal, regenerative energy, real estate and funeral services, Tobias Klein is a hands on entrepreneur and searching for Start Ups not only to invest in, rather to share the ups and downs on the way to success.Open minded we cantalk about your business idea.Thank you ## Gigahertz Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: iOS, Retail, Android Proven experience, network and scale in industrial markets, and beyond ## TR Invest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tafers, Fribourg, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Apps Private Investment Company ## Swiss Startup Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence Swiss Ventures Group Website ## Asymmetry Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility. ## Swisscom Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Swisscom Ventures is an venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, that specializes in early stage tech investments founded in 2007.Swisscom Ventures invests in growth companies with emerging business models and technologies of strategic relevance to Swisscom's core business. As a value-add investor, Swisscom brings its investees the technicalexpertise and strategic insights of an incumbent telecom operator. We act as a bridge to Swisscom's operational business units, which portfolio companies can also leverage as a test environment for their products and services.Swisscom Ventures seeks minority stakes in companies related to the information/communications/entertainment space. ## Soma Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies. ## Idris Ayodeji Bello - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges. ## Swiss Founders Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology Swiss Founders Fund is a seed and early stage investment fund based in St.Gallen, Switzerland. SFF invests in and builds companies globally. ## Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung - Type: VC Fund - Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung is a Swiss investment firm owned by the Eckenstein family. It invests money in companies such as technological startups across Switzerland. Eckenstein-Geigy-Stiftung has a headquarters in Basel in Switzerland. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co